com/od/bstartinventions/a/The-History-Of-Barbie-Dolls.htm 1.Barbie’s "real" measurements are 5 inches (bust)‚ 3 ¼ inches (waist)‚ 5 3/16 inches (hips) 2.Her weight is 7 ¼ ounces‚ and her height is 11.5 inches tall. 3.The Barbie doll was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler (co-founder of Mattel)‚ whose own daughter was called Barbara. 4.Barbie was introduced to the world at the American Toy Fair in New York City. 5.The Ken doll was named after Ruth’s son and was introduced two years after Barbie in 1961. http://xroads
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networking has many positive effects in society‚ it has more negative consequences‚ especially upon teenagers‚ such as cyber-bullying‚ negative influences on social behavior‚ and the promotions of crime and violence. When used responsibly‚ social networking is efficient‚ fun‚ and useful. Unfortunately‚ teenagers in today’s society misuse social networks- causing social networking become dangerous and psychologically harmful. Cyber-bullying is the most common negative effect of social networking. More
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revision Who is Barbie? What does she stand for? Do all younger girls envy her? Emily Prager is a columnist for the New York Times and a fiction writer who has written many books. She reads an article in the New York Times about a man’s death‚ Jack Ryan. He was an inventor and designer‚ a man with many accomplishments. As Prager reads on‚ to her astonishment‚ she discovers that one of Ryan’s accomplishments was designing Barbie. “Of course‚” she thought. Why would a woman make Barbie with a “39 inch
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Barbie®: Mattel Corporation ‘I’m a blonde bimbo girl‚ in a fantasy world.....Life in plastic. It’s fantastic.’ (Aqua) Barbie was born in 1959 but she has never aged because she is a doll. To date over 1 billion Barbies have been sold by the US company that own her - Mattel Corporation. Ruth Handler‚ who founded the company along with her husband‚ Elliot‚ modelled the doll on an 11½ inch plastic German toy called Lilli sold to adult men. She named the adapted doll after her daughter‚ Barbara
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[18] Mattel said that the waist of the Barbie doll was made small because the waistbands of her clothes‚ along with their seams‚ snaps‚ and zippers‚ added bulk to her figure.[19] In 1997‚ Barbie’s body mold was redesigned and given a wider waist‚ with Mattel saying that this would make the doll better suited to contemporary fashion designs.[20][21] "Colored Francie" made her debut in 1967‚ and she is sometimes described as the first African American Barbie doll. However‚ she was produced using the
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Why trade natural skin for plastic? Marge Piercy addresses this issue‚ though indirectly‚ in her poem "Barbie Doll". Piercy presents an innocent young girl‚ but conveys that she has fat legs and a big nose. Piercy explains that the child was a normal kid‚ not bad looking‚ not in bad shape‚ but simply does not meet the expectation of not having fat legs and a big nose. She is encouraged strongly to do this‚ and encouraged strongly to do that‚ but she can not fix herself up; The pressure is too
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11:00am-1:45pm 11/5/14 Cause and Effect Essay Why don’t I look like her? Media’s portrayal of the “perfect” body and what a person should or could look like is a very controversial issue in the world today. Barbie‚ a fashion doll manufactured in March 1959‚ portrays what the perfect body is presumed to look like. For over fifty years‚ Barbie’s creator‚ Ruth Handler has been the subject of numerous disputes and lawsuits. One of the most common complaints of Barbie is that she promotes an unrealistic
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Skull rings Over the past few years silver skull ring has engaged on its own tradition and iconic position. Skull imagery is the affection of representational meaning to the human skull. The most communal emblematic use of the skull is as a symbol of demise and mortality‚ but such an interpretation varies with moving social perspectives. The human brain has an unambiguous region for knowing façades; it cannot detach the spitting image of the human skull from the acquainted human face. As of this
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impressionable? Her name is Barbie and that is exactly the impression of her that young‚ new‚ millennial parents would have you believe. They would have you believe that an inanimate object is to blame for the poor self image the girls of today have. It is not as if the media has already taken everything they deem desirable about a women’s body and have objectified it in all manners possible for a profit. It is not as if the film industry stereotyped what “beautiful” was long before Barbie was even hitting
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Barbie Purpose statement: The purpose of this speech is to inform the audience about Barbie. INTRODUCTION: I. Did you know in every second of everyday‚ two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world? A. Barbie was invented in 1959 by Ruth Handler. B. She was introduced to the world at the American Toy Fair in New York City. II. Barbie has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market for fifty years. A. She has been the subject of numerous controversies and lawsuits
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