Essays on Objectification

Introduction

Human sexuality refers to the capacity for one to have sexual feelings. It can be expressed in differently including same-sex relationships, heterosexual interactions and even relationships among different partners. The form of sexuality one follows is guided by their life teachings and influences by culture, global interaction, and religion. These factors determine how one would choose to live their life. Over time sexuality has changed especially in the past century. Freedom to express one’s sexuality has increased, and people are more willing to transform due to reduced fear of persecution and reproductive limitations. This paper will explore the ...

What is your possible topic? Brainstorm five questions about it.

The proposed essay would be on the topic of gender discrimination. Now, there can be no denial of the fact that gender discrimination is one of the major social ills that has the potential of thwarting the holistic development of the human society. As such, the topic in context would aim to scrutinize the social issue so as to achieve a better understanding of the matter. Truly, no problem can possibly be combatted or eradicated if it is not comprehended with all its intricacy. Hence, the essay would work as a major opportunity to delve deep into the topic ...

Derosa's second version has a relatively different version of the first thesis statement but similarly with a question, "are women treated as objects by the very university that has a responsibility to treat them with equality and dignity and not as second class citizens?" In the final version of DeRosa's article, the author provides more details and effects that objectification of women has on the society through the university. According to the author, assuming that women are less powerful than the males is a disregard to the females because it depicts them as inferior human beings. The author speaks ...

Women in Video Game

Video games are the games that are played against a computer. History of video games may go back to the year 1940, when a computer game, “Nim” was designed by Edward Condon. The game had the ability to be played by one player (Kondrat 171). In the recent times, video games have covered a huge market. It has been reported that about $16.6 billion were spent on video games in the U.S. in the year 2012, and the worldwide video game market was at about $67 billion (Fox, and Wai Yen Tan 314). The representation of men and women ...

This essay focuses on the idea of objectification as it is displayed in a video production and it arouses attention on a number of aspects: how people of the opposite gender are regarded by the community involved, the media’s portrayal of women, and how women interact with men in the media concerning objectification. Obviously, the producer has an objective for the release of the presentation into the public domain.

Gender dynamics

The media in question deals with both sexes, and it demonstrates how women are ill-treated by men in pursuit of self-gratification and personal gain.

Media’s Portrayal of Women

The women are portrayed as ...

INTRODUCTION

One of the technological platforms regularly visited by college students each and every day is social media. There are many youths who participate in all social media, like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, as if it is an important factor of their lives, something that is essential and necessary. Social media places youths in place where there every posted action and opinion is free to agreeable responses, positive accolades and “likes,” but they are also facing negative comments, hurtful insults and, in some case, even threats. E.A. Vogel, as well as other authors, in the 2014 article for Psychology of ...

“Poor single mother on welfare tell me how you did it?” rings the famous lyric of the late Rapper-Activist Tupac Amaru Shakur. The son of a former Black Panther, this ode to his mother provides a glimpse into the conundrum of surviving in the wake of being poor and black on public assistance. What Shakur unknowingly reveals is the image of welfare in a more empathetic and realistic way that illuminates instead of ignoring the lived realities of its recipients. While Shakur’s lyric is compassionate in it’s depiction, conservative lawmakers are less considerate in their elucidation of ...

Introduction

Experiential learning is one of the most important methods that people from the academe, most especially educators apply to help students develop his/her emotional, cognitive, and social values. Experiential learning is basically learning through first-hand experience, action, discovery, and exploration. It is important for observational learners which needs actual application of concepts to understand it (Brock et al., 2012). Immersing oneself in an unfamiliar territory is an important way to teach people, especially students, on what it is really like to be part of a certain community, and it is also one way for them to understand why people ...

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Critically Explore Baudrillard's Concept Of ‘The Finest Consumer Object' Concerning Relevant Media And Cultural Examples.

Introduction Jean Baudrillard is the French culturalist theorist who has majorly contributed in the fields of sociology and philosophy. According to Baudrillard, modern consumption concept has been seen in the most of the parts of western societies. Consumption is said to be a global response that justifies world's cultural system. As per Baudrillard's assumption, the word consumption has replaced the concept of satisfaction with product differentiation. Today, consumer market is more actuated to buy those products which have brought uniqueness and differentiation to them. ...

Advertising has become a significant part of American society in today’s world. One cannot go half an hour without seeing, hearing, or reading an advertisement of some kind. From labels on t-shirts to billboards, advertisements have become a prominent part of the daily routine for all Americans. In turn, advertisements have a significant influence on the population because of their prominence and frequency. Advertisements in the twenty-first century blur the lines between traditional and subtle, appearing in many intrusive ways to the point where the viewer does not always realize that they are seeing an advertisement (Hitchon and ...

The Arabs Portrayal in American Cinema

Introduction The problem in the development of misconceptions about the Arabs can be traced largely on how they were portrayed in western movies. As people do not generally meet Arabs in their everyday lives, the films play an important role in providing conceptions about them. Unfortunately, stereotypes and other factors proved to have shaped the way that the Arab images are depicted in cinemas. According to Michalack, it is the American popular culture that offered the lushest and most comprehensive perception of American stereotype about the Arabs, and this started as early as the 20th century until today (Michalak, ...

Objectifying Song: Drake- “Hotline Bling”

Drake’s 2015 song “Hotline Bling” contains sexist lyrics that objectify women and effectively imply the technique of slut shaming and male dependence. The overlying theme of these song is the idea that this woman has lost all of her self-respect because her boyfriend has left her, showcasing the objectifying idea that men are responsible for the identity of females. When he sings this song, he is implying that men are dominant in romantic relationships and women make decisions about their morality and their respectability based on whether they are single or not, out of respect to their boyfriends. ...

During many years, music has changed societies around the world. Each era experiences a pattern of music that incredibly motivates that particular period on what to wear, the proper behavior, and what to say. Music is something that everybody can associate with and as it keeps on developing, so will society. There is one kind that has ceaselessly mixed up discussion and started numerous verbal confrontations with respect to the bearing it is taking its audience members. One and only type has had the initiative to take a stand in opposition to the administration all the time. One and ...

Introduction

The objectification of women in cheerleading has been noted in many several news materials, research articles and online blogs. Women are presented in scantily clad clothes and are assigned to dance in provocative ways to ensure that audience is entertained. Overtime objectification of women and their body parts in cheerleading groups leads to women developing self-objectification traits. Female self-objectification has been defined as "regular exposure to objectifying experiences that socializes girls and women to engage in self-objectification, whereby they come to internalize this view of themselves as an object or collection of body parts” (Szymanski, Moffitt, & Carr, 2010, p. ...

Advertisement in regards to dating apps and websites are specifically directed at women while simultaneously sexualizing their bodies—using them as a hook targeted toward straight men. Here we’re going to analyze several strategies that different companies use via a few handpicked photos. A lot of people don’t have the ability to meet people face-to-face, or even in their own areas, and I believe that the mobile revolution is partly responsible for fixing this problem. (Hendrickson and Sawyer 96) First, though, let’s get into some technical aspects of these types of applications themselves, and which one ...

The issue of feminism in the film industry is a common topic for controversial discussions. Many writers are more popular than others because of the ways in which feminism surfaces as the driving force behind their presentations. Feminism can be classified as a social movement that has created an enormous impact on culture of film, the theories of films and the critical reviews of films. A number of films represent the myths that reveal ideas on women and their femininity. In addition, there are films that speak to men and their masculinity. The issues of representation and spectatorship form ...

Encounters between the self and other have a profound impact on both the identity of the individual and how they perceive the world around them. Fear, and the psychological conditions associated with it, can have create lasting repercussions that create problems for both the individual and society. What happens to us when we label things or people we fear as “monster” can only be understood in relation to the associations that can be assessed when making inferences concern others people or things. These inferences are often inherently disconnected from reality and can be seen to establish social and cultural ...

The act of objectification is essentially just as it sounds. An individual, a gender, or a certain group of people are seen as objects, as somehow less than human, and thereby able to be looked at with a different type of scrutiny than one might look at others. In the article, “Objectifying Sarah Palin: Evidence that objectification causes women to be perceived as less competent and less fully human” (Heflick & Goldenberg, 2009), it is seen that while women are capable of being attractive and placed in positions of great power and responsibility, they are nonetheless believed to be far ...

Women’s Role in Advertisement

Introduction The advertisement is probably the most influential means of promoting the product and the service to the customer. The target customers are informed about the product and service of the business. Through effective and catchy advertisements, they are encouraged to consume the product or the service of the business. That is why the advertising industry has been researched by many scholars. One of the major and common research areas in the field of advertisement is the projection of female body or the objectification of women in advertisement. It is a serious issue that has been discussed by many ...

Thesis: There is a strong focus on women as sexual objects instead of women. This has affected the society in various negative ways. Credibility Statement: I have been worried by the huge trend of sexploitation in the media and decided to inform others of my findings. I have widely researched the topic in books and the internet. 1. Introduction Attention getter: There is a trend that is developing in the entertainment media currently. This is the objectification of women in the social order. There is a strong focus on women being sexual objects, especially for music, videos and television. ...

Abstract

The belief that ‘Perception is everything,’ forms the basis of social cognitive theory.  The cognitive theory focuses on a person’s thoughts as the determinant factor of his or her personality (Bandura, 1986).  Many cognitive theorists believe that without these thought processes, we could have no emotions and no behavior and would therefore not function.  In other words, thoughts always come before any feeling and before any action. The process of social cognition enables one to understand the pain of another person. The concept of mind-perception influences our responses to others. We treat others according to the perceived qualities ...

Introduction

A connection between religion and a sacred place is immense. It represents the beliefs invested into the religious domain, a symbolic meaning to the parishioners, and the history encapsulated in a particular place. That is why all religious buildings were constructed in the locations that are significant for the believers and to a particular religion. In some instances it may happen that a sacred building plays a role of a holy place for several religions, as it is the case with Jerusalem. This city is the epitome of holiness, as it contains the places of particular importance for Christians, ...

“I’m just walking trying to see through the rain coming down”, these are lyrics from Taylor Swift’s song A Place in This World which she wrote when she was only thirteen. This struck me, not only as to how the America’s sweetheart must have felt when she was just starting out, but of how she chooses to project a different image from other contemporary pop singers of her time. Among all the other famous young music icon these days, I think Taylor Swift just got it all on her, and her choice of music went positive ...

As the culture and the techniques of advertising and exerting influence on human mind progress, we face more and more elaborate depictions and images of the human body. Jean Kilbourne's lecture presents a variety of them and gives some explicit comments. In the ads that surround ads, people age mainly shown either as unreachable idols or as things personifying some quality, concept, or even brand. While these depictions may seem to be genuinely different, in reality, they produce the same effect on the consumer. They dehumanize them, both the subject of objectification and the idol which is regarded only ...

Introduction:

Anne Collier puts across still photography with such precision and thought that it makes viewers interpret the intention in several layers. Her techniques are not just unique but also employ such intelligence that it can connect with every observer at a different level. Her black and white photography creatively portray her strong sense of feminism and her keen interest in the mass media. She has photographed everyday objects, nude women against a white or black backdrop or arranged on a black floor with a white wall making every shot arise curiosity in the viewer. Born in Los Angeles in ...

In My Last Duchess, a Duke shows his guest the painting of his late wife and gradually reveals how her perceived infidelity enraged him into killing her. Browning narrates the scene through the voice of the duke, allowing understanding to dawn naturally on the reader as though they are hearing the story firsthand. This makes the horror of the poem a personal experience for the reader, who uncovers clues throughout about the death of the Duchess, feels as though they are engaging personally with the Duke, and finally, comes to realize the crime of the story and apply that ...

An incongruence exists between the expectations a society has of what women are capable of and how that society regards the increasing number of women that meet and exceed those expectations. This dissonance between ideal and actual is not restricted to one geographical locale. It is a worldwide phenomenon (Culp-Ressler, 2014). Given the increasing integration of the global economy, and the dominance of the mass media in that integration, the contribution of women is coming into a sharp focus (BBC Magazine, 2012). Additionally, because the technologies driving globalization are relatively homogeneous, it is possible to deduce the sentiments the ...

Article Evaluation: Marvel Body Mass Index Study Reveals Nearly 1/3 of Female Characters Are Underweight

Asher-Perrin Emily’s Marvel Body Mass Index Study Reveals Nearly 1/3 of Female Characters Are Underweight offers a critical analysis on the issues regarding the Body Mass Index of marvel women and ladies. In this article, Asher-Perrin seeks to convince her audience that the manner in which women and men are showcased in the realm of comic art is not realistic nor true. In fact, Asher-Perrin asserts “ breasts are defying all forms of gravity ” Notably, Asher-Perrin utilizes a wider array of techniques including contrast and comparison, as well as personal anecdotes. Asher-Perrin begins her essay with a personal analysis and description of ...

Introduction

Hip-hop culture has proliferated to the extent that today, one may speak of it as a modern-day cultural phenomenon. Hip-hop emerged from the Bronx ghetto and found its way up to white suburbia in the United States as well as Europe over a period of the last thirty years. Hip-hop has had a socio-cultural impact that is so intense that it has affected youth culture all over the world, especially in the manner of speaking, values, dress codes, etc. Since it was birthed in 1974, it has evolved tremendously. Sociologically, the expressive ways of African Americans, Latinos and Caribbean-Americans has spread to ...

DQ1: Discuss Ess's concept of the pornification of society. What are some examples (be specific and add links if you have them) of the manifestation of this in our mass media outlets or pop culture. What is your take on the ethical dilemmas this causes? Where does the responsibility for it belong?

Question 1

Discuss Ess's concept of the pornification of society. What are some examples (be specific and add links if you have them) of the manifestation of this in our mass media outlets or pop culture.

Response

The concept of Charles Ess about pornification of society demonstrates ...

Aubrey, J.S., & Frisby, C.M. (2011). Sexual objectification in music videos: a content analysis comparing gender and genre. Mass Communication and Society 14: 475-501.

In this article, Aubrey and Frisby (2011) create a coding system which measures the correlations between representations of women and sexual objectification. According to their findings, female artists provide a greater amount of sexual objectification in their videos, and are placed under greater pressure to appear more attractive and glamorous. They are also more likely to showcase sexually suggestive behavior and attitudes. This evidences adds to the argument that women are problematically presented in popular culture and media, as they are placed under a male gaze to be as attractive as possible; a woman’s sexuality is shown to be her primary feature, ...

The influence media has on society is often underestimated because it contains subliminal messages that are, by definition, absorbed unconsciously. The media, including magazines and television commercials, normalize attitudes toward sexually explicit images, gender roles and unrealistic body expectations. In particular, the article "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt," the author, Jean Kilbourne argues that advertising has acquired an important role in portraying females as objects and normalizing overall attitudes toward the female body. In contrast, Susan Bordo's story "Beauty (Re) Discovers the Male Body" focuses on the distorted image of the male body. In spite of describing the ...

In her work entitled “Race/Gender/Media Considering Diversity across Audiences, Content, and Producers” Rebecca Lind guides a discussion regarding how influential media communications can be, fostering both positive images and powerfully damaging ones as well. While it is true that music videos may represent a harmless form of entertainment for people, an analysis examining the ways in which gender and sexuality issues impact upon perceptions is forthcoming in this paper. How are gender and sexuality representations depicted in various types of television programming, particularly in music videos? The research herein places the exploration to range from expressing how body images are covered ...

Pornography is, ironically, one of the messier topics related to women and gender issues to discuss; the existence of pornography has a tendency to divide those within the gender studies community. Is it a symbol of the objectifying, male-dominated, sex-focused culture in which we live, or is it an opportunity for women to express their sexuality and take ownership of their bodies? Pornography is a much more diverse industry than one might expect, with varying companies and individuals creating and distributing it in different ways, making it a mistake to discuss porn as a monolith. Instead, the complex intersection of feminism and pornography must ...

Psychology

In their research “The emotional roots of conspiratorial perceptions, system justification, and belief in the paranormal”, Whitson, Galinsky and Kay (2014) addressed human emotions that are linked with the uncertainty of the world. They suggest a hypothesis that these emotions (such as fear, surprise, hope, etc.) should promote the need to endow the world with structure and order using a variety of compensatory measures. The reason to conduct the experiments described in the article was a desire to prove that the certainty of the emotions plays a greater role than its valence in the process of activating compensatory control. Moreover, the experiments ...

Gender tends to affect any exchange between two human beings whether it be monetary or otherwise. However, it is to be noted that these exchanges can never be restricted to monetary limitations. They tend to consist of undertones of psychological and social effect because of their sensitive nature with society’s dynamics. Gender and the roles that it plays in any society has been under literary debate and discussion throughout time. Stereotypes pertinent to gender have been highlighted by numerous poets and authors in order to make the importance of its understanding clearer to audiences. All mediums including ...

Introduction

Objectification of women is a trend that is coming up in the entertainment industry especially in movies, music videos, music and television. This development seems to be affecting women more than men. The wave of women stereotypes is dangerous for the society because it is bound to affect how men and women relate to each other and promote unhealthy habits in the masses that are exposed to such incorrect media representation of women. This issue is especially tricky to handle because it is evident that the more the media depicts women as sexual objects, the more viewers seem to be ...

Background:

American Airlines were the pioneers in the developing of complex reservation management systems. It was the year 1968; when the American Airlines first introduced the SABRE computerized reservation system. These linked all of the reservation agents that existed across the globe. This system provided the Company the ability for the accumulation of consistent and timely data on reservations. The Company introduced an automated overbooking process in 1968.

Issue(s) Identified:

The American Airlines Company that was once a pioneer in airline industry has been facing some serious issues. An assessment of the overall assessment and issues can be summarized as: When we ...

In 1995, popular hip hop artist Tupac Shakur released a song entitled “California Love” that topped the Billboard Music Charts. In 2011, Time magazine named the single on their list of All Time 100 Songs (Adams). The song’s video also became an instant success. The video begins with an image of a woman undressing for the visual pleasure of man who nods his head at the camera with a smile as if to affirm his desirability. Most of the video features scenes of a party where scantily clad women dance around the artists and includes several close-up shots of women’s bottom’ ...

At the center of feminist theory is the notion of objectification. Generally defined objectification is seeing and treating an individual as an object or a tool for use. Objectification has mostly been defined in relation to women than to men. Sexual objectification occurs in the context of sexuality. In the pornography debate, it’s been argued by anti-pornography feminists that, by men consuming pornography, women as a whole are reduced to the level of mere objects for use by men. Traditionally the view has been that only women can be sexually objectified, however, feminist authors Naomi wolf and Christina Hoff observe ...

[Author] [University] Despite the advancement of women and feminist movements all over the world, some things are hard to change. Sexism for example is seen in all form of media. It even proliferated because of the advancement of technology. Gender insensitive comments now go viral in the internet causing damages against women and other gender orientations. The feminist movements however are not silent on the attacks as they are using the technology to critique insensitive statements and comments. Despite the set-back of internet against the women’s movement, it also favoured the movement in advancing its campaigns ...

When gender and race are combined in the life of a black woman, they result to racism, objectification, and sexism from medical professionals. A combination of these factors seems negatively to affect black women. In a critical response to Rebecca Skloot’s book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” this essay presents the case for women and gender for black women.

Science is used to construct both gender, sex and race

The case of Henrietta is introduced when she dies of cervical cancer in hospital. At 31, Henrietta was poor and could not afford to undergo the required procedure to heal her. However, the irony of her story is that her ...

Despite the awareness about gender and sexual orientations today, mainstream media still portrays gender stereotypes leading to the turtle-like progress of gender equality. There might have been a number of films and TV shows that incorporated gender and sexual issues in their contents, but it is only to add a human interest flavour like sex and humour. Moreover, it has been treated as a token character in most films. In some movies, when characters are discussing their dirtiest and most embarrassing experience, their common answer is making out with a lesbian or having sex with a transgender. It is true that talking about sexuality ...

Introduction

The film industry considers the horror genre in cinema, especially in Hollywood, as a staple because it draws a sizeable audience that consequently makes horror movies highly profitable (Hantke, 2010, p. viii). At least, this was the case during the 19th and 20th centuries since the state of the horror genre has changed over time. At present time, filmmakers would confess that horror films today are not as profitable as they were in the past. According to Hantke (2010, p. viii), we can attribute the so-called slump in the horror genre, especially in Hollywood, to its decline as a result of the ...

Introductory Essay – The Differences in the Female Nude

Throughout the history of fine art, one of the many recurring images found within it is the image of the female nude. The appreciation and replication of the female body in its purest form has fascinated artists for centuries, and some variation of it seems to appear in nearly every era or movement of art. To that end, it is interesting to note the changes that occur in style, composition, attitude and meaning between the different eras of art when dealing with the singular, unifying subject of the female nude. This exhibition seeks to examine the female nude in ...

Women in Media

The media is arguably the most powerful and pervasive influence on society’s perception of men and women. The media has a constant presence in the modern society through advertisements, news and programs that have become part of our daily lives. Media messages are ingrained in our consciousness where they influence our perception of many issues including gender roles and expectations. This paper postulates that the media is responsible for propagating unrealistic stereotypes about women. While men are also affected by these stereotypes, it is women who are underrepresented, overly sexualized and portrayed in traditional gender roles that are not ...

It has been noted that TV commercials have biased representation of gender; majorly favoring the males. These commercials promote heteronormative and sex-role stereotypes, which are Packwood and Merskin, argue in their article “Having it His Way: the Construction of Masculinity in Fast-Food TV Advertising” (Packwood, & Merskin, p. 456) to be as unhealthy as the fast food themselves. In Jean Kilbourne’s article “Two Ways a Woman can get Hurt: Advertising and Violence,” she describes how advertising and violence has defined sexism. For a very long time, advertising in the United States and other nations has played a very important role in how ...

Book Review: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Introduction The published dissertation for Millett’s PhD in Literature from Columbia University was a book called the Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. In 1970, Millet finished her dissertation however she started it way back in 1969 but successfully defended the dissertation and published it almost ten years later. The book was known to be a master piece and also looked at as being very much successful and notoriousduring the time it was written. Research shows that Sexual Politics and economics was a piece that assisted influence and inspiring the move of feminism. Millett’s controversial thesis in Sexual Politics and ...

Bikinis, full lips, thin waists, gyrations – the black woman in a rap video is usually one of many, surrounding the male rapper in question with a stable of women he implicitly has sexual command over. This is the image that is often found in most rap videos, at least as far as women are concerned. Due to the exclusive and alienating nature of a substantial portion of these images, representation has turned into misrepresentation, as many people use these portrayals to characterize the entirety of African-American femaleness in an incorrect and unflattering way. Joan Morgan, in her essay “from Fly-Girls to Bitches ...

Abstract

Recent proliferation of internet enabled technology has significantly changed the way in which adolescents and youths consume and encounter with explicit material. The internet is basically available in vast number of forms including; laptops amongst other electronic devices. With this increased growth, internet has come easier and more ubiquitous access to pornographic material. The presence of this literature review is to review recent literature within the last ten years regarding the impact of pornography on sexual development and health. This literature also reveals the impact of the internet on sexual attitudes, beliefs, sexual; aggression and the behavior of the ...

INTERSECTIONALITY

Intersectionality is the meeting place, and overlapping space among different disenfranchised groups. More specifically, it is the study of these interactions as they apply to each other, to the society as a whole and the effects of these multiple systems of discrimination and oppression. It is also the methodology used in study of the relationships and subjects. Some individuals are members of more than one disenfranchised minority. Various groups that may or may not share members are nonetheless subject to the same forms of discrimination. The theory of Intersectionality seeks to examine how these various biological, cultural and social categories ...

Introduction

While brainstorming the term media, words such as power, exploitation, entertainment, humor, sex, and violence are appropriate for its description. In the digitalized era of today, media has taken the platform of television, computer, internet, cell phones and other high tech gadgets. All these mediums provide an extra power to influences the whole society. From news to entertainment programs, and from movies to songs, media is exercising control over the minds of the whole population around the globe. With time, it has paved its way from streets to banks and from schools to homes. Despite the contentment and glam ...

Analysis of “The Playboy of Seville” and “The Libertine”

Introduction Tirso de Molina’s Playboy and Thomas Shadwell’s Libertine are play that explicitly conveys men’s utter malice resulting from lack of conscience. Both playwrights were written during the seventeenth century thus highlighting cultural dissipations of the time some of which are similar to present times. Themes in both plays help underscore other moral decadence like corruption, murder, rape, sexism, and injustice. Molina and Shadwell highlight similar depravities using different approaches, while Shadwell uses more explicit and overt language to illustrate his characters depraved personalities and social menace, Molina uses implicit yet concise approach to emphasize ...

The film Legally Blonde pretends to be a celebration of the power of women in the dusty, sexist halls of Harvard Yard, but in fact it is a comedy that uses the time-tested ability of sexist roles to gain cheap laughs and play to the tastes of those who snicker at women, believing them to be less able than men and qualifying all of their successes at having been based on luck or some other sort of dynamic than true competence. Reese Witherspoon stars as Elle Woods, a sorority girl who fits every stereotype of the naïve blonde. She catches the ...

Truth and Value

Form and Function: Form denotes the physical appearance of objects in question. Elements of mass shape and size determine the essence of form. A function revolves around the actions that the object performs. It is more content based and message oriented. The form determines the function of an object.

Philosophical Functionalism:

The function of an object created the philosophical premise of functionalism. It refers to the theory of mind taking into account the mental states and beliefs. This premise derives a link between the hypothetical plane and the behavioral production. The difference between functionalism, behaviorism, and dualism emerges from its ...

Objectification according to the word web dictionary definition refers to a concrete representation of an abstract or an idea or principle. Immigrants are people who move to foreign countries and live there permanently and people of color are the non white skin, like blacks and Indians. Objectification has diverse meanings. Some schools of thought, Luke Muehlhauser for instance, maintain that objectification refers to the act of treating others as a means to an end, without being keen on their goals feelings and preferences. With objectification, not only is vivid the fact that the overall change of culture will not solely ...

Rap and Misogyny

Introduction Rap music is one of the modern “reinventions” of the music that was first brought to America from the rich culture of Jamaica. By the late 1970s, rap represented an aesthetic cultural expression for urban African American youths (Adam & Fuller, 2006). The genre gained popularity all over the world, possibly because of its regular beat and the way lyrics can be emphasized by that beat. In the 21st century, rap is considered “black music” or African American music, and there are certainly great musicians of such descent who have energized this type of music, with poetry ...