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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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    Miss Representation film indicate that the negative representation of women continue because the media deploys hyper-sensitized concepts to provide services‚ products‚ and ideas. In my opinion‚ this media misrepresentation works to benefit the manufacturing Firms to advertise their products. They also use female celebrities to market these products by endorsing these services and products. In essence‚ TV commercials have always indicated the reference point for women in respect to their physical

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    African American Women in the Era of Reconstruction I. Introduction The historical analyses of the era of Reconstruction has provided many attempts to explain why the Southern Radical Republicans failed to revolutionize the US government and gain equal civil rights for African American men. Although some historians have claimed that racism was not the defining factor in the downfall of Reconstruction‚ as much as for example apparent special interest legislation “to afford [African Americans] the

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    Lopez‚ Robert Gillis-Smith‚ Beth English M01A The Civil War: Changing Roles Of African Americans And Women There were several events that lead to the American Civil War. The Northern states wanted African Americans to be free from slavery‚ while the Southern states wanted to continue owning them. The Northern states didn’t need slaves for their economy to thrive‚ as opposed to the Southern states‚ where their economy relied heavily on the slave’s free labor. Both sides also argued

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    All American women in the 19th to early 20th century faced social and legal disabilities that forbade women to have the same equal rights as men. Through all the obstacles that made women’s rights achievable were the hardships that influenced historians such as Harriet Tubman‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ and Susan B. Anthony to overcome the inequality in property rights‚ family law‚ and education to allow women fulfill the same opportunities as men that is seen in society today. Women protested and

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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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    year 1950‚ there were three young African American women who joined NACA. In other words the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Before the three intelligent African American women were hired NASA would hire a lot of people to work with them. They had to do math equations and use calculations to find out the problem. But these three women made discovery as we know how it is today‚ they got to where they did but by proving people that anyone even African Americans can do what others can do

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    Ecocriticism is the study of literature and environment from an interdisciplinary point of view where all sciences come together to analyze the environment and brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental situation. Ecocriticism was officially heralded by the publication of two seminal works‚[citation needed] both published in the mid-1990s: The Ecocriticism Reader‚ edited by Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm‚ and The Environmental Imagination‚ by Lawrence Buell

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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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    period given‚ women in the United States fought for equality in education‚ work‚ and rights‚ while men remained essentially unchanged in the consistent patriarchal society. Civil wars in a nation destroy the previous society and lead to tremendous changes in social and cultural norms. Despite all the other changes caused by the Civil War‚ many of the standard gender patriarchal remained the same: women took care of the cleaning and children‚ men worked and were breadwinners. African American men

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