The Barbie Doll While some women felt that they were too provocative for their daughters to play with‚ Barbie Dolls have shaped America’s young girls and women for decade. Barbie has an “I can do it all!” attitude‚ which inspiring to many young girls while growing up. Though there have been some changes over the years‚ Barbie is a bona fide‚ worldwide icon. Ruth Handler was the creator of Barbie Dolls. She and her husband‚ Elliot‚ founded the company Mattel in 1945. Ruth was inspired by her daughter
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Barbie Topic: Barbie General Function: To inform Specific purpose: To inform my audience of the history of the Barbie Doll. Organization Design: Topical Introduction Attention-Arousing and Orienting Material: When you think long hair‚ perfect skin‚ trendy clothes‚ and a rockin’ body‚ what comes to every little girls mind? Barbie of course! Credibility: As a child I had
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It has been 55 years since the first Barbie was born. Almost every girl in the world has had at least one Barbie in their life. Statistics show that every second at least 2 Barbies are sold around the world! Yet how is this perfect doll impacting millions of teenage girls and women’s around the world? While researching this topic I stumbled upon a very disturbing picture‚ this teenage girl was holding a Barbie and was comparing the doll to her body. What kind of messages are we sending to young
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Executive Summary Barbie has become one of the best selling toy brands in the world helping Mattel become one of the largest toy makers. Mattel has had much success with it popular Barbie dolls for over fifty years. However it seems every product has a life cycle and in recent years Barbie has begun to decline in popularity due to recent technological trends and stiff competition. Today young girls have become more interested in mp3 players and ipods rather than playing with dolls. At home and
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Barbie - ICON Barbie was first manufactured by Mattel in 1959‚ in an industry in which most products quickly come and go but Barbie’s longevity was unique. The “magical power” that this doll has is that she was made for kids and gave a balance between real‚ education‚ appearance‚ evolution and imagination. Barbie becomes a visual symbol for consumption of material goods‚ attention to physical appearance‚ voyeuristic sexuality‚ and a lifestyle focused on personal pleasure. The debates
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It amuses me how girls feel flattered when someone calls them a Barbie doll. I was “stalking” someone on Facebook and came across her wedding album; her friend had commented “Mashallah‚ you look beautiful‚ like a Barbie doll”. She had replied “thank you dear”. Let’s get into the logic of this comment. A standard Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall‚ giving a height of 5 feet 9 inches in human terms. Barbie’s vital statistics as a human would be visibly distorted. She would look deformed and her chest
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I think right strategy‚ because mainstream markets became mature and competitive became hard so emerging markets relatively untouched and sizable for growing market share. 1. Describe Mattel’s global marketing strategy for Barbie and assess its success. Barbie has been successfully adopted to cultural differences in U.S. but international challenge will be more formidable‚ and John Amerman former CEO of Mattel‚ noted “There are twice as many children in Europe as in the U.S… three times
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* Feminist criticism defines a literary theory showing how women were portrayed as less valuable than men in literature throughout history. Usually called feminist literary criticism‚ it studies how early writings condoned the oppression of women because men dominated society. Feminist criticism also explores how women writers were taken less seriously than male authors from a historical A criticism advocating equal rights for women in a political‚ economic‚ social‚ psychological‚ personal
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MINH TRAN – DMA # 1 Barbie-Q By Sandra Cisneros Cisneros opens her tale with a possessive pronoun: “yours”‚ which confounds readers and draw their immediate attention. Without delay‚ they are then brought into the world of Barbie Dolls: “yours is the one with mean eyes and a ponytail” and “mine is the one with bubble hair”. Here‚ we are overwhelmed with details of the dolls’ costumes - “Red Flair”‚ “sophisticated A-line coatdress with a Jackie Kennedy pillbox hat”‚ “white gloves”‚ etc. - listed
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What is the true inspiration behind “Barbie Doll”? The moment a reader puts down the intriguing poem “Barbie Doll” they are immediately fascinated by the thought that society can be so shallow. The question that rang in my mind however a rather simple question to ask but the answer was is far more complicated; what could have been the motivation behind Percy’s famous poem? For instance one must take into account the time period in which the author was writing; the early 1970s or as many refer
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