After reading this essay I was easily able to come to the conclusion over several different thoughts that the author of the essay express. "Game Over" was a very interesting essay in the sense that it could relate a teenage video game to a serious issue that is going on throughout this country. That is that fact that women and even teenage girls are striving for the perfect bodies because they see a movie or play a video game with an absolutely gorgeous women in it and they think that if they don't look like that then there must be something wrong with them.
The author seems to be directing this essay to adult women and maybe even some teenage girls. She talks about how the video game character Lara Croft has got huge breast, a small waist and a great butt. Honestly a majority of the women do not look anywhere near how Lara Croft does in the video game and the movie but women feel as though they aren't excepted unless they have these perfect bodies. Clearly it shows in her essay that even though Lara Croft is a computer generated character that it has raised the bar for women who are striving for the perfect body. " Feminist say that, with the advent of computer generated cyber models and synthespians, the bar for real women has been raised even higher." Obviously she is talking to women here because what man is going to complain about a women in a movie or video game that is running around in short shorts, a tank top and that's about it. Not to mention the fact that this women has 34Ds and a 24-inch waist all to be completed with a great butt.
There are many different reasons why the author could have written this essay but for the most part I feel as though she is trying to let women know that what they see on television, movies and magazines aren't always what they seem to be. For instance when a supermodel is put on a calendar or magazine their pictures are airbrushed so that the people who buy the magazines and calendars don't see that extra junk in the trunk that most women have and are embarrassed about.
Forest Gump This famous movie produced in 1994 was one of history's classics. This sharp movie was produced by Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve starkey, while directed by Robert Zemeckis. I first watched this movie in theaters followed by many times at home, or at other relatives' houses. T...
In past centuries, people believed that a woman had to present a perfect physical appearance. ... In addition, the modern woman in the modern American society has many social choices to make and more freedom than before. ... At an early age of seven, my perception of an ideal woman was totally different from the current ideal woman. At that time, the ideal woman seemed healthy and was portrayed to have body curves. However, the ideal woman in the current society is portrayed as very slim and tall. ...
Woman liked the feeling of working for what they wanted and when the war was over woman didn't want o give up their jobs back to the men returning from the war. ... Woman went through a lot at their home and their jobs. ... The woman in this article stated that "times weren't so good", "the man were laid off and we needed a slice of bread" this shows that woman did anything they could. ... The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) fought to win the woman's suffrage. ... They became the National American Woman Suffrage Assoc...
The NAWSA was formed in 1890 with the union of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). ... In 1912 the progressive movement gave the NAWSA new life when labor, trade unions, socialists, and working woman started to back the woman's suffrage movement. The cotton and liquor industries try to weaken progressivism and woman's suffrage. ... Alice Paul started the National Woman's Party (NWP), after returning from working on woman's suffrage in Britain. ... The NWP approach may have been more affective if a few of the w...
Woman Suffrage Woman Suffrage began in the Northeastern part of the United states. ... She led thousands of women to support woman suffrage. ... Down in the South woman suffrage was being supported. ... The two women were strong supporters of woman suffrage. ... There were many supporters of woman suffrage. ...
Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) is a serious problem for women today. ... Now, I am not saying that all women who plea Battered Woman Syndrome are sincere. ... There are many stereotypes as to why doesn't the woman just leave? ... In order for a woman to successfully use the syndrome she has to be labeled as a "battered woman."" ... It is self-defense, defense which every man and woman is entitled to. ...
"No Name Woman": A Clash of Two Cultures Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior presents the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to reconcile two cultures. ... The chapter "No Name Woman" is a perfectly illustrated example of the woman's place in traditional Chinese society, and how it differs from that in America. ... The aunt was a woman whose husband went of to work in America. ... Kingston's mother says; "To be a woman, to have a daughter in starvation time, was a waste enough" (6). ... In other words, she didn't have any rights to ...
Defining Respect In reading "A Respectable Woman" by Kate Chopin it is apparent that she is very much a realist. ... Baroda in "A Respectable Woman." ... Baroda the thoughts of a regular woman and the capacity to recognize them. ... "She wanted to draw close to him as she might have done if she had not been a respectable woman" (Chopin 375). ... As seen in "A Respectable Woman" Chopin's writing is very unconventional for her time. ...
That same year, the previously split National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association merged to form the more moderate, middle-of-the-road National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). ... They no longer presented woman suffrage in a radical and/or feminist manner. ... Associations that were opposed to woman suffrage began to appear in the 1890's. ... The woman's vote was endorsed by the Progressive party and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. ... The NWP prompted both houses of Congress to consider a federal woman suffrage amendment ...