Deceitful women

SHORT STORY Tannistha Ganguly Sierra had found the mother dog under a rock that used to sit on the cliff above her. Her goal for that afternoon was to pick some berries to make some pie. A little puppy was nudging his mother's motionless body with his snout and whining. Sierra, who was a mending witch, tried to heal the mother dog, but she couldn’t even close the wounds. A task like this was far beyond her ability. The mother had stubby legs, so they could not have been wild dogs. The witch scouted

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” This quote by Helen Keller claims that in order to thrive, one needs hope and confidence. Esperanza happens to have both-- at least she eventually comes to have both. In her series of vignettes, “The House on Mango Street,” Sandra Cisneros writes of several of Esperanza’s experiences to show her evolution as a child into a woman. Esperanza starts as an insecure child, before beginning to gain confidence

Red Balloon Throughout the novel, “The House on Mango Street”, Esperanza struggles to learn who she really is. At a difficult age of 13, Esperanza is between childhood and adulthood and has to overcome many challenges such as wondering who she is going to become, having judgmental peers, and the very difficult challenge of being poor. While her friends are growing up around her, like Sally, she is left struggling to let go of childhood during this rough time. I think Esperanza begins the book with

Donald Trump has bashed on women for not being as intelligent as men, and has glorified the looks of women who are beautiful, but Trump also bashes on the women who are not fit to his beauty standards. Donald Trump told an interviewer that, "A person who is very flat-chested is very hard to be a 10" (Trump, 2001). By saying that a person with a flat chest cannot look like the perfect ten, he is saying that women have to have large breasts to be beautiful. This claim of a beauty norm can cause many

and see women as professors, as writers, as engineers. They would speak their mind and dress as they pleased and drive at night by themselves and live spontaneously. And then I’d go back to India, where women are expected to bear children to be “adequate,” and make sure to suppress their dreaming so as not to offend or intimidate their supposedly superior male counterparts. I watched my female cousins get married off at 16, and have six children – deprived of even hope for education. Women were never

media uses to describe women. In society women have to be perfect and act lady like. Women have to have a good attitude and always pleasure men. One example of this is the clip titled “Flirting with Danger” where young women were interviewed and had the opportunity to talk about their sex life and difficult experiences. When they were being interviewed many women mentioned that they felt like they had a double personality were they were expected to act both mean and nice. Women often have to deal with

From an early age, young girls are expected to obtain an unrealistic, idealized beauty. Society places women under subjugation to these appearance standards, which are exemplified through magazines, television advertisements, billboards, and even childhood toys. Airbrushed models in photo shoot spreads and Barbie Dolls of unnatural proportions belie how the average, real woman looks. Marge Piercy criticizes society’s quixotic “beauty” through a satirical account of a girl who succumbed to the pressures

Torn from society is a head portraying a girl who is torn with emotions. Its purpose is to show how women do not need societies ranks and approvals to blend in with the world. Because Torn From Society is a piece of art that uses rubber bands by wrapping them around the head to convey it as skin, it belongs in the arts and leisure category. All these insecurities come from girls having a lot of stress from social media and school. Torn From Society will represent how being bullied is like having

on Mango Street. Esperanza, the protagonist of the numerous vignettes, highlights how this affects the young women on Mango Street. The vignette “Beautiful and Cruel,” conveys the impact it has on Esperanza. In this vignette, Esperanza feels that she is “an ugly daughter” and “the one nobody cares about” (Cisneros 88). She does not need, or want, a man to lead her life, unlike the women she knows. She does not need, or want, a man to make decisions for her. Unfortunately, she still feels the pressure

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