Outline To inform the audience about Barbie Doll March 27‚ 2014 I. Introduction: A. She has had more than 80 careers in her lifetime‚ from a Rock Star to a paleontologist‚ to a Presidential candidate. Many of you in this room have probably either purchased or owned one…she is Barbie!! B. With her good looks‚ charm‚ and charisma‚ she won audiences over in record time. C. Preview of Main Points: 1. First‚ I will discuss the Origination of Barbie. 2. Second‚ I will discuss her growing
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The Barbie Doll was first patented in 1958 by a young woman from California named Ruth Handler. The Barbie doll is well know for her long legs‚ her tiny waist‚ blonde hair and blue eyes‚ and her huge chest. This “perfect” plastic body has had multiple positive and negative affects around the world for the past fifty years; Barbie was based off of a German prostitute comic strip character named Lili. She was meant to be a steady outlet for young girls dreams and an constant changing reflection of
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I’m a Barbie girl‚ in a Barbie world. Life is plastic. It’s fantastic! My name is Debbie Cooper‚ and I am a Barbie Collector. What little girl didn’t grow up playing with a Barbie doll? Well many of you may not know that Barbie was‚ in fact‚ an actual person. The original Barbie’s name was Barbara Handler (nicknamed Barbie). One day Barbie’s mother‚ Ruth‚ watch her daughter & friends play with paper cutouts of women‚ which were very popular at the time. Ruth realized all the dolls on the
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The Negative Impacts of Barbie on Young Girls Barbie dolls are a common toy among many girls around the world. As girls age‚ Barbie plays a key role in their self—image. Girls desire to be just like the Barbie doll which can lead to unhealthy ways of living. One might object that Barbie leads to unhealthy ways of living‚ but many young girls that play with a Barbie doll are shown to having a eating disorder as they grow up. Barbie dolls are bad influences because they lead to eating disorders‚ false
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Barbie has been an iconic toy since its introduction in the 1959 Toy Fair in New York. Quickly almost every little girl in American had to have one. Barbie went from a simple plastic toy to a role model and why wouldn’t she be? Barbie has had 130 jobs‚ ran for president 5 times‚ rides in a little pink corvette‚ and left Ken over 10 years ago but‚ she also has an eating disorder. Barbie’s waist‚ neck‚ and chest measurements are so disproportional that if she were a real woman she would have to‚ “crawl
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Barbie: Should the Doll be Modified? Jordan Sidebottom ENGL 1302 Professor Baggaley February 3‚ 2014 Sidebottom 1 Jordan Sidebottom ENGL 1302 Professor Baggaley February 3‚ 2014 Barbie: Should the Doll be Modified? Since Barbie was first launched by Mattel in 1959 over 10 million have been sold. “Somewhere in the world‚ a Barbie is sold ever half-second”(Dittmar‚ Halliwell‚ and Ive). Out of all Mattel profits‚ Barbie makes up approximately
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Guys and Dolls I attended the evening performance of Guys and Dolls on Thursday 17. Directed by Leiz Moore‚ Guys and Dolls is cast from the Musical Theatre Crew‚ with appearances from guest performers Jeff Michael and Andrew Hawkey. It was shown at the Playhouse Theatre. Guys and Dolls is a 1950’s Broadway comedy. Nathan Detroit‚ a gambler‚ needs a location to play his crap game which he has supposably stopped organising‚ according to his fiancé Adelaide. The only location left that the game can
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Asleep in the Valley by Arthur Rimbaud The poem starts with a blissful scenery. The mention of flowers‚ streams‚ mountains‚ the valley‚ and how the rays of the sun reached the mountaintop emits cheerful thoughts from the readers. By reading the first paragraph‚ readers would want to go to the place the author described. They would also have their own conclusions that the poem would end in a happy note. In the second paragraph‚ a young soldier is being introduced by the author. Readers would
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“Barbie Doll”: Is she society’s ideal woman‚ or just an intangible idea? Is Barbie the ideal woman? By the time most girls reach the age of four‚ they are given a Barbie Doll that they love and adore. Barbie is tall‚ skinny‚ big breasted‚ career oriented‚ a loving wife‚ a good friend‚ and fun loving girl all wrapped into one. These traits are exactly what our society praises in every woman and that every woman aspires to be. The effects‚ however‚ of trying to become the “ideal woman” may be
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The short story Barbie Q explains that a Barbie is the ideal woman. The Barbie is an example of what women believe to be perfect. The quote “So what if we didn’t Get our new bendable legs Barbie in nice clean boxes and had to buy them on Maxwell street all water soaked and sooty”(Cisneros). This quote means that anyone would buy a Barbie for a cheaper price because they didn’t have the money at the time and who would care if the dolls were wet or smoked. For example the barbie with the melted leg
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