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Emily Harris is the Vice president of New Heritage Doll Company’s production division. In mid-September of 2010 she was trying to decide on project proposals for the company’s capital budget meeting in October. Of the proposals presented to her, two of them stood out based on their innovation and ability to strengthen the division’s product lines. The first project, Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion (MMDC), would extend the warm weather products to an all-weather clothing line. The second project, Design your Own Doll (DYOD), would start with a website where customers would choose the doll’s features, color, etc. and then the dolls will be made to order. The

Revisit the selling price of specialty branded doll #106 based on the customization requirements by the customers.

Growing up, I always thought of myself as an American Girl — until I walked into an American Girl Doll store. As the 7 year old daughter of an Art professor who spent an unusual amount of time listening to her mother ramble about artists such as Monet at art museums, I never had the opportunity to explore an American girl doll store until one of my book club friends offered to take me there. So when that happened, I gathered up my life assets of exactly $13.22 and determined that I was going to make an American girl doll, that looked like myself, the first ever purchase purely of my own.

In The Barbie Doll, the author writes about a girl' s life. The author starts off by describing her childhood. She was given dolls and toys like any other girl and she also wore hints of lipstick. This girl was healthy and rather intelligent. Even though she had possessed many good

As my 4 year old self laid upon the Kazak carpet that coated my entire living room, I seamlessly attempted to assemble my Matryoshka doll back into its original state. While my fingers lightly stroked the wooden components of the doll, I realized how captivating the complexity of it was. While I was a child, I invariably portrayed the doll as merely a “toy” with an interesting concept behind it; however, as I emerged into my adolescent years, I understood that the Matryoshka symbolized my process of growth and adaptation as an American immigrant.

Thesis: A little foreign doll reveals more about me and my character more than anything in my room.

Picture yourself as the ‘perfect’ woman. Embodying every woman’s dream. You are undeniably gorgeous, weighing in at 100 pounds, standing 6 feet tall and holding nearly 150 careers (barbiemedia.com). Yes, this is the beloved, ever so ‘inspirational’ childhood toy, the perfectly perfect Barbie Doll. Barbie is America’s most beloved toy, considering young girls between the ages of three and eleven own at least 10 Barbie’s throughout their childhood (‘Life in Plastic’). As creator of the Barbie Doll once said, “My whole philosophy of Barbie was that through the doll, the little girl could be anything she wanted to be. Barbie always represented that a woman has choices,” (Handler). However, Barbie has proved to serve the opposite effect and

Children’s child play has become a form of an unrealistic world. Although, it is considered for children to begin creating a creative imagination, the mind fascinates children into toys. Some child’s play toys are not ideal for young children, like the one and only “Barbie”. Barbie has become a worldwide toy product for children all over the world, from the North Pole to the South Pole. These dolls have emerged from one ethnicity to another. In Ann DuCille, “Dyes and Dolls: Multicultural Barbie and the Merchandising of Differences” the author talks about the race and gender differences; found in Barbie. She argues; “Is Barbie bad?” her response, was “Barbie is just a piece of plastic” (459). In contrast, this piece of plastic is not just a piece of plastic to young girls; it is much more than that. A piece of plastic that little girls all over the world wish they could be. Even though, it is only a piece of plastic to adults that Barbie significantly means nothing to them. Growing up, I owned a couple of Barbie dolls. The tall, long blond hair, blue-eyed doll was my best friend and my “role model”. I wanted to become exactly like Barbie. As a child, I thought only beautiful people who looked liked Barbie signified beauty. To my little to no knowledge, I soon came to find out no one really looks like Barbie, except people who want to become like Barbie. In my adolescent years, no one taught me Barbie was “unreal”; no one taught me it was just a figure in my imagination.

Driven by beauty standards, media, and the longing for attention, living dolls have one thing in common: they strive to look flawless and often go through radical lengths to do so. Their near perfect physical image is rare and often catches the eyes of those around them, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase “dolled up”. Like the popular Barbie and Ken dolls, the people of this subculture strive for a certain appearance. “The "living doll" look [typically] incorporates small mouths, tiny waists, curvy hips, perky breasts [for women], and a perfect nose” (Medical Bag, 2014) in addition to large doll-like eyes. and fair skin. These traits though most realistic for Disney princesses, have been considered ideal for a great amount of time. As mentioned in the quote from Disney’s Snow White, or the well-known nursery rhyme “My fair

(Ducille, 2003) Anything being produced in mass quantities implies that there is certain degree of uniformity and likeness; producing dolls that model people on this same scale has been detrimental on youth ideas about beauty. It creates a narrow discourse of understanding of what it means to be beautiful or desirable in this society. Things such as race, body shape, facial features and physical disabilities are ignored through this mass production. Instead of allowing our physical differences to make us uniquely different, Barbie’s representation has marginalized and left out all who look different from her, particularly those who are racialized, and especially those with physical disabilities such as Diana.

Xhovana Metaj Dr. John Luke Rodrigue ENG 102 Persuasion 22 Febraury 2016 Barbie Dolls I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world. Because life in plastic, as the song says, is fantastic. And among all the chaos of the real world, who wouldn’t find the Malibu beach house, the sports car, and the versatile wardrobe appealing. Even stronger is this desire today, in her almost 58th birthday, with the expansion of the Barbie lineup to a wider variety of skin colors and body types.

The second proposal, called Design Your Own Doll, is a new product line related to the heirloom line. It is one that will allow customers to customize the looks of the dolls they purchase through the New Heritage

New Heritage's dolls and accessories were offered under distinct brands with different price points, targeting girls between the ages of 3 and 12 years. The company's baby dolls were generally priced from $15-$30, and were offered to younger girls in earlier stages of development. These dolls typically came with a "birth certificate" and a short personal history. Dolls in the higher-end of this category incorporated technology that produced a limited amount of speech and motion. For the

Ruth Handler started the idea of Barbie when she saw her daughter, Barbara, play with teenage paper dolls. Her daughter had a interest in teenage life and fashion dolls. Barbara and her friends imagined the teenage dolls growing up and finding careers. Now, this was not what the majority of kids did, as all the other kids played with toddler dolls. However, Handler found out that imagining the future was an important part of growing up. She promised that she would make a 3D version of the dolls Barbara played with. Of course, when the dolls started