...Man Vs. Technology Some would say the world has changed for the better because of the technological advances. But our lives are more complicated because these possessions take up our time and choke our spirituality. It makes us miss the simple things in life; like having face-to-face conversations and enjoying the outdoors with friends and family. Technology has changed the way we do everything now; track money, do business and so much more. It has become a huge aspect of our social lives. You see the workforce having to work from home, which is changing the way we live. It brought education to those that don't have the proper schooling as well. When technology was first introduced in the workplace, it was brought to create efficiency. Companies and businesses used different contraptions to speed up the process and make the job easier. I believe the rise of Internet technology has improved the workplace and our daily lives in very many ways. The world business and trade has become easier, reliable and very fast. It’s thrown people into a state of fear that technology will soon replace them and put them all out employment. The classic 1975 film The Desk Set displays the paranoia of substitution when a machine created to make the network’s research department more effective and faster to get information, scares the women into thinking they were going to be unemployed and replaced. The impact of technology has transformed us into the people we said we would never be. For example...
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...A)Violence against Women -Wrestling with manhood -Violence is connected to manhood (real men invite confrontation, trash talk) -Fear and respect go hand in hand -Bark like a dog (subordination of women is part of the “man” package) -Comparison to women as a challenging idea (you are a “bitch”) -Chyna becomes so strong, she is stripped of femininity (later rejects public image) -violence as “deserved,” even really crazy awful sexual violence (“bark like a dog”) -“...it's only entertainment.” -Sex Trafficking (Trade) B)Gender, Beauty, Normalization -Wolf, beauty as a prerequisite for success for women -“girls learn that stories happen to 'beautiful' woman but don't happen to women who aren't beautiful” -beauty as a market and product -the female body as a constant -Kaw, Asian Americans (3% of pop., 6% of cosmetic surgeries), most likely ethnicity to get c. surgery -encouragement of self hatred -pressuring women to conform to standards of normality -media representation of Asians as “sleepy, dull, uninterested” -origins in facial reconstruction at WWI -now used to “fix” completely natural features -Valenti, beauty as a “shut the fuck up” tool -beauty is a distraction -women are too ugly or too pretty to be consequential/deserve public attention -Bordo, Slender Body -double bind: producer v. consumer -moral coding: fat is seen as lazy, thin as control -cultural...
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...Abstract: This study attempts to investigate the representation of masculinity in the printed advertisement of Mens Biore Double Scrub. All phenomena in the advertisement are described. To present more analytical description, the signs found in the advertisement are analyzed based on Barthes’ orders of signification. Besides that, this study also employs Kress and Van Leeuwen’s method of reading images and intertextual analysis in order to obtain more comprehensive analysis. The result of this study shows that Mens Biore Double Scrub advertisement represents two different concepts of masculinity. The first one is the traditional concept of masculinity. The second one is the new concept of masculinity offered by the advertisement. Generally, words that are used to represent both concepts of masculinity are power, confidence, aggressiveness, competition, challenge, and bravery. The connotative signified success, financial independence, and physical attractiveness are emphasized to change the concept of traditional masculinity to be in line with the company’s need. Keywords: advertisement, semiotics, masculinity Abstrak: Penelitian ini berupaya untuk menganalisa representasi maskulinitas dalam iklan cetak Mens Biore Double Scrub. Seluruh fenomena dalam iklan tersebut dideskripsikan. Untuk menyajikan deskripsi yang analitis, tanda-tanda yang ditemukan dalam iklan tersebut dianalisa berdasarkan gagasan orders of signification milik Barthes. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga menerapkan...
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...What do we learn about our larger culture from this artifact? What do we learn about life in modern society? What do we learn about race in our culture? What do we learn about sex and gender in our culture? Analyze the most important signifiers. Larger Culture The Big Lebowski follows the misadventures of an aging 60s hippie and a military veteran. A closer look into the film reveals something more, a commentary on the current state of Western culture or our larger culture. The film explores friendships, masculinity, and responsibility. The movie centers on the life of Jeffery Lebowski, known as “the Dude.” Today, “dude” is used to indicate someone as a “guy,” or “man,” as in “generic male person.” The larger culture we thrive in questions what it means to be considered a “man” and what makes a “man.” As a larger culture, we are interested in drugs or the “stoner” stereotype, which sparks our curiosity of the unknown. Friendship and the value of friendship is an important aspect for the larger culture we live in. In The Big Lebowski, the value of friendship between the Dude and Walter is prominent throughout the film which proclaims the Modern Society The Dude is the original hipster. Not because of the way he dressed, with the beanie or non-prescription glasses, but because he did not fit into the modern day schema for males. He is stereotyped by slacker values and not being wealthy. In today’s modern society we are often caught up on one’s self-image, yet the Dude...
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...James Thurber’s best known story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” is a fictional story of an ordinary husband, Walter Mitty, who performs ordinary tasks and constantly day dreams of being an extraordinary man performing high profile tasks. The story itself begins with Mitty imagining himself as a courageous military commander who is piloting a Navy hydroplane through a storm, when he is ticked off by his wife for driving too fast, he comes back to reality but soon goes back into his fantasy world by imagining himself as a famous surgeon performing a critical surgery on a millionaire banker. The pattern is repeated several times as he further imagines himself being interrogated in a courtroom for murder, followed by a patriotic World War 1 British pilot willing to die for his country and lastly as he waits for his wife outside the drugstore, he imagines himself as an undefeated wanted man smoking his last cigarette waiting to be shot by a firing squad. Throughout the story, Walter Mitty is constantly trying to escape his monotonous life and has to be constantly brought back to reality by others around him. Most of the time it is his almost ‘mother-like’ wife who is always looking all over for him. This sort of behavior is almost expected out of Mitty and seems to have been happening for a while as when she pulls him out of his first day dream she even says that, “it’s one of your days, I wish you’d let Dr. Renshaw look you over.” His wife is clearly the dominant one in their...
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...Hi Everyone, For this discussion, I chose my three advertisements as: A. Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like B. “We Can Do It!” (Propaganda Poster). C. 1984 Apple’s Macintosh Commercial (HD) As in the Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like – This advertisement and the concept here is selling that of a smell that is of a manly persuasion and not that of a flowery feminine fragrance. If he would shower with my soap, the gentleman in the commercial is stating that your man would not appear to be that dapper as he is. The dapper man is trying to sell a body wash product in convincing that your man too would appear to portray the man in the commercial, as he is commenting, “look at your man, now back at me”. He is questioning...
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...Patrick D. Hopkins’ “Introduction: The Intersection of Culture, Gender, and Technology,” in Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology examines the way in which virtually all forms of technology are gendered. The overall claim Hopkins makes in this section is that, although technology is constantly advancing, it still entails the old stereotypes and polarizing dichotomies that are currently implemented in this patriarchal society in which we live in. Commencing his work, he explains that “[m]uch of the debate over technology in general, and technology’s effects on gender roles and identity in particular, is generated by the fear that new technologies are moving too fast, or too far, or in the wrong direction from traditional...
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...Pepé that he must take the horse and ride to Monterey for medicine and salt. Pepé shocked that she would tell him do such a thing. Mama Torres still believing that he is not a man yet but a peanut. As Pepé left his younger brother asked, “Did Pepé come to be a man.” Mama be as wise as she is said, “A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed.” But no matter how wise she was she could not foresee what would conspire in Pepé’s travel. When Pepé returned home in the middle of the night he changed. He didn’t seem fragile anymore, no laughter, his eyes with purpose. He told his mother he was called names he “could not allow” by a man. Where a fight escalated to a killing with the very same knife. His mother then nodded saying, “Thou art a man.” She then helps Pepé get items ready to go to the mountains. As he leaves she then starts crying, screaming knowing that he will not survive. As he was killed by an avalanche. So far out of few stories so far I say this is my favorite. In the story I like the complete character change Pepé had in the story. From just a boy who rather just sit and play with a knife to a man who is struggling to survive in the wilderness. He changed so drastically that even his mother who believed him nothing more than just a foolish boy has swayed her to believing he has become a man. What I didn’t appreciate, is that Pepé decided to flee to the mountains instead of facing his crime. Even if it's the 1930s and he may have been sentenced to death or life...
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...Ladies and Gentlemen Project Paper Shantrice Scott Strayer University Dr. Hunsucker HUM111 November 24, 2014 Many students set goals with the hope that their achievements may help them be accepted into their chosen college. Unfortunately, they often put too much emphasis on one area and do not take part in a wide range of activities. Bewildered college applicants often say, "I've had a perfect average since I started junior high. How could they reject me?" What they do not realize is that schools are interested in more than just intellectual achievements. Others find themselves saying, "I am the best baseball player in my school. Why did I get rejected?" This also proves that college acceptance is not based on an athletic single area of activity, whether academic, musical, or Statement of Purpose. (Allen 1996) I firmly believe that it is important to be well-rounded, taking part in both challenging and interesting activities instead of just focusing on athletics or academics. I understand that proving oneself to be an outstanding athlete requires much skill development and hours of practice, and this is true for demonstrating intellectual ability, too. But a truly capable person balances many activities. Taking part in school, athletics, music, community service, extra-curricular activities, academic clubs, social clubs, hobbies and spending time with friends and family are the qualities that describe a truly well-rounded person. Sometimes students' ideas about...
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...The List Story by 10/16/2013 I find myself on the ledge of a building with two of his thugs grabbing me. I think to myself how did I get here? Should I have done what I did? Is this the end? I should start from the beginning. I grew up in a wealthy house hold. My father was well known for breakthroughs in the technology field. He was working on many projects but the one that made him a multi-millionaire was the work in self-sustaining energy. When I was eighteen, my father and I went on a trip to China, a trip that would change our lives forever. It was a pretty quiet plane ride. Dad was working on his laptop and I was listening to music. I noticed there was a very bad storm out of the window. The plane was shaking. Suddenly the lights went out and the oxygen masks deployed. Something hit my head. The next thing I know we are in the water and my dad is yelling my name. I see him in the distance swimming towards me. He gets to me and gives me his life vest. He tells me that I have to survive, that his company isn’t what I thought it was. He gives me a book with a list of names and tells me that everyone on that list has done terrible things to stay rich, and that he is no different. He told me stories of how he and the people on this list got wealthy by stepping on the necks of the poor. That he has had people hurt or killed to keep his company on top. He stayed with me as long as he could but as time went by he got weaker. He couldn’t hold...
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...From when we are introduced to the invisible rules of society, we are told that males should be strong, leaders, and athletic while women are told to be tall, beautiful, and slim yet curvy. These stereotypes set paths for our actions and our futures. With our poster, we try to show the stereotypes that bind us down while we are trying to set ourselves free from these barriers. On one side we have the male stereotypes which include, alcohol, cars, watches, and some designer brands. We chose alcohol because it is generally stated that men alcohol drink more than women. It’s also overall stated that men like cars more than women. The last thing we put in was a rolex and an apple watch because men tend to be more interested in technology because...
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...woodsman during the frontier era who flees into the mountains after he is wrongly accused of murder. While struggling to survive, Adams discovers an orphaned grizzly bear cub whom he takes in and calls Ben. The bear, despite his huge adult size, becomes Adams's closest companion. Adams proves to have an uncanny link to most of the indigenous wildlife of the region, who have no fear of him. In return, he resolves never to harm another animal whenever possible. This TV shows represents the great human’s ability to struggle with unfair destiny, that was the prove of male masculinity from 30 years’ view. During the next decade, I preferred 21 Jump street, The A-Team, The Fall Guy, Knight Rider, Magnum,P.I, Zorro and Son, My Secret Identity, and A man Called Hawk....
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...supports the argument that advertisers also structure the gender images in their commercials to match the expectations and fantasies of their intended audience” (Craig). Advertisers expect to sell a product using what the intended gender of consumers will understand. Through these ads women expect men to have a good job, to be manly, and also be attractive. Women’s perspective of men as well as men’s perspective of themselves is influenced by High end brands representation of masculinity; these brands advertise masculinity through occupations, physical characteristics, and sex appeal. A man’s job/occupation is a factor in defining masculinity and what it takes to be a masculine man. For instance if a man were a nurse then many people would say that his occupation is the opposite of masculine, but if that man were a firefighter or surgeon than suddenly he is masculine because of his job. In the essay “Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising”, Jack Solomon discusses what American commercials ads are driven by and what advertisers use to attract buyers. Solomon states “…when an object (or puppy!) Either costs a lot of money or requires influential connections to possess, anyone who possesses it must also possess the necessary means and influence to acquire it. The object itself really doesn't matter, since it ultimately disappears behind the presumed social...
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...Kenechukwu Igweze Mrs. Armstrong-Sanchez English 110 9 September 2011 Life, who makes the choices? you or the media Most people think that they are completely in control of their own thoughts, emotions, actions, basically their whole lives and the way they see other people. However, in actuality, they are not. In the society we live in today, we are all brought up on stereotypes and expected to fill the supposed roles of the child, the woman, and the man. All we see on TV, in commercials, magazines, and on the internet is the stereotypical person. The big strong male figure, the mother or the sexy and thin female figure, these are some of the types of characters portrayed in everything that we intake from the media. The media is a massive information network that connects people to the world, which is beneficial, however , it also misrepresents different groups of people which in turn warps the minds of its audience. It forces us to prejudge, and we grow up on these often false representations of the world. The representation of women in the media has changed a lot in the last couple decades, Many of us would agree that some strides have been made in how the media portrays women in movies, TV and magazines, and that there has been an increase in the presence and influence of women in media. Nonetheless, female stereotypes continue to expand in the media we take in every day. Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women's bodies are used to sell everything...
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...is a Man’s World This is a Man’s World War is mentally and physically straining. When a country goes to war it depends on its military to be up for any challenge war has to offer. 50 years ago the thought of a woman joining the ranks were laughable; today it is a reality. Women have proved that they can doubtfully be called the weaker gender, and recently have been able to serve in combat roles. Combat roles are the most dangerous and physically demanding roles the United States military has to offer. When a soldier signs up for this role they understand that they will be put on the frontline and in the line of fire from the enemy. Nature has made women physically weaker and less durable than men. A highly trained woman cannot match a man in physical strength. I served proudly alongside women for ten years in the military, but I strongly believe that they should not be able to serve in combat roles in the United States. Having them serve in such roles can have negative effects on them and the men that they serve with; lower standards, health issues, and possible harassment situations. When women were allowed into the military many of the army standards were either lowered or vanish completely. According to head officials at West Point Academy, Cadets no longer run in boots due to the fact women were suffering from a high rate of injury (Knight, 1991). Physical training test scores were adjusted because women could not meet the basic physical requirements to stay into the...
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