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    For the longest time now‚ advertising has played a huge role in how we identify ourselves in the United States with the American culture‚ and how others identify themselves with all the cultures of the rest of the world as well. It guides us in making everyday decisions‚ such as what items we definitely need to invest our money on‚ how to dress in-vogue‚ and what mindset we should have to prosper the most. Although advertising does help make life easier for most‚ at the same time it has negative

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    How and why sex and violence is used to represent women in advertising? In our competitive world of business and products‚ the sale is the highest goal for the companies and the most effective so far tool to raise it is throughout the advertisement. The sellers are willing to pay a big money for a short message that will be watched by the potential viewers. The industry consider an add as effective when brings to the sale of the product. Nevertheless‚ in the world where the potential financial resources

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    women has been noticeable problem of our society and much effort has been done to solve it and it is on its way to being slowly resolved. However‚ that is only one side of the problem; sexism against man is rarely recognized and understood by only few. In the article “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” by Jean Kilbourne‚ like any other media‚ depicts sexism as something that only accounts toward woman. Women and men should be treated as equal. However‚ more attention is directed towards discrimination towards

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    English 112 5/17/2013 According to the article “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” by Jean Kilbourne advertising is dehumanizing to women and men which portrays sexually explicit material. It is all about the marketing of products. In today’s society‚ women are being exploited and degraded by men. In the world of advertising‚ it is all about making money in addition‚ promoting a product. Jean Kilbourne stated that”the poses and postures of advertising are often borrowed from pornography” (page 576)

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    The Power of Media In the text “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt: Advertising and Violence”‚ Jean Kilbourne‚ an award winning author and educator who is internationally recognized for her innovative work on images of woman in advertising‚ argues how media images influence our interactions and shape our social reality. Kilbourne’s sensible analysis of these powerful and harmful advertisements lacks a simplistic cause and effect relationship between the way we act and the images presented to us

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    In “Two Ways a Woman Can get Hurt: Advertising and Violence‚” the author Jean Kilbourne describes how advertising and violence is a big problem for women. Although her piece is a little scrambled‚ she tries to organize it with different types of advertisement. Women are seen as sex objects when it comes to advertising name brand products. Corporate representatives justify selling and marketing for a product by how a woman looks. Kilbourne explains how the media is a big influence on how men perceive

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    advertisements will make them memorable with humor or emotion‚ the one that is used the most is humor. Humor also have negative aspects that viewers can take from watching it. Some people may say that humor advertisements are inappropriate in the way that the products shown are shown in a negative. Humorous advertisements can have negative effects with the violence that could be shown‚ the stereotypes that are in most advertisements and with sexual content that is shown now a days.

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    Ahmed Geensh Ann Mitchel ENG 122-002 10/4/2011 Summary/Evaluation Essay In the article “Tow Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” by Jean Kilbourne‚ which was published in 1999‚ describes how women are shown in today advertisements. Sex in advertising has taken a completely bizarre way to advertise about a certain product. Women are usually shown in inappropriate matter to attract consumer’s attention. Most of the advertisements today are based on pornography features. In addition‚ the use of sex content

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    Professor Lidinsky Sept 10‚ 2012 "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt": Advertising and Violence Jean Kilbourne in her article Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt says‚ ” Sex in advertising is pornographic because it dehumanizes and objectifies people‚ especially women‚ and because it fetishizes products‚ imbues them with an erotic charge- which dooms us to disappointment since products never can fulfill our sexual desires or meet our emotional needs" (459). Jean Kilbourne explains the relationship between

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    how many ads you have seen in your lifetime and how they have affected you over time. “Two Way a Woman Can Get Hurt” by Jean Kilbourne is an article about how the objectification of women in advertising can lead to violence because ads shows a truth and this truth is that women are more likely to get abused. Jean Kilbourne successfully attempts to inform women that objectifying people in advertisement makes violence seem acceptable by using logos and pathos. However‚ her weakness is that she writes

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