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    When a girl reaches the age of puberty her self-confidence drops significantly. The advertisement #LikeAGirl by Always shows the stereotypes people use of girls during that emotional time. The commercial is set up like it is for an audition. Throughout the commercial they have different people come in for their “audition”. They have older teenagers from different sexes asked the same couple questions separately‚ “Show me what it looks like to run ‘like a girl’‚ show me what it looks like to fight

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    patterns developing on the wall‚ I was totally confused. A little girl peeped her head around the old wall and ran to attack me. I knew it was one of my nieces. The first thing I had noticed was she obviously hadn’t developed the way a normal girl her age would have. I called the police and managed to stutter the address. During the mean time I was studying the forever changing patterns on the wall. The two girls were running their hands along the wall as if the wall was a person

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    A Closer Look on being a Fan Boy/Girl You’ve probably heard the word ‘fan girl’ before. You’ve probably even dropped it in one of your conversation or even read it when you were surfing the net. But what exactly does the word ‘fan girl’ mean? What does it mean to be a fan girl? A fan girl‚ according to dictionary.reference.com‚ is a person obsessed with any other single subject or hobby – it may be an actor or a fictional character. It is a person who has a compulsive dedication to a music

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    percent of girls said the same” (Qtd. in Dockterman). There is no question that there is a lack of women‚ in fact just over 1 out of 10 people in the engineering field are women. There is a lack of girls in these fields because they are not given the same opportunities that boys are given in STEM related fields at a young age and many girls are intimidated by a male dominated field without any female role model. But could there be a solution in the form of an engineering toy targeted toward girls? Goldie

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    are sin by definition. They take the Bible literally you know.” (Page 59) Characters: Scout‚ Jem‚ Miss Maudie Setting: This takes place at MIss Maudie’s house. Scout’s POV: Scout does not like being a girl‚ and she just learns that being a woman is a “sin‚” which just makes her hate being a girl even more. 2) “I could not possibly hope to be a lady if i wore breeches” (Page 108) Characters: Scout‚ Aunt Alexandra‚ Atticus Setting: Finch’s Landing POV: Scout is sick of being reminded that she

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    The expository text What’s happening to our girls? written my Maggie Hamilton presents the issue that girls all over the world feel pressures at some stage of their lives. Hamilton presents this idea to the reader in a negative way in comparison to how popular culture and wider society encourages it. As girls are growing up‚ they feel pressures regarding their desires to be a woman‚ body image and pressures from parents and teachers. Hamilton expresses these ideas through the use of expository conventions

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    Pressures on Teenage Girls in America Growing up in any culture there are rules and traditions on how a child should act. As they grow up there are still those rules‚ but they become more unspoken rules that are socially accepted. These are the pressures of becoming an adult and fitting into the world around you. For girls these pressures are even more extreme due to the burden of being the “weaker” sex. This term is changing‚ but it is changing because it is now expected of girls to do things just

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    Low Self-Esteem in Teenage Girls There is an old saying that goes “Beauty is only skin deep” which means that It is not how beautiful one is or how gorgeous one looks‚ but it’s what’s inside the heart that matters. It can be confusing because if such things don’t matter‚ then why do teenage girls go to great lengths to feel pretty? Why are there so many of them that suffer from low self-esteem? One cause of this is media advertisements. “Over 70% of teenage girls believe they do not measure

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    degraded immensely once people were aware of her actions. In Blood of Flowers‚ the young women in the novel signed a “sigheh”. This means that she would sell herself to another man in order to get money for herself and her widowed mother. When the young girl agreed to do this‚ she degrading her family status along with her self-respect. Both novels share the degration and both feature main characters whose actions control the actions of the main female character. Another aspect‚ the two novels share‚ is

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    Renzetti and Mr. Curran begin to look at various studies on how the different sexes are raised in families. Professor Renzetti and Daniel Curran discover the children depending on their gender are raised differently. “During early childhood‚ boys and girls are socialized into unequal genders.” Without trying‚ parents raise their children starting from day one differently depending on their gender and most of the time it is all done subconsciously. Professor Renzetti and Daniel Curran note this difference

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