A Young Girl Reading

itself endures a very painful state of mind on the social control for women. As look at in this week reading 81 “Betrayed by the Angel” by Debra Anne Davis, she talks about a young girl who has endured violence at a young age in school. However this young girl never took the right offense into speaking up and protecting herself against this violence, so it begin to throw her mental off. For example the young lady begin to have thoughts such as her voice not being as angry as she wanted it to be when she

José Faña ENG-210W Prof. Lin Short Fiction 21 Dec. 16 Owls 7:55 PM on a Tuesday night: A girl was sitting on a silver bench waiting for the Q58 bus to Ridgewood. While reading a book, her eyes lighted up the pages in the dusk. Taciturnly, she crossed the legs forming a lotus yoga pose. 7:56 PM -a couple of high schoolers approached the bus stop. A short girl: likely 4’1" who wore black tights. She looked fresh out of the beauty salon, denoted by her golden bangs that illuminated the spot

institutional structures. Male students expressed and measured their masculinity by objectifying girls and their bodies, relentless remarks about sexual conquests, desiring girls, and desired by girls. Being in control of girls’ bodies, overpowering them to alter their bodily functions and inflicting pain were revered as a sign of masculinity. They also thought to believe that forceful coercion to overcome girls’ resistance to boys’ desire was part of a good practice of masculinity.

the obvious difference in boys and girls. Typically, we associate boys with being rougher than girls and spending much of their time playing rambunctiously and getting dirty while most girls prefer to be subdued and tidy. But is that the only dissimilarity in gender? What about school work and academic performance along with academic success? Can gender be a predominating factor in determining a child’s IQ level? Is there a legitimate difference in boys and girls when determining academic ability

In the selected readings, “Your Life as a Girl,” “Beyond Bean Counting,” and “Bringing Feminism a la Casa,” the various authors depict the complexities that are a part of inclusive feminism that incorporates issues across racial, economic, and sexual boundaries. The first reading, through second-person narration, begins the investigation into feelings of inferiority and distinction from male peers that girls feel from a young age. The following readings utilize perspective from marginalized groups

characters in books is sending children a message at young ages that females occupy a role beneath men in the society. This is then causing a possible contribution to our young girls feeling unimportant, and the boys privileged. Boys are also choosing not to pick up books that don't gender related to themselves or focused on things they like. Boy children are less likely to pick up a bright pink book with a female character on the front, whereas to girls will read everything. In "The Detective Dog" by

Writing helps me cope with all parts of life it’s my very own private cushion to my universe. My urge for writing will always be here until God says otherwise. Now, when it comes to reading the only problem, I have is it’s a sleeping pills that puts me to sleep without the dose; I read myself to sleep all the time. Reading teach me to explore

written diary by a teenage girl Anne Frank. The writer is a Jewish teenage girl that is on the hideout from the Nazis alongside her family. She receives a diary on her 13th birthday and writes about all her thoughts throughout the hiding The diary takes place in World War II where Anne’s family flees to the Netherlands, hoping to avoid war in Germany. The diary begins in a presence of no conflict. In other words, Anne is going to school and living the daily life of a normal girl. That is until her sister

and heartache and all the lying and stealing and flimsy, sorry-as-hell excuses” (4). Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser is a very intriguing fiction book. I read half my book and already have a great understanding of it. This book is about a 16 year old girl, Percy, in search of her mother. Percy’s mother, Carletta, chose drugs over her kids. Percy hasn’t given up on her mother yet though, she still has hope in her mother. In the first few chapters Mulhauser explained everything very perfectly, he explained

Updike, is about a group of teenage girls that enter a grocery store. The story is set in the conservative 1950`s. When the girls enter the store, they catch a young cashiers attention. He is completely entranced with the group, noticing every detail about each one of them. After their detailed shopping trip, and much anticipation by the young boy, they enter his check lane to pay for their item. Just as the young boy`s patience was appearing to pay off, the girl`s were confronted by the conservative