An image, disturbing to picture, of a child's mind and inside the child's mind is a schema of every concept the adolescent has ever taken in. A Nazi swastika symbolizes an evil hatred from history, the child has learned that prejudice is wrong. A mental picture of a young bride walking down an isle, the child knows marriage is sacred and that the woman can take pride in her white dress. A Coke bottle brings the sweetness of cola to the youth's taste buds. This person was biologically determined to be female at birth. This person now has a role in society to play. We refer to her as female because she is not male and there is no in between in our culture, she is female because of her physical features. We have a schema of what a female is expected to be. She probably has hair with length. Her features should be soft and luscious. She will not fight; she will smell good. She isn't impressed with extremely large spiders; she will be impressed with beautiful flowers. She should d!
             esire to look sexy, to dress sexily, to be sexy. Certain things are expected of her. She is to learn the behaviors, beliefs, and values her society presents her with. Not only will she learn those requirements but she will also learn from the environment around her. All the information she is presented with she will accept and decide where to put it. She will be forming her opinions, beliefs morals, behaviors and values of her own. The average youth will watch 10,000,000 advertisements before the age of eighteen (Hull). Reading through an average teen magazine, a teenager can read about how to be popular, how to apply makeup, how to style hair, even how to dress next month. The average movie is filled with advertisements just slipped in casually. Not to mention regular tv has eight minutes of commercials for every 22 minutes of television (Hull). I ask my audience to consider the information received by their children and evaluate the choic...