...I feel that I conform to what it means to be a female sometimes, and other times I do not. I do not see a problem with being “girly” one day, and not caring about physical appearance the next. I like being a female and I will do “typical” female things, but I will also do things that not every woman will do. I do not feel like I was ever pressured to act, talk, or dress a certain way. Growing up, my parents did not make me wear pink clothes or play with Barbie dolls; I picked them because it was what I liked. In the early years of my life I actually wore gender neutral clothes and my older brother’s hand-me-downs. My mom was a “tomboy” when she was younger and it surprised how “girly” I became. Overall, I am happy with the woman I am becoming...
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...paper I will identify the characters in the movie and provide an overview of their relation to each other. I will include my personal thoughts on what the movie is saying about communication in general. I will also analyze the role of communication between the main characters and their relationships with each other. I will describe power and conflict issues. I will also write about the purpose of self-disclosure. Lastly, I will discuss whether any self-disclosure issues exist between the parties. The main characters in this movie are Elle, Paulette, Professor Callahan, Vivian, and warner. Elle is the main character of the movie who serves as the female lead challenging the norm of how society views women. Society may view women as loving, girly, and pink. Elle fills all of the stereotypes of a college girl age. Paulette is Elle’s friend. They both benefit from its relationship; Paulette learns to be assertive and Elle realizes their potential. Professor Callahan, hired her as an intern only to make sexual advanced on her just to make her believe that she can never become a good lawyer. Vivian, who is successful both academically and professionally, comes off as cold and unattractive. In this movie no one believed Elle had what it takes to get into Harvard and become a good lawyer. This portrays the first example of society stereotyping as her not achieving something with intelligence. Elle proves that they are wrong as she gets into Harvard...
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...Being a girl can become a difficult life style. Between our stages in life, staggering attitudes and emotions… I don’t know how we would get through it. I myself am a girl, born and raised as one; so I know first hand that I can be very frail and take many chances. I’m also the target for a lot of people, for emotional support and other things. My parents depend a lot on me to take care of things when they can’t, especially because I'm the only girl. I recall my 5th grade classroom, the desks were set up in rows of six, and I sat in the middle row, of a large room filled with an average sized class. And that’s where he sat, right there in front of me; now being a female in a male bias world I found that most guys don’t expect you to know how to fight. And that’s where he made his mistake. His name was Tommy and he tried to take my pencil, this might not seem like a big deal now but ever since I was younger, I had an “obsessive compulsive disorder” type of thing; I absolutely positively could not stand to have people touching my things, or things that I had previously touched. So I asked him kindly to please not touch my things…he didn’t quite listen. He continued to grab for my book bag when I told him again “DO NOT TOUCH MY THINGS” I was getting madder and he didn’t seem to comprehend the level of seriousness displayed in my threatening tone. “Shut up” he snapped back at me “don’t be a tattle tale”. “I wont,” I said through my teeth “but stop touching my things” with an...
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...Kristen Ngan is the name. The type of girl who is very adventurous, creative, “kikay”, loves collecting girly things, fashion and colors! I can say that every object in my plate, symbolizes me or my personality. The “Pink Shoe” and the “Pearl Bracelet” represents Fashion. I've always had a 'Passion For Fashion’. Ever since I was a little girl, I have been reading fashion and beauty magazines. I was always wondering how women could bring out the best in themselves. In fashion, my biggest inspirations are definitely Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe and Gabrielle Chanel. They show the difference between a woman and a lady. In my free time I like to read fashion magazines, fashion and beauty blogs. I love to surf the internet to look up all sorts of fashion online shops. Not just to see what’s new, but to get inspired as well. Being involved into “fashion” is really a big thing for me. Because in that way i help myself increase my self-esteem. My interest in fashion started at a young age. I enjoyed spending my days alone playing with my Barbies. I repurposed their clothes with a stapler and tape and gave them haircuts to match their look. The “Green Ribbon” represents how girly I am. The “Red Nail Polish”. When I became a teenager, like I said, I love colors! and so I’ve been very addicted to nail polish. Its just I’m so plain, without them. And I really take good care of my nails. Also, believed in the saying “Nails Are Like Jewels, Don't Use Them Like Tools”. The “MAC...
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...and fear. I would make the high school scene white and dark red to show pain and sorrow. There are 2 social classes popular and not popular. This set tells you that they go to high school some enjoy it but some don’t The main people on stage are Helen, Achilles, and Glenda. .This acing style is dramatic and comedic. I think their thoughts were sad and scared because every day they would get bullied and wouldn’t know how to stand up for themselves. The characters costumes are just normal everyday clothes for school. Glinda would wear dresses and other girly things, she wears “popular” clothes, the new styles and fads. Helen would be wearing more “dorky” clothes like plaid and sneakers, no makeup or jewelry. The costumes show that some people are popular and some aren’t. They wear casual clothes which shows that they are young and in school. It shows their personality because Glinda is girly and popular and she wears girly clothes. Helen is unpopular because she wears a sort of dorky style. Their style and costumes show that it was made in this era because they wear clothes from now-a-day and they act like...
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...Name. Peter aka Rebel. I am a leader to a group of humans and animorphs called The Union. We are a small group but we are mighty. I am an orange pup with a stubby tail and maroon eyes. I usually wear a hoodie with fingerless gloves and jeans, so like a normal teenage boy. Sure I’m 15 and all but I’m not human. We have a total of 6 in our group including me. Ghoula, Maggie, Roxz, Rudy, Brutus and I. Ghoula, Roxz, Rudy and I are animorphs. Maggie and Brutus are humans. Ghoula is a black and gray cat with green neon colored eyes. She hates wearing dresses and isn’t a girly girl. Roxz a brown and tan colored pup with a bandana around his neck and he has blue eyes. You could even consider him as a cowboy sometimes because of his boots. Rudy is one...
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...Squeaky, from the story “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara. In this story, Squeaky has to overcome her brother Raymond’s mental disability, bullies, poverty, and her mother’s girly expectations. All the obstacles life...
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...Selecting a tiny house can be a difficult decision, I want to consider having a nice fit kitchen, an individual bathroom,storage to fit my personal girly products, and a bedroom to fit a queen mattress. I had to get myself a tiny house because of my work, and wanted to have the place all to myself. I am a nurse who travels around the world, trying to save other people’s lives. I have a total amount $15,000 dollars, but I may have to go over that budget, because some houses may be over or less than what I have. I want to have a house that I can tow by myself and not having to pay $25 hundred, to have someone else tow it for me all the time. I will miss my parents but i’m glad to have a home all to myself. House 1 As I am walking to the first house, I can see some dislikes from the outside of the house, the price of this house is $18,500, which is a little out of my budget . What I like about this house is that the ceilings are high enough to put big paintings, there is enough storage to store products, I love that the house has stairs with drawers in them or empty spaces to store clothes, regular furniture fits like couches etc, the house also comes with an rolling island to the kitchen, and it has its really...
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...October 15, 2010 The Kind of Friends We Used To Be By Frances O’Roark Dowell The setting is at Kate and Marilyn’s school. It is in the present around Christmas time. Christmas is important because it brought people together, like Kate and Marilyn and even Marilyn’s parents who were divorced – at least for the night. The main characters are Marilyn and Kate. They were friends until the sixth grade. Now they are in the seventh grade, and they want to become friends again. Kate and Marilyn are the same in some ways. They are both in clubs. Kate is in the Creative Writing Club, and Marilyn is in Student Council. In addition, they are both nice girls. Kate and Marilyn are also very different. Marilyn is a girly-girl, and Kate is a tomboy. Marilyn is a girly-girl, because she is on the cheer squad, and she wears sparkly shoes. Kate, on the other hand, likes to play guitar and wears big black boots. Now Kate and Marilyn want to be friends again, but they just don’t know how. They want to be friends again, because all their other friends aren’t very nice people, like Flannery and Mazie. Mazie is Marilyn’s friend, and Flannery is Kate’s friend. Mazie isn’t very nice, because she bullies people. Flannery isn’t very nice, because she bullies people, also. Kate and Marilyn call each other a lot to try to be friends again. Marilyn calls Kate, because she wants Kate to be her campaign manager. Marilyn’s friend from cheer is her campaign manager, but she is really mean...
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...as high school basketball teaches you how to be a poor loser, the manly attitude toward sports seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and just plain louts I regard high school sports as a drug far worse then marijuana.." I have witnessed two experience similar to Theroux. One was when I was in the 3rd grade. My teacher had gave the class an assignment to do. We either had to write a peom nature or make a picture collage of nature. Most of the girls chose the poem and all the boys did the collage expect for 2 boys. Those 2 boys did the poem. When the other boys found out that they were doing the poem they kept on teasing them and kept calling them “girly girls” Another experience I witness was in the 5th grade. The teacher has asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up. Most of...
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...me good or bad. I'm single, love my freedom and my family. I like who respect me and want to see me happy. I hate dramas and discussions. I have a big smile and if I find somebody to push me down, I don't think twice to leave. I like arts, nature, sports, meet places, restaurants and beach. nnI love sunny days, a good book and a good company. I'll love who makes me laugh...If you are overseas, please don't waste your time trying to talk to me. I am looking for someone available and real.nOh, if you don't have picture, don't talk to me: I have nothing to hide. I show my face, I expect the same from you. AND PLEASE: ONLY TRY TO TALK TO ME IF YOU ARE DRESSED! I love sports a backwoods girl, but can be girly when i want too:) I love sports a backwoods girl, but can be girly when i want too:) I am a person with a great sense of humor and very conversational. I am very easy going and live a stress free life. I am looking for a lovely man to have fun with, to be serious with, I am looking for a compassionate and...
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...pick to not go to the horror section in the book store. In the article that Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote, “Darkness Too Visible,” she said “ It was all vampires and suicide and self-mutilation, this dark, dark stuff.” She probably was in the horror section of the store and it’s not a really big section. She made a big deal about how kids read horror stories, but if the store was organized differently or she actually went to a different genre and knew where she was going then this article probably wouldn’t exist. My friend from school reads scary books all the time about weird monsters who have two heads and vampires. But you don’t see her going around wearing all black, she’s the most girly girl I know, she’s not acting like the zombies in her books or other characters, she is acting like herself, cool, girly. And unlike what Meghan Cox Gurdon wrote in her article, “parents exist to rear children”. I think that parents should give their kids some space, and anyway that article she wrote is addressing the young adults so why is she calling us kids? because she clearly wants the parents to protect us from the scary outside world, which is actually not too scary if you know what you are doing. Kids have an adult responsibility. On the other side, there might be people who won’t agree with me like Meghan Cox Gurdon, they might think that banning the “dark” literature books from the bookstore is what should really happen, but I think that those people are wrong. Reading those books make...
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...If you're a straight male, you can’t wear makeup, you can’t have emotions, and you have to have a woman by your side. If you are a straight female, you have to wear “girly” clothes, (skirts, tank tops, nails painted, long hair). There is no such thing as a bisexual male, and if you try to say you are “you are just gay.” If you are gay, you have to talk a certain way, look more feminine, and always try to get with straight guys. Lesbians, have to look like “dykes” or they aren’t lesbians. Kids at around the age of 11 or 12 get exposed to literally hundreds of stereotypes and we do nothing but let this continue to...
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...Vanessa Smith Professor James Williamson Psychology 6 April 2013 Transgender between Boys and Girls While researching articles and sources about transgender between boys and girls, I found several articles and authors who published books about the topic that I felt to be interested in reading and researching. (Transgender is a global term that encompasses, cross dressers, transsexuals, and transgenderists). However, when taken to mean transgressively gendered, and transgender can be seen as encompassing anyone who feels uncomfortable with, dislikes, or resists John Wayne/Marilyn Monroe gender stereotypes). In growing up in the state of Tennessee I was very young but knew of girls my aged that did not like to play with dolls or do girly things. I often notice with this girl named Lillian which is my best friend as of today she liked everything little boys like to do. For an example watching her play boys sport like football, basketball, playing marbles on the ground with boys to me that wasn’t what girls would participate in. On the other hand I did not understand why she was different that all the rest. It was until I invited her to go the church with me and she answered me with reply of no. I asked her why and she stated she doesn’t wear dresses she only prefer pants. In this interpretation, there is good evidence that the intangible feeling we have of being male or female is actually far less susceptible to hormonal influences than either our sexual orientation or our...
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... Aunt Cass became Hiro and Tadashi’s legal guardians after their parents passed away. She is portrayed as this aunt who is all-of-a-sudden a mom with two boys to look after while running a business. However, Disney is sending the message that she cannot handle the life of a mom and running her cafe. She needs Tadashi to look after Hiro, implying that she needs a man to help carry the load. Aunt Cass also attempts to refrain from “stress eating,” which suggests that attempting to carry the load stresses her out, making her look weak. Honey Lemon, is portrayed as a tall, blonde, white girl who has a girly side. Disney dresses her with heels and she is almost always wearing a dress. Honey Lemon is already tall, why add on heels to make her appeal even taller? Disney wants to extentuate the idea that girls should appeal to their personality. Honey Lemon appearing as a girly girl who loves chemical solutions and reactions. Therefore, she must wear heels at all times. She is also abnormally skinny and kind of establishes this stereotypical white girl. This concept does not cover the general vicinity of what the female population appeals to. Go Go is the opposite. She actually closely resembles a girl from Japan. A short, stocky Asian with an interest in racing. She isn’t abnormally skinny, has short hair and does not take anything from anyone. However, Disney did...
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