Eight totally different girls are on this year’s new list. Will they stay true to themselves or will the list have the power to change who they are as a person? In the book‚ The List by Siobhan Vivian‚ there is a new list produced each year. It includes one pretty girl and one ugly girl from each grade. These two girls are the most known girls in their grade. This List tends to define the girls and can either make or break their reputations. The list equals‚ todays‚ society with the judgment of others
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The teeny-tiny belly tops and tight low-cut jeans‚ the tube tops‚ and miniskirts‚ isn’t sad that we have become used to seeing little girls wear such clothing? I don’t even think twice about seeing little nine year olds and middle schoolers at stores like H&M‚ Forever21‚ and PacSun. It has just now become “normal” seeing little kids dress up in clothes that are not age appropriate. Sex is an uprising problem we have within the youth today‚ and how can it not be if it is literally all they are exposed
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Women in Pop Culture The average girl does not easily fit in to society’s view of women. It isn’t supermodels who watch reality television and read the articles on “getting a guy and dropping 20 pounds”(70). Media has become a partial cause to young girls getting eating disorders or plastic surgery just to become “prettier”. They want to become perfect. Recently‚ I opened a magazine and started to flip through the pages. It wasn’t long before I started to notice that the majority of the women
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regretted an impulsive decision? In the story‚ “A & P” by John Updike‚ three girls walk into a supermarket wearing bikinis. The main character‚ Sammy is confused because he says‚ “... our town is five miles from a beach… we’re right in the middle of town…” (Updike‚ 17). He continues to describe and think about the girls‚ but reveals very little about his personality directly. The supermarket manager‚ Lengel‚ tells the girls that they cannot be dressed like that in the store. As the story continues
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the town of Maycomb has a strong influence of gender prejudice. Scout‚ a six year old girl‚ doesn’t feel the need at act like a “normal” girl. The people in Maycomb often judge her for her tomboy lifestyle‚ of wearing overalls‚ playing with the boys‚ and her “boyish haircut”. Scout is defiant and is set against maturing into the standards of society. The town is pressuring and judging Scout‚ into being the girl they expect her to be. The town shows their prejudice of femininity throughout the book
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the pack. During stage 3‚ the pack met their first purebred girls‚ who were volunteer fourth grade girls from St. Lucy’s School for Girls. The purebred girls played checkers with them‚ and were quite passive when the pack would tear up the checkers board. They even purposely made mistakes in the game to give the girls advantage! Jeanette learned how to dance‚ and had even mastered a basic form of a dance called the Charleston. The girls‚ after learning how to ride a bike‚ would take rides into town
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what kind of Media the majority of America’s youth was sucking in. Using the social learning theory for gender development I have observed that advertising is more stereotypical in the traditional views of what boys and girls should be interested. They constantly show girls being domesticated and crafty‚ while boys are more physical and outdoorsy‚ and even violent. The programming that I observed for this demographic seems to have taken those stereotypes and blurred them for today’s more mixed
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pageants illegal‚ it has failed to be banned in America unlike France where it is illegal. On any given day in America‚ 234‚000 sex offenders roam the streets. Many preying on girls where the median age of assaulted girls is 13 (Beana). Many of these sex offenders find their prey in beauty pageants where they are pulled in by the girls as young as three being dressed in provocative costumes and dancing suggestively. Not only does this pull people in but psychologists
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“Barbie doll” make us think about a “perfect” girl toy that every child owns‚ but slowly we realize that this is not what the author means. In the first stanza‚ Piercy starts by saying “This girl child was born as usual”‚ which lets us understand that she was a normal girl just like anybody else. Other than that‚ the first stanza has a lot to do with symbols‚ the dolls‚ the stove‚ the iron‚ the lipstick‚ they all represent “girly stuff”‚ objects that girls are expected to know how to use and objects
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is on the question of how this use of photoshopping is negatively affecting young women. Whereas some are convinced that girls put the pressure on themselves‚ others maintain that the media is to be held responsible for exerting pressure to have the “perfect body.” It is sometimes said that Kim Kardashian‚ a well-known celebrity‚ is a role model for these young women and girls. Recently‚ Kim Kardashian posted a naked selfie‚ edited using Instagram‚ claiming that this act was self-empowering. Kardashian
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