Essay about BarbieWhat can Barbie tell us about American values?Is she living the American Dream?Does she exemplify appropriate/changing gender roles?Do blondes have more fun?1000 words 寻求构思.barbie:芭比娃娃如果能给出全文 另送100

Essay about BarbieWhat can Barbie tell us about American values?Is she living the American Dream?Does she exemplify appropriate/changing gender roles?Do blondes have more fun?1000 words 寻求构思.barbie:芭比娃娃如果能给出全文 另送100
Essay about Barbie
What can Barbie tell us about American values?Is she living the American Dream?Does she exemplify appropriate/changing gender roles?Do blondes have more fun?
1000 words
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Essay about BarbieWhat can Barbie tell us about American values?Is she living the American Dream?Does she exemplify appropriate/changing gender roles?Do blondes have more fun?1000 words 寻求构思.barbie:芭比娃娃如果能给出全文 另送100
nice topic.
i think to some extent it(barbie doll) does reflect some American value,especially society's perception on female and femininity.A typical barbie doll is dazzling,every tiny weeny part of it is smooth and beautiful.With fair complexion and blond hair,barbie dolls seem to induce us to relate the look/ethnicity of a woman to the extravagance of life she enjoys.I bet none of us has ever seen a barbie doll that features a black American,do you think it's implying that Black americans will not enjoy big houses,fanciful clothes,luxurious limo?As for me,I feel that the barbie dolls ACTUALLY carry some politics along with it.
Manufacturers never produce negro barbies because they know there would be no market for them.And the reason for the absence of such a market is the very truth that the Whites are enjoying better lives.Even black kids are aspired to be like the white girls,so they can be a bi star,drive a big car,have as many hot studs around them as possible.And in the end they will find that it's all a dream.A dream of equality,a dream fancied and still being praised by many,it's called the AMERICAN DREAM.
Well on the other hand,the role played by barbie dolls has been undermined by the introduction of other toys in recent years,especially those toys feature boys belong to the hip-hop culture instead of feminine and decent girls who always give you the impression of a clean and sweet Caucasian.I believe this can be seen as a partial proof of improvement,or at least equalization of female,because barbie dolls are no longer the only toy for children,this in a way signifies women are no longer seen as a toy for all.At least both genders get to play each other.
先说清楚,这个是我随便写的,完全是写着好玩,观点也很一般,多半为了搞笑.所以如果是要交作业,至少要改.

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In March 1959 the first Barbie doll was unveiled at a toy fair in New York City. She was the brainchild of Ruth Handler, who along with her husband, Elliot, cofounded Mattel Creations (later Mattel, I...

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In March 1959 the first Barbie doll was unveiled at a toy fair in New York City. She was the brainchild of Ruth Handler, who along with her husband, Elliot, cofounded Mattel Creations (later Mattel, Inc.) in 1945. While raising her two children, Barbara and Kenneth, Handler noticed how much her daughter liked to play make-believe with paper dolls, often assigning them adult roles. Inspired by this and by a German comic strip character named Lilli, to which Mattel bought the rights, Handler created the three-dimensional Barbie doll (named after her daughter). In 1961 her son had his name immortalized in plastic when the Ken doll, Barbie's significant other, was introduced. Handler believed that allowing little girls to imagine the future with pretend play was an important part of growing up. What emerged was what came to be the world's most popular doll, including four younger siblings, a pantheon of friends, and a proliferation of accessories--each sold separately, of course. As Barbie turned 35, however, she found that along with her designer clothes, motor homes, and product endorsements came her share of controversy.
Barbie began life as a teenage fashion model. Over the years she became a ballerina, registered nurse, American Airlines stewardess, surgeon, and U.S. Air Force pilot. In 1992 she ran for president, but she lost, possibly because, after 20 years of silence, her first utterances (much to the dismay of feminists) included the words, "Math class is tough." In 1991 Mattel took action against Kenner Products' Miss America doll, citing copyright infringement. Versions of Miss America--which was manufactured in China--were subsequently seized by the U.S. Customs Service and stored in a government warehouse. A year later Mattel settled a similar suit against Hasbro Inc., which agreed to change its popular British Sindy doll to look less like Barbie.
By 1994 it seemed that Barbie herself could not be stopped and would continue her reign as the queen of dolldom. Since 1959 more than 800 million dolls in the Barbie family had been sold. Adult collectors invested thousands of dollars in special-issue Barbies. She had had more than 500 professions and could be found in more than 140 countries in the guise of several nationalities. However, it was unlikely that she would ever be seen in Kuwait after she was banned by a top Muslim official in August 1994. Barbie's curvacious figure had often been chastised for providing girls with an unrealistic body image. On the other hand, a group of Finnish scientists declared that she was anorexic.
After losing $113 million in 1987 on unsuccessful new product lines, Mattel found that it was more profitable to increase promotion of the Barbie franchise, and in 1993 sales of Barbie paraphernalia exceeded $1 billion. In celebration of Barbie's 35th birthday in 1994, Mattel reissued a replica of the original 1959 doll, and in October her life was chronicled in the book Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll, by M.G. Lord. (ANTHONY L. GREEN)

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> Barbie
an 11-inch- (29-cm-) tall plastic doll with the figure of an adult woman that was introduced in 1959 by Mattel, Inc., a southern California toy company. Ruth Handler, who cofounded Mattel with her husband, Elliot, spearheaded the introduction of the doll. Barbie's physical appearance was modeled on the German Bild Lilli doll, a risqué gag gift for men based upon a cartoon ...
> Barbie
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> Barbie, Klaus
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> Handler, Ruth Mosko
American entrepreneur and businesswoman (b. Nov. 4, 1916, Denver, Colo.—d. April 27, 2002, Los Angeles, Calif.), was a cofounder of Mattel and created the Barbie doll, which in 1959 became the first mass-produced toy doll in the U.S. with adult features. Barbie, joined by several family members and friends and appearing in numerous career versions, soon was helping the ...
> Barad, Jill E.
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