A Young Girl Reading

Young girls have been reading Nancy Drew for eighty-seven years, she is a staple in most households with elementary age girls. For me, Nancy represented everything I wanted to be at 18, she was intelligent, fearless, beautiful, and she had a car. I never compared myself to Nancy, she was what I aspired to be and what I expected to be when I grew up. She was one of the first feminist role models I had as a child and I believe she was pivotal to my foundation as an independent, outspoken woman. I see

Olivia Blanda English 101 Professor Grace Hughes 24 October 2017 A “Girl” and her Mother There are several responsibilities a girl should learn about before going off on her own and it is usually the mother’s job to teach their daughter these life lessons. In the prose poem “Girl,” by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother writes out a “guide” her daughter must follow in order to succeed in her adult years. This poem that the mother has written for her daughter is better seen as a “guide” to adulthood due

all ages have been following for years. This paper will discuss the negative impact of the “guy code”, the “girl code” and the negative impact of the “girl code.” In the reading on page 469 it states that “We believe the key to boys’ development is separation.” In the article “Bros before Ho’s”: The Guy Code by Michael Kimmel, He believes the negative psychological impact on boys or young men is their mother. Another negative impact on boys would be how they suppress their emotion; on page 469 it

winner was Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. Jacqueline Woodson was born February 12, 1963 in Columbus Ohio. She was raised in Greenville South Carolina, she used her own personal experiences growing up in South Carolina in her book Brown Girl Dreaming. During this time in the 60s and 70s Jacqueline mentions that she was very aware of segregation and she felt the difference of being African American in the south vs in New York. She also grew up as a Jehovah Witness and Brown Girl Dreaming also

seven-year-old child who has completed an IQ test which regarded her as having an IQ score of 67. This little girl is said to encounter genuine troubles her school work especially in examining and calculating. She is depicted as be insufficient in her social progression and encounters trouble with doing things that different children her age does, for instance, dressing herself. This young girl because of a score of 67 on the IQ test unfortunately has the DSM-5 diagnosis of dyslexia. Dyslexia is a general

Lena Haloway is a 17-year-old girl who was lied to her entire life; now she’s going to get revenge. Pandemonium, by Lauren Oliver, is a fiction book. It’s a relatable story about a young girl trying to get through her life. Pandemonium is a good book, but it is considered a “young-adult”(Keller 3) book. It doesn’t stretch your mind as much as some teachers would like a summer book to do. Even though this is a book for younger people, it is still a terrific choice for a summer read. “Hatred is a

underachievement in reading and writing in contrast to girls’, it is important to first note that there are sources that identify boys being less committed to school than girls, but why is this? A significant aspect is boys’ attitude to school and examinations. Weis (1990) effectively argues that the majority of boys are not concerned with excelling in school, but only with passing. This evidence strongly suggests that boys’ attitude to education is significantly lower than girls due to only requiring

Reading books allow us to create worlds in our owns mind, make you understand what characters are going through and how they are experiencing things around them. Sometimes when I read, I get lost in the words that I am not even aware of my surrounding. I enjoy reading and would not want to be limited and being discourage on what I should read. Reading is an intellectual skill demanding mental energy to understand, imagination, reflect from past experiences, to look back into, to learn new words in

talks about how 97 million children were not enrolled in school and half of the 97 were girls. We talked a little about years of school in countries and how boys tend to go to school longer than girls. This article elaborates more on the factors behind it such as lack of teachers, cost, access, and more. Other reading have also mention education in developing countries as well as the differences between boys and girls length of education. In Where Am I Wearing, Kelsey touched upon the topic about how

The magazine Ladies Repository: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature, Arts, and Religion is a magazine that was published in 1800 and was targeted towards young women. The magazine was a way to help teach and encourage women of the time on how to properly fit in and behave according to the rules that society had placed on them. It taught them how to be considered an ideal, cultured woman with high morals and spiritual standards. Although many readers today would argue that the teachings and