Analysis Of Maurice Berger's Essay 'Am I Thin Enough Yet?'

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In “White Lies”, Maurice Berger compares in his essay the black male model from the Ralph Lauren advertisement with a beautiful horse. To establish the white privilege and to reduce the treat coming from the blacks, and avoid the talent a black person have. Our Society is associating black individuals to animals since decades, which I dehumanizing. The avoidance of black talent everywhere is allowing the white community to feel greater and higher in the hierarchy. Society consider the black community often to be more talented in the physicality or athleticism area, stereotypes like that are laying shade over the blacks that they not intelligent or pretty enough than whites. The essay “Am I Thin Enough Yet?” by Sharlene Hesse-Biber is showing …show more content…
She also says that female are fanatical with being perfect thin looking and to do so they are following a strict diet with ridiculous rules which make. In Sut Jhally’s essay “Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse” the author states the incredible present of ad’s nowadays and that we live in a world where we surpass advertisement every day. The author Jhally points in his essay some interesting issues out, that we as a society ignore. I do agree with him that we find in ads more resources than ever and that the industry is putting more money into advertisement. The Power of the advertisement system is enormous. Advertisement can be found everywhere, he also shows in his essay how ads are ruling. People pay way too much attention to worthless, expensive advertised merchandises which includes diamond rings or cars. Things and services like that have in society a great value, but things like that are in my believes unnecessary to have and still material values are an significant component, it brings us a good quality of life what we have to

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