Olive Stereotypes

pushes Asia to practise a routine one more time, for her Western Wear routine. The final scene also shows that the very next day after the pageant, Asia is practising and preparing for her very next pageant. This shows how she has obviously lost her childhood, and how the parents have a forceful attitude, having absolutely no break, even after such a large and significant pageant. Therefore further selection of images has positioned the viewer about the effects that beauty pageants and the participation in them can have.

In “I Want to Be Miss America”, the defining moment came late for the two girls. Every year they would watch the Miss America beauty pageant with their parents and strive and wish to look american. “So we painstakingly rolled our long, curly hair round and round, using our heads as giant roller, ironing it until we had long, shining hanks, like our classmates and the contestants, only darker.” (92) They just wanted to fit in and to them that meant they needed to

There are many different stereotypes in the world today. They can be used for different categories like age, gender and race. Stereotypes are formed by the media, passed down from many generations and also just the populations need to understand the social world around us. Racial stereotypes make up large portion of stereotypes in today's society. Racial stereotypes can be used for comedic effect and our found to be funny by a majority of people, but they can also be depicted as hate to an ethnic group if it goes too far. One example of a race effected by stereotypes are Asian people. They have many stereotypes that have developed over the years. An example of a stereotype Asian people experience is that they cannot drive very well. Some

Julia decided to conform to the new style that she saw on the Miss America Pageant. She shaved her legs and straightened her hair to look more “American” (Alvarez 92-93). Julia changed her appearance to hide the fact that she was an outsider and this cosmetic change made her fit in better. Since she began watching the beauty pageant, she watched the contestants have careers like being a lawyer or an accountant. This gave her hope that she could do something besides being raised to be a housewife (Alvarez 95). She was able to get through having to change her looks, knowing she could someday have a

The essay “I want to be Miss America” is narrated by Julia Alvarez, a hispanic teenager who was willing to change the way she looked just so that she looked more like an "American" girl. When watching the Pageant with her sisters, Julia’s thoughts were: “I knew I would never be one of those girls ever... she was - An American- and we were not" ( Alvarez 22). They started complaining about their height, the texture of their hair, their body, and even their style, They started making changes to their way of clothing, and all of a sudden The colorful outfits that mom would pick for them like “fuchsia skirts with matching vests, flowered dresses with bows at the neck” (Alvarez 13) were described by Julia as “something someone might wear in a foreign country”(Alvarez 13). When Julia realizes that being an American girl isn’t the only definition of beauty, and sees that the ethnic looks, that she once used to have, became more popular is when she finally realized that she could’ve stayed beautiful in her own way. She felt “a gratifying sense of

When all the competitors are introduced on stage we see Olive is far out of place just through her basic average costuming, compared to the other girls who are dressed like little Barbie dolls, with glittery clothes and excessive make up. Even though Olive is out of place and obviously doesn’t belong in the competition, she still reflects Grandpa’s view on classifying winners and losers which was introduced before he died. Grandpa believes that a real loser is someone who is so afraid of not winning they don’t even try. Through the costuming and Olives actions the directors implant that view of winning and losing into the audience, which then reflects on our world today, as we need to show more support, not for the winners of a competition, but the courage people have developed to enter a competition.

In the two novels, The Bean Trees and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Barbara Kingsolver and Maya Angelou the protagonists fight the stereotypes of gender roles in society. Society sees women needing to find a husband who provides for the family and the women that sits at home and takes care of the children, makes food and cleans. In the novels however, the protagonists, Taylor and Maya, believe otherwise. They both take on the challenge of being single mothers to ones and for all break these gender roles. In the Bean Trees, Taylor, a single woman, recives anIndian child name Turtle and goes through challenges to keep her and in the end succeeded. Lou Ann is abandoned by her husband and left a child to take care of by

Music has always affected the society in which the notes are played. Times of class contained dignified pieces pleasing to the ear while times of upheaval produced performers with a bit of an edge. The arrival of rock and roll in the 1950s, at a time often deemed as a decade of concerns, does not fit the long thought pattern. This class will delve into the arrival of rock and roll and the decade that did not know what to do with the new sound.

The Lincoln, NE, area is known for its stellar selection of home décor and boutique items. Abesque Variations, based in the heart of Lincoln, has become the area’s leading antique store. Known for their great inventory, friendly staff, and professional voice and piano lessons, Abesque Variations has established themselves as pillar of the local community.

While working in a restaurant I remember one of the black chefs saying that she refuses to eat watermelon in public or drink orange soda. There is a very common stereotype that African-American love watermelon.

A Raisin in the Sun was written by Lorraine Hansberry. Lorraine was born in Chicago, Illinois where both of her parents were active in the black community. When young, she had big time social injustice names like Jesse Owens and Duke Ellington come to her house. “Her parents contributed large sums of money to the NAACP and the Urban League.” Lorraine and her family moved to a white neighborhood in Chicago and was attacked by the neighbors. Although they were attacked, the Hansberry family stayed until the court ordered them to leave. This case made it to the Supreme Court as Hansberry vs Lee, ruling restrictive covenants illegal. Lorraine attended the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She broke the family tradition of going to a black college.

Hollandsworth opens the article giving us a prime example of a six-year-old Eden Wood preparing for her pageant. He begins with her normal routine of a beauty pageant by her makeup artist starting with the color of her lipstick to the way her hair is teased. “Then she turns to Eden’s hair-except it’s not Eden’s hair. A long blond fall, full of curly ringlets, is attached to the back if the little girls head…” (Hollandsworth 490) The author gives the reader a sense of what he is sees while this six-year-old is made into a grown woman. The way he describes the amount of makeup being put on gives the reader an image of a toddler with a grown woman’s face. He then goes onto describe the dress she is put in; like what the other contestants wear.

When the Hoovers finally reach the pageant destination, we see the contrast between Olive and the other competitors. The other girls have voluminous hair, bronzed skin, flippers (fake teeth), they are in excellent physical condition, poised, and their talent routines blow Olive’s out of the

Although the character of Sofia knows that her resistance will cause trouble, she feels it is more important to stand up for herself, than to bow down to repression of white authority. Had Sofia not fought back, she still would have been punished for cursing the Mayor’s wife. There was no pathway for Sofia to keep her dignity and not offend the Mayor and his wife. In that system, a black person had to remain inferior to whites, and in the South, follow the Jim Crow Laws that enforced segregation. C N Truman describes Jim Crow as “a minstrel show character from the 1830’s. He was portrayed as an elderly, crippled and clumsy African American slave and his portrayal showed all the negative stereotypes of African Americans – the black man with his white master with Jim Crow being thankful for his lot in life.” Sofia goes against these stereotypes as she is a strong-willed woman who throughout the text knows she is entitled to more. The only idea that Sofia follows, is that she unwillingly has a white master, but is never thankful for this.

I conceal my face with layers of makeup hoping that half a bottle of BB cream will be enough to make me as flawless as Kylie Jenner look on the cover of Seventeen magazine. I use innumerous acne medications, aspiring to be as unblemished as the girls in the Clean and Clear commercials. I reject bags of M&Ms and fudge brownies thinking that my sacrifices will make me “love my body” as much as the emaciated Victoria Secret models love theirs (see appendix A). I routinely shave my legs and armpits and pluck my eyebrows with fear of becoming the hairy woman the media deems horrendous. I do everything, yet feel like I am nothing. Nothing compared to the beautiful women pictured on television, magazines, and