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for the hero is usually a white hat, (this is to show purity). The hero would also wear a brightly coloured shirt , a pair of jeans and cowboy boots with spurs on the back of them. The hero is also very clean and also normally tall and good looking. A traditional Western includes things like white settlers living in a town

Introduction Fashion is more than clothing on the body. It is the self-expression, empowerment, and comfort that a garment brings. The willingness to be trendy with the latest fashion is up to the consumer. But, the trends during the 1980s are hard not to follow. The fashion motto of the 1980s is big everything. Big hair, big accessories, big shoulder pads. Self-expression was encouraged and embraced with bright colors and styles so diverse that everyone seemed to fit in. Everything from spandex

impossible beauty standards Body dissatisfaction and unhealthy behaviors among children and teens appear to be on the rise in the U.S., while appearance ideals have become increasingly unrealistic Some companies such as Dove fight back against unrealistic beauty standards by having campaigns that promote a positive body image Advertising is an over 200$ billion industry and according to Jean Kilbourne, people are exposed to over 3000 advertisements a day. Advertisements are everywhere so there is no escaping

where the drugs are is where the gangs are, also the weapons to protect to their territory. While writing his article Michael Blanding quotes a young man of 16 years of old named Sharodeny Finch, who said, “People get tired of wearing the same damn jeans”. This young man was referring to the fact that he gets tired of the gangs, and tries to do the right thing by finding an actual job. But when he got turned down his response was, “ You try to do the right thing, find a job to earn money, and you can't

Throughout the 20th century, every decade experienced a new crisis. Along with a new crisis came the inevitable change in the ongoing fashion trends adopted by the women that were enmeshed in their own time. A woman’s status and station in society affected the type of clothing choices deemed acceptable or expected of her. We shall take a deeper look at the history, which reveals how the role of the woman unfolds through popular clothing styles, as revealed through hemlines, layers of clothing and

and services. A rise in inflation decreases the purchasing power of money, meaning consumers would have to pay more for a product than they would have had to a year earlier. It is widely accepted that there are two types of inflation, demand-pull inflation and cost-push inflation. Demand-pull inflation is triggered by demand surpassing the economy’s ability to produce those goods and services required to satisfy demand. Cost-push inflation occurs when prices increase due to a rise in production costs

In the wake of the destructive French Revolution and the domestic struggles that took place under the rule of the Directory, Napoleon Bonaparte took power and proceeded to unify, improve, and expand France, and in the process became one of the most well know and celebrated leaders of the Western world. Born in Corsica, Napoleon received a scholarship from a French military academy where he honed his impressive military skills. He was eventually able to seize power, and during his long and prosperous

The concept of Auteur was first introduced by Andre Bazin in an essay featured in a 1954 edition of Cahier du Cinema, often referred to as ‘camera stylo’ or ‘signature style’ as a way of critiquing French new wave cinema. This theory allowed film to be criticised and analysed in the same way as other creative platforms such as art and literature. By identifying the director as auteur as opposed to just ‘Metteur-en-Scène’ it transformed them into an artisté, by assuming creative control they in turn

World War II, Keynesian policies had dominated the economic system in most countries around the world. However, this soon changed after the oil crisis in the 1970’s and after government intervention was blamed for stagflation, paving the way for the rise in neoliberal economics dominated by Thatcherism and Reaganomics. The difference between neoliberal economics and classical liberal economics is the rejection of Adam Smith’s theory of the invisible hand of supply and demand and believe it will worsen

In the opening introduction of The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan starts off by making a mother say “In America, I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband’s belch. Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English (3).” All the mothers in these three novels desire that their daughters have a voice because their own silence had brought them down. In America, women are not held