Giovanny Sanchez May 5, 2012 Ms. Collins Barbie’s World In everyone’s childhood there is always that one special non-living figure in their personal lives, a figure we admired, something we looked up to be, like an idol. In “You Can Never Have Too Many,” Jane Smiley thanks Barbie for the effect she had on her daughter’s lives as they were growing up to be young adults; by teaching them the feminine side of woman at an early stage, which ultimately allowed their minds to have a lot more options when it really came down to figuring out who they wanted to be at an adult stage. Smiley however, does not effectively support this argument because she gives a lot of credit to Barbie for the way her daughters turn out to be but she’s forgetting
Alvarez essay explains how her parents and media taught Alvarez self-worth. Alvarez’s explains how she grew up and learned to love herself. “As a young teenager in our new country, my sisters and I searched for clues on how to look as if we belonged here (Alvarez 92). Young girl sometimes find themselves trying to be like people they see on T.V. so that they can fit into the world.
In the film Real Women Have Curves Latina teenager Ana Garcia struggles on trying to balance her family’s culture and her own beliefs that seem to differ very much from her family’s. This becomes a problem throughout the movie. Her family wants her to be doing something that she is not nearly interested in. The problems mainly break through with Ana’s mother whose name is Carmen. Throughout the whole film you are able to see how the culture differences between Ana and her mother Carmen affect their mother and daughter relationship even till the last moments of the film.
Also, as her parents barley consider the idea of Anna getting into college, her teacher tells them that “Anna is a smart girl, she has a lot that she can contribute to this world.” As these messages help Anna find her identity, she begins to notice that her chances of going to Columbia University are within arms reach. The stereotype of Anna being a typical Mexican-American teen brings an uncomfortable feeling into her body image and for this she feels the need to change the footsteps in
Now Leymah go around the world helping little girl that is similar to her as a child. She has turned her life arounf because e she was fearless. Today she is going across the world and sharing her story to young woman who still have a chance. She is educated and sharing with young girls. She is setting out a foundation to educated young girl who are willing and open minded to change their life.
Sydney Wheeler English 102 Section 202 August 29, 2012 Barbara Huddleston 8-31-12 Mini Profile Cassandra Garcia Cassandra Garcia has lived a life that most 25 year olds can’t say that they have experienced yet. She has overcome hurdles that most others would merely try to avoid and she does it with determination. She has two beautiful little girls (Bella and Laila) that are her world. Right out of high school she joined the army where she met her ex-husband, all seemed well at first but the turmoil of their relationship was too much of a strain and they got divorced. While most women would cave into the unnecessary evils of this world, Cassandra rose above all of that and gained a new relationship with the Lord.
As some Mormon women feel indifferent to being in a plural marriage, most feel as if it is obligatory and a part of their duty to follow their religious and spiritual beliefs as a way to successfully reach salvation. Shelly Hrdlitschka’s novel Sister Wife is a perfect book to reveal the different perspectives of strong and vocal women within a polygamous community. It successfully showcases three viewpoints of women on polygamy and how it has affected their lives and role within a tight-knit polygamous community. Sister Wife follows the lives of three young girls in an isolated, polygamous community called Unity. The main protagonist, Celeste who just turns fifteen, is preparing for the revelation of who her future husband will be.
The movie told of a beautiful and mature woman Katherine who taught “History of Art” at Wellesley College which was a conservative women’s school that wasn’t interested in spreading women’s freedom (Newell). Giselle was important character in the movie. She was young, dynamic, and unafraid to fight for a good purpose. She was different from the traditional women because she had an independent attitude towards life, strong heart, and open-minded thoughts to the 1950s American social phenomenon that was being gradually. In the fifteen years of America after World War Ⅱ, to be a “perfect wives” and “five children’s mother” was a women’s dream (Friedan).
Unfortunately, as life would have it after she graduated high school with a 4.0 gpa she quickly learned that it was all in vain, she was not able to attend a university because of her citizen status. My mother was forced to play the hand that god gave her. As life pummeled her with obstacles she continue to be carried on by her ambition. She now has earned a real estate license and a cosmetology license, all earned while working 2 jobs and raising 2 children. My mother raised me with the same mentality.
So this has contributed to how we see society today, people notice girls doing better in school and genuinely how people see education. Sue Sharpe researched and investigated the ambitions of girls in the 1970s and the 1990s and compared them. Her results showed a major change in the way the girls saw their future. In 1974 Sharpe interviewed girls and resulted in low aspirations such as wanting children, marriage, and love as their main priorities. By the 1990s Sharpe went back to the same school and interviewed girls again and they had changed their priorities to careers and being able to support themselves by being more dependent rather than relying on a husband.