"Barbie Doll": A Woman’s Place in Society Society has a way of placing unrealistic expectations on women. By using television‚ magazines‚ billboards‚ and even toys we see a mold of what women are supposed to look like. In other words the perfect woman should look like a Barbie Doll. In Marge Piercy’s‚ "Barbie Doll‚" we find a girl child growing up through the adolescence stage characterized by appearances and barbarity. Piercy uses lots of imagery to describe the struggles the girl experiences
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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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Multicultural Education: Piecing Together the Puzzle When a child opens his (or her) first puzzle and the pieces fall to the ground‚ it may seem very confusing. What are they to do with this pile of shapes in front of them? It often takes a parent to explain to them that all the different pieces fit together into one whole picture. Although every piece is different and unique‚ when they are all put into their place they form one whole picture. In the same way‚ teachers can teach multiculturalism
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E. J. (2006) Psychology (7th ed). Boston‚ MA: Houghton Mifflin Company Childs‚ E.C. (2004) Race and society: Families on the color-line. Retrieved February 1‚ 2008 from linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S109095240400 Cillo‚ L. (1998). Multicultural issues. Retrieved February 18‚ 2008 from members.aol.com/lacillo/multicultural.html Cruz‚ C.‚ Aberle‚ C
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Lydia Hennesay EDU-230 Oct. 27‚ 2013 Emil Cicogna Issues in Multicultural Education The El Centro Elementary School District is made up of 8 elementary schools‚ one kinder-eighth‚ and two junior high schools (7-8). (Local Ed. Agency Plan 2012) This diverse school district is located in the city of El Centro‚ California in the Imperial County. Through my research I have discovered that at this time the El Centro Elementary School District does not have any type of citizenship character education
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Multicultural issues are an indisputable part of counselling‚ and the counselors need to prepare well to meet the needs of different populations and serve them optimally. Every individual exists in social‚ historical‚ political and economic contexts and this calls for an increased understanding of these contexts on the behavior of the individuals. The Guidelines on Multicultural Education offer Psychologists a guidance on the changing needs of society and continuing evolution of psychology. The specific
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Culture diversity has many benefits for society‚ as it teaches individuals to recognise and respect people’s differences and similarities. However‚ research has found that perceived similarity is an important factor in determining how attracted one person is to another. The social group an individual belongs to‚ helps them to form their identity (Tajfel‚ 1979). As a consequence‚ differences between groups may lead to prejudice‚ negative
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Discuss the challenges of managing global/ multicultural teams in organisations. In order to answer this question I first intend to discuss a number of cultural differences that can cause problems for managers of global and multicultural teams. I will then go on to explain one of Hofstede’s models‚ known as the five dimensions of cultural differences which takes into consideration the underlying factors that can also create problems in multicultural teams. Lastly I will discuss different ways
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Issues in Multicultural Education Several educational issues occur here in Los Angeles. Numerous students come from communities of immigrant families. These families generally have low-incomes and have limited resources. Additionally‚ the majority of these students derive from families that are unfamiliar with the American education structure. These neighborhoods commonly have high rates of illiteracy and crime. These are some of the major issues that surround students in these communities. There
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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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