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This essay examines the figure of Monica Lewinsky. It argues that the way she has been treated by the mass media reveals a gender bias within the society at large. The dominant culture makes sure to objectify women in a sexual way and to commodify them.

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The paper briefly argues that Desmond's discussion of Hawaiian tourism offers a good complement to the implicit eroticism involved in experiencing tourism through the practices of the body. The paper shows how human sexuality - chiefly of a heterosexual nature - is used to familiarize oneself to the foreign terrain of the tourist site (at least in Hawaii); it can also be used, in a real sense, to first commodify, and then to gain mastery over, the tourist location.

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"The following paper will briefly argue that Desmond's discussion of Hawaiian tourism offers a good complement to the implicit eroticism involved in experiencing tourism through the practices of the body. In short, human sexuality - chiefly of a heterosexual nature - is used to familiarize oneself to the foreign terrain of the tourist site (at least in Hawaii); it can also be used, in a real sense, to first commodify, and then to gain mastery over, the tourist location. Desmond approvingly cites scholars like Marianna Torgovnick who comment..."

Tags:crouch, desmond, hawaii

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This paper is about how society and the mass media are obsessed with the body image of women. The paper provides an intensive critique of how high society views the human flesh and how women are objectified and defined by socially constructed images. The issue of body image, the social construction of it, and how people can become victim to the desires and values that their own society constructs for them, is examined. The paper further discusses that the construction of such images, and the projection of them unto women, continues to this day through stereotypical portrayals by mass media advertisements. Because advertisements commodify women in the marketplace, where the women's sexuality is objectified, exploited, and domesticated, political/capital, and sexism issues are raised in the paper.

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The paper argues that Nike's marketing strategy has commodified its product in a way that emphasizes a certain kind of lifestyle and/or culture that is intoxicating for young people who have a 'can-do' spirit - or who would like to think of themselves as possessing a can-do spirit. However, in marketing its product as something that yields a better life, the paper reveals that Nike has made sure to keep its labour costs down - and to market to affluent western consumers while workers in poor parts of the world do the heavy manual labour. Beyond that, the paper also reveals how Nike has cleverly utilized star athletes with 'attitude' and has used product placement to great effect. The paper emphasizes how Nike has been unafraid to exploit workers in Southeast China and in Asia and has seen to it that workplace conditions never compromise profit margins. The paper does note that there is mounting evidence that the pressure applied by NGOs and by concerned citizens is finally working - at least in a limited fashion.

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"The following paper will argue that Nike's marketing strategy has commodified its product in a way that emphasizes a certain kind of lifestyle and/or culture that is intoxicating for young people who have a `can-do' spirit - or who would like to think of themselves as possessing a can-do spirit. However, in marketing its product as something that yields a better life, Nike has made sure to keep its labour costs down - and to market (at least for the most part) to affluent western consumers while..."

Tags:commodification, product, lifestyle

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The paper discusses how the "Pop Art" that Andy Warhol played such a key role in popularizing is not often associated with glamorizing, or even much respecting, religion; this lack of affection for the organized faith of our forbears is symptomatic of the decade, the 1960s, from which sprang Warhol and the avant-garde, irreverent and iconoclastic art work that would challenge how a new generations of young Americans looked at the world around them. Yet, the paper demonstrates how while there is an undeniable measure of iconoclasm to Andy Warhol's, "The Last Supper," there are ample examples of him retreating from the more severe, revolutionary tenets of the decade that made him famous in many places and reviled in a few, too. The paper shows how even as he commodifies Christ and mixes the sacred with the profane in his series, Warhol also gives power and gravitas to Christ - makes him interesting to the viewer, in other words - thereby suggesting an author in deep conflict about how he really feels about the Father of Christianity. The paper asserts that the one thing that can be said about "The Last Supper Series" is that Warhol takes the classical and ancient and juxtaposes it against the iconoclastic, profane and modern, and by doing this, he demands his audience ask questions about both.

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"The "Pop Art" that Andy Warhol played such a key role in popularizing is not often associated with glamorizing, or even much respecting, religion; this lack of affection for the organized faith of our forbears is symptomatic of the decade, the 1960s, from which sprang Warhol and the avant-garde, irreverent and iconoclastic art work that would challenge how a new generations of young Americans looked at the world around them. Yet, while there is an undeniable measure of iconoclasm to Andy Warhol's, "The Last Supper," there are ample examples of him retreating from the more severe, revolutionary tenets of the decade that made him famous in many..."

Tags:warhol, last, supper

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This paper discusses Marx's theory that capitalism has commodified people. It explains his basic argument that the worker is a commodity in the capitalist system. The author researches Marx's exchange theory, and user-pays system. The paper offers examples of a personal experience applied to commodification.

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"According to Marx, capitalism has commodified people by turning them into commodities. Marx's argument is that labor does not only produce commodities like clothing or coffee, it produces itself and the worker as a commodity. Economic and Philosophic Manuscript ..."

Tags:Marx, Commodification, Commodity, Communist, Labor, Bourgeoisie, Capitalism, Workers

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This paper review eight feminist essays, which support the argument for the way different cultural influences continue to promote ideas of women as sexual objects. The author points out that physical, sexual, and social and economic violence against women is somehow acceptable. The paper relates that North America has not stopping commodifying female sexuality, any more than it has stopped dominating and sometimes oppressing women.

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"This paper discusses a range of articles that pertain to different aspects of women's commodification by men, usually as sex objects, and as this connects to male violence against women as an often accepted phenomenon. It is not that cultural mores have tolerated male violence against women so much as the fact that male violence against women occurs, at all, that makes these connections ominous. It should be a bizarre irony that love relationships so often involve male domination and violence against women. "

Tags:minas, essays, feminism

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This essay reviews the events that followed the murder of John Lennon. There are three general areas of interest discussed. These are the facts surrounding the murder and the arrest and imprisonment of Marc David Chapman; the survivors of John Lennon (i.e., his sons and wife); and the status of the Lennon estate. This essay asserts that John Lennon has been excessively marketed and commodified since his death, and that music audiences are consumers of death as much as they are of music.

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This paper explores Karl Marx's theory of estrangement within the context of the contemporary industrial and economic setting. It devotes a considerable amount of time to explicating Marx's conceptions of estrangement and alienation. The paper subsequently looks at how his concept of estrangement can be applied to the modern global economy.

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"To begin with, Marx insists that the worker in the capitalist order is the most wretched of beings insofar as his or her power is in inverse proportion to his (or her) creative production. In other words, as Marx argues vehemently, the worker creates and someone else gains the wealth accumulated by the creation of that item. To elaborate a little further, the fruits of labor's efforts (the goods produced by steadfast toil) metamorphose into something that is literally independent of the producer; the laborers lose control over the means of production and the more products he or she produces, the less ability he or she has to consume those goods and the more he or she falls under the dominion of capital (Marx, 30-31)."

Tags:consumption, commodify, commodity, alienation