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    STEREOTYPES‚ do you think we are a society that stereotypes continuously toward men. (Close your eyes) Domestic violence ‚ what is the first image that appears in your head‚ if it is of a man abusing a woman you have just stereotyped. For men are the ones that suffer the most at the hands of domestic violence as about two in five of all victims of domestic violence are men. which is contradicting a widespread impression that it is almost always women who are left battered and bruised . As the

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    know how women were treated in the past‚ in comparison to men. And therefore it would also seem obvious that these portrayals of women would also be depicted in popular culture. We could conclude that the way women were depicted in the media was not great. In fact‚ it was terrible. Typically‚ men were portrayed as strong‚ independent‚ powerful‚ active and sexually dominant individuals. Conversely for women‚ the views that were consistent with cultural representations of female stereotypes were young

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    Fulghum once said“ Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” Many children will not adhere to an order given by their parent but they will rather pay attention to their action. Alicia Walker’s The Color Purple depicts male characters that grows up to be similar to their fatherly companion. Through a feminist lens‚ Walker reveals that men are profoundly influenced by their fatherly figures. Mr. ____‚ Celie’s controlling husband‚ has been an absent father

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    activist group called “Women of Color Speak Out” with three other members with all of‚ sometimes they may add a member if they like her. The event had a discussion and a lecture together which was extremely interesting and entertaining. Zarna Joshi‚ an Indian straight women born in England‚ she became an activist due to wanting to control society and its stereotypes on women and race. She became a vegan because she saw the cruelty behind meat gatherings. Zarna Joshi as a women of color has been through

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    culture where women would be able to roam free and independent‚ however during this time a lot of the advertisements which were shown in the 1970s used women in order to attract an audience. With all advertisements‚ the ones throughout the 1970s used the AIDA advertisements in order to ensure that what was being shown in both the print and broadcasting platforms would be able to grab the audience’s attention. The second wave of feminism came as a response to the experiences of women after World War

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    In the film Titanic‚ women are seen as below men and are told what to do by men. Women are deemed as helpless without the support of a man‚ which the main character‚ Rose DeWitt Bukater‚ defies throughout the film. Rose breaks many of the traditional “rules” of the time period in which the film takes place. Feminism is seen predominantly in the film Titanic. Women are deemed as helpless in the film. Many instances take place where women are shown as helpless and needy‚ but Rose ends up breaking

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    A split complimentary colour scheme of Yellow‚ Blue & Purple will be used. Yellow will be in contrast or “opposition” to blue and purple. (Roque‚ 2011:20) I was not able to find an existing film with the exact colour palette I wanted‚ and I did not wish to create a colour palette for our film based solely on someone’s else’s work. The result is that I have found four films‚ listed in the filmography‚ that have a similar visual style to what I wish to achieve‚ and which extensively use at least two

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    In the film color purple discrimination plays an important role defend the lifestyle on African American before civil right movement. The movie color purple African American women’s were faced with abuse harsh. The movie was made in Macon County Georgia. In there was two main difficult characters Celie in her sister Nettie. The color purple is a fictional movie that is told by a poor black women name Celie. She was living in Georgia in early 20 century

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    races have experienced some form of criticism for their color and come from places of low socioeconomic status. Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple her poems “When You Thought Me Poor” and “Expect Nothing” show what it is like to be poor‚ isolated‚ and of low socioeconomic status. The poem “When You Thought Me Poor” is about a girl who came from nothing and became something all the while being told she couldn’t be anything because of the color of her skin. The poem is like the book because Shug came

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    Issues of Adversity “That which cannot kill me can only make me stronger”. With Reference to the quote‚ the colour purple (3 characters) and 3 other sources of supplementary text‚ write an essay. Adversity is unfortunately‚ an aspect of life which can hardly be avoided. Some people experience different types of adversity‚ whether it is physical‚ emotional or psychological‚ in any case‚ people experience adversity on different levels and to various extents. Although some experiences are harsher

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