...use to decide what is desirable, good, and beautiful that serve as broad guidelines for social living. In order to sell products, advertising has to appeal to people’s needs and prove how it can play a role in their lives. There are three American cultural values that are promoted in advertisement and those are beauty, work ethic and diversity. One of the American cultural values that is promoted in advertisement is beauty. Many woman are also obsessed living up to the beauty standard that advertisers set in place. In our society we grow up with perfection around us. We watch advertisement in the TV and look at ads,which have been photo-shopped into perfection. They can trick you into thinking the flawless model could be you if you buy their product, but in reality the model themselves are not even that perfect. The value they promotes sometime in advertising physically talks about the perfection of skin. Advertisement use the value of beauty to attract or target woman’s attention of their product advertisement. This is because woman tend to remember and see an ad more times from commercials. They are easy sometimes to convinced and they might consider buying it if the commercial is clever. Women now are conscious about their superficial appearance. Some women cannot go out without wearing make up maybe because they feel ashamed. They wants to...
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...start. The most important tool we were given from the beginning is the Critical Thinking Model. This model has helped me pull vital information from some very complicated and hard to understand articles and journals. It has helped me to effectively communicate the information I have found in my own writing. The APA formatting and research tools have already helped me in my current job. I find my writing skills have improved as well as the way I word my documents. I wrote an email to follow up on a Power point I had dropped off. This email was important to my career as we are working to get our General Motors business back. Without this business we will continue to struggle to keep our employees employed. My email was detailed and thought out. I thought about how I wanted to express my thoughts. The response I got back was awesome. It was commented that the way I wrote that email was just “WOW”. So, I have learned to express myself in a more refined manner. Writing in APA format was a challenge for me. Mostly the APA references format. There are so many different ways to list a reference. It can become confusing. I believe I have gotten better at this but I know I have a long way to go before I can say I’m confident in this area. The most valuable lesson learned in this course is the value of using recourses. Resources can be anything from your fellow learners to the library and smart...
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...LOOKING TOWARDS THE FUTURE Professor Elizabeth Hoyle Psy202 Adult Development and Life Assessment March 31 2013 What are the goals in my life? As I got older I always set goal for myself. My number one Personal goal is to be a great Father to my son. Growing up I did not have the best role Models of what a good father was. A definition of a father to me was just a provider And that was it. I never got the love and nurture that I needed or any child deserved. But I was blessed And still blessed to have my brother in my life and even though he didn’t receive that love we Always tend to give that to each other. He was my role model and he was the definition of what a father Is and seeing how he is with his kids has showed and helped me to this day. My Professional goal is becoming a police officer and someday joining the FBI. I have Always wanted to become a person who’s willing to put his life on the line to help and Save others ever since I was young. When I was little I loved to play cops and robbers With my friends all day with our police toys it was my favorite thing to do after school. One of my biggest Reasons now to become a Police officer is mostly for my family and my community I want to be able to protect everyone as best as I can and give them a voice. There is so Much more I want to learn at Ashford so I can I apply it to my career as well as my goals. But to achieve that will be hard but if I keep my mind focus I know I will achieve it...
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...Skeeter and Mae Mobley rejected segregation and racism. Both Skeeter and Mae Mobley had a very good relationship with the African American maids that raised them, because their mothers were very hard on them and their appearances. Skeeter’s biggest role model was Constantine. Constantine raised Skeeter and made Skeeter feel important. Mae Mobley’s role model was Aibileen. Whenever Elizabeth, Mae Mobley’s mother, made Mae Mobley feel inferior and not important, Aibileen would say, “ ‘You is kind. You is smart. You is important,’” (Stockett 443). Constantine and Aibileen also taught the two girls to not follow racism and the segregation that society taught. Constantine showed this through compassion and love towards Skeeter. Aibileen taught against racism by the stories she would teach Mae Mobley about the current civil rights movement. Constantine's teachings lasted with Skeeter years after she left. The reader can infer this because Skeeter wrote the book The Help, which told others of what it was really like to work for a white...
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...Social cognition that is as defined in the title is about how individuals think about themselves and their social world; it involves how people make decisions and judgements in their everyday lives (Aroson et al., 2005). This is categorised as either automatic low effort thinking which is automatic or merely effort less or controlled high effort thinking that is controlled thinking processes. Social cognition assumes important roles such as decision making and perception of information in everyday life and therefore comprises of cognitive structures that influence and are influenced by the happenings in the social world. From this individual beings form shortcuts to ease the processing of information this is termed as being social misers towards a cognitive economy. This is due to a limitation in cognitive capacity and the existence of mental structural guides of cognition Examples of this shortcut is schemas. These categories simplify concepts. categorisation is done by grouping similar traits together that forms cognitive economy(Bruner et al.,1956) however it is not always that a common factor exist in a category this is known as the prototypical approach(Barsalou, 1991). Schemas and heuristics shape the categorisation process. This essay will look at schema and heuristics and examples of the same giving examples and evaluation for each. First this essay will look at schemas A schema can be defined as a packet of information containing fixed values and alternative values...
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...Smartphone Use and Children If you have a school age child then you probably have heard repeatedly, “I want a cell phone!” It used to be that we could wait until children were in high school before the topic even came up for consideration, but not anymore. Now, it is not uncommon for kids as young as 9 years old to be walking around with a smart phone in their hand. Smart phones are powerful handheld computers, which give complete unfiltered access to the internet. Having that kind of access is a tremendous responsibility. There are many advantages that owning a smartphone brings to our culture, but when it comes to children having access to their own, many disadvantages arise; therefore, any child under the age of 13 should not own one. Even though the first handheld cell phone was used in 1973, it wasn’t until 1984 that cell phones were made public. By 1990 there were 1,000,000 cell phone users. Cell phone usage in the United States has increased from 34 million to 203 million people in the last ten years. Most children own cell phones with full internet and text messaging access by middle school (Elizabeth Englander). Everywhere you go you can see a kid with a cell phone and they are using them for more than just making phone calls. About three in four (74%) of teens ages 12-17 are mobile internet users who say they access the internet on cell phones, tablets or other mobile devices. Cell phone ownership among teens has been stable since 2011, but smartphone ownership...
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...Elizabeth Fishel, a journalist and author, once stated, “A sister is both your mirror and your opposite.” My sister, Emily, and I have had an unbreakable bond ever since our early childhoods. We share the same birthday, we are constantly confused with each other, and our features and personalities are always compared. Despite our similarities, Emily and I are very different from each other, and our differences have allowed us to become who we are today. Emily has always been intellectually advanced for her age. Not only did she read newspapers at seven years old, but she knew more about becoming a trauma surgeon than any other second grader I know. She would finish her homework easily, and she would bring home perfect report cards. Emily had the highest grade point average in her grade school class, and she received a full scholarship to Archbishop Ryan High School. Not to mention, she graduated as valedictorian of her class in high school....
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...Lorenzo was invited to dinner held at Thomas’s house, which escalated quickly and ended with Lorenzo being tortured. Lorenzo went to the dungeon where Ines was held captive and forced himself on her multiple times. He went to see the inquisitor general and pleaded for Thomas to release his daughter. However, the inquisitor general thought that if he let Ines free, he would be breaking a rule that would go against God. Fifteen years had passed and Napoleon had conquered Spain. Napoleon tried to abolish the Inquisition, so Lorenzo left Spain and tried to work for Napoleon. Lorenzo came back to Spain as a prosecutor for Napoleon and put the Inquisitor General in jail. I thought that Lorenzo trying to switch teams was pretty smart because he would have been put in jail just like the general. The prisoners held in the dungeon were now released. Thinking that Ines was now free and will have a good life from now on, she came out of the dungeon in terrible condition and was pregnant during her time in the...
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...Lady Mary Wroth existed in England at a time when women were expected to be silent and obedient. In fact, in “Lady Mary Wroth and Women’s Love Poetry”, Naomi Miller mentions that “letters that document the Court Furor indicate that Wroths’s gender, her choice of genres, and her social position outside the inner circle of power rendered her authorship unacceptable” (196). Wroth’s family was extremely literary, her father was a poet and she was the niece of Sir Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney, both of who wrote. Her father’s poems were only stumbled upon of late, and it is uncertain whether Wroth read them or not, although some critics claim that influence can be seen in several of her poems (Roberts 47). She grew up active in the courts of Elizabeth and James I and she performed for Queen Anne in Ben Jonsons’ The Masque of Blackness, Her position in the court and later, her fall from the court and status as a widow, are topics that...
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...Art Criticism Art criticism involves art description, formal analysis, interpretation and value judgment (Elkins, & Engelke, 2003). The paper gives an art criticism of a piece of art I saw at Lyman Allyn Art Museum by L.F Baeles titled On the Lake. [pic] Identification Title: On the Lake Artist: L.F Baeles Date: 1885 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: Na Location: Lyman Allyn Art Museum Description On the Lake is a painting art done by an American artist L.F Beales in 1885. The painting was exhibited at Lyman Allyn Art Museum during 2015 august exhibition at the museum. The art is done on canvas using oil paint. In the painting, one can see a boat on the lake with two sailors. One sailor is a man, and the other is a woman. The woman in the boat is decently dressed, and she is peddling the boat. The man is gazing at the large landscape at the end of the lake. At both edges of the lake, there is a landscape covered with big bush. At a distance, there is another boat occupied by two sailors. The two sailors at the distant boat can be seen conversing with each other. The sky is very brighter with scattered brown clouds indicating that it was on a summer evening (Leiber, Alden, Mœglin-Delcroix, & Purves, T. 2001). From the look, the painting represents a couple enjoying a date at the lakeside on a summer evening. However, the man is depicted as naïve looking on how he is dressed and is being distracted by the large landscape covered with bushes. The woman is...
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...even claimed that their skull size and brain were small. Well that’s wrong because women are smart and there are reports of women having a very high IQ, some higher than Albert Einstein. Most doctors of the Victorian period felt like women felt no or very little sexual desire and that only atypical women felt strong sexual desire. Why did so many states deny women the right to vote? In my...
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...Michael Ritchie English III Mr. Howard March 18th 2012 Who was Jack the Ripper, Really? Jack the Ripper terrorized London in the last part of the 19th century. He was responsible for at least five brutal murders, and some experts attribute more killings to his total. While these murders were never actually solved, there is much evidence to suggest that the true identity of Jack the Ripper. The real serial killer was actually Walter Richard Sickert. Walter Richard Sickert was one of England’s greatest impressionist painters. “He was born and raised in Munich. His father was a great writer, and his mother was a very bad alcoholic. Walter at a young age underwent a series of penis surgeries which may have left him impotent. He suffered from fistula this is a hole in your penis”(Cornwell chapters 5 through 6). So this ment that sickert was unable to have intercourse.Sickerts artwork was one of the greatest clues to his crimes. His paintings are menacing and threatening towards women of a lower class. In other words, prostitutes. A few of Sickerts paintings resemble some of the Rippers crime scenes. The ripper may have been a man who had a hate for women, because of his own sexual inabilities or problems. Sickert was a master of disguise and could of easily of lured a prostitute to her death and then escaped without being noticed. He had an unhealthy fascination with the human body that went far and beyond a normal person would. The ripper liked to write letters and disclose...
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...Women, Girls and the Media 18 August 2014 The Disney Princess Effect on Young Girls and Their Gender Role Perception The Disney Corporation has been around since 1937 when it released the first Disney Princess movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Since then, millions of young girls have fallen in love with these characters and often see them as role models. From the dresses to the tiaras, the beauty to the fairy tale, Disney Princesses have a direct effect on young girls and their behavior. The media has been a powerful resource through which many young girls develop their identity and come to understand gender roles in society. Research indicates that watching televised gender portrayals has an effect on individuals’ gender based attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors (Mastro & Morawitz 131). These are the attitudes and beliefs that young girls who watch Disney princess films would inherit. Girls enjoy watching these films and see the beautiful characters overcome difficult trials, as well as fall in love with a handsome prince in the end. The overall message is not a realistic one, leaving many girls feeling self conscious and unhappy. The idea that beauty equals good and ugly equals evil can negatively impact the way a girl looks at herself or others. Girls will ultimately learn that what is beautiful is good. Snow White and Cinderella were attractive and charismatic while the witch and two stepsisters were unattractive and vile. And in the end, the princesses...
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...Women in development (WID)[edit] Theoretical approach The term “women and development” was originally coined by a Washington-based network of female development professionals in the early 1970s[3] who sought to put in question the trickle down theories of development by contesting that modernization had identical impact on men and women.[4] The Women in Development movement (WID) gained momentum in the 1970s, driven by the resurgence of women's movement in northern countries, whereby liberal feminists were striving for equal rights and labour opportunities in the United States.[5] Liberal feminism, postulating that women's disadvantages in society may be eliminated by breaking down stereotyped customary expectations of women by offering better education to women and introducing equal opportunity programmes,[6] had a notable influence on the formulation of the WID approaches, whereby little attention was given to men and to power relations between genders.[5] The translation of the 1970s feminist movements and their repeated calls for employment opportunities in the development agenda meant that particular attention was given to the productive labour of women, leaving aside reproductive concerns and social welfare.[5] Yet this focus was part of the approach pushed forward by advocates of the WID movement, reacting to the general policy environment maintained by early colonial authorities and post-war development authorities, wherein inadequate reference to the work undertook by...
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...According to the Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, “Socialization” is the process by which we learn to become members of society, both by internalizing the Norms and values of society, and also by learning how to perform our social roles as workers, friends, citizens, and so forth. This process of human development is said to be based on the concept of “Nature vs. Nurture”, that is the comparative importance of heredity (nature) and the environment (nurture) in the causation of human behavior. The mass media, which refers collectively to all media technologies such as the radio, internet, television, film and smart phones, has the ability to constantly communicate messages to extremely large audiences across the globe and therefore is a major influence on the way the environment affects our socialization process. Mass media is a significant force in moderrn culture; sociologists refer to this as mediated culture, were the media reflects and creates culture. Although family is suppose to be the most important agent of socialization the development of new technologies has bridged an increasing gap between the older and younger generations. Newer generations are drawn into the entertaining and appealing world of technology and are being constantly bombarded with messages from a multitude of media sources, these messages not only promote products, but moods, attitudes, and a sense of what is and is not important. With lesser and lesser interaction between the older and younger...
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