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The argument over whether Barbie dolls are a good role model for little girls is not a new one. There have been many different versions, some saying she is because she’s just a doll; just a plaything for little girls. A woman named Justina Sharp says that “adult issues should not be put on a toy or little girl”. But they are wrong. Barbie is teaching little girls that being skinny and “well proportioned” in some bodily areas is how to get a good life. Barbie toys teach that little girls just…

London did many things, including riding trains, shoveling coal, working on a sealing ship on the Pacific and even worked in a salmon cannery. He traveled with General Kelly’s army until he broke off from the army and became a hobo. He returned to Oakland at age 19 to return to high school for a year and college for a semester. Jack London wrote over fifty books during his lifetime, yet his most famous book was, Call of the Wild. London began writing stories and accounts…

would have spent more time with Terry and his daughter than other people. I think that many people who knew Terry believed that at first, he had killed Naomi. But I also think that those same people wanted the murderer to just have been some random hobo. They probably wanted the killer to be someone they didn’t know. That way, it wouldn’t have left the burden of personally knowing and associating with a cold-hearted killer.…

Wales but was always on the move. Davies traveled through the United States, across the atlantic a few times, made his way to Canada, and eventually ended up in England where he would die (William Henry Davies). During his travels Davies lived as a hobo in both…

wife out in the barn with us ‘bindle stiffs.’ ”(56) This quote tells the reader that Curley's Wife likes to talk to the workers but doesn't know how to approach them. She gets upset easily though and even calls them "bindle stiffs." Bindle stiffs are hobos that go from place to place with their belongings. Crook's was trying to get Curley's Wife to leave by using an insult that Curley's Wife herself would probably use against, Lennie, George, Candy and Crook. In the end Curley's wife ends up…

Two Heads Are Better Than One In Willa Cather's My Ántonia she composes a beautiful story combining setting, characterization, and motif to enforce the theme of the novel, which is stated explicitly, contrary to the usual manner of a novel. Cather, through her character Ántonia, says, "Ain't it wonderful, Jim, how much people can mean to each other?" (206). Jim Burden is an orphan moving to Nebraska to live with his grandparents. The story tracks Jim's character growth as well as his evolving…

none of their family was jewish. When they got in, all of the recruits were told they were the best. Not just over the Jews, but over all of mankind. Himmler took the job as secretary to the SS propaganda leader because he was a broke, unemployed, hobo and had no other means of getting a job. He then worked his way up to leader by giving strong speeches about how Germany should expand. All of this was motivated by what he was taught as a child. He was always told that Germany was the best.…

The Great Depression The Great Depression of the 1930’s plunged the American people into an economic crisis unlike any endured in the country before or since. This time period of limited economic growth was caused by a few main factors. Because these certain factors happened, american life was vastly changed until the recovery in the late 1930’s. Though economists are not completely sure why the Great Depression happened, a few key factors do stand out as specifically influencing the economy…

the very essence of courage. Throughout the entirety of the film, Preston Tucker was thrown into incredible situations that could have ended life as he knew it. Firstly, Tucker was broke; if it was not for his wife, Vera Tucker, he would have been a hobo. From the first time Mr. Tucker was on screen until the very last shot of him he had to finagle…

Hunter Ansich Literary Influences on Chris McCandless "The heaviest item in McCandless’s half-full backpack was his library... titles by Thoreau and Tolstoy and Gogol..." (page 162). John Krakauer portrays Chris McCandless, a student turned explorer, as a dreamer more in tune with ideals of various authors than realism. Chris abandoned society behind to wander the United States, living with nature, and whatever characters he came by. As he explored, he seemed to be mimicking authors' mindsets…