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    their brands. Fowles discusses fifteen main appeals that marketers use in ads and commercials in hopes we will purchase their product. In the October issue of Glamour Magazine there’s an ad promoting the brand BEBE. In this ad it has a timeline of a woman getting ready to go out and enjoy her

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    according to Scarlett Johansson’s character, Black Widow characterizes Gary’s argument that female characters are seen as male’s sexual desire. Although the director of the film for Avengers 2: Age of Ultron puts more focus on characters that do not get much attention as the leaders of the group specifically, Black Widow. The character Natasha Romanoff also known as Black Widow is an agent and is a member of the Avengers team. Scarlet Johansson who plays the Black Widow is an indestructible character who

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    outside, home, and their bodily processes no woman discussed the inconvenience or embarrassment or asked why the world outside does not validate the functions of

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    Before and After I, painted in casein on canvas in 1961 was inspired by a small advertisement he saw in the National Enquirer (The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1981.536.1). As the title suggests, it highlights the shift in physical appearance of a woman pre-and post-operation. Nearly sixty years later there are television shows, posters, and commercials that flood the homes of millions of American families that boast an idealized image of beauty--flawless bronzed skin, slender figures, and symmetrical

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    They experienced intersectionality regarding race, gender, citizenship, being former slaves etc. They were more likely to not have had a formal education and so were looked upon as less intelligent. The white establishment feared they could influence Black men to vote in ways that would lessen their superiority. 3. Exclusion by other women- White women often excluded African-American

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    women faced while working for NASA as well as the hardships of all other African American women in the workplace. A few of the hardships they faced were sexism, discrimination, and ageism. Hidden Figures was set in Hampton, Virginia in 1961. Each woman was a genius from birth and their abilities were taken for granted in a white, male dominant work place. Their intelligence was a huge part of the success in the launch of the first American into space. One prominent hardship in Hidden Figures was

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    Bibliography ABC News. (2016). Timeline: The Black Lives Matter movement. [online] Available at: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-14/black-lives-matter-timeline/7585856 [Accessed 22 Jul. 2017]. Bercuci, L. (2016). Pop Feminism: Televised Superheroines from the 1990s to the 2010s. Gender Studies, [online] 15(1), pp.252-269. Available at: https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/genst.2016.15.issue-1/genst-2017-0017/genst-2017-0017.pdf [Accessed 14 Jul. 2017]. Bey, M. (2015). She Had a Name That God

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    Steinbeck illustrates how unfair society is when Crooks confesses to Lennie about how he feels alienated: “ S’pose you couldn't go into the bunkhouse and play rummy ‘cause you was black.” (pg. 72). The significance of the quote is Crooks desires company, but that is unacceptable since he is a black man. We see that Crooks wants company and can’t achieve that, but what is easy to overlook is that society restricts him of other potential opportunities not just being able to have conversations

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    the background is dark, the space of a shape will stand out. The flapper in the painting also wearing a white skirt, so it makes her will be the subject matter. The emphasis in the painting is definitely the young woman because the background is just black and bland, while the young woman is being painted meticulously, the details of the skirt and the makeup on her

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    According to Naomi Nkealah who considers diverse streams of African feminisms as something which strive to create a new, liberal, productive and self-reliant African woman within the heterogeneous cultures of Africa. Feminisms in Africa, ultimately, aim at modifying culture as it affects women in different societies. Thus taking the multifarious nature of African experience into consideration, African Feminisms explore the possibilities of embracing the magnitude of their collective experiences

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