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In the show Black Mirror, everyone has a rating of 0-5 stars. Each person that you interact with can rate you, and your average rating determines your life. If you have a high score, you have access to the more expensive things. The most elite people have an average rating of 4.6 stars or higher because they are rich or are good-looking. This show basically reflects our world because we base each person off of their looks and their wealth. This idea that if you are rich or good-looking makes you more elite than others comes from media. In media, we praise those who have lots of money, or those who have the "perfect" body. In China, this is a real problem. Their government tracks each person adding or subtracting points from them for being good or bad. If you have a good credit score, they could add points, but if you do something bad, they could subtract points. This point system decides if you could get into a certain school or get a certain job. I don't think tha

Women in America have been misrepresented in media forever now. They are seen as objects all over media like in movies, TV shows, and advertisements. Majority of the times, women are only their for sexual appeal to the audience. They are presented as having no personality. An example of this is in Disney movies. The movies show women, or princesses, trying to find a man to love. Media degrades women. They make women worry about their weight and about their looks. Most girls under the age of 13 are already unhappy with their bodies. The reason behind all of this is media. Media presents this perfect woman that all the men are attracted to. The women who believes that media is reality tries to copy those women. They try to get skinnier but not eating or making themselves vomit, and get plastic surgery to have a smaller nose or have bigger breasts. Men also have it bad. They are taught to be manly and hold their emotions. They become emotionally constipated. If men shows signs of weak

Everywhere you go you can see kids on their phones, unable to talk to each other face to face. Kids are starting to get phones at younger ages and the reason behind that is busy parents who don't have time to spend with their kids. As we progress into the modern world where out lives are filled with technology, parents are using these technologies to entertain their children. Because parents are becoming more busy and they are tired from work, they spend less time with their children, so they just give them phones to entertain them. This connects to the idea where parents just give their kids things to make them stay home and keep them happy. Parents don't actually want to take the work to talk with their children, so they just distract them with phones. Giving kids phones at an early age teaches them a world where they can't live without phones. As they grow up and become teens, they become addicted to their phones and feel that they have to always be connected to medi

Midriff is a coined termed by Douglas Rushkoff on an episode entitled "Merchants of Cool." Midriffs are teens and young women who's behavior is a mixture of "innocent" and "sexy." The Midriff are teen girls whose behavior is centered around sexuality and narcissism. We can see that girls want to copy the models in media like famous singers and Instagram models. A Midriff icon now is like Ariana Grande who dresses "sexy." Teens and young women want to copy that because it is what media likes and thinks is cool. If you aren't wearing tube tops and showing off skin, then you aren't considered cool. Teens always copy what they see in media. Media plays a big part in influencing what teens and young adults think is cool. When something becomes viral in media, then it become cool thus making teens want to copy what they see in the media. Personally, I think that television shows that include teen life and teen sex. What television sho

So which is better, Target or Walmart. I have asked a lot of my friends which store they prefer and majority of them say that they like Target better. I ask them why, but they don't know why. That it is something about how Target is set up just makes them more appealing. They say they get a more inviting and positive vibe whenever they go into a Target. Walmart Stores Inc. is the world's largest retail company with operating around 5,000 stores in the U.S., but its main rival, Target, only operates around 1,822 stores. Target also performs better than Walmart. Walmart may be bigger than Target, but size isn't everything, Size doesn't say how efficiently a company operates. When we compare the two from a financial standpoint, Target is slightly more profitable than Walmart. I think people see Walmart as the place that the lower class people go, and Target as classier and higher class. Walmart does have lower prices than Walmart, but when comparing each item, it is on

Companies all want to boost their sales and to achieve this, they try to appeal to the largest audience they can get and for them nowadays, it's teens. In the modern world, teens have more buying power than they did back then, and that is because parents just give money to them so they will stay happy and stay at home. These companies spend millions of dollars to try and find what is "cool" and "trendy" among teens in modern society. They pay culture spies to hunt for what is "cool" so companies can incorporate these "cool" things into their ads. Companies also conduct polls where they interview groups of teens to find out what is currently hot. However, once teens realize that the "cool" things they like are in ads, their quickly lose interests and move onto something else that they think is cool. With this constant process of teens changing their minds on what is "cool" and what is not, it is nearly impossible for compan