Cheerleaders. The first thing that may pop into your head is either “hot blondes” or “ditsy blondes.” That is basically how popular culture portrays American cheerleaders--blonde, good-looking, peppy, and perhaps worst of all, dumb. The definition of a “cheerleader” can be taken many ways. When people first think “cheerleader,” they think of girls on the sidelines of football or basketball games, chanting silly rhymes and shaking their pom-poms to the crowd. I would consider sideline cheer more of a hobby than a sport--and I can get away with saying this since I am a sideline cheerleader myself.
The Bluest Eyes Shirley Temple, the little princess. Everything a young girl hoped and dreamed to be. The perfectly blond coifed hair, porcelain skin and bright ocean blue eyes. Thinking of her was enough for every young girl hope and aspire to be just like Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple in the Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison represents the American ideal girl and a representation of the stigma related to not being white in a society.
Cheerleading is a Sport During cheerleading season, there are cheerleaders all over the world who have to argue the meaning of a sport. The cheerleaders have to argue that the activity is a sport and not a hobby. People fail to realize that cheerleaders do not only prance around and cheer on individual sports. The media too often neglects the true values of cheerleading. Television shows and movies stereotype cheerleaders as quirky, dumbfound, and popular.
Selena Flowers English 1302 10 May 2010 Teenage Girls in America – Beautiful or Not? The majority of the media characteristically exhibits reverence towards delicate, ultra-thin female models – a highly glamorized fallacy that continues to deceive and contaminate a large number of teenagers around the world. The majority of adolescents around the globe are far from the standards set by the media. Although parents strive to persuade their children that beauty is only skin deep, many, if not all, teenagers are acutely aware of the resounding magnitude that physical appearance emanates amongst their peers. In an attempt to meet this idolized intangible criteria, numerous teens turn to some form of dieting which usually evolves into an eating disorder, along with illegal drug use, excessive tanning and even plastic surgery to feel comfortable with their appearance.
Feminist say that Barbie is the cause of worldwide eating disorders, low self-esteem and false perception of beauty. Girls see Barbie as a role model they set out to be like her, but researchers have recently found that her body is so disproportionate. Barbie measurements would be 38-18-34, her head would be the same size as her waist, her breast would be too large for her to walk up straight and she would be too thin to menstruate. What girl wants to grow up to be like that? Barbie’s weight is set at 110 pounds and 6ft tall but not all girls know that except when in 1965 Mattel came out with a “slumber party Barbie” that came with a bathroom scale permanently set at 110 pounds, a book called “how to lose weight” and inside it said “don’t eat”.
Cuttler is described as a blond babe whose life is nothing but the music – the clothes, the attitude, even the boyfriend. However, when Audrey breaks up with her boyfriend Evan – her life is turned upside down when Evan writes a hit song about their break up. Paparazzi everywhere! In her school, in her lawn, even on her dates! At first, Cuttler soaks in the world’s love – adoring fans, V.I.P access, and even a few rendezvous with some boys.
No matter how much they share with each other and how identical they look, they do have differences. Merry is the head cheerleader and Miss Popularity whereas Mally is all business. She is a jock and prefers to spend time alone. The Brynn twins are known and loved all throughout town but even more so after a New Year's Eve disaster. While babysitting their little brother and cousins, a mysterious fire breaks out that nearly takes the twins' lives.
Although this movie does have its funny moments and is in some ways an excellent interpretation of teenage pregnancy, the fact that many of the more serious emotional and physical side effects are left out cannot be ignored. Juno manages to elude high school student stereotypes. She jokes about herself as the kind of freaky girl "with horn-rimmed glasses and vegan footwear and Goth makeup or Converse All-Stars and cello skills,” who is wanted secretly by all the jocks. She seems oddly mature yet somewhat childlike, and is in no way sexualized, yet she is pregnant from that one time on that chair. The pregnancy shows that Juno is driven by the chance to make her own decisions and isn't really influenced by the embryo’s rights, but by her own autonomy.
The younger girls drink alcohol and giggle loudly. Mrs Bennet gets drunk and stumbles around. "Clearly my family are seeing who can expose themselves to the most ridicule," Lizzie observed. In contrast Darcy behaves well at the ball. He has a very high social status, other girls want to marry him.
The ban comes as increasing numbers of young girls copy the 'sexy schoolgirl' look popularised by celebrities such as Rihanna and Brittany Speers. The headmaster of the Worcestershire school said the ban would eliminate 'unladylike' short skirts. 'Young women are far more impressionable than young men. They want to be the pop stars have their lifestyle, their clothes, their men, their habits” (Jones, date unknown) This shows