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    This chapter explains her thoughts on the use of the male body in advertising.  Bordo explains how and why she first got interested in looking for new advertisements of males in magazines.  Bordo explicitly depicts her thoughts on how people look at the male body‚ how it was used in advertising‚ movies‚ and our culture overall.  She also goes into how over time the use of male bodies has changed in our culture.  Bordo uses a lot of pictures and actual advertisements to draw you in as a reader and

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    Susan Bordo an author who writes about how the American culture has always shown and used women’s bodies throughout our history and to most is considered completely normal. In the print “Beauty Rediscovers the Male Body” Bordo states “naked female body became an object of mainstream consumption”(Bordo 168). She explains that the female body was completely normal for people to look at while on the other hand showing a naked male body was considered a taboo that most people were afraid to break. Over

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    Molly Jarrett October 1‚ 2012 Mrs. Barrett Journal #3 Susan Bordo’s passage‚ “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body‚” she really focuses on the male modeling and the views of males in advertisements. She truly portrays the changes from traditional to modern views of male modeling by society. The Abercrombie and Fitch advertisement is the more traditional of the two. I believe that it conveys all of the types of examples and traits that a traditional male model demonstrates. On the other

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    they have changed also. In "Hunger as Ideology"‚ Susan Bordo talks about her view on commercials and gives us the gender-dualities‚ which she thinks are traditional for ads. In her essay Bordo examined the historical stereotype of women; the portrayals that have arrested them‚ turning their psychological makeup into something destructive to their health‚ and yet‚ supported by society. It seems that to be thin is a goal for most women and as Bordo points

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    Never Just Pictures Summary In the essay Never Just Pictures‚ feminist author Susan Bordo explores the media and fashion industry’s influence on our society’s obsession with being thin‚ and also delves into the psychological responses to our culture’s social issues that mold what those industries choose to utilize when marketing. Bordo demonstrates how it is our culture of increased competition and anxieties over lack of resources that is shaping the marketing business‚ and encouraging them to

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    Problem with the Media

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    include a woman writer‚ Susan Bordo‚ who wrote about the media’s ideas of being thin‚ and how she thinks that they are wrong In the essay "Never Just Pictures" by Susan Bordo‚ she discusses the issue of the media’s promotion of being skinny and what affects this has brought. The media claims that the phobia of being fat is a disease that you are born with‚ but that is not always the case. Bordo‚ like many other people‚ believe that the media is mostly to blame. Bordo brings up a few arguments

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    "Never Just Pictures" by Susan Bordo‚ is about how today’s society looks at different types of media to get an idea of what they should look like. In this essay‚ the author tries to get the readers to take a closer look at today’s obsession with the physique of the human body. Bordo talks about how things that were once considered normal‚ no longer are. Literally people are purging and starving their bodies to become nothing more than silhouettes of themselves. Instead of being alive and healthy

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    Susan Bordo examines Western culture as it relates to the body‚ specifically the slender body in this chapter of her book‚ Unbearable Weight. Diets have been important since the Ancient Greek and Middle Ages‚ where the Greeks mastered their “public” selves by regulating “food intake… as a road to self-mastery” and the Christians fasted for their “inner” selves to achieve “spiritual purification and domination of the flesh” (page 185). By the nineteenth century‚ diet became associated with the aesthetics

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    Susan Sontag

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    Susan Sontag an author Regarding The Pain of Others and of four novels‚ and seven non-fiction books. States that "Photographs tend to transform‚ whatever their subject; and as an image something may be beautiful - or terrifying‚ or unbearable‚ or quite bearable - as it is not real life." These words spoken by Susan Sontag explain almost every aspect that goes into evaluating a photograph. For instance a picture

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    Susan Glaspell

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    Shantifiney Franklin English 102 October 19‚ 2009 Critical Essay of Trifles Susan Glaspell Susan Glaspell was born on July 1‚ 1882 in Davenport‚ Iowa. She began her career as am author of short stories of popular magazines such as the Des Moines Daily. She cofounded Provincetown Players‚ a group who worked with experimental drama. Glaspell can best be described as a director‚ feminist‚ author‚ and actress. Glaspell died in 1948 (“Biography” 1). Trifles is based on a true story. …”On

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