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    The Girl Child

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    The Girl Child The very fact that the girl child has become a topic of discussion and debate, points to the fact that, this is something different to the other of the human species. The girls have always and everywhere been considered to be lesser of the two beings of the human species. Why this has come to be, is beyond our comprehension, but, the fact remains that, the girl has not only been considered as the lesser, but has always been really neglected also. It can not be imagined how this situation

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    Girl Rising

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    Girl Rising The background of the film girl rising is that many different girls from many different backgrounds have a very hard life hood and in many situations that girls pass through in their daily lives. Some several girls are not able to go to school. The first background of Sokha from Cambodia is that when she was a girl she had to work in the dumps of her community. The second background of this other girl called Wadley from Haiti is that her parents didn’t have money to send their daughter

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    My Girl

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    “My Girl” is a coming of age movie with an 11 ½ year old girl named Veda, as the main character. Veda’s story is an incredible story of first love and loss in life. As life begins to evolve, she begins changes at all levels of existence: physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and social. Veda gets her period for the first time, ever. This trigger both the physical and emotional changes of becoming a young woman. Since her mother is dead, she needs to lean on her father. This time is

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    Girl Rising

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    being able to be successful, and have achievements like the children in developed countries. "Girl Rising," a Netflix documentary directed by Richard E. Robbins, tells the story, of the dangers of being a girl in many developing countries, where slavery, sexism, and torture is still present. Will these girls' story change your view on how you educate yourself, and how you treat public education? Senna, a girl born in Rinconada, Peru lived with her father and mother near a village that had a huge looming

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    Girl Monologue

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    Once upon a time there was an 15 year old boy or adult, his name was Adam he played football. He was pretty good at football. All he wanted was to date a girl that liked him, like the one girl that he sit’s with every day. She just turned 15. She has brownish, reddish hair, about 5’4, and her name is Danielle. She was the head cheerleader and she was pretty good at it to. He likes her, but he doesn’t know that she likes him. It’s Sunday and he can’t sleep he’s so anxious to sit with her or even see

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    As we can see in the first set of advertisements above, there are toys that are specifically intended to capture the interest in boys and girls separately. Here we can see how certain features in the advertisements help aid in the socialization of children in regards to gender. Over the last couple decades, it’s been custom to shower little girls with pink and little boys with blue while they are young, before they learn to choose their own favorite colors. These colors of pink and blue then become

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    Being a girl some days can be a real struggle because I feel as though we live in a World where everyone lives surface level relationships with each other.Especially, when it comes to friendships with other girls. With these surface level friendships, we either spend half our time gossiping about other people, trying to be someone we're not, or complaining about our own problems. As long as I can remember when I am not caught up in a relationship, I am just naturally drawn to my friendships with

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    Girl Rising Sociology

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    In Girl Rising (2013), it reveals how gender discrimination negatively affects the future of many women and continues to be prominent in society through forced marriages, extreme poverty, and/or labor obstacles. Girl Rising (2013) reveals heartbreaking stories of nine girls from different countries to show how these girls overcome great obstacles to obtain an education and change their fates. Each story is written by a writer from the girl’s native country and is narrated by renowned actresses such

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    means that girls will strictly act one way and boys another with no room for overlapping characteristics. History Gender stereotyping is no new concept in our society. However, the notion that pink is for girls and blue is for boys is. Up until World War 2, boys and men wore pink just as often as girls and women did (Stamberg). For decades pink was recommended for boys because “it's a stronger and more passionate color, and because it's actually derived from red” (Stamberg) whereas girls had blue

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    At a young age, society pressures girls to wear long, frilly pink dresses and act like princesses: innocent and sweet. However, once puberty starts for the juveniles, these once innocent looking dresses gradually get shorter and tighter to accentuate the maturing bodies of pubescent teenagers. The emphasis on the developing figure shows the importance of a sexually pleasing appearance in the modern world. The more sexually aesthetic one is, the greater likelihood of that person thriving, whether

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