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...? The Film Precious: Race, Gender and The main character and a teenager, Clarisse Precious Jones, is an untidy, semi illiterate, poor, obese, and a pregnant girl. She is made pregnant twice by her HIV positive father due to her carelessness. Precious mother, however, gets bitter for Precious’s careless actions and decides to physically abuse her. She even wishes that Precious was not her daughter and that she should have aborted her. Despite, the abuses, the mother still has hope that Precious can still make it in life (“Precious”). At school the principle invites Precious to her office because she had a message to pass to her. The principle tells Precious that she will search for an alternative school for her because she... The Film...
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...due: Comparison between “The pain of thinking too much” and “Searching for voices” “The Pain of Thinking too Much, dolor de cerebro and the Embodiment of Social Hardship among Nicaraguan Women” by Kristin Yarris and “Searching for Voices, Feminism Anthropology and the Global Debate on Female Genital Operations” by Christine Wally are articles that are connected with women suffering, pain, hardship and historical injustices. These two articles have both similarities and differences, but can be studied in cooperation to comprehend the topic. Combined, both articles bring out aspects, which are embedded in cultural practices to shape thoughts in certain ways, bringing about the knowledge of feminism. While...
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...Feminism There is concrete correlation in the article by Karen and Rachel with other articles including the writing of Andi Zeisler since there is a discussion on feminism (63). Both articles claim that reforms would impact much on women and oblige that the fight for reforms to outdo feminism is a continuous process. The articles concur since they claim that most women have the job of being attractive sexual objects in the society.
The common principles of U.S feminism are that women’s role in the society is to act as sexual objects. The principles according to Zeisler are in advertisements which are demeaning, insulting and infantilizing (57). The reforms are to make...
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Advertisement: Ariel Sensitive
This paper critically analyzes a detergent advertisement by Procter & Gamble. The analysis reviews the role that the advertisement plays in selling the detergent and the response it elicits from the targeted market. The Ariel detergent advertisement first appeared on the Ariel site (hhttp://www.ariel.co.uk/) and on the Britain Sunday Times. The advertisement consists of a picture of a father and child sharing an outdoor blissful moment. The upper left corner of the advertisement picture has a text message that reads: “Is gentle something you touch or something that touches you?” The picture extensively uses the Ariel brand-colour-blue- in different shades. The colour choice is perhaps aimed... Ariel...
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...Rhetorical Analysis on Vintage Ads
Coke: “It is the real thing”
The spot: people demonstrate the oneness brought by Coca-Cola through singing. The song sung represents nations of the world. The advert educates individuals on Coke’s existence and availability.
Things summarized in the ad
There is something captivating about the advertisement. Coke has numerous advertisements in the vintage error. I always turn up the volume when I hear the universal unity song: “I would like to sing the world a song…..” It catches one’s attention from the start of the advertisement. I watched the ad with a friend of mine from a different generation and he admitted that its one of a kind. The unique quality of the ad...
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...that they can have control over their own destinies.
This has come as a result of unequal representation of women in different fields resulting to women being ruled by men in many settings. In this perspective, a good example is a situation in which corporate women who to be promoted need to practice intuition management based on acceptable gender role conduct of their corporate setting, but at the same time they need to maintain a sense of personal integrity. The feminist perspective therefore brings out ways to empower these corporate women by clarifying the relationship between the label of “feminine” (symbolic interaction) and how these women are judged by peers and by themselves.
Therefore, feminism can be...
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...and conflicts in a world where leadership styles were adopted right from childhood behaviors (Duane and Warren 95). These behaviors would be instilled through a three way process by mothers and include preserving the childs life, promoting growth through ethical maternal skills and guiding the child to be socially acceptable. She based her feminist principles on these elements that include resistance, reconciliation, peacekeeping, nurturing, and renunciation (Ruddick 13).
Works Cited
Page, James. Peace education exploring ethical and philosophical foundations. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Pub., 2008. Print.
Ruddick, Sara. Maternal thinking: toward a politics of peace. Boston: Beacon Press, 2005. Print
Walters, Kerry S. Re-thinking...
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...to the users’ technology and consumer buying habit? 41
6.5 SWOT Analysis 42
7. Limitations 43
8.Conclusion and Insights 44
1. Industry Context
1.1 Brief History
Figure 1: BBC, HMV: A visual history, 2013
As the last presence of high street music store, HMV, which stands for His Master’s Voice, has a long history of 93 years. HMV is typical enough to represent the whole music entertainment industry as the matter of fact that it is the last remaining music retailer. Their first store was born in 1921 and started to sell gramophones, radios and popular music hall recordings (BBC, 2013). The following new era of CDs (Compact Discs) turned HMV into a hugely profitable music record company successfully during 1980s (BBC,...
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...Task: Feminism Feminism holds into the belief that women should assume the same equal social, political and economic rights as men in the society. Women have been oppressed in the society for as long as history. This oppression is nothing different from the kind of oppression that people from the minority group go through every day. However, women are not actually a minority. Statistics entail that there are actually more women than men globally. Feminism came about as a way of fighting for equal rights for women in the society. Currently, feminism is a rather crucial matter, especially to women themselves (Paludi, 43). The reason that female oppression goes unnoticed...
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... Feminism If one takes a look at the social environment, one can not help noticing that it is usually comprised of different groups of people, some whom may be oppressed. That is why it is particularly important to facilitate a dialogue between various parts of the population. However, in her essay The Problem of Speaking for Others Linda Alcoff argues this action is no advisable for number of reasons. This paper will analyze these reasons.
First of all, it would be important to explain why speaking for other is a problem. Thus, it must be noted that any dialogue is exchange of opinions, but one of the essential parts of this process is also the presence of a certain party that is willing to articulate its position. In other words...
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