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This week’s round-up of Good Reads includes a “Barbie-fied” Disney princess, a many greedy generation, a miss of consumer awareness, expelling USAID, and long-form journalism.

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Cricket Fuller, Staff writer /
May 28, 2013

Disney’s Merida of ‘Brave’ will get to keep her tomboyish looks and manners.

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Armed with wit, self-confidence, and a crawl and arrow, Merida is a lady who rescues herself from her possess distress. Parents and educators have lauded a burning red-haired heroine of a Disney/Pixar charcterised film “Brave” as an atypical Disney princess. 

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“We wanted a daughters to grow adult and be like Merida: brave, strong, resourceful, unlawful though loving,” Karen Dill records in a blog during PsychologyToday.com. 

But Disney’s “makeover” of Merida into a sexualized Barbie-esque figure for merchandising functions has incited fans’ regard to outrage. The classification A Mighty Girl launched a Keep Merida Brave debate and viral Change.org petition in protest. Ms. Dill cites studies that uncover that sexualizing women in a media leads to low self-respect in girls, and group “exposed to sexualized, objectified images of women … turn some-more passive of real-life passionate harassment.” It seems fans’ summary might have gotten through. Media outlets reported that Disney sensitively pulled a redesigned design of Merida from a website.

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Me-centered generation

Joel Stein takes a vicious demeanour during a Millennial Generation – those innate between 1980 and 2000 – in Time magazine. “The Me Me Me Generation” title implies that Millennial self-centeredness trumps even that of baby boomers. They were lifted with larger resources than any preceding generation, are some-more tech savvy, and were nurtured by helicopter relatives who, along with educators, told them they were special. And for improved or worse – they are. 

While Mr. Stein primarily dwells on a studies that uncover Millennials have a clarity of desert and are lazy, narcissistic, and contingent on their parents, he eventually acknowledges a some-more nuanced, saving picture. Millennials might not tend toward normal county engagement, though they do caring about justice. They are some-more passive than any other generation. And while they don’t ride toward orderly religion, many trust in God and value spirituality. They aren’t order breakers, though they are changing workplace enlightenment – for a better. And in annoy of a distrust of their era, Millennials are overwhelmingly confident about a future.

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In a arise of a Bangladesh garment-factory fall in April, Jerry Davis explores in YaleGlobal online a burden of tellurian supply chains. Technology enabled a now-common outsourcing indication that keeps primogenitor companies during a stretch from production. But record might also reason a resolution to finale reprobate operative conditions and prolongation methods.


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