Manipulation and society To understand and analyse manipulative discourse‚ it is crucial to first examine its social environment. We have already assumed that one of the characteristics of manipulation‚ for instance as distinct from persuasion‚ is that it involves power and domination. An analysis of this power dimension involves an account of the kind of control that some social actors or groups exercise over others (Clegg‚ 1975; Luke‚ 1989; Van Dijk‚ 1989: Wartenberg‚ 1990). We also have assumed
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Through the manipulation of culture‚ advertisement companies have inserted a self-conscious effect in order to manipulate the customer into buying the product. An excerpt from Nancy Day article on “Advertising: Information or Manipulation?”‚ “... Who worried about dandruff. Who was embarrassed by teeth that weren’t blinding white… Who knew that houses had to be deodorized…?” (Day). In this excerpt from Nancy Day’s article the use of rhetorical questions pauses the reader to think deeply on how advertisment
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effectiveness of manipulation and how the ignorance of others can justify the rightness of possible evil. There are many attributes that conceal the faithfulness of why manipulation is necessary to survive and why it is despicably wicked. The guiding inspiration has been to start with an empirically adequate account of why attributions of responsibility display the patterns they do. Based on such interpretations‚ we are able to understand and identify why people are prone to manipulation and what it can
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The ethics of digital photo manipulation is more important because the abuses are all the more rampant‚ whether it’s making Sarkozy look as good as Obama does on vacation (as Paris Match did when it airbrushed Sarko’s love handles until they disappeared) or Prada smoothing the skin of models’ legs so they appear plastic or waxen in ads‚ like a mannequin’s. One could argue that the same should be the case for fashion photographs: No alternation beyond cropping‚ sharpening and a few basic saturation
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distorting history‚ human nature‚ and the individual’s very singularity at a whim. This deception proves that manipulation is a powerful tool used in the assertion of dominance and for imposing conformity. "Everything faded into mist. The past was erased‚ the erasure was forgotten‚ the lie became truth” (75). The Party was constantly editing history in all forms. Any piece of information that did not line up with the demands of the present were destroyed or redone to match up correctly so that there
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01/02/2016 Michael Dooge Gr.11 Discursive Essay Gender‚ sex and advertising The most common quote when referring to advertising is simply‚ “Sex sells”‚ in this essay I will be discussing gender‚ sex and their relationship with advertising in a respectful and non-bias way. Ultimately I will be answering questions such as what purpose sex and gender serve‚ what they reflect about society‚ and what they promote. When asking what purpose sex and gender serve‚ the answer in most cases is
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such as CNN‚ the government in some respects‚ and pop culture. The media provides the public with information regarding current events however the media tends to submerge the information given and thus manipulates the public. Through false television portrayal‚ biased news coverage‚ and wrong stereotypes‚ the manipulation of the media is beyond belief. The question is what’s manipulation? Manipulation is getting what you want by ignoring or harming the desires of others. Manipulators use charm‚ persuasion
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the manipulation of love and the way love works itself out between various sets of people. It tells the story of characters that encounter chaotic situations of real love and also love that was controlled for the benefit of others. The characters caught up in the "love scandal"� are Oberon‚ Titania‚ Demetrius‚ Lysander‚ Hermia‚ and Helena. All these characters were involved in the different triangles of love presented in the story. The main theme in A Midsummer Nights Dream is the manipulation of
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At a psychological level‚ the art of manipulation primarily involves two things: concealing aggressive intentions and behaviors and knowing the psychological vulnerabilities of your opponent well enough to know what tactics are likely to be the most effective weapons against them. Psychological manipulation is most often accomplished through covert-aggression or aggression that is so carefully veiled or so subtle that it’s not easily detected. Manipulators want what they want and fight hard to attain
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65 Anne Schjoldager* Interpreting Research and the ‘Manipulation School’ of Translation Studies Abstract This article examines‚ explains and puts into perspective what others have dubbed the ‘Manipulation School’. This group of scholars see themselves as working within descriptive translation studies (DTS)‚ as defined by Holmes (1975)‚ and their main methodological tool is a search for translational norms‚ first proposed by Toury (1980a). The article then explores how these ideas relate to current
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