Naomi Klein

(Zimbaro 2014: 274-5). As pointed out by Kyle William Bishop in American Zombie Gothic, Romero showed his audiences not a dystopian vision of the future but a dystopian version of the present. From the late 1960s, zombies became a criticism of what Naomi Klein terms as “disaster capitalism”. In Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, the zombies wandering around the shopping mall behave very habitually, replicating their behaviours from when they were human. In this sense, Romero wanted to show his audience…

During the summer of 2016 I completed a STPEC requirement doing an internship in the office of Arise for social Justice. My time period was during the middle of May, through the end of June, and then completed during the month of August. Looking at my time working with Arise, I aim to discuss the following issues of observation through the perspective of a trans person, an environmental activist, and a person with physical and mental disabilities. In addition to describing what Arise does, what…

The article “Capitalism vs. the Climate” was written by Naomi Klein about climate change and its solutions in relation to the economy as well as the political reactions to such solutions. Her article mainly revolves around the premise that climate change deniers are right about one thing, that in order to fix climate change, drastic changes in the modern economic models are needed. To this end, she makes a good, albeit flawed argument, as although she does provide a plethora of sources for her…

Since the establishment of the practice, advertising has been praised and criticized alike. According to Arens, Schaefer, and Weigold (2015), “Advertising is the structured and composed nonpersonal communication of information, usually paid for and usually persuasive in nature, about products (goods, services, and ideas) by identified sponsors through various media” (p. 7). Critics of advertising say that advertising is pervasive, misleading, and that it subconsciously takes advantage of the…

Love handles, thunder thighs, and bingo wings. While on paper these words are just that-words. However, they take on a more powerful and damaging meaning when a woman applies these words to describe her body. For centuries women have been judged on their appearance. From the Victorian Era to women of today, society has always decided what real beauty is. Today, the media’s portrayal of what the “ideal woman” should be is constantly changing. More often than not, this “ideal woman” is…

Physically attractive individuals are often viewed more favourably than unattractive people on dimensions that are weakly related or unrelated to physical looks, glamorized such as intelligence, sociability, and morality (Smith, McIntosh and Bazzini, 1999). The fact that Hollywood culture is predominantly white, Caucasian and that it has such power over people, shows how it is considered to be the mainstream standard of beauty. Celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Nicole Ritchie, both nothing…

Surfing has grown exponentially over the past several decades and with it surf brands have exploded and surfing has become considerably more marketable. However, at one point in time, this did not seem like it would ever be possible. In the 1960’s there was a vast expansion of surf culture, but before that surfing was not seen as a popular activity. The counter-culture ways that were associated with the sport created a view that surfers were slackers and druggies as their time was largely spent…