Finding My Eye-Dentity Analysis

The poem has life experiences of a fourteen-year-old girl who is caught between the Japanese and American culture. The young girl claims that she does not know how to use Japanese chopsticks that are symbolic of the Japanese culture. In fact, the girl claims that she understands more the hot dogs as opposed to using chopsticks (Rhea 7). This means that the girl seems to understand the American culture as opposed to her Japanese culture. The girl identifies more with the American culture and thus the issue of American identity.

“Photoshopping is usually an app for girls that aren't confident with the way that they look” (mostly girls not men) (Mclean.). This means that the majority of teen girls use it because they are not happy with the way they look.” 15% of 2,000 18-24 year old girls think that celebs and models are what they really look like”(Lanniello). Further explanation girls shouldn't believe that every girl they see on the internet is what the really look like. 9 in 10 people in the world would like to see all different types of body varieties (shapes) (Lanniello). This means that not everyone wants to see just skinny thin girls all time.

For example, there is girly existed in Scout, “The ladies were cool in fragile pastel prints: heavily powdered... the only lipstick in the room was Tangee Natural... Cutex Natural sparkled on their fingernails...the younger ladies wore Rose.” (pg. 233) As a matter of fact, in the past, the protagonist always acting like she was afraid of ladies, but Scout actually knew about beauty and paid attention their faces, lips, and nails, she even informs the reader the brands. By all means, the old Jean Louise will not bother to see what these women in Maycomb are wearing, Scout’s description very details. Generally speaking, taking many judgements from people, Jean Louise also fascinated by them; there are still parts of her against the ideas of ladylike, but over time, she changed, before, Scout always disagreed with Aunt Alexandra, who tried to teach her how to behave right, but recently, the protagonist acted softly - just a young lady. From a tomboy, Scout started to turn into a little

When Hawthorne says “The angel and apostle of the coming revelation must be a woman, indeed, but lofty, pure, and beautiful; and wise, moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy; and showing how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end!” he is showing how there is no way for Hester to change her society. She should have love and joy, but instead she is faced with guilt, which leads to her downfall. Along with this, Hawthorne demonstrates how the people of Boston are actually the sinners while Hester and Dimmesdale represent the Angel and the Saint of the city. People can be seen “sinning” all throughout the novel, however people always seem to be able to simply look the other way as it has become a regular event. However, Hester’s sin has been opened to the public which in the

Women were meant to embody devotion to God through their kindness and clean conscience; they were to be pure of heart and the example of finding happiness in the heart of the Lord. Unfortunately this stigma still plays a role in society, even though women are allowed a far greater religious

It wasn’t that they didn’t accept her- they weren’t sure how to react. Katy told her daughter that “just because you’re an artist and just because you like pretty things, that doesn’t mean you’re transgender. It doesn’t mean you’re a girl." Hunter started using hormone therapy months later, to help block the male hormones. She is now able to pass as a cis-woman from a visual

Femininity includes the code of beauty and sexuality, which is well reinscribed in The Little Mermaid. Therefore, the flawless body images represented in the film are telling girls how they should look in order to be considered beautiful and therefore loved. It gives them a sense of self-worth because if they look great then everything else will go as planned; they will find the man of their dreams and true happiness. Overall, The Little Mermaid reinforces the hegemonic code of femininity by making all the princesses look unrealistically

Women already have enough trouble with accepting compliments from others and actually hearing the positive things people have to say to them, the last thing women need is an image to compare themselves to that lowers their self-esteem. In the article, "Women and the Negativity Receptor" Ball states that while she was watching the movie Pretty Woman the scene where Julia Roberts character is talking to Richard Gere’s character and Roberts is talking about how she never planned to become a stripper, no one really does, she just followed that line of work because she didn’t believe she could do anything better, then Gere’s character says that she has a lot of potential in the world, and Robert’s character replied back, “The bad stuff is easier to believe.” Ball realized that most of society is like Julia Robert’s character, by setting their bar low, doubting themselves, insecure, scared, and afraid to fail. The image of the plus sized Victoria’s Secret Angel is the perfect example of the exact opposite of that and the perfect example of how everyone should believe in themselves, how everyone should be confident in who they are and go for what they want in life. Stated in the article, "Women and the Negativity Receptor" Ball researches on why women have low self-esteem and she came up with that part of the reason why women have low self-esteem is that there is an area in a female 's brain that is actually there just for the negative thinking someone’s brain has, stated by the

I'm not denying that these values have a certain base, just like all values do. In the past when a women was menstrual, she was kept away from the kitchen because it is tiresome and women weren't to be burdened over what they were already suffering. As the years rolled by, these practices remained, but it became so that women started being considered unfit for kitchen work during these days. And the plague spread to the praying room, and from there to temples. But now that we know that somewhere along the road, these values got skewed, why do we still adopt this skewed yardstick?

At this convention, she learned that many fat people loved their body and lived health lives (Worley, 2013, p. 163). Mary Ray Worley came to accept her body the way it is when she realized that her body was resisting her diets. This, she came to find out, was her body’s natural way of protecting her from starvation because it did not know the difference between starvation and a diet (Worley, 2013, p. 165). After Worley came to this conclusion about her body, she stopped dieting and began the road to self-acceptance. She soon found that she loved her body and all the things she could accomplish with it.

I thought that this quote was a moment of self reflect and judgement of oneself to see whether she was able to be strong in a relationship. “I am really colored girl/im finally bein real/ no longer symmetrical & impervious to pain” (44). I find this quote to be strong because she is putting it out there that she is a colored female and portrays that she strong with her identity. She also is true to herself and to others around her by telling them who she is.