Alysa Sharp 12/12/12 Carla Jones Final Project TOMS: A Commodity Fetish Globalization is the international influence‚ change‚ and interaction within or between countries and or nations. This creates an idea of connectedness between the facilitating nation and the nation being influenced. Within this interaction and influence on another nation there becomes this desire to become a “trendsetter” through the use of products and other various commodities throughout the world. One such example
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This week’s readings discussed a concept called “The New Jim Crow” which is about how black people and Latino’s are most likely to get more prison time than their counter-parts even when the crime committed is the same. The author goes on to talk about how people who are black and brown get stopped more and searched than any other race. Personally‚ I think the reason why people who are black and brown are most likely to be stopped and searched is because ‚ in most cases they cannot afford a good
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so many talents. Who should be chosen is Jim Gaffigan. He is going to talk about our troubled foods but he will make everyone laugh as well‚ and not be worried about the food catastrophe. What the students of this school need is a class clown or a comedian. That’s when Jim will start cracking jokes about every lunch period. If Jim was here all the time the students here would listen to the jokes instead of making jokes about the food. Where Jim Gaffigan would come is Pinelands Regional
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This month we are featuring a New Jersey local social entrepreneur‚ Tom Szaky‚ who “stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity” by actively collecting “difficult-to-recycle packaging and products and repurposes the material into affordable‚ innovative products.” Who is Tom Szaky? Entrepreneurs take risks‚ but the ones we admire the most are the businessmen who seek to change the world and everyday lives. We’ve featured several businesses with CEOs that
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raunchy ads and forget all about the product being promoted. Brands reliance on sexual innuendos to sell their products is evident in a multitude of advertisements but one specific ad that comes to mind is Tom Ford’s risqué photo campaign promoting their men’s cologne labeled “Tom Ford for Men”. Tom Ford debuted their fragrance in a print ad that features a naked oily woman with red lips and red fingernails‚
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Jim Crow laws have always found their way back into the southern states‚ mainly by racist perseverance. The federal law always comes around when things get too extreme enforces old laws into relevance and restricted racist activity‚ but white supremacists still found ways to separate the races‚ by focusing on voting and elections. And in the end racism always seemed to get the best of society and created a barrier between blacks and whites. After the Civil War‚ the Emancipation Proclamation freed
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Tom Brennan Prologue- ‘Sounds of feet shuffling along the concrete’ – sensory imagery. ‘Past the ugly words that told us we were no longer wanted’ – negative connotation ‘Silhouettes of houses slipped past before I could catch them’ – personification + alliteration ‘Down‚ down we glided in silence’ – repetition [giving a sense of downfall in their life + highlighting the sense of secrecy and contact] ‘I pushed our Ford Falcon station wagon out of the garage’- forced to leave To be able
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Within the span of a few decades from the late 19th to the early 20th century‚ the United States was transformed from a predominately rural agrarian society to an industrial economy centered in large metropolitan cities. Prior to the American industrial revolution‚ most Americans were reared in largely isolated agricultural households and small towns that were linked to the external world by horse drawn wagons. Except for towns that were connected to railroads or water borne shipping‚ isolation and
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Plagiarism at School Most of the schools do not accept plagiarized content and may detain the students from the school who are caught having done so. Hence‚ it gets very critical to avoid plagiarism in such circumstances. Below are a few tips on how to avoid plagiarism at school: Use Your Own Words: Not everyone is an Einstein‚ nor is it expected by the teachers. You have to get the information from “somewhere” at least. Ok‚ do search through the web but only to get information and not the content
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The New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow‚ written by Michelle Alexander‚ gives a brief history recount of the past caste systems that have oppressed African-Americans and proposes that today there is a new caste system. She suggests that today’s caste system is created by the U.S. criminal justice system by targeting black men and incarcerating them. In other words‚ she says that today’s racial caste is based on the mass incarceration of African-Americans. She supports her claims by providing an abundant
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