These stories, the young girls create using theses dolls, make it seem okay if these types of unhealthy relationships occur. The fact that their storyline for these play characters never changes is frightening because these are the types of stories they’ll view as being fun and exciting and influence their interactions with other people in their life years to come. These young girls are receiving an unrealistic image of the ideal women by playing with these dolls because these dolls encompass the image that the media sets to be “society’s standards” of what every woman has to be. “Striped swimsuit, stilettos, sunglasses, and gold hoop earrings.” (Cisneros, pg 576) Very few women in the world walk around wearing such outfits. With this think, these girls will strive to achieve an impractical goal.
Decorating our house by hanging lights, spider webs, witches, ghosts, jack-o-lanterns, and even flying bats helps us frighten the neighbors; sending chills up their spine. One of my favorite decorations is carving jack-o-lanterns. From horrid faces of monsters and ghosts, I can find myself also frightened by these when lit up at night time. The food we make on Halloween is the all-time best. We always make pumpkin pie with piles and piles of whip cream on top, caramel apples that stick to your fingers and teeth, popcorn balls that we like to hang out to children, spaghetti to resemble hair and eyeballs, and my favorite; blood juice.
In the third stanza I could tell by the descriptions that she is a young adult, and is being pressured by the real world to be “perfect” in every way. The last stanza is the stage in life that everyone goes through, but maybe not as soon as this young girl, which is death. At the beginning we see her youngest, purest years of life. She did the things that most young girls do. She had “dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry red,” (1-3).
14 Feb. 2009. 2 June 2009 This source discusses the topic of children beauty pageants. Young girls are exploited in beauty pageants and are placed under harsh conditions. They must receive a total body makeover and spend hours preparing when they should be out enjoying their childhood. This source was one of my favorites because it proves so much information that backs up my idea on child pageant; I am going to refer to this source later on.
In “Barbie Dream House,” there are 3 Caucasians, 1 African, and 1 that doesn’t show her face. One of the blonde girls is the main character because she gets to play with the doll house first while everyone in the background are non Caucasians. The blonde girl gets all the attention. As a leader of the commercial she gets to play with the doll. We need to be aware of what’s taking place in children programming’s.
Make a Fake Mummy's Tomb Creating a mummy's tomb is a great way to teach children the joys of discovery and Egyptian archeology. Use a large cardboard box for the tomb and a shoe box for the sarcophagus. A doll wrapped in strips of tissue paper can stand in for a real mummy. Dry, oil-free popcorn or Styrofoam packing peanuts can be a substitute for sand. Small cardboard gift boxes or jewelry boxes can be used to store beads, costume jewelry or other treasures.
It appears that they were going to a celebration for the holiday. The elders are rewarding the children with gifts, and the children are glowing with excitement. A teenage girl gets a box about the size of what a Barbie box would be nowadays. A little boy tries to steal it from her, so the gift must be special and treasured. The woman reprimands him and orders him to return the mysterious gift.
All we had to do was go to a toy store for this project. A group of friends and I decided that Toy’s R Us would be the best choice to conduct our observations since they have the largest selection of toys. We walked around the store and looked at all the toys they had and randomly grabbed three toys from every department. Three from the girl’s section, three from the boy’s section and three that we felt could be played with by either boys or girls. The toy’s we grabbed from the girls department were definitely geared for only the female gender.
Taking an interest in all she can from songs to toys, to dance moves. Chloe’s relationship with me being a familiar face was synchrony (Barnard & amp; Martell The developing person through the life span, Bronx Community college), smooth, as I would play with her and her favorite dolls. I believe all her personality traits I encountered on this day were that of a mentally happy and healthy toddler. All her actions point out to a happy 2 year old exploring and enjoying
Amanda Aguilar Adv. Writing & Research October 28, 2010 Paper #2 Toys Can Expose Children to Gender Stereotypes “Spiderman” action figures, “Legos”, and “The Care Bears” all represent popular toys from the past. Today, toy stores divide the many toys, games and movies into two different categories: boy and girl. After going into Toys R Us or any toy store, one can conclude that the toys children play with, pass down stereotypes of gender roles. Through their gender-biased toys, typically, boys learn "warrior-like" roles and girls learn to nurture.