The Powerpuff Girls Essays

  • Powerpuff Girl Monologue

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    ingredients to create the perfect little girls.” – The Powerpuff Girls Narrator. That's all you'd heard on a Sunday morning and from a cute little girl sitting on a couch watching her favorite cartoon show. My Mom would sit next to me and wonder why I loved watching this so much. Then, years passed and I got older and older. The Powerpuff Girls were not a priority to watch every morning anymore. It started to become a great childhood memory. The little Powerpuff Girl fan was fading away day by day. I

  • Elastic Girl From The Incredibles Analysis

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    Unlike the negative influence that heroines teach girls, few heroines teach the contrary. Because children have role models and are influenced by them, girls could learn about leadership and confidence. Rosemary Roberts says, “[a]s children’s lives unfold and widen to include and places outside the home, television and stories in books, so their choice of role models for their pretend play widens too […] encouraging children’s play gives a safe way to explore and begin to understand themselves, the

  • Men's Oppression

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    ones who face inequality on a daily basis; males encounter ridicule if they do not behave a certain way and are constantly oppressed from academic opportunities. The largest issue facing young men in today’s society is the intense focus placed on girls and their proper treatment from an early age. Required reading material in school often centers on female heroines. In the essay “Why Johnny Won’t Read,” authors Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky state, “Unfortunately, the textbooks and literature

  • Gender Roles In Cartoons

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    the portray male and female characters, though in some cases they do deviate from social norms. More traditional roles can be found in cartoons such as the Jetsons and King of the Hill, with greater deviance in shows like Kim Possible and the Powerpuff Girls. Tradition formatting of characters in a cartoon are based off of comparisons

  • Essay On Superheroes Save Your Mind

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    Superheroes Save Your Mind Nearly 60% of adults confirm that they suffered some manner of traumatic experience during their childhood (SAMHSA, 2011). At a young age, they were not aware of murder, kidnappings, or sexual assault, but they believe in a just, fair world. Imagine a little boy no older than five, peacefully playing in his room when suddenly he hears the front door burst open followed by the screams of his father and consecutive gunshots. His mother runs to him and hides him, reassuring

  • Argumentative Essay On Men Vs Women

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    Much like the past, females today are frowned upon for acts that males are praised for. In which, a man can go to the beach and take his shirt off, but if a woman does it she’s called names. Although, some may argue that females have breasts and men don’t; were is the equality in that? Some may believe something so little as that may be irrational, but when were men being paid more than women rational or men being allowed to have more sexual partners? On day I was on Instagram; a popular app many

  • Cinematic Influence In Poniewozik's Cinderella And Princess Culture

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    The topic of gender equality, culture and environmental effects on girls and young women has brought up the discussion of princess culture - dressing up, waiting for prince charming, the importance of beauty. Both “The Princess Paradox” and “Cinderella and Princess Culture” discuss how companies such as Disney are responsible for girls falling into princess culture and influencing them. However, there is a parallel drawn between Orenstein and Poniewozik on how they feel about the effects of cinematic

  • My Social And Personal Identity

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    worth. I know that when I am bold when I share my passion with others and it brings me confidence. I am full of spirit and want to transfer my energy to others, just like Blossom. Blossom feels like she runs the world and the rest of the power puff girls when she defeats crimes in her city. Although I do not fight crime in my city I do feel like I take on the world when I successfully manage all my responsibilities. I am a leader just like blossom when it comes to providing others the tools to grow

  • Analysis Of Dark Girls

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    When I was younger, I remember always idolizing some character I watched on television and they all had one common theme: they were white. Blossom from the Powerpuff Girls, Kim Possible, Hannah Montana, these characters were just a few examples of the girls I looked up to and aspired to be. Every Halloween, I would dress up like the character I was currently obsessed with and every year I felt very odd in my costume. Despite my efforts, I just didn’t look like them. I always got upset over this fact

  • Spongebob Research Paper

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    Everyone enjoys watching cartoons on television, but not many people think about the voice actors behind their favorite characters. Tom Kenny is one of these voice actors, most well known as the voice of Spongebob Squarepants. Outside of Spongebob, I wanted to see what his hobbies are, what’s his favorite color, how tall he is, and so on. Today, we are shifting the focus from the stars to the person behind many of the comedies we all love. There are so many cool things about Tom Kenny, but let’s

  • Reflective Essay: Writing In High School

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    Writing doesn’t come easily to me, which must make me a glutton for punishment. It has taken me years of training, learning to structure an essay and unlearning to begin again. Only since attending HSU am I realizing how exceptional my writing has become. Over the course of two semesters, I have seen my writing expand and grow. While I still adhere to the training I received in high school, I am excited to now take these tools and develop my own unique style in the years to come. From the beginning

  • Malcolm Gladwell Outliers Essay

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    achievements. Ever since we were young, we are often told that talent and hard work are the most crucial factors leading to success. Yet, just as the lyrics from the theme song of the cartoon Powerpuff Girls had mentioned “Sugar, spice, and everything nice. These were the ingredients chosen to create the perfect little girls.”, that is other than sugar and spice – talent and hard work, our “professor” suggested various significant factors that we may have overlooked. The book is separated into 2 parts, opportunities

  • Performing arts

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    Actors are more than just people who portray dramatic characters on a movie screen, stage, and television. Professional actors tend to make more money than most other careers. Actors bring joy to the people who watch them perform, and take them out of the real world and into the creative world of visual communication. Performers can show more than just joy, they can also bring happiness, sorrow, fear and even comedy. Acting can be a very versatile profession. It is way for many people to refine

  • Pop Culture And Popular Culture: Art And Culture

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    1) I agree that pop culture is always changing and that the young generation are the ones who are mainly in control of it. The reason I believe this is because there are new videos and memes that become popular that younger people are always coming up with. Something that I had a question about was the concept that pop culture was a part of capitalism because that didn’t make much sense to me seeing as though pop culture is just what’s popular at the time and not controlled by higher status people

  • Raves

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    We’ve all seen them before. Maybe at a bus stop, in our schools, or at the coffee shop. “They” look odd enough to frighten a circus clown, but for some reason, they always smile when you look their way. Perhaps it’s that their hair is the color of the sunset or that their pants look like they could house a small family. It could be that their headphones seem permanently glued to their ears and that they’re never afraid to groove on the sidewalk. Whatever the reason, you know that “they” are not quite

  • Japan cracking U.S. pop culture hegemony

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    Thoughts of Japanese culture typically includes reference of the traditional words such as Kabuki, sumo, samurai, or ninja according to Amelia Newcomb, author of “Japan cracking U.S. pop culture hegemony”. This is not true anymore, in fact, without realizing it, Japanese culture has seeped in under the door an invaded the American culture. Roland Kelts, author of the book Japanamerica, wrote about such ideals: The terms anime, manga, and otaku have become common parlance in the American media