...Meet Polly Pocket, My Nemesis Polly Pocket was inflicted upon uncoordinated adults in 1989 by a British toy company called Bluebird Toys. (Thanks Bluebird!) Mattel and Bluebird held the distribution rights in the early 1990s. Chris Wiggs came up with the Polly Pocket doll for his daughter. Mattel and Bluebird developed his idea into a very popular toy line. Polly is a small doll--approximately 3 and 3/4 inch tall. She is plastic with jointed legs and arms. She comes with all sorts of miniature accessories and playsets to spark a child's imagination. But, it was the clothes that did me in. Polly Pocket is a line of miniature toy dolls and dollhouses that many little girls find intriguing. When planning a Polly Pocket social event or birthday party for a girl, you can create a few activities to keep the girls entertained. Activities and games give the girls a chance to win or make their own Polly Pocket creations to take home as a memento of the gathering. 1. Activities o Hide several Polly Pocket accessories, clothes, pets and toys around the play area. Give each guest a plastic Polly Pocket-themed bag and have her hunt for the items. After the players find all of the items, give each one a small Polly Pocket doll to go with all her accessories from the hunt. For an added bonus, have the girls count their accessories. Award a large Polly Pocket doll to the girl who finds the most accessories. For another activity, divide the girls into two teams. Have the teams take...
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...Polly Clark Elephant Everybody knows what it feels like to get stuck in the same routines. People want to change their lives, but it can be difficult to break free from these routines. This is a theme, which is dealt with in Polly Clark´s Elephant. William, the main character, is an author who writes biographies about female multiple pop artists. His life is nothing but routine. In the following essay we will focus on the effects of this cyclical lifestyle by analyzing the relationship between William and his writing and the use of symbols in the text. The novel takes place inside the protagonists house. His and his wife’s garden symbolises their relationship, they say about the garden: "It looks so flat and unloved.", just like it is with them. They have thought about laying a deck over it, which resembles how they want to hide their problems. The garden is very depressing for the main character, and when he looks out it reminds him of bad things. Therefor he closes the curtains. They dream about new “settings”. They dream about changes in their life, and Ginny has an idea about moving to Australia. Ginny is blind to the problem, and thinks it is the life they live which is wrong, and not them. It is all ordinary boring days, and the unpleasant environment increase the feeling of their bad relationship. The author uses an implicit third person narrator, which gives us an insight in Williams thoughts and the cause of his actions, as in p. 4 l. 152: ” Tears filled...
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...Mattel Toys. Just the thought of those two words brings to mind fun, a trusted brand, and children playing happily. Right? Maybe not. In 2007 there was a massive recall of toys, eighty-percent of which were made in China and coated in leaded paint (Lawrence/Weber). These were toys for little children. Little children usually put toys in their mouths, the toys get slobbered on, the leaded paint chips, little children obviously eat the paint chips and little children get become very ill. While Mattel had policies in place, it did not meet its ethical responsibility to its stakeholders and customers. Mattel has an ethical and corporate responsibility to manufacture a product that is safe for children, to take responsibility when their products are found to be unsafe and to follow government and company regulations to ensure safety. Mattel was believed to be one of the most trusted toy companies around the world that operated in 155 countries. They produced some of the most famous toys for children, such as Barbie, Cabbage Patch Kids, Fisher-Price, and many, many other amazing toys. Beyond concerns about marketing to children, Mattel, Inc. was making a serious commitment to business ethics. For example, Mattel started a code of conduct called "Global Manufacturing Principles” (Mattel.com). These philosophies required all business partners to commit to ethical standards that relate to safety, wages, and adherence to local laws However, recently Mattel was involved in a product...
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...Reconciliation | The story “Reconciliation” was written in 2006, by Polly Park. Laura is the narrator in the text “Reconciliation” we start in quickly into the events. We see the world from the narrator point of view, this point of view; help us to characterizing Laura, because when we see the world from her point of view. The story is told by a first person, and we see the story from Laura’s point of view. Laura is also the narrator in the text. Laura is a person there haven’t an organised life, already in this quote, we know that Laura is a person with good ideas “It saved me 20 minutes this morning” ll.15. Laura feels in the beginning that she doesn’t fit god in, “It’s a bunker in hazardous beige. The soles of my feet toil across the industrial carpet. The desks are lined up like cars in a jam, each with a driver who never looks up. There’s no sound except the clicking of computer keys and my feet, flailing across the carpet" ll. 10-12. This quote tell us that, Laura doesn’t fell comfortable with her new job, but after some times she begins to fell better with her new job. “Here and there, tinsel has been wrapped around the edges of desks and hung around whatever is on the wall: a fire extinguisher, a health and safety notice. I warm up a little" ll. 12-15. But Laura find out after some times that, her boss also is her Ex-husband. And already in the beginning when we meet Veron, Laura describe him as a person there don’t trust anybody, even his wife, “His arms in his shiny...
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...Elephant by Polly Clark Everybody is born with a dream or something they hope one day will come true. Nobody sits at home and think it would be cool to sit there for the rest of their life. So everybody have to work hard. Lay some vigour in life. Before it can become fun and make it into your dream, you must have done some preliminary. Many people with a dream have some kind of an idol. A person they look up to and get the inspiration or they get the inspiration from the outside when they walked around. Almost every man, women, child or baby have it that way but not William. He was a man of few spoken words and worked with famous pop-singers. The story Elephant starts right into media-res, we are put in to a scene and a telling about this man William. He is homeworking man who is married to his wife Ginny. Ginny is working at an offices and is counting on that William can arrange his day after her needs just because he I working from home. ““I’m on my way” she said”” – she calls him in the middle of the day and is making him throw everything from him to just do what she wants. William writes biographies of pop singers I real he wanted to write film stars but he was not quick enough before someone quicker than him. William writing is not really approved of anyone. Through the text we get a feeling that William never really feel that what he is doing makes sense for him. He feels absent and not in contact with his whole life. This text is a normal day for William “The house...
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...“Elephant” is a short story written by the Canadian poet Polly Clark. The story characterizes the daily life of a man named William. It contains plenty of relevant themes, themes of relevance to the modern society. Themes like relations, fame, the everyday life and dreams. The narrator is a third-person limited narrator. The story is told from the perspective of the main character William. It gives us a glimpse of his home life, his feelings, impressions and thoughts. The main character William is a writer. He writes biographies, the life stories of famous pop stars. He assumes that all these pop stars are identical. ”The slim volumes reflected the slim lives of his subjects, and his slim interest in them. Apart from the pattern of their rise and decline the girls seemed to him exactly the same” , he assumes, that the subject of his biographies is deadly monotonous. He has a tedious work, writing about the same subject day in and day out. William has his own method of working. He believes that notes and facts form a valuable story. William has also his own adage, “..Writing was 99 percent about commitment not inspiration had not helped him shift a single page in all that time”. He assumes, that writ-ing is not about inspiration and encouragement. He believes, that qualities like dedication, loyalty, adherence, are more important to contain. William is dealing with a big complication during his writing. He can’t focus, so he isolates himself from the outside world, he can’t...
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...MATTEL TOYS RECALL CASE STUDY Product recall: On August 14, 2007, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in cooperation with Mattel announced five different recalls of Mattel's toys. On September 4, Mattel announced three more recalls. Some were due to the use of lead paint, while others were due to small magnets coming loose. On August 2, 2007, Mattel's Fisher-‐Price subsidiary recalled almost one million Chinese-‐made toys, including the famous cartoon brands amongst kids:Dora the Explorer and Sesame Street toys, because of potential hazards from parts of the toys which were colored using lead-‐based paint that may have exceeded the US Federal limit of 600 parts per million. Q1. What should the country do to polish its image? -‐First, the central government must ensure that manufacturing quality standards and health and safety laws are tightened and enforced nationwide. Western multinationals...
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...In the biographical story, “Queen Eleanor” by Polly Schoyer Brooks, a quarrel arises and tears apart the well-bonded friendship and partnership between Eleanor’s second husband, King Henry of England, and his close companion, Thomas Becket, Chancellor of England. When the position of Archbishop of Canterbury becomes available, Henry, believing that his trusted advisor is worthy of the high-ranking career, appoints Becket the new Archbishop. Becket believes that his loyalty lie with the church prior to the king. This statement outrages Henry and the once close partners begin to quarrel. Becket’s judgement was correct because Henry just wanted the control of both the political and spiritual portions for bragging rights, political and spiritual power of the kingdom, laws would be changed, and conflict would arise. To begin, Henry just wanted the power of the political and spiritual portions of the kingdom. When Becket first became...
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...According to “Quilts: Moral Economies and Matrilineages”; written by Elizabeth Higgs and Polly F. Radosh, the moral economy is the connection of often bequeathing family mementos and bequests to succeeding generations through traditions; across time and culture, beyond our comprehension, which commemorates, illustrates, and expresses important events. While these mementos and bequests have a tendency to contain some level of economic value, their primary worth is in the connections they make within these families. The value and self-interpretation of these mementos and bequests is in the familial networks; which often embraces and reflects matrilineal norms, as well as a sense of morality. This sense of morality or ethical behaviour regulates upon an economic system in which issues; such as social justice, influence the fiscal policy....
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...get anxiety thinking about what type of roomates they might have. Negative thoughts instantlly begin to stir in their mind wondering if their roomates will be crazy, weird, creppy, smelly, a theif, a devil worshiper, the possiblities are endless. Which isn't a bad mindset to have considering you never know who you could be getting yourself involved with, you have to be cautious and prepared. With my own experience as a freshman living on campus i was easily able to classify my own roommates into catergories. Giving incoming freshman deciding to live on campus some insight on what you may encounter. Pothead Polly, rather than early to bed, early to rise shes sleeping in late and coming home all hours of the night. Polly's priorities are a little different, although her studies are important to her,she always manages to make time for her extra cirricular activities. Polly is the roommate that creates a level of drama because of her habits, she is rather careless with what she is partaking in. Not considering others in the house concerns and opinons, she doesn't really care to hide her habit. Shes all out in the open with it for everyone to notice, and...
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...Not all marriages have happy endings, not all marriages last forever and moving on can be difficult. That is what the short story Reconciliation, written by Polly Clark, is trying to tell us. The story is written in 1st person because we are able to read what she is thinking and feeling – even when she doesn’t know it: “It’s my first day, I cycled here” etc. It all starts “in medias res”, where the reader is thrown into the events and quickly forced to understand everything that is happening. The fact that it’s the narrator who tells the story gives a very good insight into her world and what she is thinking and that is very important when you have to characterize her. The story takes place in an office and we follow the narrator and main character, Laura, as she has her first day at her new job. Not just any job, it’s also where her husband works. Her husband is called Vernon Pringle and Laura describes him as a turtle: “..His name is Vernon. He looks like a turtle. More specifically he looks like a turtle without a carapace which gives him a rather exposed and nervous air.” He is also described in a more bad way: “His arms in his shiny blue shirt are curved protectively around his papers, as if all of us, being human, are prone to cheating”. That shows how little he trusts people and is always trying to protect what is his from all others.” When the story starts and Laura describes her clothing and appearance she seems very normal and not really too interesting. Laura has...
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...“Polly bowed her head and glanced at Amari. Her look seemed to say, Trust her. “We could use some help ma’am,” Polly admitted. Amari hoped they were doing the right thing. Fiona seemed to think for a minute, then said firmly. “You’re coming with me. Be quick about you, now!” She picked up the edge of her heavy skirt and hurried through the woods” (255). Amari, a 15-year- old African girl, was taken from her homeland and forced into slavery. Copper Sun by Sharon Draper tells the story of Amari’s painful journey to freedom. Amari was taken to Derbyshire Farms, where she meets an Indentured servant named Polly, a cook Teenie and her son Tidbit. The three children were set free and then headed south, because most slaves went north to freedom, and that was a place where many people looked for runaway slaves. Polly, Tidbit, and Amari went to a place called Fort Mose. Amari wouldn’t have made it to Fort Mose without the help of Polly. Polly used her privilege, protected Amari, and saved Amari’s life. Although Polly was an indentured servant, she wasn’t treated nearly as bad as Amari. Amari would have to go in Mr. Derby’s son, Clay’s bedroom and be raped. Also, Amari was whipped many times and wasn’t given...
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...Mrs. Stan Smith have contacted their old pal, Polly Paralegal. They have asked her questions regarding the State of North Carolina’s grounds for divorce. Mr. Stan Smith wants to know if grounds for divorce in North Carolina include adultery. Mrs. Stan Smith would like to know the answer to a similar question as she has just found out that Mr. Stan Smith has committed adultery. Mr. and Mrs. Smith believe that Polly Paralegal will be able to answer their questions; after all she does work in the legal field right? Polly Paralegal does not have a license to practice law! Therefore, she should not answer certain questions! Mr. Stan Smith asks a very specific question, “Do the grounds for divorce in North Carolina include adultery?” Polly Paralegal should not answer Mr. Stan Smith’s question. There would definitely be some Unauthorized Practice of Law being committed if she does. Polly must advise Mr. Stan Smith to consult with an attorney, she may even refer him to the attorney she works for if divorce if possible. Now if Polly were not a paralegal, maybe she is a dog groomer instead, it would not be considered unauthorized practice of law for her to answer this question. But, Polly is a Paralegal; therefore, Polly should not answer this question. (Orlik, 2008). Now Polly must also deal with Mrs. Stan Smith. This must be awkward for her! Polly Paralegal must also remember ethics in this situation. She is a friend to both sides. Polly must be careful if Mr. Stan Smith retains the...
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...breakfast. Joyce tells the reader that ‘the table of the breakfast-room was covered with plates on which lay yellow streaks of eggs and morsels of bacon-fat and bacon rind.’ This description is significant as Joyce is symbolizing, through colour the state of paralysis that exists within Mrs Mooney’s boarding house, particularly for Bob Doran. Another instance of Joyce using colour (yellow) to highlight a state of paralysis is the gilt clock that Mrs Mooney looks at when she is waiting for Bob to come and talk to her. The idea or theme of powerlessness is also explored in the story while Bob is in his room thinking about what he has to do. He feels trapped, concerned about what his friends and employers will think about his relationship with Polly and by what the priest has told him he must do. The role of the priest in the story is significant as it is possible that Joyce is highlighting the level of involvement that the Catholic Church had in the lives of ordinary people in Ireland at the time that Joyce wrote Dubliners. Priests would have been the first port of call for a lot of people. Any opportunities of advancement that Bob felt he had, both professionally and personally seem to be dashed as well, now that he...
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...the story Copper Sun, Polly helps Amari through her struggle in the New World. In Amari’s time of need, Polly teaches her English, motivates, supports, and protects her, and takes care of Clay. When Amari arrives to America she is expected to know English. The ignorant white people expect a foreigner to know their own language. “’ Your job is to teach her a little bit of the King’s English, to teach her how civilized people live and act, and most importantly to teach her absolute obedience.’” Mr. Derby says this Polly, expecting her to do all of this. Polly is weary of this at first but does teach Amari more English. Without learning this new language Amari may not have survived. She would have been beaten for being stupid and punished for not obeying. Luckily, Polly teaches her and continues to help her in other ways....
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