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Parents to this day are spending about $200 to $300 a month, at the youngest age of two years old, in tutoring the basics of school. Whether parents should be doing this or not has been getting very controversial in the past few years. All parents of course want the best for their kids, but tutoring them this early in their lifetime is hurting them more than ever. In the article, “Are Adults Hurting Young Children by Pushing Them to Achieve?”, written by Katherine Schulten, let’s you see how…

Summary and Response to Oxfam Media Briefing: The Cost of Inequality: How Wealth and Income Extremes Hurt Us All It is widely accepted that economic inequality has reached unacceptable levels and that something must be done to eradicate such extreme inequality (Oxfam, 2013). There is ongoing debate, however, as to how best to tackle this issue. The OECD, IMF and World Bank argue that economic growth is the answer. Granted, they appear to have abandoned the…

In the article entitled “ 4 Myths About Undocumented Immigrants That Are Hurting Feminism” written by Alan Pelaez Lopez, Lopez goes through four myths which surround undocumented immigrants, explains how these myths hurt feminism and how they affect his own life and understanding. Some of the myths which Lopez discusses are the idea that people believe undocumented youth did not migrate of their own free will, during this section he also discusses how the term DREAMer can be a form of…

In an essay that I read titled the “ Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” by Jean Kilbourne, she also expresses herself in her essay on how women are being treated in advertisements. However, she also specifies how ads can be misinterpreted by viewers, in this case women. In her essay she talks about a similar advertisement…

It is also helping reinforce the idea that men are in control of these women and have power over them. In an article by Jean Kilbourne entitled Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt, she describes the negative effect of sexualized women and children portrayed in advertisements on our society. In one of her statements she says, “Turning a human being into a thing, an object, is almost always the first step towards justified violence…

Project 8 How many of you think it's wrong to hurt animals? So you already believe in being a vegetarian. Good evening to one and all present here. Today I stand before you to talk about the worlds forgotten victims, THE ANIMALS And the worlds oldest and strongest addiction, MEAT! I'm not here to challenge any religion as no religion preaches animal abuse. Every religion which has come into existence has only bought message of love. Mahatma Gandhi said the greatness of a nation and it's…

the Sexualization of Women” by Shadia Duske where she talks about how males and females are sexualized in ads, which affects the younger generation when it comes to what they should be seeing at their age is good or bad. In “‘Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt’: Advertising and Violence” in her essay Jean Kilbourne describes how media is using sexualized ads of men and women to get attention of people so the companies can sell their products. For briefer overview on this topic “Hidden Gender…

In the reading “Help Those Who Help, Not Hurt, Themselves,” Christian Brahmstedt presents an argument why the homeless should not be supported by the public or government. However, in supporting this argument, Brahmstedt makes several invalid and unsound points in the form of fallacies. In Brahmstedt’s “Help Those Who Help, Not Hurt, Themselves” he uses material fallacies, which are flaws given or material used, in order to support the idea that the homeless should not be supported by public or…

which is in turn manipulating them. One way these viewers and potential buyers are being drawn in to these advertisements are by companies promoting a favorite, even universal, technique: sex. In Jean Kilbourne 's essay, "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt": Advertising and Violence, it is evident that sex in advertising is the primary approach used to negatively draw in viewers; however, this approach objectifies women, portrays women as weak and defenseless creatures in the eyes of men, as well as…

cream I feel she missed the mark completely. The ad shows a good looking man with the word heartbreaker underneath his picture, a razor laying on top of a bar of soap and a can of Skintimate shaving cream with the headline “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt”. The ad says “So while guys may continue to be a pain, shaving most definitely won’t.” As a women I found this ad to be humorous, what woman has not thought of a man to be a pain? Most woman I know definitely feel shaving to be a pain and…