Commercials, newspaper and magazine ads, billboards, clothes, and etc. all drive our society, in the way we behave ourselves and towards one another. As much as we don’t want to say it, we are driven by ideals, some unrealistic, but still expected. People in society try ad obtain materials, just to be looked at more highly regarded by others.
In February 2003, 50 Cent released his album Get Rich or Die Trying, which featured him on the cover with no shirt on, showing off his abs, muscles, and tattoos. This helped set an ideal that most guys and even kids are trying to obtain. The washboard abs and muscles of steel, even though this isn’t necessarily genetically possible for all males it is still expected none the less. It has caused kids, mostly involved with sports, to try steroids or some other form of them to receive this prototypical body. It is a sad thing that society places this high standard on this when in fact so very few even reach this ideal. It is no different for girls, actually it has been going on even longer, and they are supposed to reach the hour glass figure to be considered beautiful. They take any measure possible to posses these attributes, for example plastic surgery.
Society also puts pressure on the materials that someone obtains, and classifies them with what class you are in. For example if you are rich you should own the $50,000 car, the mansion, and yacht. If you don’t obtain these you are expected to not be in the presence of the people that do. The unnecessary $500 dollar Gucci bag, if worn will help you be looked at in a different way then, if you had another bag that was $30 from target.
The world has become so shallow, where it hardly matters what is on the inside, it only seems to be what is on the outs. To get a chance with the girl or boy you want, it usually takes possessing the items the boy or girl wants and then once you got that you might get the opportunity to show her/him your true self.
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Very good. you had alot of detail, you gave alot of good examples. The intro was very catchy, and you ended your essay really well. i would just try to exspaned your ideas in your final draft, and i think youll have your self a solid Essay! overall good job
on the first sentence i would write clothes and etc. i would just write clothes, etc just because it looks better grammatically. i agree with john i think you have a pretty solid introductory paragraph.i would use a couple more examples about celebrities like 50. i completely agree what you are saying though. i also like what you say about rich people that have to live up to other peoples expectations because they are rich, so they have to buy expensive things. this is a very good paper i think it needs a little expansion but over all it's very strong.
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