images of how we think life is supposed to be. Although‚ who’s to say what’s right and what’s wrong with the way we interpret things? Marge Piercy‚ who wrote the poem “Barbie Doll”‚ has a very strong view of how destructive social pressure can be to a girl through her transitioning stages into a woman. She expresses how the Barbie doll‚ the toy figurine that woman idealize‚ is‚ in fact‚ a method of corruption to a young girl. First and for most we must understand who the persona is in the poem
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When a child is young‚ their minds are still growing and their personality is starting to come together. However‚ there are certain pressures that a toy can put on a child. For instance‚ in the poem "Barbie Doll" the author starts off by describing the toy doll. How barbie dolls cook‚ clean‚ and take care of the babies. Then the owner of the doll grows up to be a normal girl‚ but when puberty hits and the girl starts changing‚ she is criticized for her big nose and fat legs. Everyday since‚ she has
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Bronzino’s Venus‚ Cupid‚ Folly‚ and Time (c. mid 1540’s) is an astounding painting which includes intricate symbolism.# The painting has provoked much scholarly controversy and‚ to this day no one art historian can agree on what the overall idea of the painting is.# One source says that Bronzino was commissioned for this work not only as a demonstration of painterly excellence‚ but as a demonstration of Florentine intellectual cleverness‚ necessary both for the invention of the imagery and for
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Angolo Bronzino: An Allegory with Venus and Cupid 1540-1550 57 ½ x 46” This strange and erotic painting‚ was painted by‚ Angolo Bronzino somewhere in the mid 1540’s. Its obscure images‚ exaggerated poses‚ and graceful forms are characteristic of the mannerist period. It is said to have been commissioned by Cosimo de Medici the Grand Duke of Tuscany‚ which was then given as a gift to King Francis‚ who was known for his “lusty appetites”. This is a very dynamic
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trying years of our lives took place during the developmental stages. The times you were left lingering in the foggy valley between childhood and adulthood. Puberty. You would be lying if you said this period did not hit you like a truck. The poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy embodies the struggles that adolescence girls endeavor throughout this beautiful and natural season of their young lives. Speaking from a female perspective‚ “blossoming” was not as glamorous as our school nurses and
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The Tinker v. Des Moines‚ New Jersey v. T.L.O.‚ and Ingraham v. Wright are just three Supreme Court cases about student rights. The first one‚ the Tinker v. Des Moines is a case that took place in 1965. The issue of this case was the freedom of speech in school. It all started on one day when John and Mary Beth Tinker along with their friend Chris Eckhardt chose to wear black armbands to school to protest the war in Vietnam. School officials told them to take off the bands‚ but they refused. In effect
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In an essay‚ discuss how both Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s‚ The Large Bathers. Refer to specific visual references in your discussion Everything has a starting point that is used as reference‚ and although the date and the name of the precursor of the art movement called Cubism differs from one source to another‚ in this case Paul Cézanne’s‚ The Large Bathers was
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Des Moines. Tinker v. Des Moines‚ 1969. In the Tinker case‚ a group of high school students wore black armbands to school because they wanted to protest the Vietnam War. The school decided to discipline the students because they were wearing armbands. The students
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The argument of Juan Gines de Sepulveda is that of negative feedback to what was experienced in the first encounter of the Spaniards and American Indians in the Sixteenth Century. Also‚ Sepulveda demonstrates through his opinion that war against the Indians is a rightful act due to the fact that the Indians are seen as lower beings. The proof that Sepulveda uses to support his position is the glimpse the Spaniards noted in the short time they observed the Indians. Sepulveda thought that the Indians
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Death is a very serious topic something we all must deal with. People all choose to deal with it in the different ways. Poets like to tackle this subject in their own unique ways. The two contrasting portrayals of death could not be further on further realms from the spectrum. “The Vacuum” by Howard Nemerov is based around a vacuum the speaker’s wife owned. The speaker is an old widower‚ who has an empty place in his heart where his wife once was‚ symbolized by the vacuum. The account of the poem
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