Essays Tagged: "american girls"
The work of photographer Lauren Greenfield and her project "girl Culture"
Lauren Greenfield's photos of the inside lives of American girls is a vividly descriptive yet disturbingly honest interpretation of modern ideals. 'Gi ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art
The medias affect on teens.
with some blemishes she is going to think that she is not good enough.The fact is over 62% of North American girls are either starving themselves,bing and purging. or on some sort of diet.Out of those ... pressure to have ripped abs,arms of steal and believe it or not perfect hair.A amazing 80% of North American teenage males either diet, work more the 20hrs trying to get hard abs,have eating disorders ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
"Our Hearts Were Yong and Gay" by Cornelia Otis Skinner and co-written by her dear friend Emily Kimbrough.
dear friend Emily Kimbrough. It tells the story of the young authors, two hilarious and enchanting American girls, on a European adventure together to claim their independence. In this extremely wild ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Portrayal of Two Disney's Princesses - Comparison of Snow White and Beuty and the Beast
Disney presents numerous princesses as role models to young American girls. From the sweet and demure Snow White to the intelligent Belle, animated women have c ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
This paper is about why the 1920's was an influencial decade.
sAIt was during what we might call the Flapper period, or the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties that American popular culture began to capture the imagination of the worldY[America] was inventing its o ... nventing its own modernityY@(Mulvey 2). The 1920=s was a time of drastic change in several areas of American culture. Changes occurred because of the new role of women, new kinds of entertainment, a n ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Outward Action versus Inward Meditation
Outward Action versus Inward MeditationIn the American summer resort, in the month of June, there have been always nice features among whom we hav ... onth of June, there have been always nice features among whom we have Daisy Miller. She was a young American girl who always " appeared to be in the best humor with everything ".She was a representati ... would make people behave opposing to their inner feelings.Vevey, the summer resort, is a mixture of American and European cultures where Winterbourne, found the best conditions to talk to a young unma ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
All-american Girls Professional Baseball League
high, her motto do or die." This is a line from the victory song written and sung by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGBL) in 1943-1954. During those days it wasn't common ... were still dependant on men. As America suffered many changes as the war went on, so did the American woman's role. Women began to work out of the house, doing jobs such as teachers, nurses, an ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies
League Of Their Own
ball players were leaving for the war, a group of ladies left their homes to become part of the All-American Girls Baseball League and kept baseball alive for a grateful nation. The movie itself is a ... time of her youth when she played baseball for a local team and was spotted by a scout for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. This is the beginning of the film and her story. ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Review of 9 Parts of Desire
Heather Raffo, an Iraqi-American, traveled across four different continents interviewing Iraqi women to compile their storie ... untless events of war-torn Iraq, 9 Parts of Desire presents a point of view which is unseen by many Americans today. Being an Iraqi but living in America was difficult on Raffo. She was torn between h ... er home land. All around her, upon hearing news of the Gulf War, there were cheering men and women (American), but she could not help her feelings of being torn between the issue; her family still res ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Annotations of Daisy Miller
e European were failing to amuse readers in 1878. The story was a success of a scandal with a large American public. Daisy Miller is both a love story and a story of comparative manners. Projected thr ... strength, but not before her stubbornness causes her death to fall upon her. Daisy is a tribute to American girls whose innocence is shown to triumph over the evil-mind of the old world ways. Daisy i ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature