7-year-old Girls with Breasts

        Compared to studies done in 1997 more 7-and-8 year-old girls are developing breasts. Elizabeth Braw, author of “7-year-old Girls with Breasts”, states that Dr. Frank Biro said “people judge children by how old they look”.  From a very young age, we are judged by the way we look.

        Many girls mature faster than boys. As a child, I was one of those girls that developed breasts at the tender age of eight. I had the body of a teenager but mind of an 8 year old. As I got older, my breasts kept growing. It was strange for me to have breasts at such an early age because none of my female family members had big breasts.

        Breasts on a girl child can make her look much older than she really is. At the age of 10 years old, I was already wearing a B-cup bra. When I went to visit my mother in Guyana, she was shocked to see her baby girl with breasts. My mother kept me close by her side. Some of her friends thought I was her little sister. Til this day people ask my mother and I if we are sisters whenever we go out together.

        When you look at a girl, breasts are one of the first things you notice about them. For years I was ashamed of my body because I had breasts, while the other girls in my class didn’t have breasts. I used to wear loose T-shirts to try and hide them, but that didn’t work. It wasn’t until after high school I felt more comfortable in my body.

        Having breasts does not make you a woman. It’s how you conduct yourself that makes you a woman. These days we as a society concentrate more on looks than we do on personality. A girl child with breasts may have the body of a woman, but the fact is she is still a child and should be treated as a child.

 

"Are Illegal Immigrants Good for the U.S. Economy?" Revision

            Undocumented immigrants not only contribute to the economy as workers but as tax payers and consumers as well. In the article “Are Illegal Immigrants Good for the U.S. Economy”, Walter Ewing said “the contributions of undocumented immigrants would be greater if they were able to earn legal status”. Undocumented immigrants should have more rights in the United States because they work very hard in this country.

            In the United States undocumented immigrants are under appreciated. Although I am a naturalized citizen of the United States, I still consider myself an immigrant. I watch as my father and aunts struggle to get their legal status. My father brought my sister, my brother and myself, from Guyana, to the States for a better life. It took about ten years for my father to get legalized as a United States citizen, and through him I was able to get my legal status.

            Undocumented immigrants or immigrants in general, tend to work harder than “natives”. When my mother finally came to the States, 6 years after the arrival of my father, my sister, my brother, and myself, she immediately went to work as a home health aide. At the same time my mother was studying to become a medical assistant. I hardly ever saw her because she was always at work and after work she had school. By the time she got home I was in bed because I had school in the morning.

            Being an undocumented immigrant, you get treated like your worth less than the natural born citizens in the United States just for having a different skin color or speaking a different language. As an undocumented child attending public school was hard for me because I was teased just about every day because I had a thick Guyanese accent. I had long beautiful black curly hair that had to be cut off because someone put their gum in my hair. I never understood why those kids were mean to me and because of that I started to isolate myself from everyone.

            The United States government should give undocumented immigrants legal status after being in the States for at least three to five years. They should at least have a stable job and stable living environment to become a citizen of the United States. If the undocumented immigrants are willing to show they want to be in the United States, then I say let them be.