Essays on American Girl

Situation Analysis

Started in California as a garage workshop in 1945, producing photo frames, Mattel transformed itself into a leader in the toy and marketing industry, recognized for many major innovative and unique products. This transformation was a result of a strategic vision and better understanding of the opportunities and external forces by its founders, Ruth and Elliot Handler and Matt Matson. By 1965, the company became a USD$ 100 million businesses with continuous and sustainable growth over the past decades. In spite of the success of the operations, the company went through a number of challenges over the years.The launch ...

Foremost, to understand the relevance of the identified themes of politics and economics, there is a need to consider the traditions that the authors represent in their works and the how their characters realize the problem with assuming the norms are acceptable. In other words, the following segments of this paper present the turning points of the identified narratives as they highlight the socio-economic divisions through the experiences of the characters. In “The Lesson” racial groups play a significant role in determining the opportunities that the people access. While in “The Necklace,” the social class to which one is ...

Child welfare U.S. is a complicated issue, but Americans do believe that children are important, and need to be nurtured and protected. For example, pedophilia laws in the U.S. are very strict, and child abuse is universally condemned. However, children do not have the same rights as adults, and are victimized because the are often powerless and isolated. Child protective services in our communities have a difficult mission because they do no want to intrude on the privacy rights of families, but need to make sure they are working for the best interests of children. For example, a recent ...

The plight of the African American woman is a subject of critical concern in the modern world. In practice, the African American woman faces diverse challenges in the dynamic and complex information society. Key to note, the changes coming in because of world paradigm shifts and developments have continued to redefine and shape the position of women in the society. Developments such as industrialization, globalization, and urbanization have brought unique challenges to the modern family set-up. Precisely, the rising cost of living among other economic factors continues to redefine the role of the women. Practically, women are increasingly adopting the ...

In her book, Harriet Jacobs presents the life of an African American woman in the era of slavery. The scholar describes the situations in two different homes to develop her ideas. One home presents an environment in which a woman is empowered while in the other, a woman has no authority of defining her welfare. In essence, Linda has some rights as a slave while in the other; she must completely comply with her Master’s wish. Through the contrasting experiences witnessed in the two homes, Jacobs creates a clear picture of the life of African American girls under slavery. Jacobs states that ...

Two Kinds is a short story by Amy Tan in the book The Joy Luck Club. Tan writes about the intricacy of a daughter and mother relationship who migrated from China to America. The short story is about a Chinese-American girl named Jing-mei. Jing-mei lived in American and her mother believed that, as long as one lives in America, he/she can be anything she could ever wish to be and therefore, she was working hard to find her daughter’s talent. Jing-mei’s mother constantly tests her daughter for any talent, but any time she tries, no talent is found. The lack ...

Introduction

Lego is an international toy brand, having selling points all across the globe, in almost 12 dozen states of the world. The brand is known for the plastic building blocks which are used for making toys of the desired shape and form Lego is an international, company with head office in Bullind, Denmark. The company started in the early 1930’s and has been making progress by leaps and bounds since then. Currently, according to a global survey held in 2012, Lego is the world’s third largest toy selling company. Lego has been making the environment friendly toys ...

“The White Man will never be alone” (Chief Seattle 120). Chief Seattle is correct when he says that the White man will never be alone because there will always be other cultures in America. Throughout the ages, America has gone through a lot as a country, events which have torn the nation apart, yet in its own way sown unity within our hearts. The struggles started even as early as the colonization of the Americas, and still continue until this day. Although, there are events in time which helped shaped our country and our people. Over the course of American history, ...

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture is a book written by Peggy Orenstein in the year 2011. This book explores the princess culture trend and predominantly how this culture is promoted to young growing girls. The Cinderella Ate My Daughter book is stemmed from an article in The New York Times Magazine wrote in 2006 by Orenstein entitled What’s Wrong with Cinderella? In the article, Orenstein explains how the Disney Princesses originated and how the princess-themed merchandise and advertising has increased. Orenstein’s book Cinderella Ate my Daughter explores beyond the ...

INTRODUCTION

A Director at the University of Georgia Atmospheric Sciences Program posed a question during an interview with the Ebony magazine “Why African American girls May Be Left Out of the 21st Century Job Market”. The answers to the question seem to be glaring simple and complicated at the same time. African Americans, especially girls in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), continue to record decreasing numbers careerwise. Will all the data pointing to the fact that STEM jobs in the 21st century are considered the best jobs with the top 15 emanating from any one f those fields. ...