Introduction: I. Where do babies come from? When I was a little girl, my sister led me to believe that babies came to be when two people kissed. For a girl of 8 years old, that was an innocent yet curt answer however, it didn’t excuse the fact that I had to avoid welcoming my father home for about two weeks. II. Most of us in this room were raised in a sexual time period without any guidance which has led us to be very confused about topics that are often considered taboo. The most important of which
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and Camille. Hello Brynn, as you know my name is Mrs. Deers. I want you to sit at pod 5 with Shaylee, Alex, Max, Shelia, and Blake. Okay, thank you Mrs. Deers I said. Hey, welcome to pod 5, the kids that are not very popular said Blake. The mean girls are the two fox’s, so stay away from them said Alex. Got it, anyway do we had to anymore classes I asked? P.E., music, art, and band if you do said
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“Unbommonly Beautiful” “Only girls wear dresses!” “Only girls paint their nails!” “Only girls wear make up!” “Only girls wear palm-palms!” I beg to differ, Gender Stereo-Types, and you know what, perhaps I’ve got a little news for you: Young Thug does too! Signed to Hip-Hop “Mafia-Don” Gucci Mane at 1017 Records, as well as 300 Entertainment, Jeffrey Lamar Williams has been successfully gunning down gender stereotypes since day 1. Ever since the star first became a highly publicized controversy
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“Nice and artistic.” - Leanne “Nothing bad about her.” - Fred “SMART!” - Wendy “Strives to do her best.” - Adrian This is how some people describe Erika Lin, and they don’t begin to cover it! Erika is an eighth-grade student that attends Earl of March Secondary School. Born on March 26, 2002, at the Civics Hospital, she has a passion for art, dedication for gymnastics and loves to play the piano. Once you get to know her, you’ll have a friend forever. As someone once said, “The past doesn’t
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Trudy had to ask, “You’re going to make them undress? Right here in front of us?” Miss Hartick had expected that kind of attitude, but she knew what to say. “Boys are not like girls. They don’t need the same kind of privacy. The only reason it bothers them is that they’ve been told that it should bother them. If they could only get past it, then they wouldn’t be embarrassed about their bodies at all. They shouldn’t be. Now boys, get on with it.” The ladies in the room were all eyes. Trudy, Allison
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Keep it Separate Girls and boys sports teams should be separate. Girls should not be able to compete with men in sports. However, in this century many people are advocating for equality. Gender discrimination has always been an issue. By keeping girls and boys sports teams separate, the game will be fairer. By allowing girls to be on boys sports teams, that would call for boys on girls sport teams. There was a wrestler in Iowa who forfeited to a girl wrestler because of his faith. He was praised
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objectification of women through advertising, magazines, and especially the television. Some of these television stations have created shows, specifically beauty pageants for toddlers and young girls that encourage sexualization of women. In these pageants, you can see how it is emphasized that the young girls have to walk, dress, talk, and be skinny in order to be considered
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The year was 1933, when because of the Great Depression, employment opportunities were scarce. The location was the eastern part of the United States. Arlene Biesecker had just graduated from high school. After a lengthy search for employment, she was finally able to obtain work at a clothing mill as a seamstress. The mill workers were paid only for each of the correctly completed pieces they sewed together daily. The more pieces they produced, the more they were paid. One day shortly after starting
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Girl is a short story written by Jamaica Kincaid about a mother who speaks to her daughter about the responsibilities she need to uphold as she grows into a woman. These are not just duties that she need to uphold as a woman, but in order for her to be respected in society. For example, the mother tells the daughter to soak her clothes right after she takes them off because clothes play a factor when it comes to first impressions. When you wear proper clothing it shows that you have self-respect
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Pressures to satisfy a general concept of body image is faced by women. These pressures on a women’s body are seen in a variety of mass media. For example, advertising influences beauty standards and have women compare themselves to the models shown, even though there is a wide gap between the reality and retouched flawlessness. According to the article, “Media-Portrayed Idealized images, Body Shame, and Appearance Anxiety” by Fiona Monro, she conducted a study where she aimed to report the effects
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