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Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global
Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global 1. Describe Mattel’s global marketing strategy for Barbie and assess its success. Mattel pushed Barbie in to Global market by adapting fashion and culture trends to it product. Difficulties for Mattel to enter global market are culture, barriers and competitors. Mattel faced problem in the Middle East about religious and social grounds. Parents and religious leaders think Barbie is odd with their culture value and Arab girl’s reality is
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Red Scarfed Girl
Red Scarf Girl is a story that deals with the courage of a girl and her family when they are struggling to survive during China’s Cultural Revolution in 1966. Ji Li Jiang, the author, tells her story about the hardships that herself, family and friends went through. Also the lessons that they learned. Chairman Mao Ze-Dong, China’s leader launched the Cultural Revolution that was intended to “break with the old and establish the new.” This
Rating:Essay Length: 301 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: March 23, 2010 -
Red Scarf Girl
Red Scarf Girl By: Ji Li Jiang Red Scarf Girl is a story that deals with the courage of a girl and her family when they are struggling to survive during China’s Cultural Revolution in 1966. Ji Li Jiang, the author, tells her story about the hardships that herself, family and friends went through. Also the lessons that they learned. Chairman Mao Ze-Dong, China’s leader launched the Cultural Revolution that was intended to “break with
Rating:Essay Length: 577 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: March 24, 2010 -
Elite College Girls Choose to Stay Home
What Yale Women want, and why it is misguided by Karen Stabiner express my true feelings on an issue that is growing throughout this country. The issue of women staying home to watch after their kids instead of working is something I believe can be easily solved. Some may think that only a mother can give a child the best quality care. Care for a child can be given by a father, silbing, other
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An Analysis of Katha Pollitt’s “girls Against Boys?”
An Analysis of Katha Pollitt’s “Girls Against Boys?” The article titled “Girls Against Boys,” published in the 30 January issue of The Nation magazine by author Katha Pollitt, brings to light pressing issues of gender discrimination and how this nation’s education system has changed over the past forty years but still isn’t up to par with where it needs to be with issues of gender equality. Pollitt exposes the views of conservatives toward feminism in
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Marilyn Monroe Vs. Crying Girl: Who Is the Face of Pop Art?
Pop art is an art style that had its origins in England in the 1950s and made its way to the United States during the 1960s featuring images of the popular culture such as comic strips, magazine ads, celebrities, and supermarket products. This movement was marked by a fascination with popular culture reflecting the affluence in post-war society. In celebrating everyday objects such as soup cans, washing powder, comic strips and soda pop bottles, the
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Army Girl
Army girl “I can so do it!” yelled Katie. “You’re only a girl,” replied Ben in an aggressive tone of voice. Following Ben’s sarcasm, Katie screamed louder. Katie is a typical girl who surfs every chance she gets; she also loves playing sport & in general loves life. Ben on the other hand has nothing in common with Katie but just likes hanging out with her. Katie wants to join the army but everyone thinks
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Poll Girl
The preoccupation right now is soaring fuel prices: cheaper natural gas is unavailable in this region, and wood heat is often impractical or insufficient. But because of limited federal money, average fuel assistance for the 46,000 low-income Maine families expected to apply will probably decline to $579 this year, from $688 last year, said Jo-Ann Choate of the Maine State Housing Agency. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times Viola
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
Stephen Crane uses many different themes in his novels to pull you into the stories he tells. With Maggie: A Girl of The Streets, he uses naturalism, hypocrisy, and irony to pull us in and recognize how life in the slums truly was. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is considered a classic example of American naturalism. Naturalist philosophy held that people are trapped by their environment and are powerless to change it. Naturalist writers
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Material Girl
The short story, “The Necklace”, by Guy De Maupassant, is about the life of a woman and her husband living in France in the early 1880’s. Mathilde is a very materialistic person who is never content with anything in her life. She is married to a humble clerk in the Ministry of Education who is not rich but brings home enough to survive. He enjoys the simpler things in life, yet his wife, cannot. Nothing
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The Female Sex-Role Stereotyping in Boys and Girls
Ernest Hemingway’s Cat in the Rain is a story of an American married couple staying in a French hotel. The main character in this story is the unnamed female who is one of the two Americans in this story. Hemingway uses many methods to revel this character to the reader. Three of the main methods he uses are, through the woman’s dialogue, by the use of the minor characters, and through symbolism. The main method
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Alice Munro's Boys and Girls
“Only a girl” In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” she tells a story about a young girl’s resistance to womanhood in a society infested with gender roles and stereotypes. The story takes place in the 1940s on a fox farm outside of Jubilee, Ontario, Canada. During this time, women were viewed as second class citizens, but the narrator was not going to accept this position without a fight. Munro’s invention of an unnamed character symbolized
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How Advertisers Target Teen Girls
Girls just want to have fun. All girls of all ages share this desire, but especially teenage hoydens who have few responsibilities. Advertisers are quite aware of this, and use this fact when attempting to sell a product to them. The advertisers use bright imagery, suggestive poses, and even words to speak to a young female. Three carefully chosen advertisements target every fashionable teenage girl's deepest wish; stylish accessories, the latest foot wear, and of
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Ox Bow Incident: Virtue Vs Power
Virtue vs. power is a theme in which a character has the power to do something right and does it, as opposed to when a character has the power to do something right but abuses that power. The book The Ox-Bow Incident portrays many examples of this theme. Major Tetley is an excellent exemplar of how virtue vs. power is expressed in the book. Upon the formation of the posse, Major Tetley took charge of
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Girls Vs Boys in China
China had solved one of their population problems, but had unknowingly created another problem from it. Back in 1976, China faced an overpopulation problem. The growth of Chinas population brought a lot of problems to the country and to its people. Some of the problems were from overcrowding and not enough resources like food and jobs to go around for everyone. This was why the government of China enacted the One-Child Policy act in
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Boys Vs. Girls
Engl 1000 When I had my daughter nine years ago, I knew I had hit a jackpot of sorts. Growing up in a house full of women and being a woman myself I knew it would be simple to handle a little girl. However five years after my daughter I had my son. It was a bit of a surprise, but pleasant all the same. What I was not prepared for was the distinct differences
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Maggie a Girl of the Streets
Many times the thoughts and works of great authors and writers are published before the general public is ready for the graphic images that these works create. Only after society has become more accepting of situations over time, can these works truly be appreciated instead of facing disapproval from society. Tragically, often times it takes many years and countless hours of revisions to tone down the work to fit within the moral mold that society
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Girls Next Door-Mormon Book
My book was about six teenage girls who are all in college or just starting. The first girl I met in the book was Treena, a 19 year old girl with brown hair, brown eyes, and not very much money. Treena’s friend, Kassidy, a girl who is also 19 years old, has blond hair, blue eyes, and too much money. It starts with the two girls driving from California to BYU Idaho; on the way
Rating:Essay Length: 573 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: April 25, 2010 -
Comparing "girl" and "a&p"
Within every story or poem, there is always an interpretation made by the reader whether right or wrong. In doing so, one must thoughtfully analyze all aspects of the story in order to make the most accurate assessment based on the literary elements the author has used. Compared and contrasted within the two short stories, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and John Updike’s “A&P,” the literary elements character and theme are made evident. These two elements
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Slavery, in my eyes, is an institution that has always been ridiculed on behalf of the physical demands of the practice, but few know the extreme mental hardships that all slaves faced. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs writes autobiographically about her families’ and her personal struggles as a maturing “mullatto” child in the South. Throughout this engulfing memoir of Harriet Jacobs
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
Girl With A Pearl Earring THEMES: Growing Up: Growing up is the main theme in the novel. It shows that stage of moving from childhood, basically to adulthood. The story is based on Griet growing up into an adult, where she makes decisions. At the beginning, Griet leaves her family and her home with difficulty, taking her away from innocence and childhood. Towards the end, Griet is an adult, finding her place in the world,
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
After reading Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier, and watching the movie directed by Peter Webber, I find that reading the book is worth the effort. It is 100 times better than the movie. In the book, you get a complete sense of what the main character, Griet, is thinking and feeling. The whole book is told from her perspective as opposed to the movie where we see the expressions and points of
Rating:Essay Length: 349 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: April 27, 2010 -
Slim Girl and Her Transformation
Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge shows the transformations Slim Girls makes, with metaphors to her weaving. Slim Girl basically starts from step one, trying to regain the respect of the people whom she belongs. She was unaware of the basic culture, mannerisms, and “un-spoken rules”. Slim Girl learned a lot through the time she spent trying to re-join the Navajo people; she found out who she was and who she wanted to be In the
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Girl Piece
Growing up in my house, there has always been generally a clear difference between what a boy should be doing and what habits a girl should have. In a house full of both boys and girls, it was easy to me to associate dolls with girls and trucks with boys. I knew this because I always got dolls and dresses for Christmas before I even asked for them while my brother got Nintendo and transformers.
Rating:Essay Length: 528 Words / 3 PagesSubmitted: May 1, 2010 -
Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global
Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global 1. Describe Mattel's global marketing strategy for Barbie and assess its success. Mattel pushed Barbie in to Global market by adapting fashion and culture trends to it product. Difficulties for Mattel to enter global market are culture, barriers and competitors. Mattel faced problem in the Middle East about religious and social grounds. Parents and religious leaders think Barbie is odd with their culture value and Arab girl's reality is
Rating:Essay Length: 309 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: May 4, 2010