Hip-Hop’s Alter Ego
Hip-Hop songs have a big reputation of rappers showing masculinity through different methods. The methods that these rappers use portrays a whole new picture of what real rap be like, sound like, and...
View ArticleLife Is Beautiful…
Be yourself and live free. Simple words spoken to those who feel as if media has turned them into dieting, size zero wearing, runway status hopeful’s. The documentary “Killing Us Softly 4”, takes an...
View ArticleImperfection is Beauty, Madness is Genius
A woman’s beauty is all about being physically flawless, having self-control, and having the burning desire to do anything to appeal to men before they even care to appeal to themselves.. According to...
View ArticleIdeal Beauty (Catherine’s post)
Image retrieved from ArtPrintImages Since the 1900’s people have been brainwashed into the idea of the “ideal” way to look, live, and act. The American dream, a husband that works, a mother that stays...
View ArticleDoes Media Control Us
Do you believe that media and advertisements some what controls the way you dress and define yourself? If your answer is no, well I agree with you, but I also disagree with you. I believe that the...
View ArticleBeauty: How Much Does It Really Matter?
When will my reflection show who I am inside? In the movie, Killing Us Softly 4, Jean Kilbourne’s 50 years of research showed that the media directs its attention to me and other women across the...
View ArticleThe media is controlling us! (Lovell’s post)
You are being judged by the media and you don’t even know it! The movie “Killing Us Softly 4,” made in 2010, surprised me. In it, Jean Kilbourne tells how in America the media controls us as a society....
View ArticleHow The Media Brainwashes Us
Media in today’s world has a tremendous impact on how beauty in popular culture is portrayed. Advertisements spend over 250 billon a year on theses ads, and they give females the ideal image of female...
View ArticleTHE MEDIA FOOLS US
People are afraid of how they look so the media uses this to their advantage to control the definition of beauty. Since 1931, the media has been convincing people of how they are suppose to look....
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