compared to help answer how gender is a social construct. I will also reflect on them by my own experiences. A series of questions were asked and a conversation grew from them‚ Some more question where added that I thought would fit in. I interview two girls around the same age‚ but one is American raised where the other is raised in another country and also is Muslim‚ I wanted to see how those factors affect their views. To begin I interview a 23-year-old American female who grew up in Vancouver WA‚ with
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the same girls walk in‚ this time with more reveling clothing. The girls decides to shopping around‚ while shopping other customers in the store start to make comments and side notes about the girls. Sammy notice the remarks made by other customers but doesn’t say anything. The next day was slow at the store and Sammy is waiting for the girls to come in ‚ a while goes by and the girls come in around there normal time but this time while in the store Sammy’s manger approaches the girls and talks
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Queenie is the lead girl if a group of girls who walk into the A&P. “She kind of led them” (17)‚ as Updike puts it. These girls‚ including Queenie‚ are all wearing bathing suits‚ which at the time the story was written‚ was considered quite risqué. Sammy refers to this girl as Queenie because as he puts it‚ “- and then the third one‚ that wasn’t so tall. "She was the queen” (17). Based on how much Sammy talks about her and the way he does it‚ Queenie is his favorite girl of the group. Lengel
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Summary of “Barbie Doll” In the poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy‚ we read about a young girl who has self image problems. Due to the expectations of society‚ she is not happy with her physical appearance. She had many good qualities but is unable to see these for herself. Instead she only sees is a “a great big nose and fat legs”(Piercy‚1936). In order to conform to society’s idea of beauty‚ the young girl was “advised to play coy‚ exhorted to come on hearty‚ exercise‚ diet‚ smile and wheedle
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domain is unfair. A fifteen-year-old girl walks into her classroom in the morning and can feel every eye in the room staring her down. People laugh and whisper to their friends‚ looking right at her as she takes her seat. She feels ashamed of herself guessing that nearly every person in the room has seen her in naked picture with the slutty pose that she sent to one of the boys at her school‚ trying as hard as she could to impress him‚ living up to that ideal girl that all the boys talk about. The rest
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Dear Diary‚ School today was the worst! I have never felt to alone before. I felt like I was the new girl in school‚ I was ignored in the morning and I also was ignored during recess and lunch. What had I done? I am usually the popular girl in school. You know‚ the girl that everyone loved and the girl that everyone asked for advice from. But today it was different. Yes‚ I know it was risky to not wear make-up to school today‚ but something "hit" me and I made the decision to not touch my make-up
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Media Analysis: Rose Petal Cottage Commercial This Hasbro television commercial advertisement came out in the year of 2007 and was promoting the Rose Petal Cottage. The commercial begins with a girl-toddler swinging open the top half of the door‚ welcoming the camera shot by saying: “Come on in.” She is next seen putting on her apron‚ which will prepare her for the later activities. The plot thickens when she places her plastic muffins into the fake oven‚ puts her baby doll to sleep in the
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women in other fields. Educationally speaking‚ girls are performing on the same level as boys today‚ which is an upgrade compared to the past when boys seemingly always outperformed girls. According to research boys are still doing better on high stakes tests than girls‚ and by high stakes test meaning state advanced placement tests‚ and standardize college entrant exams. Also fewer girls compared to boys sign up to take these particular tests. As girls enter college they seem to shy away from STEM
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the shop‚ she was called by a poor girl. She asked her for the money for a cup of tea. She didn’t look like a beggar and Rosemary decided to take her home. Of course she didn’t think about the poor girl. It was thrilling adventure for her which would amaze her noble friends‚ the adventure about which she had read in the novels. Rosemary’s husband wasn’t satisfied with the presence of the strange girl. He resorted to tricks to show the door to the girl‚ causing jealousy of his wife. Having
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psychologist believe that that this could be a platform that these girls are not mature enough to handle and may scar them for life. be seductive? Are these young children being encouraged to Will this behavior affect them psychologically for life? Is society promoting a negative self-image for the girls who are not the winners of these pageants? I am interested in this issue because it affects me and every girl in one way or another. Growing up‚ my dad always told me that beauty
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