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Melissa Mendez The cultural artifact I chose was a camera, ever since I was the age of six I loved to take pictures. I love to take pictures of others, I love to take pictures of myself and I love to take pictures of real moments etc. The first camera I received was the one my mom gave me. She had gifted it to me after I would always borrow it from her to take pictures of people and backgrounds. I’ve always been that girl that volunteers to take pictures of other people because I like to make people look good. I also think that I enjoy taking pictures on cameras because I love the memories they hold. I’ll take photos on anything like peoples phones or cameras, new or old cameras, and any type of technology with a camera. Being so fascinated with cameras and pictures I would look up online all the different types of cameras. When I would go to stores I would take pictures with all of the different types of cameras at lined up against the wall and compare them. After
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Melissa Mendez BLOG 2 Prompt #1 : (Gender Representation in Movies) The cultural artifact that I chose was the movie She’s the Man. The reason I chose this artifact was because this movie is known for the many stereotypes it has against boys and girls. In other words, it has an understanding from both sides and I feel like that is fair for everyone overall. This movie is one of my favorites because it holds a memory of me as a teenage girl watching and trying to understand how genders really act when they are alone in their social groups. Prompt #2: (Analyze) Authorship- When incorporating Griswold's cultural diamond the receiving audience is a teenage audience while the creator is someone who exemplifies how we are all equal. The social world of this movie can be described as a teenage/college community where it is primarily nothing but teenagers who just moving into college. The message this movie is sending is that stereotypes can be proven false by either gender
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https://sites.psu.edu/aedm/2015/09/30/cultural-artifacts/ My Cultural Artifact The chosen artifact that I picked was lipstick because I felt it represents a feminine part of being a women. This cultural artifact says a lot about gender expression because of how women put it on to express how they want to look. Reinforcing ideas of gender expression because it's been around for so many centuries and decades. From a different point in time women go back to as far as the 1800’s wearing shades of red to marvelous events. This does not push back traditional ideas but brings it forward to our present day. To add on, in a way it does go against tradition in a way because of how it is now not only being used for women but also for men. This goes against the tradition of only women wearing lipstick and completely goes against something a traditional man would do back in the day. This cultural artifact has changed the way I think
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