Visual Representation: Ethos, And Stereotypes

The “Photographic Icons: Fact, Fiction, or Metaphor”, written by a photographic critic and writer Philip Gefter, represents the various situations lying in a photograph and how these situations can affect the authenticity of the photograph. The article also refers to the success and failure of fictional and metaphorical photographs in disclosing the reality.

Hidden Figures, an extraordinary film that shines light on women existence and their intelligence. The women, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan used the power of their intelligence to decipher complex math calculations, computer language to build rockets that other could not see. Throughout the movie racial descrepancies were vividly clear, but these eager women had something to stand for. They dared not let the words of bitterness deter them of their worth.

This picture is getting a lot of attention from people since it shows racism and color difference. The reason for choosing this image is due to people labeling others on their color and stereotypically assigning them their careers based on their skin color. This image of babies shows an example of ethos, logos, and pathos.

For instance, upon seeing certain cards you could think I have excellent credit or possibly doing the regrettable thing and using the cards to pay off other cards. One could interpret the pictures as a sense of remembrance of a past that at one time was full of happiness and sorrow and the other photo could be taken as a new beginning, a love worth fighting for. One could view all the clothes in the backpack to be a bit excessive but to others, it marks a wise mother who knows that anything could happen when it comes to children. Looking at the tattoos, one could be disgusted and wonder why someone would degrade their body in such a manner while other people would think of the basic symbol of a phoenix;” a beautiful bird that dies in a fire of its own making only to rise again from the ashes.” (New World

As a student in both one of your schools and at Dalton State College, I am both surprised and delighted by your decision to provide laptops to all students. Dalton High School, which I attend, is, like most schools in this day and time, trying to go paperless. Access to these laptops provides internet capabilities to students that would not otherwise have them. I also respect your decision to offer insurance for those willing to buy it because my offering it you recognize that mistakes do happen and sometimes students are not at fault. These laptops are a great edition to the resources that student have access to however, some issues have arisen with these laptops and need to be addresses.

“Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. It does involve the use of language, of signs and images which stand for or represent things “(Hall 2013). Moscovici, one of the founders of the social representations theory explained that, “Our reactions to

1. The statements that bring Jack and Frank back from their individualist or collectivist views is catching up and bringing up the past on what they did. While stuck in the alleyway, they talk brief about how either the job gets done or it does not get done implying that they did some sort of engagement in the past. Even towards the end of the film, they confront each other in the parking garage and talk about what happened to a family and the case. Even though Jack has a individualist concept while Frank is more of a collectivist concept, they both are drawn together through the past that they did and the friendship that they had.

On a daily bases people make excuses for everything. Everything meaning our actions and the things that we say. Common things that we make excuse for deal with sexist, racist, and heterosexist comments. Sexist is classified as saying that one sex is better than the other. An example of this is someone calling a male or female something that they are not. I do not like this because we are all humans and deserve to be respected and not called something that is degrading. We all know that racist is downgrading one race compared to another. An example of this is, saying that all black people are loud and ghetto. We all act the same but some people do certain things different from others. That’s just there way of living. I do not think that just because one person acts one way the whole race does also. Heterosexist is defined as heterosexuality is better than all other expressions. An example of this would be talking about how a guy dresses and calling him gay. I do not agree with this as well because it is good to stand out and be your own person not matter how others see you.

In the United States, anyone can live and practice any tradition and values they please, but this freedom does not guarantee anyone’s practice will be accepted by society. In big cities, such as New York, there is a diverse population filled with people of different ethnicities, religions, and social class. Even though we see and meet different people every day we are conditioned to accepted a universal belief about their native group as a whole. This belief is a stereotype and is often untrue. Still, stereotypes dictate our thoughts and actions and do not consider the individuals in the group nor their feelings. Believing in stereotypes always lead to serious consequences. Stereotypes of poverty, the disabled and Islam are hurtful because

Aubrey, I loved how you started this discussion off with your own personal relationship to the issue. I cannot agree enough with the statement that our views, as an individual, are directly affected by the society with which we grew up in and our relationships with other people. Whether this be with people similar to our selves or drastically different. This truly speaks for the argument of color consciousness. From the points you made throughout this discussion, covering the reasons as to why people are more likely to cast prejudgment on those that are different from themselves, such as whites vs. blacks or lighter skinned blacks vs. darker skinned blacks, I find it very easy to agree with you. The explanations you provided make it easy to

Despite race, religion, ethnicity, marriage, disability, political view, gender, or culture, an American isn't defined by these stereotypes. Although the United States is far from perfect, there's plenty of marvelous aspects that compose us to weave into unity more than other parts of the world. Before, in history, our founding fathers have given us the constitution to live in additional freedom. Albeit our nation has faults just like others, I'm proud to revel in its democracy.

This week, in Chapter 5 The Perceptual Context, we covered stereotypes. Stereotypes typically refer to membership in social categories such as sex, race, age, or profession, that are believed to be associated with certain traits and behaviors, as noted by Neuliep (2015). Stereotypes can often stem from an individual’s own perception and form one’s cultural upbringing. The film I am covering, as it relates to stereotypes is Think Like a Man. Think Like a Man is about four women who are at their wits end with dead road relationships. When the women discover Steve Harvey’s book, Think Like a Man, they began turning their relationships around. It becomes short lived when the guys figure out they have been betrayed by the

Taken together, these academic and popular books on generations perpetuate the problems that have plagued the generation concept throughout the Twentieth Century: the multiple definitions of the term, the theoretical richness of the concept combined with the lack of empirical evidence to support it, and the perpetuation of stereotypes based on selective representation of facts. If these works were mere marketing strategies, they would not be cause for concern; but they are produced by professors and other intellectuals and sold to the public as non-fiction rather than science-fiction (they are, after all, mostly fantastical imaginations of a society grounded loosely in a handful of scientific facts). In the absence of rigorous research with

A barrage of advertisements, photographs, videos, graphs, and graphic compositions meet our eyes every day. Some of these attempt to coax us to buy what is presented through them, while others are just presented to please us. Although, each of these images are presented for different reasons, they all have visual arguments they are trying to make. Most images have a composition that is specifically planned or captured to convey a specific message. Being in a class that teaches how to use images in a manner that conveys a message, and has emphasis on the composition of such images, I found some of the information very familiar. However, information that was new to me, was applying critical thinking to an image. Evaluating claims, breaking down

Mr. Kass is spot on with this article. As I tune in to today's political conversations, it really does sadden me as to how primitive political discussions have become. Already, we are suffering from a lack of diverse thought. Too often, and I was previously guilty of this too, we subscribe to the political beliefs of our parents and/or our peers. We take on the same labels that they do. Dad's a conservative, I'm a conservative. However, we don't consider each issue individually, we automatically look for whatever our label tells us to think. In the case of college campuses, the literal mob effect has only exacerbated these problems. All my friends are gonna go shout down that anti-semitic homophobe Milo Yiannopoulos? I'll join in solidarity