I selected Reshma Saujani talk Teach girls bravery, not perfection because the title immediately jumped out at me. Girls everywhere want the perfect body, the perfect boyfriend, straight A’s, cute clothes and other materialistic items. Why do we have such an urge to attain these things? It’s because we’ve been told our whole lives we need to be perfect or as Saujani states “be pretty and play it safe”. As a kid I would see my brother do things and wonder why I couldn’t do them. I knew I was just
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In the short story, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid the female authority figure’s advice will result in the girl living an unhappy life. When talking to the young girl the narrator’s voice does not sound so kind. It sounds as if she is taking all of her anger out on the girl. It is very easy to tell that the female is not a good mentor for the young lady. One example of this, “this is how you throw away a child before it even becomes a child.” (Kincaid, 70) When the narrator says this it implies that
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According to Claire Bates, 15 million people get plastic surgery every year just to fit in and look nice, such as liposuction, facelift, cheek enhancement. Marge Piercy’s poem, “Barbie Doll,” talks about a little girl that grew up with confidence until puberty hit her and her classmates made fun of her. She tried as much as she could to make them like her, but she ended up dead in a casket. The theme of the poem is that the people around you will judge you, but in the end, all that matters is that
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her whole life, the way so many women sit their sadness on an elbow” (Cisneros 10). This quote is a very compelling line from the novella The House On Mango Street, written by Sandra Cisneros. Sandra Cisneros writes about a young girl, Esperanza, who is a typical young girl, at some moments an adult and at some a child. Except,this child can exhibit adult perception. Throughout the story, Esperanza meets all kinds of women who in the end change her perspective of the world. Esperanza is determined
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are just a few in many harsh comments that my female friends casually tell each other in their conversation daily over the years. I cannot comprehend such attitude towards a person, let alone the person who is close to you. Have you ever wonder why girls are so mean to each other? At a certain age they will develop an attitude towards other women called “indirect aggression”, which is an expression that women will show when they’re sizing each other up. The aggression certainly persists throughout
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Women in our Society Women in our society today more than ever are pressured to be “perfect.” What our society has learned to accept for what the definition of perfect is has become distorted. We are bombarded daily with television ads, magazine covers, billboards which put fictional ideas into our heads of what a pretty woman should be. Most woman think what makes a woman attractive is tanned skin, long hair, slim waste, long legs, and symmetrical facial features. Women need to realize that nobody
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around you and can also be used to connect yourself to the surrounding world. When I think of this quote, I think of Little Mix’s “Competition”. This pop song is certainly fun and easy to sing and dance to. It's as earworm-inducing as a song sung by a girl group is expected to be, but like many of Little Mix’s songs an empowering deeper meaning lies in the lyrics. The song is about a woman who is tired of her boyfriend always trying to prove her wrong and making every conversation into a competition
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Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley was eye catching from the beginning to the end. The stage was lit nicely to where it covered the full stage. There was not much you could say about the play that was bad. The little hooks that the director, actors, and actresses chose to implement added a unique flare to the play. There was not any hiccups in the play that damage the image of the play. It was a real professional setting, and If there was one thing that caught the eye negatively, it would be in Act
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Once there was a girl named Maria Treewood, she was a total dork. She had acne, glasses that were too big for her face, and wore baggy clothes. She didn’t care about people making of her, Oh who am I kidding she hated it. She just moved from Arkansa, and had to leave all of her friends behind. She hated her new house. It was an old house, rusty, vines growing all over it. The light’s would go out at 3:00, and I mean EXACTLY at 3:00. Her parents just thought it was some kind of glitch or something
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In the short passage that we are given from "one writer's beginnings" by Eudora Welty, talks about a past experience of reading and books that later had an impact on her craft as a writer of fiction. She talks about a very strict librarian and how many people in jackson grew up being afraid of her,and how welty's mother was a woman that was not afraid of her. Also how the mother would love reading and would always encourage her to read. In the beginning it starts with her explaining how growing
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