...The collapse of slavery after the Civil War sent shockwaves throughout American Society. While the concept of slavery was destroyed, the ideology of White Superiority over blacks remained throughout the Country. The Minstrel Shows emerged from the remnants of slavery and invigorated the discrimination towards blacks. The shows were comedic acts starring blacks slandering their demeanor and behavior through satirization. The Minstrel Shows and entertainment industry reflected the widely accepted the social differences of the time between blacks and whites and ultimately lead to the development of many black stereotypes. The conclusion of the Civil War brought huge social changes for African Americans. The 13th amendment abolished slavery, thus freeing all African Americans from their former slave masters. However, not all people followed suit with the new amendment, and the rights of the blacks varied throughout the...
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...Asians in the American entertainment industry have been discriminated against since the silent era of film. With rare exceptions, the basic caricatures of Asians are the same today as they were in the early years of film. The lack of evolution in roles available to Asians in American entertainment perpetuates the perception that Asians are alien, foreign, and “other.” Their absence from film and television demonstrates how underrepresented Asians are in American entertainment. The scarce representations that do depict Asians, are predominantly worn-out stereotypes, yellowface, and whitewashing of roles originally intended for Asian characters. Historically, Asians have been represented as a single group of “Orientals” instead of seen as individual...
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...women really be defined by their body image and beauty? “The Fashion industry is no stranger to stereotypes, urging women that being supper thin without an ounce of body fat or carvers is the way to be sex. Contemporary society seems to believe that women are supposed to look certain way. The message on the Victoria secret ad, is trying to communicate by using “The perfect body” campaign to promote their lingerie line. This ad represents the ideal type of body that women should have to be attractive in today’s society. On the second ad, a ZU shoe is promoting its products, by using slander woman to persuade the viewers to buy their shoes. The two images depict the stereotype of the unobtainable and idealized version of perfect looking women by using body proportions, clothing and facial depiction....
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...Gender Discrimination Here at (insert restaurant name) a lively sports bar and grill, catering to a mostly male clientele believe that it is important for us to evaluate any potential legal issues that we could be faced with regarding gender. Including but not limited to, gender identity, staff requirements, sexual stereotyping, and unfair burdens placed upon a particular sex. Sex or gender discrimination has been defined as the different treatment of individuals during their employment solely based on whether that individual is male or female (1). Gender discrimination can be brought up as a legal issue for us if we favor female over male applicants in our hiring process in an attempt to appeal to our mostly male clientele. We need to ensure that we remain aware that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law and will not protect our preference of hiring women over men as part of our bartender and wait staff. Title VII protects our employees and applicants from being discriminated upon based on their sex. The fact that we as the employer have a preference for hiring women over men in is not protected under the few exceptions that Tile VII makes for employers. The “bona fide occupational qualification” or BFOQ, for example, is one of the exceptions that do not apply to our situation. The BFOQ allows for sexual discrimination when the “essential” part of the particular job requires the applicant to be of a certain sex (1). The BFOQ will not protect us simply...
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...one purpose: to make people laugh. While many Americans might find it amusing and as a “light” joke, a lot of Asians are affected negatively. American pop culture dehumanizes Asians through stereotypes, leading to problems of monoculture and the lost of identities for Asians in America; in order to confront these problems, Asian...
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...One of the fastest growing industries in the world is the video game industry, where $24.8 billion was projected to be spent on video games globally in 2013 (Park & Lee, 2011). Resulting from this growth is a growing community of video game players, or gamers, generating new ways to interact and socialize. During the early years of video games, many games had the objective of obtaining a high score, where the champion could display their three initials—until someone surpassed it. Many video games were in an arcade machine form, where strangers and friends would gather around one machine and watch others play. Video games began to evolve, and with the evolution of games, came the evolution of the gamer, and the evolution of the social aspect...
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...easier access to touchy issues. However, “clean comedians” are still doing it. One of the most recognized “clean comedians” is Jim Gaffigan. Gaffigan is not known for his bits about racism or classism or sexual harassment, he is most known for his bits about food. Often talking about his love and obsession with different types of food and food places. In throwing his weight and physical condition into the bit, Gaffigan is addressing the issues of obesity and the fast food industry. He also addresses religion, constantly bringing up his very catholic wife and poking fun at catholicism and other...
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...were their past times. By day, many attended college and held their previous jobs. They usually worked in factories or as operators, which were a popular option during the height of the telephone. Once night fell, these women shed off their work clothes and drove off to sneak a drink. Wearing their favourite revealing dress, they mingled and drank and smoked in these small confines. Live jazz would be played, and the dance floor would be littered with flappers who danced, in what was at the time, seductively. Lastly, flappers had the most distinct attitude. They were carefree and rebellious. Older generation showed clear dislike towards them, fearing they were creating a “new moral order”. They flirted openly and reversed many gender stereotypes, such as being the first to ask someone out, or making the first move. Flappers treated intimate relationship as causal ones rather than wait for marriage. It was made very clear that they disliked what was considered socially accepted...
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...Blackface minstrelsy was a popular form of entertainment for white audiences beginning in the 19th century. In the name of mocking black’s perceived physical and mental stereotypes, performers would dress in a makeup to represent a black person. Performers would achieve this “blackface” appearance by smothering their face in burnt cork or coca butter to create the black-face appearance. For additional effect, the actors would paint their lips and wear ridiculously overdone costume to enforce the stigma of blacks being poor, uneducated, and easily manipulated. To represent a variety of different types of characters, there were common “personalities” of black face that existed at most shows. The Zip Coon black face mocked free blacks by dressing elaborately but continuously making...
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...Company Profile Founded in 1946, this technologically advanced, innovative company has gained a worldwide reputation for elegance, luxury and superior quality. Our products come with a promise to uphold the finest standards of excellence. Through extensive research and stringent product evaluation, we are pleased to bring you skincare, makeup and fragrance products that are both gentle and highly effective. Founder: Estee Lauder, the founder of the $8 billion company that bears her name, started her business with four skin care products and a simple premise: that every woman can be beautiful. Principles: We are dedicated to working together with uncompromising ethics and integrity. We encourage our people to create, to innovate, to be entrepreneurs and to strive for the best, always. To ensure the long-term success of our Company, we integrate the “High-Touch” aspect of our business –our best quality– into all our day-to-day business activities. Our workplace culture fosters a unique spirit of teamwork, innovation, passion and a shared mission of "Bringing the Best to Everyone We Touch and Being the Best in Everything We Do." We clearly post the following commitments in our offices throughout the world for our employees to live and work by: • Provide customers with innovative cosmetic products of the highest quality. • Deliver outstanding service by treating each individual as we ourselves would like to be treated. • Create an environment that fosters personal...
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...How industrial capitalism has transformed work, its gendered character and its gendering effects The founding fathers those good old boys, always knew where a women’s place was. These Upper-middle class white men were the founder of beliefs that are imbedded in our makeup that created separate sphere and gender role for men and women. That saying a “Women’s place is in the home”, that belief has been in our make up for generations. When the Industrial revolution arrived things changed, it’s transformed the idea of work to outside the home. The result eventually transforms society as a whole. The industrial Revolution is without question one of the most important transformation in human history. With the separation of job opportunities by gender, the effects that our gender plays in the employment opportunities that are available to us. The text states, “The shift of production from homes during the industrialization transformed men into wage laborers who left home each day for jobs. The decline of domestic production, in turn, robbed women of the role of breadwinning, and left them with the invisible and socially devalued tasks as housekeeping and child rearing. Thus in the wake of industrialization, women found themselves with limited options. Because social norms and job discrimination curtailed their participation in the labor force. “ This Ideology of separate spheres was born among the English upper-middle class, called for the separation of family life from paid work...
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...Packaging * Delivery and warranty services 3. Discuss the factors that influencing buyer behavior towards the product that chosen. Please provide one internal and one external factor. Introduction This paperwork would like to describe about market segmentation, targeting and positioning of the product that chosen. Also need to determine a complete picture of the benefits consumer seeks based on different market segments in different countries and experiences in the terms of the total product concept. I’ve chosen MAC cosmetic product to analyze the factors that contain and how does the brand recognize, describe and discuss with the major behavioral concepts that lie at the foundation of consumer behavior. M·A·C Cosmetics, Makeup Artist Cosmetics, was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo in 1984. The first U.S M·A·C...
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...still around today. Blonde hair has been and is considered attractive in various European cultures in history and is still seen to be the more appealing hair color. In today’s world, you can find this construction in movies and TV shows like Legally Blonde and Bob’s Burgers, and it’s even portrayed in the music industry with songs like Bridget Mendler’s “I’m a Blonde,”. This stereotype effects blonde’s everyday life’s, whether it’s how they act, or how other people act towards them. In this essay, I am going to research the history of blondes, look at how it constructs a blonde’s identity, and challenge the construction of what it means to be a “blonde” or “dumb blonde”....
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...womens magazines carried articles on how to achieve the current look. Hairstyles were much shorter than the previous decade and styles like finger waving, the Marcel wave and permanent waving were in vogue * changed as a result of this move towards practical clothing, with corsets becoming smaller and more flexible, and modern style bras being introduced. The new bras provided shape and support whereas the older style tended to flatten breasts and constrict the chest. * the Roaring Twenties redefined womanhood — a new woman evolved; it became more acceptable to smoke and drink in public, closer body contact in dancing, shorter hair, make-up, different styles of dress, and greater participation in the workforce * The flapper stereotype is one of short bobbed or shingled hair, straight loose knee-length dresses with a dropped waistline, silk or rayon stockings with garters,...
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...The Changing Gender Roles in Disney Animated Movie Productions For decades Disney has been using gender inequity to portray the females and males as princes, princesses, and evil character roles influencing the youth of our world that watch animated movies. However they are not alone. The animated movie making industry has long been known for its gender bias following in the footsteps of long ago written fables, folktales, myths, and fairy tales generalizing stereotypical male and female images from the movie industry and our society in general. The culture surrounding animated Disney movies has showcased females through feminine weak characteristics and identities that have influenced the younger generations by their actions, and they have...
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