One of my favorite poem is “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy. “Barbie Doll” is a irony poem. A Barbie is beautiful when she is a little girl. But when the Barbie grow up‚ her appearance is changing. People start to judge the adult Barbie does not meet a beautiful standards. The adult Barbie apologize to people people‚ then she cut off her ugly nose and plum legs. The Barbie change a nice nose and a spindly legs. The adult Barbie become a perfect Doll. After I read the poem‚ I think why do I follow people’s
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Why trade natural skin for plastic? Marge Piercy addresses this issue‚ though indirectly‚ in her poem "Barbie Doll". Piercy presents an innocent young girl‚ but conveys that she has fat legs and a big nose. Piercy explains that the child was a normal kid‚ not bad looking‚ not in bad shape‚ but simply does not meet the expectation of not having fat legs and a big nose. She is encouraged strongly to do this‚ and encouraged strongly to do that‚ but she can not fix herself up; The pressure is too
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Barbie Doll The Common Women Poems‚ III. Nadine‚ resting on her neighbor’s stoop By Marge Piercy This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty‚ a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy‚ tested intelligent‚ possessed strong arms and back‚ abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone
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Marge Piercy openly criticizes and comments on the ideals of beauty in society in this poem‚ at one point stating‚ “She is manufactured like a sports sedan. She is retooled‚ refitted‚ and redesigned every decade” (What are Big Girls Made Of). In this passage Piercy explains that standards of beauty are rarely “standard”‚ but rather they change dramatically and rapidly with times‚ and
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Barbie Doll Everyone gets asked the same question when they’re taken in: “Do you know why you’re here?” For someone like me‚ after what I did‚ it seems like a waste of words. But that’s how people are I suppose; we are always talking just to hear ourselves. If people would take the time to think about their words before vomiting them onto one another‚ maybe we all would be better people. People would have an entirely different form of speech. We would all know the difference between what should
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Queen Mary‚ University of London School of Engineering and Materials Science Den233 Low Speed Aerodynamics Pressure Distribution and Lift on a Piercy Aerofoil Abstract In this experiment in a low speed flow the static pressure around an aerofoil will be observed and discussed. The lift on the aerofoil will also be calculated and compared with the theoretical value. The aerofoil being used in this particular experiment is
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Ritualistic Use of Hallucinogens Hallucinogenic or psychoactive plants have played a significant role in the ideology and religious practices of a wide variety of people throughout the world and in some traditional cultures‚ continue to play such a role today. Psychoactive substances that are used in a religious‚ shamanic‚ or spiritual context are referred to as Entheogens. Entheogens have been used in a ritualized context for thousands of years; their religious significance is well established
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The author in “The Use of Animals in Entertainment” is saying that animals are been use to perform tricks‚ and been held in confined places that are not in where they’re supposed to be‚ and they have a better chance of dying in a cage than living in the wild. Wildlife should not be in caged jest so humans can have entertainment because all we are doing it endangering animals. In the second passage “Jump to It” is talking about frog jumps it’s saying‚ How frog are been use as a frog jumping contest
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Effectiveness of Torture in Counterterrorism Robert Reitenauer Pennsylvania State University Abstract The use of torture in the world is not a new idea. The use of torture in the world dates back to the 530 AD Roman Empire where Roman jurists viewed the virtues of torture as “the highest forms of truth (Ross‚ 2005).” The United States though has a long history of humane practices of prisoners captured during war. In the Revolutionary War‚ General George Washington ordered that his troops never
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Anabolic Steroid use in Sports The competitive drive to win at all cost is fierce among athletes. Winning at all cost often includes using one of many performance enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids. Many athletes use performance enhancing drugs‚ like steroids‚ to achieve higher goals and set higher records than other drug-free successful athletes. Although athletes are performing at higher levels when using such drugs‚ what is the cost? Finally anabolic steroids should remain banned
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