Your Name April 21‚ 2013 Venus de Willendorf VS The Barbie Doll Who are they today? Venus de Willendorf and Barbie are two very different representations of women and their beauty. Both are man-made and inspirational‚ both from two very different times. Venus by the homosapiens millions of years ago and Barbie a mere fifty years ago by a woman and mother looking for a doll her daughter could play and grow with. In looking at Venus de Willendorf and the Barbie doll‚ they seem to be related in
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John Demos‚ The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early America‚ (First Vintage Books‚ April 1995) John Demos in a sense presents themes that are entirely familiar and conventional. The themes of sin‚ retribution‚ and repentance are very prevalent in his writing. The loss of piety‚ the failure of spiritual nerve‚ the absolute necessity of reform; and the certainty of God’s punishment if reform was not achieved appear throughout his book (Demos). (In this instance‚ Eunice’s failure
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Are Ethics Relative? Ruth Benedict: Ethics Are Relative ID # : 0804014743 “Ruth Benedict: Ethics Are Relative … Morality is culturally relative.” In this paper‚ I’m going to discuss the argument that the famous American anthropologist‚ Ruth Benedict‚ has put forth regarding ‘ethical relativism’. Ethical relativism is the theory that holds that morality is relative to the norms and values of one’s culture or society. That is‚ whether an action is classified as right or wrong depends on the moral
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Variety Variety is the spice of the Barbie Doll Marketing Success. First introduced to the US market in 1959‚ Barbie has grown into a global cultural phenomena. From just one female doll‚ the Barbie family has grown and includes over 38 friends and relatives. There are now dolls that represent multiple ethnicities‚ males‚ different age groups‚ different abilities‚ different lifestyles‚ etc. All totaled‚ there are now over one hundred and fifty different dolls under the Barbie brand. Quality
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One of the points that Zirin touches on plenty in this piece is racism in sports. As the reader gets proceeds through this book‚ he or she will realize that racism hasn’t evaporated and some might say that it has gotten worse. In the first chapter‚ he speaks about the racism that occurred in baseball with black and brown players. He highlights Roberto Clemente who is widely recognized as one of the greatest player in baseball history. Zirin states that Roberto had an older brother named Matino who
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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. It is estimated that the average girl aged
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Cross your fingers and get out your rabbit ’s feet. Crossing fingers‚ black cats‚ rabbit ’s feet‚ broken mirrors‚ they are all harmless superstitions that people believe in that help them through their day. People use superstitions like crossing their fingers or saying a certain chant or phrase to prepare themselves for difficult tasks they feel they can ’t do by themselves. Athletes and musicians also rely on their superstitious beliefs—like lucky clothing articles‚ or some routine before a performance—because
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"The Sandlot" After watching "The Sandlot"‚ and learning about the concepts of leisure‚ recreation and play there are many examples of each throughout the movie. "The Sandlot" is a story of a boy‚ Scotty Smalls who moves into a new neighborhood with his mom and his step dad‚ Bill. As a new kid in town he is often seen inside but one day he discovers that there is a group of kids in the neighborhood that go a to lot every morning to play baseball. This very special lot was called the
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first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Eleven inches tall‚ with a waterfall of fair hair‚ Barbie was the first mass-produced sport doll in the United States with matured features. The feminine behind Barbie was Ruth Handler‚ who co-based Mattel‚ Inc. with her lord in 1945. After seeing her young daughter ignore her baby dolls to execute make-expect with papery dolls of adult females‚ Handler net there was an necessary niche in the bazaar for a pastime that allowed
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crimes so that they could gain power aswell as land. Thomas Putnam was greedy for land because more
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