An enormous factor that plays into the number of viewers for The Super Bowl is the commercials; they are often very entertaining and usually funny. However, these endorsements are often very sexist and filled with logic fallacies. According to Merriam-Webster Online, sexism is “prejudice or discrimination based on sex” or “behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex.” These “sexual connotations” (Nilsen 36; 15) are shown throughout commercials year-round, but during the Super Bowl they are especially prevalent. Sexism is often shown through language. In the article “Sexism in English: Embodiment and Language,” Nilsen observes, “Going back to what I learned from my dictionary cards, I was surprised to realize how many pairs of words we have in which the feminine word has acquired sexual connotations while the masculine word
The US economic bailout plan is unethical and outright criminal. I hope to show the reader how the effects of the plan affect the average consumer and convince the reader how important voicing an opinion publicly about this issue is. My income drop With the economy beginning a projected lengthy recession,
Consumers are the lonely, drug addled, beaten and bruised children of technology that it gleefully “protects” with progress to perpetuate the cycle of consumption. Toxic culture syndrome is a term coined by Kalle Lasn in an article he wrote of the same name in 2001 for Adbusters, a satirical magazine. The term Toxic Culture Syndrome is used to refer to the harmful effects of the media and the internet, as well as how they take away from traditional values and responsibilities. While Lasn does not deliver a flawless argument, he is still correct in his belief that the media and internet are capable of damaging humanity through isolation, addiction and submission. Lasn explains that the internet disconnects people from their real families and communities, while the media creates a strong cycle of consumerism leaving the
Rhetorical Essay Michael Moore makes a clear proclamation in his excerpt “Idiot Nation” that America’s education system is drastically failing. Although America is the richest country, education has become less and less of a priority. Not only does Moore state the issue but he also explains ways we can resolve the situation and put the country back on top. Moore uses a plethora of different persuasive and rhetorical strategies to get his audience to understand his claim on the issue. One of the most unique rhetorical strategies he uses is belittling the public figures of the nation.
Heilbroner he perceives stereotypes as “a kind of gossip about the world, a gossip that makes us prejudge people before we ever lay eyes on them” (5). Evidently we understand that to him our premature assumptions of cultures and people are created in the manner of a simple everyday commodity. We can clearly depict ones social class and well being by the way they are dressed and the color of their skin. In the movie Crash (2004) directed by Paul Higgins we can find a perfect example of how we life with our everyday premature assumptions encountered with our everyday premature assumptions that we create. In the scene where the mugging takes place, Peter and Anthony are presumed by Jean to be criminals and of a lower-class because of the way Peter and Anthony are
Bradley calls this sneaky strategy “Leanwashing” which is the practice of making a product or service appear healthier that it is through advertising or other forms marketing. In the second paragraph of the blog post Bradley compares Big Food’s use of leanwashing to a snake oil salesman, “Big Food increasingly acts more and more like a snake oil salesman, shilling sugary, salt-laden, fatty processed foods and calling them healthy.” By comparing Big Food to a snake oil salesman, Bradley creates an image of the most unscrupulous salesman pushing false claims about a product and duping everyone in earshot in the mind of the reader. This image created by Bradley effectively undercuts the credibility of Big Food by saying their health claims are just plain fraudulent. In the next paragraph Bradley moves to the advertising and PR agency EnviroMedia which has created and launched the Leanwashing Index. This index judges a food ad, package, or promotion on five different criteria, 1.
In the paper Attention Deficit: The Brain Syndrome of Our Era, the author Richard Restak describes the potential health hazards that developing technology and the advancement of modernity in our society today has on human brains. Restak focuses only on the negative aspects of new technology and he even touches upon some of his own negative experiences. He discusses crawlers that were originally created as an early storm warning system that showed up on the top of television screens, which have now developed into something, “ubiquitous, forcing an ongoing split in our attention and a constant state of distraction” (Restak 411). While watching an interview with the First Lady Restak found himself focusing more on the crawlers that were discussing
Here are the sample essays from the “Capacity of Entertainment to Ruin Society” prompt. I have tried to organize them from those most skeptical of the claim to those most convinced of its accuracy. Read two and write peer reviews noting the strategies that these writers used to present their claims, strategies that you can emulate. Hopefully you will read more than two. Sore Thumbs=Bright Minds Distressed damsels, profanity, and shooting sprees: it's not surprising videogames carry a bad reputation.
Popular Torture Viewer discretion is advised. In Anne-Marie Cusacs article “Watching Torture in Prime Time” she discloses the truth behind Fox Channel’s hit show “24” and it’s use of torture as method of entertainment. The media has become a huge part of our lives for a source of learning, entertainment and communication. Popular media needs to be limited to the context, since much of the information it is unreliable. Exposing violence in the media teaches bad morals and is not supported by the greater good of society.
“Rock music has one appeal only, a barbaric appeal to sexual desire- not love, not Eros, but sexual desire undeveloped and untutored…” says A. Bloom in Junk Food for the Soul by Frank Zappa. Those who call for the censorship are upset with what these songs messages are sending out to the world. Our society is very demanding of behaving in a civilized manner. Zappa says, “The ugliness in this society is not a product of unrefined art, but of unrefined commerce, wild superstition, and religious fanaticism.” I have been scolded many times by my mother and aunts that the rock music I have been listening to is sacrilegious. Devils music.