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    Like A Girl Commercial

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    Leading the audience to realize what an impact “Like a Girl” can have on adolescent girls (Case study: Always #LikeAGirl). After watching what the young adults considered to be “Like a Girl” the commercial then shows little girls around the age of ten and what their response to what it is like to be a girl. All of the younger girls doing the task as intense as possible‚ they showed confidence and determination of what it is like to be "a girl". This part of the commercial pulls the audience in with

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    Girls Like Us

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    Girls Like Us Girls Like Us is an intimate portrayal concerning four girls who grew up all with different ethnic backgrounds and various forms of parental guidence. Anna Chau is Vietnames with strict parents and good beliefs‚ Lisa Bronca is a Caucasion Catholic‚ De’Yonna Moore is African-American with strong goals who lives with her Grandma and Raelene Cox is a young white girl who comes from a broken home with little parental guidence. Girls Like Us shows examples of structural functionism

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    Words Like A Girl

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    I have often heard the description‚ “like a girl”. People use this phrase to make jokes and laugh at others. As far as I consider‚ it is totally unfair to girls. Last year‚ I went camping with my classmates. We brought tents‚ barbecue grills‚ food and fuel. To get to the camping site‚ we had to carry all the stuff by foot without the help of vehicles or equipment since the roads were quite rugged. On the way‚ everyone carried as much stuff as they were capable of. After a while‚ a thin boy put down

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    Throwing Like a Girl

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    10/17/10 Throwing Like a Girl 1. Fallow acknowledges the objections of feminists to the phrase “throwing like a girl.” Yet that is not the only derogatory phrase towards women. Activities such as football‚ hockey and hunting are mainly men’s sports too. It is clear that women gather more negative associations than the male population. Feminists challenge the phrase “throwing like a girl” because it is proven that men and women’s shoulders are aligned similarly and there are no structural differences

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    Ranch Girl Poem

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    An analysis of the poem “The Last Mojave Indian Barbie‚” ​ in which you discuss the author’s satire  of gender and ethnic stereotypes    ● An analysis of the short story “Cruising Paradise‚” ​ in which you discuss the author’s portrayal of  the West (and the irony of the title)     ● An analysis/comparison of the short story “Ranch Girl” and the essay “Chasing the Lamb‚” ​ in  which you discuss the authors’ contrasting portrayals of ranch life    ● An analysis/comparison of the poem “Day of the Refugios” and the essay “Motherlands and

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    Black Girl Stereotypes

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    I am a black girl who grew up in predominately white areas. Growing up all my friends were white and although I wondered what it was like to have black friends‚ it never really bothered me. They were my friends‚ it didn’t matter what color their skin was. Then in sixth grade‚ I moved to Norfolk‚ Virginia. Norfolk has a large African-American community and I was excited to have friends that looked like me. However‚ when I was around the black kids in my school I never felt like I belonged

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    Black Girl Viral

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    Senegal’s Black Girl Magic Photo Goes Viral Photo credit: The Source A picture showing five young‚ confident‚ and beautiful black women wearing Nike shirts and sneakers went viral. The photo shows these young women wearing turbans and skirts designed with traditional African prints while wearing Nike apparel and holding basketballs. Ben Bailey Smith posted the picture to Twitter and it spread like wildfire and traveled across different social media platforms. The image was retweeted‚ reposted

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    What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith Compared to Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer. Carolynn Hanson ENG125: Introduction to Literature (ABG1239A) Instructor: Corey King October 15‚ 2012 When comparing and contrasting the poem What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl by Patricia Smith with the short story Country Lovers by Nadine Gordimer. The poem and the short story are both great examples of the difficulty of life between different ethnic backgrounds. The Poem What It’s

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    Black Like Me

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    Black Like me The book Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin is a moving true story of how a white man manages to experience what it is like to be a “Negro” or black person in the 1950s. The author did this social experiment by taking medication and dying his skin a deep brown. He wanted to really experience the challenges and changes a black man in this time would go through. By traveling through the far south‚ Griffin got a taste of what real life was for a Negro. The experiment starts in the

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    Black Like Me

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    Plot Summary: Black Like Me was written by John Howard Griffin about his adventure in some southern states and what he observed when he pigmented his skin to be an African American; who at the time was being discriminated against. Throughout his experiment he experienced many things including racism‚ discrimination‚ and survival. Griffin was a privileged southern white from Texas. During the pigmentation process he set out for New Orleans‚ once the procedure was done completely‚ he seen things

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