The+Growth+of+Teenage+Girl+Empowerment+(pg.+112-116),+Brendan+Reynolds

Nickelodeon was one of the first networks on television to break the ground in showcasing “girl power”. They opened new doors for how teen girls are shown on TV by c**asting a teenage girl in a lead role before anyone else had done so.** Clarissa Explains It All opened the door for the “girl empowerment” movement to begin with girls at a much younger age. Before Clarissa it was uncommon to have girls ages 13-17 in lead roles of television programs, but since it’s launch things have been entirely different. Not only are girls taking the empowerment in the mainstream but also behind the scenes as well. Here you need a transition to inform the reader that your examples are coming up. The head of Nickelodeon is a woman and many of the shows have female producers as well. A mainstream female empowerment went from a girl in school dealing with her friends and issues in Clarissa to more extravagant things such as a girl with special powers in “The Secret World of Alex Mack” or a female detective which was rarely seen at any age let alone a teenage one in “The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo”. Watch this run-on sentence which is hard to understand. In the years that we live in now the push is to move gays and lesbians into the common mainstream much like teenage girls were moved in by Clarissa. What's an example of this? Once one show takes the lead with success, it becomes the norm for shows years and years after.

I can't see the big ideas in this precis. Read carefully to follow the thrust of the author's main ideas. GRADE B-