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    Miss Representation (NETFLIX) Miss representation had the objective for women and young girls to be aware that looks is not everything and that women can be in power; that men are not the only ones that can be a leader. The media tells the viewers and readers the standers of what a women should be like and people will not accept anything less than the ideal image of beauty. However‚ women are the reason for this misunderstanding by how they act and what they wear‚ and by what other women celebrities

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    If a man can fight‚ he’s a hero. If a woman can fight‚ she’s a b**ch! Representation of women in action films The film industry never seems to lack action films and there always plenty for the market to choose from however how many of those have women in a leading role? A handful. There aren’t that many films that feature women in lead roles within action films. But the question is why? Why haven’t a majority of these women been given a chance? Are actresses like Uma Thurman and Angelina Jolie

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    The representation of Facebook in the media In this piece of coursework I will be analysing how language is used in three different texts‚ to represent Facebook. The three texts which I will be analysing will each be representing Facebook differently. Text A is an article from the Sun’s website which represents Facebook negatively published on the 18th January 2008. Text B is an article from the Daily Mail Online and represents Facebook very positively and was published on the 17th September 2012

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    Unit 1- 2012 Assessment Task 1 Representation Analysis- Lamb Barbie Girl This is a stereotypical representation of Australians in today’s modern society. This campaign enforces Australian people to buy lamb to support their national day‚ as well as the people of their country. This idea is further implemented into the target audience through the use of specific codes and conventions that develop that generalized idea of‚ being ‘Australian’. This representation targets a range of Australian

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    Bella Spooner Representation of Women in Horror Films. Since the inventions of television and film‚ media influences have become extremely important in modern society with people constantly being inundated by images and messages that come from film‚ television‚ magazines‚ internet and advertising. Researchers and theorists such as Carol J. Clover and Jean Kilborne believe that the fact that people are going to be affected by the media is absolutely unavoidable. Films can act as guides to

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    Victoria Rushton‚ 11Monet Study representations one and two. They are both representations of how effective policing was in late Victorian Britain. How far do these representations differ? In this essay I will be studying two representations from late Victorian Britain on how effective policing was and how much they differ between each other. I will be covering topics such as‚ their beats and shifts‚ how often they worked‚ and how the representations show how their methods were effective. I think

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    Representation and expression in art. Various theories have been proposed in answer to these questions‚ the most popular being that the forms of art are similar to language and are to be understood as language is understood‚ in terms of conventions and semantic rules. A few examples of contemporary theories that have described art in this way include Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms‚ Susanne K. Langer’s theory of presentational symbols‚ and the works on semiology and semiotics‚ largely

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    Miss Representation! ! Miss Representation is a documentary that was released in the year 2011. This documentary discusses and presents views on the representation of women in media and its effects on women and men in our society. A few statements that were printed in the documentary were that women in modern days are represented weaker than men‚ are not “interesting enough” to have protagonist roles and are often presented as sexual objects to appeal men. The documentary stats that eventually the

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    media as seen on television shows and movies. Fairies have changed in the way of their culture/ ethnicity as well in the way of their inclusive gender. The four different representations of the Fairies are Peterpan (Tinkerbell)‚ Fairly Odd Parents‚ Cinderella (Kecia Lewis) play and Shrek 2 fairy godmother. All these four representations are similar and different to one another‚ they are all the same because they all have a will power and can change something with their power‚ different on how they are

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    is represented in ads that say men can look after themselves and use products and still be manly. The way gender is represented in ads shows the variety of stereotypes of gender and what men and women should be like in societys eyes. The first representation of gender i will discuss is the one of women in magazines that look flawless to sell a product‚ i have seen this in the advertisement of L’oreal Hairspray featuring Cheryl Cole‚ by using a beautiful celebrity to advertise this product it is telling

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