Comparing 'The Offensive Movie Cliche And Masters Of Desire'

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Over the years, advertisements have demoted people who are not financially stabled as well as people of color, due to everyone not wanting to become equal. There is a gap between people of lower classes and people of higher classes. People of the upper, or higher classes feel superior to other classes since they are wealthy and are very successful. As a result, people who are not as successful do not feel important in society, and have to keep working much harder to achieve goals. This is demonstrated in Matt Zoller Seitz’s “The Offensive Movie Cliche’ That Won’t Die,” and Jack Solomon’s “Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising.” Both articles showed how advertising causes people of color that are a part of lower socioeconomic

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