It increases your self-esteem and motivation; therefore, you are motivated to not just buy Nike, but to play better in your sport. But if you like things that catch your eye and appeal to you, you’ll like Adidas ads. Adidas ads focuses on more than the sport. They focus on fashion and the newest style to attract customers. In Nike ads they have motivational slogans like “JUST DO IT”, which just motivates you along with liking Nike.
As an example two influential short stories will be discussed in depth in order to shed light into the lives of the two authors and their stories. The short stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) and Angela Carter (1940–1992) both sideway the same idea; the confinement of women in particular roles and positions in both personal and professional lives, posed on them by patriarchal figures. Toril Moi quotes in her examination of feministic criticism, Sexual/Textual Politics (2002), Elaine Showalter’s idea that “women writers should not be studied as a distinct group on the assumption that they write alike, or even display stylistic resemblances distinctively feminine” (Moi, 2002: 49), which comes across when reading the two stories which are stylistically already very different. It might be so that a feminist reader of both times (there’s some 80 years difference between the two stories) did not only want to see her own experiences mirrored in fiction, but strived to identify with strong, impressive female characters (Moi, 2002: 46), and looked for role-models that would instil positive sense of feminine identity by portraying women as self-actualising strong identities who were not dependent on men (Moi, 2002, 46). The two stories bring out two female characters, very different by position and character; the other a new mother, scared and confused of her own role, and the other a young newly-wed girl, still a child, being fouled by a much older man, mainly as a mark of his authority over women in general.
In terms of diction for this essay, the author uses three appealing words. The first word is 'body types'. The author uses this word to say how important looks and body types are to women today. "And if you have the 'wrong' body type, well, then, you're just going to have to change it, aren't you?" (Yusufali 1).
Emma / Clueless comparative essay – film techniques How do the film techniques help in the exploration of the themes in ‘Emma’ and ‘Clueless’? Refer to the films in detail. The directors of the films ‘Emma’ and ‘Clueless’ use a range of film techniques to highlight the themes of the texts. Diarmuid Lawrence and Amy Heckerling explore the themes of marriage and matches, distortion of vision, social and moral responsibility, and the importance of self-knowledge. A detailed analysis of four parallel scenes in ‘Emma’ and ‘Clueless’ show how film techniques are utilized to help convey meaning in a text.
My Response: Yes I believe advertisements aimed at teenagers are effective. This is mostly because teens buy things because a famous person uses or just because it has the Nike logo on it. Do I believe these advertisements are ethical? No I don’t. Teenagers think that these products will make them “cool” or “fit in” and even make them better at sports.
Society's perceptions of women are shaped by the way that they are represented in a variety of texts. In order to gain a more balanced perspective of women, it is therefore necessary to examine and dissect more that one text. Some perceptions may overlap and find common ground within the different texts and other perceptions may glaringly contradict each other. Factors that may influence the perceptions of women being portrayed include societal beliefs within the era in which the text is set and the author's perspective and purpose within the text. Three texts that portray women in a different way are the film, Ever After, the play, MacBeth, and the poem, Phenomenal Woman.
Despite the changing views towards women in London at the time, Sax portrays women in the film as submissive and obedient to other males. It is surprising to see that the women in Shakespeare’s Othello have more autonomy in comparison to Dessie and Lulu in the film. By comparing Othello by Shakespeare, and Sax’s Othello, the audience is able to understand the key concepts of women and race, and how they are reflected in differing societies. Through the use of literary and filmic techniques, both Shakespeare and Sax effectively highlight the extent to which context influences the key concerns in both
Has SlutWalk has been successful, if so why or why not? I want to look at the cultural significance of the loaded word ‘slut’, and the effort for women to reclaim it. Is it helpful for women to be calling themselves sluts? There are other related cultural aspects including ‘slut shaming’ and ‘rape culture’ that will help me explore the cultural significance of the word slut and how it relates
The language that is presented in this essay is that we all have familiar traits as humans but as soon as something changes or you see that is something isn’t in your liking then you want to change it. The writer’s main point in his essay is that he wants to review the recent cases of transgender victims of violence. When we acknowledge that the hatred directed at “faggots” is usually less about sexuality and more about transgressing gender norms. When you think of violence the first thing that comes to mind is foreign terrorists or intolerance. But when Riki Wilchins became the founder and executive director of Gender Public Advocacy Coalition she wanted to inform the public that it comes in any shape and form.
Jaggar closes her article by illuminating the necessary coexistence between the revolution in social reality and revolution in knowledge, stating that: as the feminist philosophers explicitly regard gender roles in society, this exploration leading to newfound knowledge. Through the study of political philosophy, philosopher’s aim is to arrive at a consensus of what shall be held as “the good society.” To commence constructing this vision, philosophers must articulate how society should or ought to be, in other words, look at the normative elements of a society. In order to legitimatize any theory, that theory must