Burton's Gentleman's Magazine

fashion magazines have women drooling over makeup, clothing, and shoes that promise to transform their life. Magazines seem to attract the reader with phrases such as, “How to Look Hot Now” (see fig. 1), “Eat Your Way Thin” (see fig. 2), and “New body, New look, New life” (see fig. 3) in bold and colourful fonts. Headlines such as these seem to promise that a reader's flaws will easily be fixed by reading the advice within the magazine. With so many options, the choice of which fashion magazine…

drawn to an advertisement because the first thing that you see is a pretty and hot women? Magazines have been around for several decades but even though only a few people reads them, they still influence old and modern day society. The article, “Sex, Lies, & Advertising” by Gloria Steinam tries to offer a better understanding into the magazine industry and how they operate. Steinam talks about how all magazine companies uses feminism to sale their product. She explains that within each…

fashion magazines, it is one of the most influential media texts that affect young females’ everyday life. It has been introduced to people for over a hundred years and it impacts them greatly on their fashion choices, lifestyle and the most importantly, their values (Bowerman, 2015). As one of the most popular magazines globally, Vogue was founded in 1892 by Arthur Turnure. The magazine’s categories include fashion, makeup, art, health and entertainment; it is a comprehensive lifestyle…

Advertisements and magazine images play an enormous role in today’s society. They inform the people in the world as to what is happening, of all the new products that are on the market, and of new fashion and beauty products. Although media is very informative, it can also have a negative effect on society. It has the most negative effect on teen girls and guys because they already struggle with body image issues, self-esteem, and acceptance. One of the biggest causes to blame is Photoshop in…

While search through the social media platform Instagram I came across this photo of Jordan Dunn promoting the Maybelline New York Rock Nude palette. Six weeks ago the photo was posted for New Years Eve. Jordan Dunn was just one of the models that were promoting the new eyeshadow palette. This Instagram account does not particular name one person who contributes to the photos but it own by Maybelline. Maybelline is a cosmetic company based in New York. Tom Williams created the Maybelline…

READING ANALYSIS REPORT: POPULAR MAGAZINES COMPARED TO ACADEMIC JOURNALS Name: Zachary Junzheng Wang Student Number: 101022583 Course and Section: ESLA 1500 D Date Submitted: 2015/09/23 Assignment Type: Report essay Introduction In university life, the students will contact many types of articles especially journal articles. Journal articles are different from popular magazines by many points. It is important to recognize different types of articles for university students, if you…

One pioneering, non-profit publication, Adbusters Magazine, seeks to shift cultural values, by using their design influence to sell ideas, rather than products. Embedded in social activism, the publication feels corporations are at fault for corrupting social environments, and aim to alleviate their efforts through a political process called “culture jamming.” By harnessing the power of their design skills for the benefit of humanity, Adbusters creates billboards, TV spots and advertisements…

Fashion. Style. Beauty. Since 1982, Vogue has become internationally known as the fashion elite magazine. On an international scale diversity is hard to avoid, considering Vogue’s expansion into seventeen countries outside of the United States, but when specifically looking at American Vogue diversity is scarce. Throughout covers of American Vogue from 1960 to present day, ideologies of American Beauty become clearer and allow for the truth about American stereotypes, beauty, and the worthy…

My product is Heat Batting Gloves while playing baseball. The target audience is going to be baseball players and hopefully in the near future, other sports athletes to go along with it. The main plan for my business is to try to make a licensing deal with one of the major companies like Under Armor or Nike or Easton. The idea is basically to sell to highest bidder or the highest offer, another plan could be to go after all of them if I could. I want to somehow be able to mix in a…

I take pride of every experience I have been through, because I believe that even the bad ones shake our core and awaken something new. I am always on a mission to challenge stereotypes, but I guess in the case of “book love” I am defeated. As a young girl, my parents paved the way for me to experience life through my senses. And so, I was constantly encouraged to open up and learn from our travels, life incidents, challenges and just about anything we went through as a family. My father…