The Split Self: Personal Identity On- and Off-line
Media Analysis Questions Edited…
How did designers of this particular sweater (Gucci a popular “luxury” brand enjoyed by all) think the message would be interpreted by a specific group who are offended by the sweater and spend millions of their money on this fashion line?
Can a boycott from that specific group encourage a mass boycott followed by their fans/ supporters eventually hurt the sales of the Gucci fashion brand?
We the Animals is based on the book written by Justin Torres. The film surrounds three brothers. “Us three. Us brothers. Us kings.” The film is a sensitive portrayal of a toxic relationship. There is so much violence in the way the boys’ parents love each other.
There is one scene in particular that boils over from the cycle of abuse, passed down from father to mother to brother to stranger. The youngest boy Jonah is struggling with his own conflict, as many growing adolescents do.
Jonah sprints through the woods with a smile plastered on his face. He stops. Walks. Then runs some more. He climbs through his window avoiding his brothers. In his bedroom, he discovers his bed to be disheveled. So he searches for his secrets. His notebook has gone AWOL. He flings the sheets from his bed. A pillow is tossed into the air. A mattress flung.
He sees his family in the living room. His attention darts from them to the drawings sprawled out on the floor. He scoops up his drawings. His mother reaches out and grabs his forehead to hers. “Where were you?”
He looks in her eyes. His hands scratch and claw at Ma. His roars are heard, His anger felt. His father peels him off of his mother. His legs kick out from underneath his father’s hold.
This scene was intense. It was intense because I could easily see how hurt Jonah was to have his sexuality on display. His thoughts things he kept hidden. The conflict is with the way he dealt with his anger.
He knew no other way to express his anger. He learned this from his father: placing his anger upon someone else.
I wonder how do others experience anger? How do you deal with it correctly?
http://fortune.com/2018/06/19/gamestop-seeking-buyer/
As seen in the chart and article link GameStop has been plummeting in value lately and even have been trying to sell itself to gain financial stability from there rapidly declining popularity and sales. GameStop seems to be in great trouble do to losing close it $105.9 million dollars in the year if 2017 during the period which they were trying to get backers this all but dried up there market for buyers who now see them as a risk.
At first this seem especially strange due to the GameStop being the number one physical game retailer in the world beating out companies like Target and Best Buy. However, It all come into perspective when you realize that physical games are quickly being less and less desirable even for console gamers due to digital game stores streamlining the process. Companies like Steam, Epic Games, Microsoft and more have been eating into the market greatly. Couple this reality with the fact that GameStop’s customer service is renowned atrocious not to mention there anti-consumer policies like the terrible retuinse and high prices for preorder games. Mix this all together and the result is a volatile mess of and unnecessary and unliked story trying to stay relevant in a market that nobody need.
Using the photograph above we can the true decline started in September of 2018. However this is unsurprising due to september being the time when students go back to school and during that time a large portion of the Gamestop demographic is not focused on recreational activities, in this case video games. But, the truly damning thing we realize is that instead of being a flat drop like most stores would experience in various point if the year it seems to be a decline. This leads me to believe it’s more than just an off-season for the company but more of a fet up consumer base leaving. Even more proof of this is show in the period between late December of 2018 and late January of 2019 when a spike appeared. This sale spike secured solely because January is always the period where the most game release at once so it was almost a guarantee that anyone who sold game would make money during this time. But the most notable part is that we see an immediate drop right back back to negative slope as if the spike have never happened indicating that people really are done with this company Because if the only time you can make money is the time when you were guaranteed to make money then you are not a good business.
It not all bad though GameStop’s quite liked for there gaming accessories in there ThinkGeek branch. So the question is there do they go from here? Is this sustainable? Would it be more beneficial to rebrand as ThinkGeek and make their main income from game related accessories? Can they even sell? Or will they be delved doom to join the countless casualties of time in the Ather?
There is a measles outbreak right now. There is also an anti-vaccine outbreak going on concurrently.
Question #1: The comments from where I found this picture indicated that this person seemed to be part of the medical profession, specifically a nurse. A person not in this profession might be a bit more naive, but why, do you think, would someone who should have intimate knowledge of medicine have this type of view?
Question #2: Vaccines have the express purpose of helping prevent us from getting the disease, while also helping prevent the spread of the disease. Knowing this, why would someone be willing to expose others to the disease (again, keeping in mind the profession this person is in)?
With this being black history month and how today society seems to have entered a time machine and is heading back to a time where some might say America was at its greatest hence the slogan the current president seems to love to repeat “Make America Great Again” and to others saying this was America at its worst. I believe that this artist though his graphic artwork which he titled “Birth of a Nation “captured what America really is and how it became the great nation around the world. The conflict that I see in this image is how America was built with the sweat blood and tears of African Americans people and how society till this day refuse to acknowledge the contributions that African American people made in creating the history of America and what it is today. The more I look at this image the more I question why did the artist choose to have a black male giving birth rather than a black female giving birth. Another question I have is why did the artist choose the flag to be giving birth to what’s the symbolism behind that. Another question is what do the change symbolize and how does that play in the image and lastly why was it a white man doing the birth delivery itself.
Revision: Question
Enigma
1) Why did the artist decided to have a male figure being then one to give birth.
2) What is the significant of the flag and the white males that’s putting on it.
In this time of the world, it is really ironic to come across a post like this on your social media feed. Ever since we have been young we’ve learned about the history of our past time and how war has happened. We were educated in the Jewish holocaust, why’d we learn this?  We learned this because it was something obvious to grasp on to the fact that it’s wrong. Now in modern day a holocaust is in place, and no-one is taking action. This is an enigma because after all the chaos it created, history is just allowing itself to happen again in a time especially like this. Adding on to the fact that this is an enigma, is because there is hardly any coverage on such  a tragic  occurrence on the news. This issue is being reported and spread though social media panels. This proves to the previous post about the sponge bob meme, not exactly answering the question about memes, but yes in times like this social media gets the job done. If it wasn’t for social media we wouldn’t get exposure to the real things out in the world we need to know. The news is controlled by a source and they are allowed to be biased and show us what they want. However social media allows us to see what we want and use our voices. Together everyone is spreading awareness and keeping an eye open for what needs to be seen, not just what the government wants us to see.
There is no better way to get the attention of males than with two of the things that they love : food and woman. This is a Carl’s Jr. ad featuring the beautiful Heidi Klum, wearing an attractive black dress and a holding a burger in her hand. This is stereotyping that woman have to be sexy, and very appealing toward males by wearing little clothing or no clothing at all If a black person advertised this same ad for Carl’s Jr., no one would be interested in going there, but because people like Klum and Hilton that are attractive to male audience, it would make sense to use them as model especially when it comes to drawing customers in. In our society, these ads all over stereotype how a woman suppose to look like; skinny, attractive and to be seductive.
Questions:
Conflict: Why did they use an attractive female to advertise a food product?
Enigma: How does having an attractive female holding a burger draw’s attention to both females and males?
The notebook – fight scene
The enigma in this scene from this movie is that the women Allie went back to the house of the man who she fell in love with fist which was Noah but she doesn’t know why when she is engaged and is about to marry a rich man then she tells Noah that she has to go. When Noah says ” your bored and you know it, you wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t something missing”. She still leaves. It’s mysterious because we don’t know if Allie actually wants Noah back.
The contradiction in this scene is when Noah says “so you make love to me and then you go back to your husband” . Allie says “they were irresponsible” meaning she has her fiancĂ© waiting for her but if she has a fiancĂ© and she loves her fiancĂ© why is she with Noah. She says she knows the couple of days she spent with Noah happened but that they were irresponsible.
The conflict in this movie is that Noah wants to be with Allie but Allie keeps thinking about what everyone else thinks is best for her instead of thinking about herself.
In the world of social media and texting, expressing emotions is ultimately based on emoticons and memes. A meme is an entertaining video, image, or text that gets shared and utilized from person to person on the Internet. This particular image of Spongebob Squarepants is an example of a meme, one that expresses sarcasm and mockery. Typically, this image is used with an added text. When someone wants to mock someone for what they are saying, they repeat them but with a mix of both capital and lowercase letters. For example, if someone were to say “I am getting so fat,” the next person would respond with “I aM gEtTiNg fAt.” The image of Spongebob expresses the facial expression and body gestures of the persons sarcasm and the poorly used grammar in the text expresses their tone in mockery. As technology evolves, many new things are getting introduced to the world of social media, one of the most recent being memes.
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This ad is from an Italian fashion designer called Dolce and Gabbana. In this picture you could see an Asian model who is trying to eat a cannoli dessert and a pizza with a chopstick. This is stereotyping/ bias towards Asian people because chopstick is only used for certain type of food sizes. A chopstick is a part of the Asian culture. During this ad, Dolce and Gabbana had a fashion show in china, but then it got cancelled because of this racist ad they did. People need to stop stereotyping not only Asian people, but other minority. I guess Dolce and Gabbana is promoting that by wearing the dress the Asian model is wearing in the picture it could make you use the chopstick very well.
Link video of this racist ad:
Two discussion questions:
1.) Conflict: How could Dolce and Gabbana fix this situation with china people?
2.) Enigma: Would this stereotype affect China people and Italian people?
  Being that it is black history month, it is essential to understand the reality of the world we live in today. Slavery HAS NOT been abolished. We had it engraved in our minds since a young age that slavery ended in 1865. However, it was not.
The thirteenth amendment granted freedom to all Americans: yet it contains a loophole in which it excludes criminals. In other words if a person is being criminalized, the thirteenth amendment does not apply. Take this exploitation of a clause, added with 100 years of racial tension (since the creation of the thirteenth amendment to the civil rights movement) plus an indefinite “war on drugs” which was truthfully a war on people of color and low-income communities and you get to here. The United States of America, 2019. Home to 5% of the world’s population and yet where 25% of the world’s prisoners are locked up. 1 out of 4 people is being held in shackles here, in the land of the free.
This is a prime example of the higher class white american teasing black american. The conflict in this situation is Moncler, a popular high class brand has a high percentage of African Americans wearing their products. Monclear then goes on to defend their self by stating the outlined face on the puffer coat is part of a group of characters attached to their brand. Even if the characters are part of a collection, it’s obviously controversial when it come to outlining a jim crow face on anything black. Moncler It screams black face. Is it possible that Moncler will see a decline in African American consumers, or will the company pay famous artists to start wearing their brand?. Should Moncler discontinue their characters for ever?, or how would they gain revenue after releasing such a racist product?
Although the company responded to the racial feedback, their choice of background looks a little dishonest. The eye emoji on the bottom signifies deviousness. The clouds are smiling and smirking as if everything is joyful. The black penguin with the outlined face is the only character with arms- a human like structure. Penguins aren’t even shaped like this. Whats your opinion on Moncler’s response to the racial feedback? Do you think this response is sincere or did Moncler know what they were doing?
With February being Black History Month, why did this fashion line feel like it was appropriate to mock such a racist act and time in history towards African American (Black) people with this sweater?
What did this designer intend to be interpreted from this piece of clothing, especially being displayed on a white model, and the origin of the design?
Rapper-Actor-Entrepreneur-Producer-Father and Community Activist, T.I made a lengthy post on Instagram basically stating #FuckGucci. He also states how he is “a 7 figure/yr customer and long time supporter of the Gucci brand…” and “APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED!!!!” He, himself admits to wearing and supporting the brand, knowing the affect he has on the public and his followers.
With Gucci being a popular luxury brand enjoyed by all people. Do you think that a boycott from a particular group of people will have effect on the nature of sales or the brand as a whole?
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One part of this article that stuck out to me was when Salz mentioned the hole that 9/11 left. Curiosity got the best of me and I took a detour from the article. From this I stumbled upon a photograph of a woman named Marcy Borders aka the Dust Lady. Marcy was covered in the dust of one of the towers. Stan Honda captured this moment: the despair and the sheer shock.Â
And, after hours of deep research into 9/11, I returned to Salz’s article. The taboo nature of that photograph is similar to John Quirke’s photograph in Auschwitz.Â
It raises the same red flag that others gawk at.Â
This is a hook because it grabs the readers attention. Salz does this by using the buzz word selfie. It’s a word many recognize and would stay to read more.Â
“A fast self-portrait, made with a smartphone’s camera and immediately distributed and inscribed into a network, is an instant visual communication of where we are, what we’re doing, who we think we are, and who we think is watching.”
This sentence explains what exactly a selfie is, how it’s used and where it’s found. Salz sets a foundation then builds on top of it with key details to explain the topic sentence.Â
five ways Salz describes what a selfie is:
five was Salz describe what a selfie is not:
1)In the article “Art at Arm’s Length” Jerry Salz expresses what a selfie is in comparison to a self portrait. he claims that selfies today have revolutionized the way we are able to communicate by taking quick photos that can be casual, silly, typical,and or boring, all the while expressing how we feel in a specific moment. Salz further emphasizes how we use selfies in order to share intimate,scary or funny moments
2)He uses this hook because it immediatley catches the audience attention by giving a statement and in a way forcing the audience to want to know why he believes this
3)In the following sentence he explains what a selfie is and how fast it reaches to social media and online   this builds of the first sentence because it tells the reader how smartphones make it easier for people to post their everyday lives
1.  Make two lists.  In one, tally up at least five ways Salz describes what a selfie IS. In the other list, tally at least five things Salz says the selfie IS NOT (or is different from).  Refer to page #s from the text to locate each description.
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