Essays on Barbie Doll

Within each society, people build relationships that foster growth and development as people interact with each other. The relationships vary according to the work and social standards of the specific society. In other words, most people in a particular society will work together to develop a common idea that will help to bind people together as a community. Within these societies, there are those simple or common guiding principles that are practiced for extended periods and become an integral part of the culture and the traditions of the society. But, not all consensuses within the society will guarantee the ...

Background of the Problem

It is important to notice that entrepreneurship is one of the most discussed phenomena in academic research literature. There is a great amount of studies proposing multiple theories and concepts that define entrepreneurship, yet there are still more questions than answers in this area. Designating the factors of success in this area is difficult, as each case of entrepreneurship is individual. Entrepreneurship is vital for the economy of the state. For instance, the survey conducted by Jean Yusuf among entrepreneurs determined that the entrepreneurs can alter the world by contributing to the world economy with their innovations that make ...

Background of the Problem

It is important to notice that entrepreneurship is one of the most discussed phenomena in the academic research literature. There is a great amount of studies proposing multiple theories and concepts that define entrepreneurship, yet there are still more questions than answers in this area. Designating the factors of success in this area is difficult, as each case of entrepreneurship is individual. It is claimed that entrepreneurship is vital for the economy of the state. For instance, Yusuf emphasized that the entrepreneurs can alter the world by contributing to the world economy with their innovations that make people’s ...

Product Adaptation

Product adaptation refers to the process taken by companies to make changes to the existing products with an aim of meeting the changing consumer preferences in different markets. Product adaptation is performed to give the products new looks in various markets. Three examples of products that have undergone this process include Redbull, Barbie dolls, and Nokia (Kotabe 134). Redbull has been modified to meet the needs of different customers in various regions where the product is sold. The product is given various branding image in different regions as shown in the photos below.

Redbull in North America Redbull in China

In both regions the symbols used ...

Coke soft drink (Vaid 1)

Coca-Cola has survived in different markets in the world because of the standardization that it practices. Its consumers spread across different countries have shown preferences for the unique ingredients, features, as well as, the physical characteristics of the packaging bottle.

Red Bull energy drink

Red Bull stands for energy, youth, extremism in sports, and also vitality in every place in the world. Besides, the can, advertisements and the symbols of the red bull drink are all the same everywhere in the world. (A. Aaker and McLoughlin 251)

Barbie doll ("Picture of Barbie Doll - Google Search")

The widely produced Barbie dolls have a feminine image that has been standardized. Through this, it ...

It is true that women have always been suffering from the burden of being perfect. In fact, the standards for women have always been very high. They are supposed to be beautiful and intelligent. Their manners and behavior should always be perfect. Women should always be ideal wives and ideal mothers. Unfortunately, but some people rarely think about women’s inner state, their emotions and feelings. Such issue is expressed in the poems “Barbie Doll” and “Daystar” written by Marge Piercy and Rita Dove correspondently. In her poem “Barbie Doll” Marge Piercy describes the way the society treats women. ...

The Barbie Doll

The Barbie and other similar girls’ toys are turning them off the field of STEM. Little girls have been taught to use Barbie dolls containing mirrors and hairbrushes, cooking sets, and makeup utilities. Of the 8000 phrases that have been programmed for use in the speech of Barbie dolls, the word fashion appears 51 times, which is the highest number compared to all other words. Style is one of the doll’s favorite topics for conversation, and she interrupts conversations about school, often preferring to talk about fashion instead. In the Hello Barbie’s lexicon, the words style, shop, ...

Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy Hunter

The theme of the poem “Barbie Doll” is the narrow definition of femininity in the 1970’s American society. The poem is written in a free verse style. The sound of the poem is more like that of a story. Since the writer is telling us, what is essentially, a modern fairy tale; the free verse style keeps the poem focused on the story of the girl child. This helps avoid any distraction, that would be created if the poet employed any sophisticated poetic devices.

The themes of the poem include (1) perception of girl/women in the 1970’s American society. (2) Appearances

The poem goes on to describe, how a girl child was expected to be ...

The article’s title is “HERS; Why Boys Do not Play with Dolls”. The article was published in The New York Times on October 8, 1995. The author of this article is a poet and essayist named Katha Pollitt. The author’s main idea in this article is that the different preferences in girls and boys are not innate but due to influences from their parents and the whole society. She demonstrates that even though everyone would like to believe girls from birth have always liked to play with dolls and love wearing party dresses while boys like playing ...

Sylvia Plath and Marge Piercy can be considered as two outstanding feminist American writers. Plath is famous as a poet, novelist and short story writer who married the famous poet, Ted Hughes. She is the commencer of the conventional poetry and has composed many poems during her life time. Piercy is the novelist and the social campaigner who can be regarded as a significant female voice. “Lady Lazarus” and “Barbie Doll” are the two exceptional poems written by Sylvia Plath and Marge Piercy respectively. “Lady Lazarus”, taken from the collection of poems Ariel, is famously known as the Holocaust ...

The first poem is titled Barbie Doll. It is composed by famous American female writer Marge Piercy. It has a free structure of the poetry of 70s when the sense was more important than the form. Besides, it was the time of social and political changes. Hence, the poem has clear social theme. It is named Barbie Doll, and the title actually is one of the most important metaphors in the whole text. The poem describes a story of a girl, who was depressed by the standards of the society. She was small and played with dolls, she was ...

“Barbie Doll” and “Lady Lazarus” are two powerful and exceptional poems written by two celebrated poets from America. Marge Piercy and Sylvia Plath excellently portray the position occupied by women in society, but in extremely diverse ways.

A Critical Analysis of “Barbie Doll”

“Barbie Doll” is the outstanding poem by Marge Piercy, the American feminist poet, who excellently depicts the predicament of women and the abuse of women by the patriarchal society. Barbie dolls bring in the image of the cute and attractive toy girls. Every Baby girl child is born like Barbie dolls that have unrealistically perfect blonde hair, body and belongings. But whether ...

“Barbie Doll” Questions

- In the poem “Barbie Doll”, the phrase “consummation at last” may mean two things. First, it may mean that in death, the girl no longer have to impress anybody. In death, she can be anybody she wants. The struggle to be accepted in society ends in death. She does not have to look and act according to the dictates of society. On the other hand, the line “consummation at last” may also mean that in death, the physical appearance that she wanted to have is finally given to her. With the help of the undertaker’s cosmetics, she ...

Barbie Dolls and Accessories

Why might Mattel set a much lower contribution margin on its Barbie dolls than on the accessories for the dolls? Contribution margin is the profit per unit of output; it is acquired by subtracting the unit variable cost from the unit cost of the product. Low contribution margin is experienced in products that are labour intensive while high contribution margin is for capital intensive products). In the above case, Barbie dolls have a lower profit as compared to the accessories of the dolls.

There are two ways of increasing a contribution margin: increasing the price or decreasing the variable cost. However ...

Cindy Jackson

What does your critical analysis of the website reveal to you about Cindy Jackson’s sense of her social self, her self-concept, her self-esteem and her self-presentation? The concept of the self stems from many different places. It can come from social interaction, social expectations as well as cultural beliefs (Sirgy, 1982). Although many people believe that plastic surgery is for those who have low self-esteem, it does not seem to be the case for Jackson. In Cindy Jackson’s website, she focused mainly on how she looks and what she wished for herself (Jackson, nd.d). There is a ...

Beauty, sexuality, gender, and race have always been inextricably tied to one another. This was especially true in the 1950s in America, when all these elements merged into a single whole, a fantasy version of the ideal woman. These concepts are strongly illustrated in Barbie dolls, beauty pageants, and the icons of the time including Marilyn Monroe. If one examines the three in conjunction, one is granted a disturbing insight into the norms of gender and race as they applied to physical perfection. Further, one can see elements of classism and class bias intermingling with gender and racial prejudice. The appearance ...

Beauty in American culture is stereotyped on certain physical attributes. Absence of these attributes on an individual condemns them as ugly. Marge Piercy in the poem “Barbie Doll” singles out a girl who in spite of possessing immense intelligence, health, strong arms and back, “abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity” was condemned as ugly because she had a “fat nose and thick legs”. Height and specifically being tall is perceived as part of physical beauty and a lot of importance is attached to this. Marge Piercy in the poem “a work of Artifice” focuses on the diminutive bonsai tree. She terms it as “ ...

Introduction

Thesis Statement The current research proposal is aiming to structure the main ideas of the research paper that will compare the culture that produced Venus de Willendfor and the one that Produced Barbie doll, focusing on explaining why such a comparison is necessary and why writing about it is necessary. The research paper will gravitate around the idea that Venus of Willendorf, as well as Barbie Dolls constitute popular culture representations of the feminine ideal of their time.

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Importance of writing about the topic I consider important writing about this topic, as it elaborates on the feminine identity ...

Introduction

Flashback to when you were young. Did you play with baby dolls and Barbie dolls or with play kitchen, or rather Spiderman action figure and Hot Wheels? Personally, growing as a little girl, I played with baby dolls and Barbie dolls, as well as fake kitchen utensils to prepare meals. Similarly, the girls I attended school with played with the same type of toys I used. Conversely, the boys in my kindergarten class played with blasters, G.I. Joe action figure, Hot Wheels, and fake tools from mini workbench. The girls were discouraged from touching boys’ toys and vice versa. Now ...

Introduction

During the late 1940’s and 50’s, media was on the forefront in a post war effort to reconstruct the family structure after World War II. Most shows on television are dominated by nuclear families whereby women who are home makers do not challenge their prescribed gender roles. It is evident that sexuality was not illustrated in these shows (Barry, 256). On the contrary, there are film images of the famous Doris Day whose acting career was popular between 1948 and 1973 during which she challenged the image of the woman at home by being single, independent and successful ...

Classic English Literature

Introduction There is an old proverb “A picture is worth a thousand words”. When the great Napoleon utter these words, little does he know that in future in the visual era, pictures are going to rules the text and will do a great work in shaping our culture. Some people believe that it is instead a Chinese proverb. However, whatever be its source, the line suggests something powerful that pictures remind the viewer of a particular subject and depict an idea. Sometimes it depicts an idea in a very significant way and this transforms into a culture gradually over the years. Due to globalization, ...

Deviant Bodies

The issue of deviant bodies has been a contentious issue for quite some time now in the contemporary society and especially in the American society. There have been several studies attempting to describe the ideal body of both males and females. Emphasis though has been on what the ideal woman’s body in the American society should look like in terms of skin color and body size (Terry & Urla, 1995). Deviant bodies can be described as those bodies which deviate from the norms set forth by the society. For instance according to deviant bodies, critical perspectives on difference ...

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It has been more that fifty years since Barbie was created and over that time she has become one of the most top selling toys worldwide (Griffin). And nobody could have predicted the success a simple plastic doll has achieved. At this point you can hardly find a person who has never heard of Barbie. The doll is known and sold worldwide and that makes her probably one of the most popular trends of all time. It was the first doll with an adult body. And it is her body image that has been causing a great number of contradictions and debates. ...

The elegy “Barbie Doll,” by Marge Piercy is an allegoric portrait of the negative traditions in which females have been forced into accepted wisdom of their bodies and manners in relation to a patriarchal idyllic. This principle is a slender hitherto curved body structure, with proportioned, ideal facial quality. The protagonist in Marge’s “Barbie Doll” gives up her own self image to accomplish the societal expectations of an ideal woman, a structure of community society dominated by the male species with their expectations on the ultimate ladies. The literature gives the illustration of a girl child’s life who due to ...