Analytical Summary WGSS 396 ‘Barbie and G.I. Joe: Making Bodies Masculine and Feminine’ Children are taught that boys should be ‘masculine’ and play sports‚ and that girls should be feminine. They are given and told which toys to play with and how to play with them. For example‚ girls play with dolls in a gentle manner‚ and boys’ play with action figures more roughly. The social norms of our culture change as the times change. Gendered social practices and norms are portrayed in our mass
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On the Barbie Bungee CRA we had to find out how many rubber bands we needed to launch off Ken from the MCLC library balcony without hitting his head on the floor. I think the important information when solving this problem are the numbers because I need the numbers so that I could figure out how many rubber bands I need .What I did first was graph the table on the paper so that I could make a slope triangle to find out my growth and y-intercept to make an equation to see how many rubber bands
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Take a stroll through the Brandenburg Gate; to the banks of the River Spree and you will be spell bounded to see so many classical sculpture and masterworks at one single place‚ a rare sight! There stands one of the world’s most intriguing and fascinating cultural treasures‚ the Berlin’s Museum Island. According to Visit Berlin‚ more than 3 million people come to visit this panorama display of exquisite 20th century art forms each year. Amongst the five famous museums of this island‚ stands the
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loophole to my parent’s rule; if I wasn’t playing the game‚ then I wasn’t technically misbehaving‚ but I could have the same experiences. I loved these games far more than any of my own‚ because they were far deeper and conceptually complex than‚ say‚ Barbie Horse Adventures. I still remember the day in November 2009 that my brother got Assassin’s Creed 2. We’d shared the experience of playing the first game‚ but with the second installment came a whole new realm of possibility. The base concept of the
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Barbie Impacts Self-Image of Young Girls Children today are being blasted with images from television‚ movies‚ games‚ and toys that are gender-biased. The media and toy designers have increasingly and negatively sexualized children’s toys. This has led to a gender divide and the formation of low self-image in our nation’s youth‚ particularly girls. Barbie is one such toy that all young girls seem to want‚ but at what costs? When you visit stores like Toys R Us‚ Target‚ or Wal-Mart their toy aisles
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Barbie Doll The Common Women Poems‚ III. Nadine‚ resting on her neighbor’s stoop By Marge Piercy This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty‚ a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy‚ tested intelligent‚ possessed strong arms and back‚ abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone
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safe‚ fair‚ and enjoyable environment for everyone. Problems like bullying or abuse of power have been criticized for decades in newspapers‚ internet‚ television‚ and literature is not the exception. We clearly see an example of this in the poems “Barbie Doll” and “Zimmer in grade school” by Marge Pierce and Paul Zimmer
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In Marge Piercy’s poem‚ Barbie Doll‚ the “girl-child” is always looking to others or the outside world to tell her how to look and feel‚ “a classmate said: You have got a great big nose and fat legs” (323). The character is portrayed as a girl who has everything going in her life; good grades‚ very healthy/strong‚ and an abundant sexual drive – even though she has the big nose and legs. She works her whole life to be better and for people to realize that she is beautiful‚ until the day she cuts of
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Nicole Goodman Enc1141 Monday- Wednesday 2:00 – 3:15 September 24‚ 2012 Poetic analysis Barbie Doll poetic analysis The poem “Barbie Doll” by Margie Piercy is about a girl who‚ at a very young age‚ is teased about her looks. She lives her whole life based upon what one fellow child says to her one day until she can not take seeing herself as how he saw her anymore. The poem shows us that even one small joke about someone can affect her forever. The poem opens with the first stanza describing
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are expected to act in certain ways that are fundamental in the eyes of society. Girls are expected to be quiet and part of the obeying gender‚ while it is anticipated that boys are always up to no good. Similarly‚ in the article by Messner (2008)‚ Barbie Girls Versus Sea Monsters: Children Constructing Gender‚ boys are represented as loud and aggressive‚ while girls are feminine and more respectful. Boys are shown to be on a verbal chant‚ while the girls cheer for all. In Fitzhugh’s novel‚ it is of
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