Essays Tagged: "little girls"

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d year at Washington. The twins were high school seniors at this time and my pride and joy, daddy's little girls. Carolyn and I had celebrated our twenty-fifth anniversary, that's the silver one I thi ... on't, not today." I turned to see a man much like myself, but older and with his piece on. He was a little taller, but with the same sagging features and large belly of my body. "I've come here to giv ...

(16 pages) 378 5 4.8 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Television and Commercialism

hat--images which keep the viewer on a superficial level. For instance, in the program Sailor Moon, little girls are kept on a level of clothes and being cute for boys. This is a very unrealistic outl ... eyes, and vast career ranging from a lifeguard to a doctor, Barbie wins the hearts of many innocent little girls who become subjected to her unrealistic image.Most often in television there is no dept ...

(6 pages) 195 0 4.1 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Barbie; Destroying Self Images since 1959

ses are who television has taught us to believe are beautiful. But the root of the problem stands a little over 11 inches tall and features a moveable head, arms and legs. The culprit's name? Barbie. ... a moveable head, arms and legs. The culprit's name? Barbie. The Crime? Destroying the self-image of little girls since 1959.When Barbie first hit the market, the creator, Ruth Handler stated that she ...

(4 pages) 168 1 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Bruce Lee

or demons who take the lives of male babies to destroy the family's name. So they dressed Bruce in little girls clothing and called him Sai Fon.When they returned to Hong Kong, the Lee household cons ... ace Lee, Bruce's two sisters, Agnes and Phoebe, his older brother Peter, and later to be joined his little brother Robert.Bruce grew up in a very crowded house. He lived in a two bedroom flat. Upon th ...

(5 pages) 140 3 3.6 Mar/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Actors

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d year at Washington. The twins were high school seniors at this time and my pride and joy, daddy's little girls. Carolyn and I had celebrated our twenty-fifth anniversary, that's the silver one I thi ... on't, not today." I turned to see a man much like myself, but older and with his piece on. He was a little taller, but with the same sagging features and large belly of my body. "I've come here to giv ...

(16 pages) 96 1 4.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by R.L Stevenson.

de gets himself into a lot of trouble inthis story for example he gets a man killed and pushes down little girls for funMr. Utterson, a lawyer and a friend of Dr. Jekyll's, finds something peculiarabo ... . Jekyll and he can't turn backinto himself , he stays in the body of Mr. Hyde, the dreadful, ugly, littlemidget whom nobody likes. He decides to hide in his study upstairs and tellshis servants that ...

(3 pages) 78 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

stereotyping men and women in mass media

ow aggressiveness and toughness, and females are expected to be passive and nurturing. For example, little girls play with baby dolls and play "house" and little boys play with toy guns and play "cops ... he WNBA, professional women's sports is almost never heard of until the Olympics comes around, very little people are aware there is a women's U.S baseball team.The consequences of media depictions of ...

(3 pages) 472 0 4.4 Jul/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Great Expectations

s adopted daughter, Estella. Now, understand that Estella was brought up very differently than most little girls. She was brought up in a way that will backlash her mother in the end. Estella's main m ...

(2 pages) 29 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Charles Dickens

A Visit of Charity by Eudora Welty

s "a red coat and her straight yellow hair is hanging down loose from the pointed white cap all the little girls are wearing this year." This suggests us that she is not a self-conscious individual. S ... elfish nature when she states to the nurse that "I have to pay a visit to some old lady." She shows little respect in the way she phrases her statement. By saying she has to pay a visit reinforces us ...

(2 pages) 57 0 3.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Context of the passage to the Rocking horse Winner

ursery, he would sit on his big rocky-horse, charging madly into space, with a frenzy that made the little girls peer at him uneasily. ... his eyes had a strange glare in them. The little girls dared ... dent in his style of writing. Let us now examine the important passage at hand.The story is about a little boy whose mother believed that her family was haunted by bad luck all the time; the family wa ...

(4 pages) 131 0 4.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

GI Joe and Barbie: Bad for self-esteem?

othing to do with the enemies of America. The Barbie doll has a perfect unattainable body, and when little girls see this body they believe that they will or should look this way. GI Joe and Barbie ha ... e figure to presumably appear very large in body size effects young males and their self esteem.For little girls a figure that causes the same problem is Barbie. Over the years Barbie has always been ...

(2 pages) 38 1 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

What They Say Isn't Always What They Mean

their tears and the next you are crying your own. Loving children now don't want touched. Confident little girls turn into sullen teens. Their childlike faces are now just turned into shells.Study aft ... e teenage rebel without a cause is obsessed with friend that lead them astray determine to spend as little time as possible with their parents. Of course, they are at the mercy of their raging hormone ...

(3 pages) 27 0 1.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Losing LaRae!

my house they were at her house. She was just like another daughter to me.LaRae was a very spoiled little girl, like most all little girls are. I remember when she and Jasmine were about four years o ... ber when she and Jasmine were about four years old, they were in a beauty pageant and being the two little angels they were had a disagreement and LaRae slapped the fire out of Jasmine. We couldn't he ...

(5 pages) 22 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Ideal Stereotype Made By Social Construction

Most little girls want to be teachers whilst the boys eager to be astronauts. When they want to be someth ... , buy 'masculine' type of toys such as robots, car toys, gun toys, etc. They believe that pink is a little too feminine for their son and dolls can make him looks like a sissy. On the other hand, thei ... are also taught not to be a naughty girl for "to be naughty means to be a boy". Once the girls do a little mischievous thing, the parents will scold them and make them promise not to do the same thing ...

(5 pages) 82 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Brobdingnag Peculiar nature of the country and its natives

ngnagians are immense and everything in their country matches their size. Grass grows 20 feet high, little girls (Glumdalclitch) can reach 40 feet and hedges can approach 120 feet high. A fully grown ...

(1 pages) 31 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

False Love Part 3

I didn't know what to say I was having a hard time breathing. "Mrs. C listen to me, you have three little girls who need you, please calm down I'll be there in a few minutes." "Okay dear but please d ...

(3 pages) 50 1 4.3 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

An informative essay on the causes of the Salem Witchcraft Trials.

rejudices in the history of America. Not only was the whole ordeal made up in the creative minds of little girls, but was actually explored by the population of Massachusetts. Many innocent lives coul ...

(3 pages) 36 1 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

"Sisterhood In Sula" "Sula" by Toni Morrison

they were not complete if the other one was not around. They began their friendship when they were little girls. "Their friendship was intense as it was sudden" (Morrison 53). This intensity was the ... ing her finger to protect Nel against the teasing of the Irish children and the drowning of Chicken Little. This proves that they will do anything for each other. Sula felt for Nel when those boys tea ...

(4 pages) 50 0 5.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

KIDS

type of attitude. We are brought up in a world that are parents can't completely understand. I see little girls wearing miniskirts and boys becoming more interested in girls at a younger age. The sca ... doesn't find him until the end of the movie. Jenny finds Telly in a bed having sex with some other little girl without protection. Larry Clark does a good job not revealing the fact that every girl T ...

(4 pages) 72 3 3.7 Feb/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Rosa Parks Story

t the age of 11, she enrolled in the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls, a private school where little girls were thought how to dress up a dinner table, ironing clothes, etc. The school was found ...

(1 pages) 16 0 0.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American