
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Superman Complex

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Femininity

In my Holocaust class we have been learning about the ways in which the Nazi's stripped the Jews of their human appearance, and in particular the women. Femininity and vanity are attributes that women pride themselves on and make them who they are. When Jewish women were forced to get their heads shaved, stand naked in front of German officials, and made infertile they were stripped of their womanhood and sense of being.
A woman's appearance is one of her highest priorities. Everyone knows that women notoriously spend hours in the bathroom getting ready and spend insane amounts of money on clothes as well as suffer the unbearable pain of high heels and waxing all to distinguish themselves from men and other women and appear feminine. Although times have changed and more is considered about a woman than her looks, appearance plays a large part in a woman's power. It effects a woman's self confidence as well as the way others perceive and treat her. A woman's appearance and femininity make them a woman and define who they are.
Giving birth is another ability women hold close because it is something only they can do. Only women can recreate life. To take all of this away from a woman leaves them empty and without a sense of pride or purpose. It ruins them.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Save Marriage

I have noticed that family dynamics have become some of the most interesting and random aspects of today's society. I personally have grandparents that have been married for fifty years on my dad's side, and a grandmother with five marriages, and a mother with three on the other side. Not to mention, those three marriages had three completely different children resulting in my siblings and I all having different dads. Although I wouldn't change this for the world because I wouldn't have all of these people in my life if it was different, I find it sad that today the fifty year old marriage on my dad's side is more shocking than the serial brides bred on my mother's side. I hear of more and more people that don't believe in marriage and that while they want to spend the rest of their lives with someone, they don't want to get married. It is because divorce has become so casual. People marry people they have only known for a month or met on the internet knowing that if it doesn't work out they can get a divorce. The divorce rate today is so high that I can't blame the people that think that getting married will jinx their relationships. However, it is such an exciting part of someone's life that it is disappointing to me that it is being taken so lightly. I hope that this will start to turn around and that marriage will become a valued aspect of society again.
Mental Eating

I recently started thinking about how much eating has a lot more do with your mental needs than how hungry you actually are. If you are heart broken you either eat an entire tub of ice cream or you don't eat anything at all. Nervousness is pretty much the same. If you're trying to do a diet and restrict yourself from all your favorite foods you are always ten times more likely to think about them and crave them than if you were allowed to eat them. If you know your food is coming but there is still bread in the bread basket you are more than likely to fill up on it and even if you're full and there is still food in front of you the chances of you letting it go to waste are slim to none. I have experienced all of this but as a girl the place I notice it most is dieting. I recently tried to initiate a summer diet and I have never thought about food more. I know that my friends that take ADD medication aren't hungry at all and its because they're brain is telling them that, they can go a day without eating even if their stomach is growling because they have the mental capacity to. It is amazing to me how much appetite alters based on your emotional needs. It goes both ways though. If a person is too hungry, it can drive them to act and do thing's that aren't in their usual personality. I for one am in terrible mood whenever I am hungry but people that are starved are different to desperate measures such as stealing or even killing for food. It is amazing to me how much the two are interlinked.
Reliance

People have become to reliant on outside forces. Therapy is a an example. While there are those who undoubtedly need it and I don't pass judgement on them I think most don't. I personally was forced by my mother once during my "teenage rebellion" stage and not only hated it but was able to convince the therapist that my mom was in fact that one that needed therapy. I have many friends on the other hand that would die without their therapist. I was browsing through a self help book that told me to think of ten awful things that had happened to me during my childhood, and I couldn't think of one. As far as I know most of my other friends wouldn't be able to either. I think therapy makes people reliant. I have the same feelings about prescription drugs. Though there are definitely some that need it, getting ADD medicine has become one of the easiest things to do. Once these vices are given to someone they need it, it becomes who they are. They can't make decisions without talking to their therapist first and they can't study for a test without Adderall. I personally think people are capable of making decisions and accomplishing thing's on their own. People have a lot of personal strength and I have faith that most people that put their lives in a therapist's hands and eat up every word they say or that are prescribed something that makes them absent or at the very least different, would be better off without it.
How Do You Define "Responsibility" in Advertising?

I also believe that being responsible in Advertising involves being conscious of the world and society that you are in. Advertising that promotes products such as eco-friendly cars are being socially responsible. Advertising that promotes ways to save money in the difficult economic times and provide options for those that are less fortunate is being responsible. However, showing these advertisements in a way that is creative, like the car ad with the choir singing the sounds of the car is the best kind of work you can do.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Confused Much?

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