Essays on Role Models

Sitting in third grade listening to the teachers voice fade louder then softer as Wilbur met Charlotte. While I tapped my pencil on my desk, looked at the clock, tried to pass a note to my friend that was listened intently. I was bored, I…

Role models serve to influence people’s choices in behaviour, relationships and career choices: children look up to a variety of role models that include parents/ guardians, and people in education and industry1. Three out of four children between the ages of 10 and 16 in…

Beauty magazines should stop photoshopping models. Most advertising tell their audience the ideal person that they need to be, or what society and counterculture expects them to look like in order to considered “acceptable” or “beautiful” in the eyes of the world. Partly because society…

Disney Princesses Serving as Positive Role Models At first glance, many advocates for gender equality view Disney princesses as terrible role models for females, young and old. Their sexist, “damsel in distress” roles only serve as a barrier for furthering the equality of women, and…

Sports Illustrated for Kids conducted a survey for children ages 7 to 12 asking about who their role models are. The majority of kids, 12%, stated Michael Jordan, more than the 4% surveyed who stated their parents as their role models. Is it true that…

Role Models In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has few role models in his life. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, finds faults in everyone. His excuse for getting expelled was that there were too many “phonies”, superficial people. He then decided to…

Why Oprah Winfrey Is So Great? Not only is Oprah Winfrey a celebrity, she is a leader and a hero known all around the world. She has had a rough childhood, jumping through different households and not having the proper parent role model in her…

Introduction “Grandma, do you want to be my role model for my school project?” “Why not, Ash you look up to me now” I had a choice of so many people to pick from, but I chose my grandmother. After my grandmother explained to her…