Her young sister feels jealous and left out when she watches Phoebe get all the attention from both parents. Phoebe is soon taken out of the play by the principal due to her behavior in class; that makes her even more depressed. But with the help of her mom and drama teacher, she is put back into the play. Her odd behavior still continues and she cannot understand why it happens. After she jumps off the catwalk and hurts herself, Miss Dodger is fired.
Her parents never realized that after every meal Rachel would secretly go to the bathroom upstairs and throw up everything she had eaten. Her father would beat her up and treat her like trash and her mother would just stand there and not say a word because she was weak and always did as Rachel’s dad said. In her kindergarten class, Rachel treated all the other little girls with rudeness, anger, and jealousy towards anyone who was better than her. She often spent her days in the principal’s office because of her strong character and misbehaviors. Rachel grew up, went through her dating stage, and then finally met a wonderful man that she could not picture herself without; a caring, positive, supportive husband that goes by the name of Tim.
Diana Scutt English 090- College Writing Skills Dr. Schillig 29 November 2011 Argument Essay Mean Girls Bullying is an epidemic that our schools face; everyone has been bullied in some type of form at one point in their lives. Personally I feel as if females get it the worst. Females are bullied with words; while boys are bullied with fists. The media portrays these models as thin, beautiful girls; this ultimately makes other girls who aren’t as thin feel as if they aren’t pretty. They’re cases where females are bullied to the point where they resort to drugs and alcohol to make the pain go away, drop out of school because they can’t face their tormentors, causing some type of physical harm to their bodies, and or even resort to taking their own lives.
The second case, which is titled the surprised roommates, is centered on two ladies called Sues Taylor and Sue Knowles. They are devoted friends from high school and are joining the same university. It shows how their roommate Lisa surprised them. First the two roommates are astonished after realizing that they had been given a third person to share the room with whom they were not expecting. Secondary they were shocked by Lisa’s behavior of being so cold, when she failed to greet them when she first entered the room.
Jane Doe English 6 Mr. Reitz 4/20/07 Child Abuse Every morning, when the alarm goes off, Lucy, a second grader, pulls the covers over her head, scared to wake up to a new day. She’s scared to leave her room because she knows what’s next: the same hurtful daily routine. She’s slapped in the face, shoved against the wall, or shouted at: “You better do what I say, you little bitch!” And who’s doing the slapping, the shoving, the shouting? The person you would least expect, the person who is supposed to care for and to protect Lucy from abuse: Lucy’s mom. Does Lucy’s mom’s behavior surprise you?
Literary Analysis: The House on Mango Street, Vignette 19: Chanclas Cisneros uses symbolism to develop the theme of insecurity. Esperanza’s shoes symbolize her insecurities. Esperanza’s mother buys her a new dress and new socks for her cousin’s baptism party but she forgets to buy Esperanza new shoes. When they get to the party Esperanza is ashamed of herself because she is wearing old shoes she wears to school with a new dress and new socks. Esperanza’s cousin asks her for a dance but she is too embarrassed by her old shoes that she refuses.
The pageant moms pay hundreds of dollars to have the “best of the best” spray their child down with a can of orange spray paint. As any toddler would, the princesses usually scream and pout and resist all attempts at being hosed down until their mothers promise them a brand new pony after it’s all over. After having their skin damaged beyond repair from the chemicals of a spray tan, they move on to their nails. The whole family joins the beauty queen in receiving her full spa treatment complete with manicure, pedicure and massage. I mean how could we expect a four year old to deal with the stress of a pageant without a full body massage?
Smiley’s first Barbie doll came into her home when her now twenty-four year old daughter was three. The author describes how both of her daughters would only wear pink and purple as they went through the “Barbie phase.” Jane Smiley says, “Both of them (her daughters) learned how to put on makeup before kindergarten” (376). What Smiley means by this is that her daughters were advanced in age mentally. Smiley’s daughters were doing things at age five that most girls would only start doing at the beginning of their teenage years. Now that’s growing up without a childhood.
“We are told that Britney Spears swam topless with her former assistant, that she ran crazed into a beauty salon and demanded to have her head shaved, and that she feeds her two children ice cream and Doritos” (Hirschorn). Feeding children Doritos and ice cream has nothing to do with how well she performs and sings. Britney’s decisions were by no means justified but she should not be suffering for her past. She realized what she had done and started to turn her life back around. Spears divorced Kevin Federline, her back up dancer, and started to devote her life back to her children and producing music for her new album ‘Femme Fatale’.
My attention is broken by the sound of a mother yelling “don’t you climb on there like that!” I look over to see a quite obese woman yelling at her daughter who is climbing the side of a slide trying to get to the top. She is older then the other children and hangs her head back looking at her mother with worry. She yells at her to get down and to go sit in time out for “acting up in public.” The girl cries and runs to her grand parents. The grandfather makes an, “ugh” sound and keeps reading on his tablet. Her grand mother hugs her and looks toward the obese woman criticizing her for not catching it sooner.