Ann Mcclinton Miss Representation Analysis

As for being in a privalged country, society does not pay much attention to the deeper meaning in things. Almost everyone, besides my grandparents have smart phones, and almost everyone has acess to the internet. Citizens rarely look for the deeper meaning in life’s pictures because our nation is wrapped up in our technicological advances and how we can make everything faster, easier, simpler, and make this country lazier and dull minded. When assigned a rhetorical analysis, I was kind of struggling to find a picture that spoke to me, when scrolling through, this image popped up and fit perfect with the argument that the great U. S. of A. doesn’t always pay attention to what is important to the rest of the world and what

This advertisement was most likely published around the 1950’s. Women was supposed to fulfill certain roles during the 1950’s. The perfect wife was supposed to stay home and have dinner ready and on the table for when her husband arrives home from work. The advertisement says a lot about how some men may view their wives and many women who always had need for a man. Women would more than likely be shown doing the “nonworking roles of the home” then a man would. If the portrayal could be different such as the man being the cook or the parent who stays home and takes care of the kid’s things would be very different. Women would be seen as the more dominant role in the relationship. Men would have to have dinner on the table before their wife

I can tell you from experience that hunting makes you hungry. Very hungry! I attribute this hunger to two things. The first is that hunting usually requires a lot of walking, sometimes more than 10 miles a day, while carrying a gun that gets heavier as the day goes on, or you may have to drag a heavy animal a long way. The second is that you are spending all day thinking about the meat that you are going for, and what you will do with it, so you get kind of hungry thinking about it. This is where the Arby’s advertisement comes into play. The Arby’s ad brings a hunter’s hunger down to his basic desire for meat, and preys on his natural instincts.

Hi Tuyen, good job on rhetorical analysis since you did points out many significant points of the issue presented in the documentary Miss Representation. I agree with you that “Newsom effectively convinces the audience of Miss Representation that the media portrays women in society simply through the value of women’s look” based on the statistics and her persuasive evidence. Photoshop is mostly used to retouch models’ figure in advertisements in order to bring perfect female images to the public. That the media’s extreme focus on how a girl or a woman should look like creates a misleading thought that women’s value is portrayed by their outward appearance. It is absolutely inaccurate since advertisers just tend to manipulate consuming behaviors;

The documentary, Miss Representation was written, directed and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom. Miss Representation highlights how the media and our culture objectify and belittle women and girls in society. The documentary begins with Newsom’s childhood story and the life and future, she wants for her daughter. The media is used as the main source of information. The documentary went back in history to show how the reality of the past has shaped the lives of women today, without even realizing it. Media plays a huge role in portraying women and how they should look, dress, act, and what jobs they should hold. Therefore, through media, women are seen as doing the household chores and taking care of the children while the men

Hydroxycut is some vitamin gummies that help people lose weight. This was on Woman’s World

Men and women nowadays are starting to lose self-confidence in themselves and their body shape, which is negatively impacting the definition of how beauty and body shape are portrayed. “...97% of all women who had participated in a recent poll by Glamour magazine were self-deprecating about their body image at least once during their lives”(Lin 102). Studies have shown that women who occupy most of their time worrying about body image tend to have an eating disorder and distress which impairs the quality of life. Body image issues have recently started to become a problem in today’s society because of social media, magazines, and television.

Every girl and boy, these days are worrying about their body image. They are comparing themselves to other people on social media, magazines, advertisements, television programs, and even in music videos. Which can end up leading to serious health issues when teenagers are wanting to be thin and skinny like celebrities or models. Who have undergone eating disorders or under the knife. Finding ads who don’t represent

Whether it’s magazine covers, instagram, twitter, on television or just on the world wide web in general, everywhere we look we see stunning models. Models that are incredibly thin and can look good in anything. Our society is obsessed with how perfect they look, yet at the end of the day women everywhere looks in the mirror and doesn’t see the body of the girl she sees on social media. Even though women come in all shapes and sizes in nature, the expectation to have a skinny, perfect body just seems to be the expectation for our society nowadays. Society puts too much pressure on females to have the perfect body. The emphasis for a girls ideal body to be perfect, thin, but curvy at the same time affects women emotionally and causes them feelings of, body dissatisfaction, can cause eating disorders, and major psychological issues.

There is a powerful force in our everyday life, a force that shapes subconscious thought, which defines who and what each person is. This force is everywhere and people are exposed to it constantly. It fills our world so much that we have just accepted it and never considered the affect it is having on us. This massive force is the media. The full length documentary Miss Representation aims to demonstrate the severe effects of the media on girls and women first through its prevalence and second through its messages.

In 2009, Ralph Lauren released an image of model Filippa Hamilton promoting their blue label jeans. However, in the advertisement Hamilton is digitally altered to the point where her head is large than her waist, making Hamilton no longer look like herself. Many people look to models in advertisements for inspiration even though most images are heavily photoshopped. In society, there is the perfect body type; flat stomach, slender waist, long legs, and large bust. Many companies, like Ralph Lauren, release advertisements that meet societies standards for the perfect body, hoping to promote their products. However, releasing digitally altered images does more harm than good. Though many people may say that images in clothing advertisements have

The result looks really disturbing. When we just look at the sketches, maybe we say that it is beautiful, but, if we see at the models that wear the same outfits, it is genuinely horrid. Because of that, the creator wrote, “you are not a sketch” on the advertisement, to imply that the sketch may look good, but you are not a sketch, you are a real person, which looks somewhat hideous of having a terribly thin body like the sketches. We can see that the picture shows how thin all of the women were as we can see their bones almost popped out of their skin. Their faces also look so sick, pale, and somewhat scary. With the emaciated, skeletal frames and lanky limbs of the women in the picture look, it can give emotional impact and can also change the impressionability that most of the women have, especially those who suffer with anorexia. They think that it is attractive to have a stick thin body, but this advertisement shows otherwise. Thus, it can destroy their belief and can motivate them to stop starve themselves and start to live a normal live and embrace their own body. This advertisement also clearly shows that they are against and hold the contradictory belief with the “pro-ana” websites that promotes

The documentary Miss Representation begins with short clips and photos of women in social media. The clips are taken from various movies, music videos, television shows, news clips, and news articles. The clips show inappropriate remarks directed to or about important women in our society, sexualization of women, and semi-nude women in the media. The purpose of this is to show how common it is for women to be misrepresented in today’s society, and how it affects women of all ages. The documentary Miss Representation argues that the media needs to change its perception of women. To draw attention to this issue the documentary uses rhetorical devices to effectively get the point across. Although the documentary effectively

This is supported by the study on young cheerleaders who viewed revealing clothing advertising, focusing mainly on the midriff, later had an increase in eating disorder prevalence and clothing-related body image (Torres-McGehee et al., 2012). However, it could be argued that with plus size models such as Tess Holliday and Nadia Aboulhosn becoming increasingly popular over the last few years, that advertising, specifically midriff advertising, could be heading towards a more body positive direction, which could also be healthier role models for adolescents and women. However, these women are still struggling to become mainstream models, usually modelling online, not in magazines or billboards’, meaning their exposure is low. Their facebook and instagram profiles are also filled with ridicule from both men and women who body shame them for their weight, this could then negatively impact any women with body dissatisfaction who reads these

Furthermore, after looking closely at the two adverts it is indisputable to deduce that the portrayal of women in such an intriguing way has a negative effect on the society; especially the female section. Many may suggest that there is just as much pressure on the male part however, according to the Association for Body Image Disordered Eating, it was revealed that women’s magazines had about 10.5 times as many weight loss advertisements