Little girl‚ a big secret I don’t remember when all this started‚ when my family turned into a mess. However‚ I really wish that I could go back and change that moment‚ that moment when my father started to ruin our lives. Since I was little I’ve had the same lullaby. Almost every night‚ I have fallen asleep to the sound of punches‚ mum screaming and dad yelling. I’m scared‚ I can’t sleep‚ I can’t tell. “Auch! Please stop!” I heard mum cried‚ “I’m begging you!”. “Go to hell f***ing cow!” dad
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height of the speaker’s anger in the poem‚ she states that‚ “Carbonized despair presses like a clinker/ from a barbecue against the back of her eyes” (Piercy 11-12). These two lines serve to illustrate the negative stigma surrounding the unequal power balance often found in opposite sex relationships‚ usually due to pre-existing stereotypes of what a woman is capable of accomplishing compared to a man. After a lifetime of belief in the inherent superiority of males‚ it is easy to understand why the
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Society’s Expectations on Women The poem‚ “Barbie Doll”‚ by Marge Piercy‚ is about a normal “girlchild” who gets criticized by society for not looking like a perfect doll. She changes herself to fit society’s expectations just to fit in‚ but only in the end does society see her as “pretty”. Piercy’s purpose of the poem is to show how society has appalling expectations of how women show look and act. Imagery‚ irony‚ and tone are terms that show how vile society’s expectations are. Imagery helps the
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The Poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy is about a girl who struggles with her body image. The speaker in the poem acts as an observer; watching the girl encounter different experiences as it related to her body image. Today’s generation is much similar to the life of the girl in this poem. Girls are forced to keep up with rising standards that are overwhelming and destructive. This poem uses form‚ imagery‚ and word choice to express how society chooses not to accept girls who do not represent the
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poem‚ “Barbie Doll‚” by Marge Piercy‚ implicitly criticizes the way that women are mixed into stereotypical roles from the time they are young. This poem makes it clear this standard of perfection is impossible to achieve--at least not while one is alive--and starts with something relatively careless at a young age‚ a Barbie doll. The Barbie doll‚ one of the best-selling “toys” of all time‚ has become an icon of U.S. culture for the way it idealizes the female body. Young girls all around the world
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February: The month of February was mainly about Matt coming back to school and everyone is ignoring him even Ursula. Matt tries to email Ursula‚ telling her how he feels about her and how he wants to become friends‚ but he deletes the email again. Speaking of which‚ Ursula is feeling gulity inside because she doesn’t pay Matt no attention. So i have this feeling that eventually they are going to talk and become close friend because Ursula had help Matt out
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What Dreams are Made of Since the beginning of time‚ dreams have been a mysterious wonder amongst humans. Everyone has dreams‚ and people who say they do not in fact do‚ but just don’t remember their dreams or recall the information that was in them. A person spends somewhere around six years of their life dreaming‚ which is about 2‚100 days in a dream world (dreamfacts). A lot of people often have weird and unexplained dreams that they usually just overlook‚ or don’t remember‚ but research is
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Society has a very strong mental image of what the ideal young woman looks‚ acts‚ and behaves like. Whenever a young woman fails to live up to these outrageous ideas they are belittled and told to change what they look like and how they behave. This is exactly what happens to the girl in Marge Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” (236). The pressure that society was putting on the shoulders of this girl became too much one day. She finally decided to give up on being herself and become who the world wanted
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What is hairspray made of? Hairspray is a solution of long‚ chainlike molecules (called polymers) in a very volatile solvent. Spraying deposits a stiff layer of the polymer on your hair after the solvent evaporates. The solvent used was once a compound of carbon‚ fluorine‚ and chlorine (a chlorofluorocarbon‚ or CFC). CFCs are nontoxic‚ nonflammable‚ and make almost ideal aerosol propellants. But when it was learned that they causedestruction of stratospheric ozone‚ they were replaced with other
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Are girls too mean to each other ? Are girls really “mean”?That’s the question. Many people assume girls are mean because they just don’t like that person and other people think that’s the way they were made to be. There are many disagreements on whether girls are mean or not. Girls are not mean because they might not savor you. It’s mostly because they either have a low self esteem or think their life or themselves is apathy. Some girls are just insecure and don’t know what to do so they let out
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