Victoria’s Secret: “The Perfect Body?”

Victoria’s Secret is the largest retailer of women’s lingerie. Girls and women only wish to become a Victoria’s Secret model. I remember watching the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show every year and wanting to be them. Each girl was perfectly tanned, toned and had…

2 Broke Girls - OR - Laugh Tracks and The Decline of Primetime Comedy

“Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that” Chuck Lorre “doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he is doing”[1]. He may have gotten away with it in Two and a Half Men, and I’ll admit…

Nike: Empowering or Degrading Women?

Female fitness advertisements have always managed to confuse me. What individual looks that attractive while working out? Where’s the sweat? The grimace of pain? Nike, on the other hand, typically shows a more accurate representation of the female athlete. Not only…

Trump & the Bandwagon Effect

He’s a winner. He beats people. He’s ahead in the polls and there’s no end in sight.

Comedian Celeste Barber Hilariously Recreates Celebrity Instagram Posts

The Journalists V.S The Bloggers

Journalism and blogging is kind of the same thing, right? Journalists have opinions, bloggers have opinions, they both write stories on a certain topic or subject. While some of this is true, the way in which they gather information and write a story can be a little…

Instagram Giants, Effective Target Marketing and Brand Promotion

I like to think that I am a fairly savvy Instagramer. I post quite frequently, my posts are varied (and not exclusively of just my face), and I hashtag appropriately. But compared to Instagram’s powerhouses, my posts…

Is social media destroying people’s confidence?

Social media influences society in various ways from how people behave to how people believe they should look.

People have all kinds of applications on their cell phones from Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat. These…

Fandoms: A way to express identities

Being a fan can be looked at as something positive or as something negative, and there are many layers to fandoms.

Fandoms can range from expressing identities to having obsessions.

Is cosmetic surgery becoming a societal expectation?

Society is already faced with numerous reality TV shows, some of which are well-liked and others that are hated.

Reality TV shows are becoming hard to avoid. At first, the only medium platform to air these shows…