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Compares an advertisement from Cosmo Girl and an article from Teen Vogue-- magazines published exclusively for young girls-- to the book, The Body Project: an Intimate History of American Girls.

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Introduction The last hundred years or more have seen many changes in society especially in the way that people perceive and talk about sex and theirbodies One of the most significant changes has been seen in the way girlsmature into adulthood and how the

Tags:Girls, adolescents, body image, body project, adolescent magazines, Cosmo Girl, Teen Vogue

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The following paper reviews and discusses Culleton Mosionier's, "In Search of April Raintree." Chiefly, the paper considers the 'Native Girl Syndrome' as it makes its appearance in the text and how the use of this slur by whites complicates the lives of Cheryl and April Raintree. To really contextualize the term and its pernicious effects upon aboriginal children, the paper also considers the infantilization of aboriginal peoples during the period in which Cheryl and April were struggling through their formative years.

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"The following paper will look at Beatrice Culleton Mosionier's, In Search of April Raintree. Chiefly, the paper will look at the Native Girl Syndrome as it makes its appearance in the text and how the use of this slur by whites complicates the lives of Cheryl and April Raintree. To really contextualize the term and its pernicious effects upon aboriginal children, some time will be devoted to looking at the infantilization of aboriginal peoples during the period in which Cheryl and April were struggling through their formative years. In a real sense, part of the horror of the Native Girl Syndrome is that it renders aboriginal women and..."

Tags:native, girl, syndrome

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The paper argues that published slave narratives such as "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs are of historical importance, for they provide the best evidence available regarding the personal experiences, feelings and reactions of black men and women to their enslavement, and present direct and compelling personal accounts of slavery which differ considerably from those available in general history books. The paper asserts that primary sources such as Harriet Jacob's slave narrative provide a much needed human perspective to the study of slavery, for they examine religious and gender aspects of slavery while revealing stark and disturbing truths about the inhumanity of this institution that many secondary sources and mainstream histories gloss over or ignore altogether.

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"Published slave narratives such as "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs are of historical importance, for they provide the best evidence available regarding the personal experiences, feelings and reactions of black men and women to their enslavement, and present direct and compelling personal accounts of slavery which differ considerably from those available in general history books. Primary sources such as Harriet..."

Tags:life, slave, girl

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This paper explores the importance of the story "The Girl Next Door" and its significance. The paper looks at the major theme of the story which is social exclusion and shows how everyone was preying on each other to improve their social status.

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"In "The Girl Next Door", David Sedaris looks at the life of an unnamed protagonist who is moving out of his apartment. His reasons for moving out of the apartment are directly related to the fact that his neighbours are harassing him mercilessly. The major theme in this story is social exclusion. All of the characters are involved in some form of social exclusion. The two main forms of social exclusion are based on socio-economic status, gender and sexual orientation. In essence the story's point is that marginalized groups in society will prey on each other in order to improve this social status."

Tags:girl, next, door

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This paper examines and analyzes the novel "Brown Girl, Brownstones" by Paule Marshall. The author discusses many questions concerning what it means for an immigrant to make it in America, and characterizes the aspirations and accommodations of the Barbadian immigrants in the novel.

Tags:brown, girl, brownstones

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This paper looks at the book, "Girl, Interrupted," which is the autobiographical account of Susanna Kaysen?s life just after her graduation from high school in the late 1960s. The movie, is an adaptation of the book. The author reviews both works, which deal with a woman with borderline personality disorder, one of the most common, and misdiagnosed types of mental illness facing women.

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"Another anecdote from the book that meets the DSM-IV criteria for diagnosis of borderline personality disorder is Susanna?s dissociative episode. One day while simply sitting in a chair in the common room at the hospital, Susanna had the random notion that she had no bones in her hand. Susanna instantly, and for no apparent reason, became completely convinced that there were no bones in her hand. She was thus immensely disturbed and resolved to bite down on her hand until it bled in an attempt to get all the way down to the bone. Susanna felt as though she must see her bones to know that they are there and she refused to take anyone?s word for it. This psychotic episode seems as though it may also be tied to a feeling of emptiness."

Tags:abnormal, book, borderline, disorder, girl, interrupted, kaysen, library, movie, personality, psychological, psychology, report, suicide, susanna, woman, women

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The paper relates that the success of the "Kit Kittredge, American Girl" film is emblematic of how the American Girl brand has communicated an image that has proved attractive to girls and mothers alike. The paper explains that the American Girl dolls blend consumerism with a traditional, asexual, positive model of girlhood, historical education and cuteness. The paper concludes that with girls loving the realism of the dolls and mothers approving of the ideals of traditional girlhood, the American Girl brand and its films seem designed to endure.

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"Despite the recent downturn in the economy, over the summer a small film was a seismic, unexpected 'sleeper' hit. It had no special effects, no big-name stars. Yet anyone with a daughter, younger sister, or anyone who ever taken a stroll uptown in Manhattan where girls clutch dolls dressed in the same outfits as themselves dot the streets could have predicted this cinematic success. "Kit Kittredge, American Girl," was the first film released by the burgeoning American Girl empire. On its first weekend, showing at only five theaters, all of which boasted ticket prices over $20, the film earned more than $220,000, nearly $45,000 per screen while no other movie in the Top 50 that same weekend exceeded even $10,000 per screen" (Scott, 2008,p.1). The film is emblematic of how the American Girl brand has communicated an image of wholesomeness and idealized girlhood that has proved attractive to girls and mothers alike."

Tags:girlhood, tradition, realism, education, mothers, daughters

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The paper analyzes the structure and poetic devices utilized in two of William Blake's poems, "Little Girl Lost" and "Little Girl Found" and shows how the poems jointly represent how it is only through the power of God that hope can be found. The paper explains the biblical elements in "Little Girl Lost" and "Little Girl Found" that are seen in both the allegory of the tiger as God and the allegory of being lost then found through God.

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"William Blake's poems Little Girl Lost and Little Girl Found read, as one poem in an allegorical fashion. The parable, as Blake often writes with biblical themes, is about a child losing their way, coupled with the fear of the parent and the eventual finding of the child, not by the parents but by God, metaphorically appearing as a lion or tiger. As one poem is found in Songs of Innocence (Little Girl Lost) and the other poem appearing in Songs of Experience (Little Girl Found) it may be surmised that some earthly and harrowing event occurred in which separated these two poems into these different categories or songs, but that there exists a unification of the tale in the Song of Experience since it is with innocence that the little girl is lost."

Tags:Bible, God, allegory, lion, tiger, parents, child

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This paper defines the "tweenager", the youngest members of the Generation Y segment who are eight to twelve years old, the pre-adolescent to adolescent age group, applicable to both the male and female members of the group, but much more likely to be female. The author points out that the culture of tweenagers, mainly based on the entertainment industry, considers entertainment personalities and pop culture icons as idols and "hero?" models. The paper reviews two prevailing marketers of pop culture products and services for female tweenagers, Claire's Accessories and "Cosmo (Cosmopolitan) Girl", specifically in terms of each companies' marketed product, pricing, channels of distribution, and promotion strategies.

Table of Contents
Introduction
The "Tweenager"
Addressing the Tweenager Market
Claire's Accessories, Ltd.
"Cosmo (Cosmopolitan) Girl"
The Adult versus the Tweenage Market
Conclusion

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"In the case of the main units of analysis for this study, which are the pre-teen and media-savvy females, consumerism, materialism, and hedonism are illustrated among "tweenagers" preoccupation with their physical appearance, or the body. The body, according to Joan Brumberg in The Body Project, "is a consuming project for contemporary girls because it provides an important means of self-definition, a way to visibly announce who you are to the world". Through material consumption, "bodies are magically reworked and identities completely refashioned", illustrating subsistence to hedonism (self-indulgence in happiness and in the pleasure that a tweenager has an identity and image of her own)."

Tags:pre-adolescent, female, pop, claire?s, cosmo-girl

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This paper focuses its analysis on the role and significance of rape in the ancient Greek myth of Persephone. The paper begins by defining initiation as a ceremony that results in the admission of a person to a particular association, whether that is an introduction to an age group or an ordination of a priest or entrance to a secret society. The paper goes on to explain that the myth surrounding the rape of Persephone follows this structure precisely with the young daughter being taken away from her mother, Demeter, to the underworld where she spends some time in a state of transition before being reunited with Demeter, but having been fundamentally, and permanently, changed in some sense. The paper asserts that the most convincing argument is to associate the myth with the female initiation of a girl in becoming a woman. The paper concludes that rape is used in the myth because the girl must pass the stage of liminality; otherwise, the myth teaches, there will be dire consequences for man and the cosmos.

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"Following this separation kore is in a vulnerable state, as she is no longer part of the household of her father, Zeus. She is in fact at the stage of liminality in the van Gennep structure. This is the equivalent to the day of the marriage, the gamos, for the Greeks. The daughter is on the verge of being transferred to another man's authority but has not quite reached it yet. We are shown, through the myth, that one important aspect of this transferral is the loss of virginity of the bride. '...while I, together with my virginity, lose the air of heaven; stolen from me alike is innocence and daylight.' There is a definite comparison here with the loss of virginity coinciding with the loss of light. It is not merely because kore is being taken down into the underworld with Hades but rather, and more significantly, due to the view of legitimate sex in Greece. Sex was seen as a private affair that should be done in the dark away from others. To do otherwise would make you a barbarian and insinuate the physical act is not part of legitimate marriage. Therefore, the physical act of sex with Hades has transferred the authority of the girl to Hades."

Tags:Greece, ritual, myth, Zeus, Demeter