Commercialization

advertisements proliferate images of luxury and transforms Tokyo from a permanent city into a fragmented assemble of urban spectacles. The once traditional city has become transformed into a global metropolis that is influenced by forces of commercialization, westernization and capitalism. Amidst this commercialised environment the individual has also become a commodity as portrayed by Bob’s dominating presence on the Suntory billboard. However Bob’s disillusioned reaction to this image of him…

industry serves as a model for how the average consumer should look, talk, act, think, and dress – ultimately convincing individuals that they will never be good enough unless they conform to these standards dictated by the ruling class of western commercialization. It is no secret that Western media culture produces an inordinate amount of images of digitally altered, white women to keep consumers chasing after an impalpable vision of what it means to be beautiful. It is western culture…

Canadian National Railway Company, also named CN, is a modern combined company that merges many middle and small railroad companies, which is the biggest railway company in Canada and the fifth biggest railway company in the North America. Established in 1919 by the Canadian government, the CN company is the first railroad line that links the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It was a state-owned business since its establishment for up to 76 years, and it carried out…

The room is bursting with energy–vendors sell their ware, people mingle, and the sound of music and dancing fills the room. The On Wisconsin Annual Spring Powwow presented by Wunk Sheek and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has officially begun. The Arena at the Alliant Energy Center has been split to create two sections, on one side merchants have set up booths where they are selling anything from beaded jewelry to food. The other side of the room has been transformed into an arena area, a…

Planet Earth is an unbelievably intricate and delicate network of interconnected systems that has slowly developed over the last 4.5 billion years or so. From the aftermath of the Big Bang this planet arose as a mass of energy and elements. From that newly born mass of energy and elements evolved structured, dynamic systems containing three states of matter, solids, liquids, and gases. The evolution of this planet continued to unfold over billions of years in such a unique way that eventually…

Margaret Atwood’s explores this concept in her harrowing thriller, Oryx and Crake, by extracting elements of the corporate greed prevalent in our society and propelling it to its absolute extreme. The price increases of the EpiPen demonstrates the commercialization of health care and lack of empathy because of corporate greed in our society. Atwood draws striking parallels to these concepts in her fictitious AnooYoo and HealthWyzer Corporations. Similarly, corporate greed continues to effect…

also a major source of our entertainment and social interaction as everything and anyone present around us were something we could “play with.” However, with the booming population of children and the growth of toy industry, it has resulted in commercialization of childhood. Similarly, toys have been an effective method which has been used for generations to conform children and teach…

In LEGO’s early days, LEGO was meant to be a toy that inspired children’s creativity. You poured a bucket of bricks onto the carpet and began building what your heart desired. The question I’ve come to ask myself is, has LEGO lost its creative nature? As I saw The LEGO Movie, I began to find it ironic how LEGO contradicted its current modern standing. Contrary to its early days, LEGO sells all if not most of its products as sets. They come with select pieces and instructions to build what you…

In today’s western capitalist societies individuals are consciously and subconsciously immersed into the constantly growing world of technology, with the internet, social media and global connectivity. This emergence of new media and technology has profound effects on society and individuals. Thus, bringing forth the theory of ‘the Culture Industry’ and its relevance today. The culture industry argument was developed by Adorno and Horkheimer and focuses on the effects of capitalist mass media…

became influenced by Western European and American economies. To accelerate economic growth, he began an industrial revolution. Mass railroad construction further industrialized the nation and promoted capitalism because it increased agricultural commercialization and the demands of petroleum and other natural resources. In essence, Porfirio Díaz worked to consolidate his control over the government by exercising power over rural regions with the help of the rural police force (rurales) and the…