Re’sume’ of Barbie
Barbie was always more than a blond beauty . In 50 years ,she’s switched jobs 108 times and mirrored women’s changing roles. Her forays into medicine, business, entertainment and sports reveal how far women have advanced in a half-century and reflect the aspirations and possibilities for each succeeding generation of young girls. Barbie turned 50 on March 9,2009,but how did she get to where she is today ? It’s time to examine Barbie’s re’sume’.
Air Force
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Stars & Stripes
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Marine Corps
Career women
Despite a backlash against feminist ideas in the 1980s .Barbie kept busy reminding girls that being a woman was about more than having a pretty face .She busied herself as a TV news reporter, lawyer，UNICEF ambassador .
to this necklace, the jeweler
Hale Waihona Puke Stefano Canturi also designed
the black Tee Barbie dress, high heels (细跟高跟鞋)and a thin
gold plate with hair.
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The first Barbie wore a black and white swimsuit and had her hair in a ponytail (马尾辫). She looked and seemed very grown-up, but any concerns that parents would not want to buy it for little girls were soon proved wrong. Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars. Today, a fiftyyear-old Barbie in good condition might cost more than twenty-seven thousand dollars.
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Gold ‘N Glamour
She also found time to run for president ,with her own ticket in 1992 election. Barbie was as accomplished as any opposition---and certainly prettier.
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Barbie Loves Sports
Bowling Champ
Chicago Cubs
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50th Anniversary NASCAR
Stars & Stripes
Navy Barbie
Between 1989 and 1994 , she enrolled in the Army ,Air Force ,Navy and Marines ,making a place for herself in one of the last male -dominated terrains.
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Barbie Love s Sports
then ,after perfecting other people 's bodies, she decided to work on her own--at the Olympics, which wanted to guaranteed girls equal access with boys to athletic facilities in schools ,she brought home gold medals in 1975 for gymnastics, figure skating and downhill skiing .
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Busy Gal Barbie
上班女郎
Barbie put on a chic gray suit and hit the bedroom ,probably as a buyer for a department store.Only later would she truly break into the male-dominated business world as an executive , first in 1985 and then again in 1992 and 1999
Barbie.
According to the British "Daily
Telegraph" reported on 21, the
barbie dolls wearing three-carat
diamond white diamonds around
a carat pink necklace. In addition
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2010-10-21In New York auction
house Christie's auction, a
custom $ 322,500 Barbie doll
(about 215 million yuan) became
the world's most expensive