Barbie

"Throw another shrimp on the barbie" is a tagline from a 1984 advertising commercial that is now synonymously associated with summer in Australia. Seafood on the barbecue during the warmer months is certainly a crowd favourite, but if you packed away your Weber barbecue last winter without winterising it, you have an afternoon of cleaning ahead before you can use it again over summer. Following these steps will take your barbecue from gross to gorgeous in just a few hours. Why Clean The…

Many children still today ask themselves the question of "Who looks like me?" when watching a movie.The children are searching for someone who they can relate to, someone who resonates with them the most, however that can not be found with the lack of representation in movies. Diversity in media, books, toys, and other mediums is an aspect in America that needs reformation. Since the United States is seen as the melting pot of the world, one would believe erroneously that the United State is…

The Secretary Chant is a poem written by Marge Piercy. Marge Piercy is a novelist, poet, and social activist. She is also wrote many other poems such as Barbie Doll, To Be Of Use, A Work Of Artifice, and many more. The subject of The Secretary Chant is about a secretary who is exhausted of her career. She is overworked of echoing the same aspects of her job. For every poem Marge Piercy writes, she has a message to the readers. I think the message that she is trying announce is that humans get…

accepted into society. The world has set the standard that, for girls, they have to be a size two be beautiful and for guy, they have to have a six pack to be attractive. It has gotten to so bad that the world of Barbie is being changed. “Some of the things that people said about Barbie was that she might be a bad role model for girls, that she represents an unrealistic body type,” says Jess Weiner (web). The world has risen the standards for…

Shaping the Beauty Standards Rhode(2010) focuses on the foundations of what shapes the beauty standards in America. The main factors shaping beauty, according to Rhode(2010), are: sociobiological, cultural, market forces, medical as well as media. Beauty is shaped by sociobiological foundations based on the theory that individuals whose genes have survived are who choose mates with characteristics conductive to reproductive success. Rhode(2010) believes that attractiveness is one of these…

Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”’, Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll”, and Francine Prose’s “Scent of a Women’s Ink”. These literacy works have different styles, but they all focus on the idea of oppressive gender roles in society, within in…

Globalisation can be described as “a complex phenomenon; it is the interactive co-evolution of millions of technological, cultural, economic, social and environmental trends at all conceivable spatiotemporal scales.” (Rennen, Martens, 2003: 137). Globalisation is a process which involves the international movement of goods, services, money and ideas around the world. It has been argued that globalisation has many consequences, both positive and negative, for developing countries. This essay is…

In the poem, “The Red Hat”, by author Rachel Hadas, he describes the emotional endeavor that a parent undergoes when it is time to let their child become their own person. The poem to me symbolizes the meaning of growing up and finding our own path. The process of breaking the child-parent bond is important to the growth and personal finding of a child. The author expresses the emotional battle of letting her son walk alone to school in the quote, “parallel paths part; he goes alone from there”…

Dolly Rebecca Parton (b. 1946) is a pillar figure of the music industry with her career and her influence spanning nearly six decades and reaching across genres. Parton was born January 19, in a small town nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she began performing from a young age, her first performance at age ten began her ascent into superstardom (Watson 2012). She has earned her place as the most renowned female country artist of all time with twenty-five number-one singles on…

The problem with the food industry today is not only the corruption that goes with it, but also the way it impacts consumers health and the environment. The food industry as a whole is unethical; using schemes to lure consumers into buying their unhealthy products, industrial farming causing destruction to ecosystems nearby, and the decline of societies overall health and awareness. In the article, “When a Crop Becomes King,” by Michael Pollan, the author describes the way corn has completely…