English 103 Final Part 1 – Flashcards
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Love is a Fallacy
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Max Shulman In this short story, the narrator is an arrogant and conceited student at a college who tries to change a girl, Polly, to fit his standards as an accessory to his success. However, as he teaches her fallacies, she soon uses her new knowledge against him. The theme portrayed by Max Shulman is that love cannot be created by morphing a person.
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The Signs of Shopping
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Anne Norton This essay discusses the role of shopping malls in communities and their larger purpose than just to purchase items. The shape identities and play a setting for communication and interaction.
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The Science of Shopping
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Malcolm Gladwell This essay reveals the system used by malls and stores parallel to human nature in order to attract customers
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Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
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Stephanie Clifford & Quentin Hardy This essay discusses Nordstrom's use of tracking customers' cellphones for the purpose of gaining information about shopping patterns and to reconstruct their stores for more sales. However this is a controversial tactic because it invades the privacy of shoppers in a direct and physical manner.
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Masters of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising
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Jack Solomon Solomon goes into depth about how American culture has impact on advertisements. The need to rise above creates status and symbols that display superiority.
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Everything Now
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Steve McKevitt Using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, McKevitt explains the nature of consumerism and differentiates between wants and needs. Once humans have satisfied their means for survival, they are after the next level of "needs". Soon this becomes a greed for unnecessary things such as bottled water.
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Dove's "Real Beauty" Backlash
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Jennifer Pozner Jennifer Pozner reveal the negative backlash received by the display of women that do not fit the standard of beautiful. The comments and negative response received by men is unsettling and reveals the brainwash that has been implicated with the standards of beauty in modern America.
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What We Are to Advertisers
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James Twitchell Twitchell reveals the categories advertisers have placed people in for the purpose of creating advertisements directed at those individuals who are in a certain personality profile. (Achievers, actualizers, strugglers, etc. )
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Men's Men and Women's Women
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Steve Craig This essay discusses the difference between commercials constructed for women and those for men. They appeal to different genders and associate their products with a specific sex. For example, beer is a manly thing while losing weight is a feminine thing.
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Sex, Lies, and Advertising
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Gloria Steinem Gloria Steinem is an icon of the women's movement who reformed the magazine "Ms." by taking out ads.
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Communication: Its Blocking and Its Facilitation
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Carl Rogers Rogers is a psychotherapist who believes for successful communication, one must calmly explain his point of view and listen to the opposing point of view. He suggests the help of mediator
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Selling to Children: The Marketing of Cool
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Juliet Schor Advertisements that are directed at kids incorporate more adult themes in modern day because it is cool to be older. Also Nickelodeon's foundation is the motto that kids rule and encourages rebellion through advertisements. Teens looks at ads to see what is cool while advertisers study kids, tweens, and teens to find best ways to market to them.
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The Harmful Myth of Asian Superiority
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Ronald Takaki The stereotype that Asian-Americans are the model minority for their "success" in America pits one race against another: the African-Americans. It also hides a reality of the hardships Asians face financially. The stereotypes places on blacks for not being a successful minority has many factors other than the race.
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Its Hard Enough Being Me
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Anna Lisa Raya Anna Lisa Raya explains how leaving her dominantly Hispanic neighborhood to go to college affected her. For the first time, she was labeled a minority and constantly pressured to fit Hispanic stereotypes and define herself strictly under them. She faced an identity crisis because she was caught in between her labels and who she really was, which sometimes differed from what was expected.
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You've Got the Wrong Song: Nashville and Country Music Feminism
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Claire Stanford Country music from the female perspective has been infamous for derogatory behavior portrayed. For example "stand b your man" encourages women to accept the faults of their husband because it is their duty, while it is okay for the men to disrespect them. This essay focuses on the show "Nashville" and its feminist point of view. Rayna and Juliette are both women who display feminism and strong female roles in a male dominated industry.
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Here Comes the Hillbilly, Again
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Michelle Dean Stereotypes for hillbillies have skyrocketed with shows like "Here Comes Honey Booboo" and they use stereotypes such as "white trash" or "rednecks" to define their actions.
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Creating the Myth
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Linda Seger This essay discusses the formula that creates a successful myth-a story that is more than true. Myths are so successful because of the large relating factor that the audience experiences when watching/reading myth. We can relate our obstacles and life changing events to those in the myth and are happy for the reformation of the character.
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Asian Women In Film: No Joy, No luck
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Jessica Hagerdorn Asian women in film are portrayed in order to appeal to stereotypes. They are either submissive, eager for sex, tragic, or evil/cunning dragon ladies. The limited portrayal of Asian women due to exploitation by Hollywood and American men has caused an inaccurate correlation with Asian women and their identities.
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The Offensive Movie Cliche That Won't Die
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Matt Seitz This essay discusses the "magical negro" that aids the white character in their journey. They have no other purpose than to serve the white hero.
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The Butler Versus The Help: Gender Matters
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Helena Andrews This essay discusses the reasoning behind the different responses to The Butler and The Help. Viola Davis had to defend playing the role of a mammy while Forest Whitaker was received with a more accepting response. Helena Andrews addresses that this is due to the different genders.
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Thoughts on the Help
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Roxane Gay This essay criticizes The Help for its use of the magical negro, humanizing the white characters and revolving the stories of the black maids around them, omission of important details such as the Civil Rights Movement, inaccuracy of the dialect and setting, etc.
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High School Confidential: Notes on Teen Movies
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David Denby This essay discusses how teen movies are very predictable and duplicates because they insight similar plot lines using similar stereotypes. However, there are a few movies that pull in audience with the basic high school stereotypes but debunk them and lead to a more interesting plot.
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How the Western Was Lost-And Why It Matters
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Michael Agresta This essay reveals the failure of western movies in modern day when they used to be very popular before. He explains that our history has become embarrassing to us and the portrayal of a western movie with the omission of the reality of our history is unrealistic.
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Why the West Loves Sci-Fi and Fantasy: A Cultural Explanation
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Christina Folch Bollywood is the largest movie industry in the world yet they barely make sci-fi and fantas movies. America's top grossing movies have been of this genre. Christina Folch concludes that the west faces "disenchantment" because of the systematic nature of our world, so we are more interested in the unknown and imaginary.
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The F Word
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Firoozeh Dumas Firoozeh narrates her childhood in America as an immigrant. One of her biggest struggles she faced was her foreign name not being accepted. Her insecurity and fear of loss of identity drove her to extreme measure, changing her name numerous times and having it clash with the two worlds she lived in. She reveals a part of the immigrant experience that may seem trivial but was overwhelming to her identity.
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Dragon Slayers
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Jerald Walker He narrates how his writing style-that focused on African American struggles- evolved from dramatizing the oppression, hardships, and defeat to focusing on black courage and accomplishments despite all the odds. He went from victimizing his race to empowering it for all its accomplishments and strength.
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Superman and Me
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Sherman Alexie Sherman Alexie describes growing up as a Native American and breaking free of the stereotypes. He was expected to be dumb and submissive against the white man. He faced oppression from both sides because he was viewed as an oddity for his love for literature and knowledge. However, he succeeds in his passion and attempts to save the younger generation and be a role model for them.
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Flight Patterns
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Sherman Alexie William does not fall into the stereotypes of Native Americans. He is faced with racial profiling on a daily basis and relates to his Ethiopian taxi driver.
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Every Little Hurricane
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Sherman Alexie This story narrates the pains that Victor endures as a little boy and his perception of life on the Indian Reservation. The bad events in his life are compared to little hurricanes. His life of poverty and the endurance of the pain of his parents weigh heavy on him and shape his life. His parents drank to escape the pain and it gave his father liquor courage. The entire community suffers similar pains
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This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona
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Sherman Alexie Victor's father has been found dead in his trailer in Phoenix, Arizona. He rekindles his friendship with Thomas temporarily.
