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Why would a person have feelings for a person only to realize the expectations of the other would just be too unrealistic? Would you find that fact out for yourself or from another person? Both Sammy in “A & P” by James Updike and the narrator in “Araby” by James Joyce find this out, only in altering ways. They are both on this lonely quest to find love with interesting ways to go about it, publicly or privately. The characters in each story provide contrasting opinions to the main character,…

Do you ever feel like your rights are being taken away because of censorship? People think now in life that they have to sugar coat and protect everyone from reality by censoring what they hear, see, and how they dress. There are some things for little kids that need to be censored for them but it should be up to the parents. Society now thinks that just because someone participate then that means they get a prize. People get participation awards, get wimpier, our arts are restricted, and…

John Bargh’s theory of automaticity stipulates that our behavior is governed predominately by subconscious cognitive processes. Therefore, in order for an attitude to elicit deliberate action, it must be brought into our conscious awareness. This activation process relies on memory cues, or mental “tags,” created most effectively through emotional experience. For this reason, the power of advertising lies in the premeditated association of symbols with emotion, which serves to reflect societal…

hear things like “boys will be boys”, “she shouldn’t have had that on then”, “well you did flirt with him”, it just fuels this destructive fire. That’s like saying a woman at a coastal pool party wouldn’t have gotten raped if she wasn’t wearing a bikini, see it makes no sense. We should be teaching men that even if she’s your friend, girlfriend you don’t have the right to take advantage of her when she’s drunk or think your obligated to anything. No means No, I don’t want to do this means No, if…

Dauphin Island, Alabama is an isolated place. After leaving the mainland and a mile long bridge, you enter a home feeling place. It’s a very different feeling than ever felt before. There is only some grass, but as you go to the light and turn right, the yards are full of warm, golden sand. The houses on this beautiful island are on 40 foot stilts; they vary in colors from orange to bright purple, to a dull blue. These houses are not normal bland colors. The sun shines even when it’s raining.…

watching the trailer multiple times, it can be concluded that the audience targeted were mainly adults and teenagers. Even more specific, they use rhetoric to appeal to large groups like college students by showing party scenes, scenes with women in bikinis, and they even throw in the use of alcohol to suggest they are having a good time. The trailer does a good job at using high tempo song to match how the trailers speed which helps the viewer get a clue on the speed of the film. In the first…

Walking past the magazine stand, a specific one pops out to me. On the cover is a beautiful blonde girl dressed in workout clothes and a sports bra. With one knee bent, her body is leaned forward, her chest up, butt out, showing the curves of her body. Instantly, I stopped to take a closer look, and asked myself, “Who is that gorgeous girl”? I was instantly intrigued and wanted to know more about the girl on this cover. Who is she? Why is she on the cover of golf magazine? Why don’t I recognize…

Joseph B. Wirtglin, a famous American businessman, once said that, “Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health (Bassett, Doug 170).” A negative/unhealthy emotions/thoughts are as destructible as diseases that destroy people 's mental health and physical health. For men, it 's usually pride and vanity that affect them. In the book, Of Mice and Men, Curley, the anti-protagonist suffers from a…

with today’s adolescences. With the amount of exposure to the mass media that has grown exponentially and the affects that reside in them daily. Adolescences are exposed to commercials that have women who are as skinny as a pole standing there in a bikini and this has a mental effect on them whether they know it or not. Most men shown in a TV advertisement or TV show are usually not very well covered and always showing off their chest that attracts women to buy the product. The most famous…

letting their children dressing like prostitutes and drag queens well above their age. Additionally, the parents responded with ‘that is their uniform and it is what dancers wear’. Just like a netballer wears a short dress and an iron woman wears bikini swimwear, this is the girls uniform and it is not right to start where there is no fuel. Cunning as the media is, they have swayed our thoughts to see this side of the argument. “Kids ARE growing up faster today”, says an article written by the…