American Girl Essays

norm but, being a modern American teenage girl, I find myself being influenced by what is considered “cool.” It attempts to make me the “perfect” version of myself. But I am not what society wants me to be. I suppose you could call me an average American fifteen year old girl. I wear skinny jeans and t-shirts on the regular, I enjoy wearing makeup and I love anything with sparkles. But through my adolescent years, I have asked myself, why do I wear what all the other girls wear? I slowly began to

seven cases yes but in Anna’s case, no! American Girls by Alison Umminger, follows the life of Anna, a 15 year old girl who “borrows” her mother’s credit card and flies to LA to escape her dysfunctional family. Unfortunately another member of this family lives in LA, her half-sister. As Anna becomes accustomed to the life of a B-Lister in Hollywood, she begins working on a project assigned to her by her sister's ex-boyfriend, researching the murderous Manson girls. Even though the violence she experiences

pre-adolescent African-American girls”, Johari Harris, Miles Irving, PhD and Ann C Kruger, PhD take interviews of 8 young girls attending an elementary school in a 6-week program called “Project Prevent”. This program is an attempt at helping young African American girls develop critical thinking, as well as positive coping habits. This study is to see how the impact of sexually explicit media content has affected the thoughts and beliefs of preadolescent African-American girls. This study discusses

They say I am … a horrible person. It’s true. People think I am gunning down every African-American being in this country, and it’s injustice towards our youth. Their hate-filled eyes chant words of grief from “Justice to No Peace.” The truth is, in the words of Eric Gardner, it is I who “cannot breathe.” I am a good person, and I hear these kids scream, and yelp. These

Among famous writers in that time were Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who was part of William Dean Howells’s writing “The American Girl” created to help the European literature introduce this idea. “Realism was not merely a literary technique: It was a way of speaking truth and exploding worn-out conventions” Kathryn VanSpanckeren claims in Outline of American Literature. When realism and naturalism where supported in America, Kate Chopin was known as one of most influential in the years

too big, too small, and so on to somebody. Finally, in my seventeen years on Earth, I have realized the true key to happiness. I cannot strive for perfection because real girls are not perfect and perfect girls are not real. I can only try to be the best possible version of myself. I like to think of my family as the “American Dream” that came true. Both of my parents came to America with the hopes of finding a stable and rewarding life for themselves. Though they had to face a few obstacles, such

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trends, to the recent popularity of the girlie-girl culture. The girlie-girl culture refers to the recent flood of anything and everything pink, glittery, and aesthetically pleasing. Orenstein uses her book as a medium to tackle a wide spectrum of problems with the popularity of the girlie-girl culture, and even immerses herself in the culture to gain a different perspective by attending a pageant, a Miley Cyrus concert, and shopping at the American

In Peggy Orenstein’s book, she effectively argues that a princess-like society immersed in America's culture is damaging to young girls through her interviews, evidence, personal experience, and humorous tone. Starting towards the beginning of her book, Orenstein exposes to the audience that she too liked Disney. She says that "God knows I was a Disney kid. I still have my bona fide mouse ears" (Orenstein 13). By doing this, Orenstein conveys her knowledge of the two sides of her argument: Disney

How would you feel if you had to stand up for yourself as a teenage girl? The graphic novel, Almost American Girl, by Robin Ha is about a teenage girl who had to stand up for herself to be a teenage girl. The graphic novel, Almost American Girl, by Robin Ha is about that. Robin and her mother were against the world but all of that changed after they went to ‘visit’ a friend. The visit turned out to be permanent because her mother decided to get married. Robin is into a new school, she doesn’t know

character is very complex and hard to comprehend throughout the passage. At first glimpse, Daisy is portrayed as a pretty American girl. “Winterbourne had not seen for a long time anything prettier than this fair countrywoman’s various features.” She has all the features that can make a man falls in love with her. Henry James also describes Daisy as a naive and innocent girl. It is interesting to notice that she changes her name from “Annie” to “Daisy”. Daisy is a type of flower, which can easily

“There comes a point in life where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel”. “The Struggle to Be an All-American girl” by Elizabeth Wong explains how hard it is to cope with different cultures. Throughout the world, there are an abundance of diverse cultures, each truly unique in comparison to another. I would like to start off with the definition of Culture, which is an organized system of learned behavior. Characteristics of a particular

people to live according to their own values and passion and thus a more complete and meaningful in every dimension of that life. The purpose of this analytical essay is to compare the journey of self-revelation in the two films: American Beauty by Sam Mendes and Girl Interrupted

check out my photos. I trust you like what you see? From the gorgeous golden waves bouncing around my shoulders to my sparkling blue eyes, I’ve been told more than once I’m the epitome of The All-American Girl. But, I think that moniker extends far beyond just the physical, don’t you? I embody the American spirit in many other ways as well. For example, I started my own pet sitting business in junior high and now that I’m 20, I’ve moved to Las Vegas to follow my dreams of a career in the entertainment

In the book American Girls, by Alison Umminger, relationships has a major impact on a character’s personality. Anna, the main character, goes through multiple evolution in her personality throughout the book. This brings up an age old question, is a person’s personality derived from nature or nurture? Meaning was Anna’s new personality traits their before she had the capability to understand the events happening around her, or do the events that happen in Anna’s life shapes and molds her personality

Conversations with Native American and Euro-American Girls, helps bring insight to how different cultures view the movie. In her article, she interviews different types of girls ages 9-13 to show who this movie is affecting. The contact zone between how different cultures view this movie is discussed in the girls perspective of the movie. For example, the urban Native American girls loved this movie because of how the protagonist relates to them. As Aidman states “The girls seemed to take the character

“Mean Girls”, you know that the story revolves around a group of girls that are considered the “elite popular group”. These girls see themselves as better than others and if crossed seek to destroy the person who dared to interfere with their life. While today's celebrities may take turns holding this status, there are always a select group of celebrities that stand out as the top “mean girls”. You likely won’t be surprised to find out that Taylor Swift remains a top contender for "mean girl" status

As we know every young girl in her childhood had a barbie doll. Barbie dolls were used to play with and to make children feel like they had a friend. The first barbie doll was made in the 50s and the way it looked like was the dream of how every girl wanted to be once they get older. Over the years’ barbie dolls have changed their fashion as it has changed on the reality. Today barbie dolls are not as famous as they used to be, because now technology is taking over. Even though It is just a doll

A tiny little girl wearing her mom’s formal dress and high heels standing in front of the mirror coloring every single part of her face with her mom’s makeup. This scenario is followed by the scene where the mom is running after her trembling daughter, who just destroyed her natural face and beauty, yelling at her “Come here immediately!!!!” and unfortunately, the shocking answer was “But mom I want to look like Barbie!! She is way prettier than me….” A sad story the whole world will relate to, a

Little girls are more like little woman today due to the widespread of social media these young girls are being exposed to things that trigger them to mature too soon. The article is effective in its effort to call onto parents to allow their children to grow up without the influence of social media. It is effective because it has good examples of children in this situation, there are strong statistics, and powerful uses of words. In the world of today there’s a massive pressure on young girls to look