The contortions she was seen performing were not those of the newest fitness trends in hot yoga, but with a hot physique of a different kind.
To pick at Hilton's unfortunate sexual performance as seen online by so many pimply-faced web surfers barely out of middle school may seem cruel. Yes, one could say, no one forced her to make it -- make the film that brought her such ill fame, that is. But few of us, public figures or not, would look particularly admirable if our intimate life was displayed for all to see across the Internet. This was, after all, not the public face Hilton wished to show to the world, but a supposedly private moment that got out into the world's eye, unbeknownst to her, in the worst possible fashion and through the worst, most easily disseminated popular media. She was taken advantage of the celebrity seeking of the man she trusted her heart and body with, not of behaving badly on her own.
Very well, give Paris that one moral allowance -- she did not wish to purvey her fame in a negative fashion that sexually exploited herself and her partner. In that incident she was a victim, not a victimizer. But how to explain, one might ask, the fact that Paris has chosen to display herself, with her close friend Nikki, as one of a pair of Malibu Barbies on reality TV -- Fox reality TV no less.
True, the show is self-satire, and shows her as one of 'the people' as part of its narrative. But it inadvertently highlights that the only time this lady gives back to the community, for all of her wealth, with...
Celebrities Tend to Make Bad Role Models: Experience has shown that even people who achieve significant goals through their own hard work and the use of legitimate intellectual talents and business skills may still be flawed as people, sometimes quite significantly. Successful entrepreneurs, real estate moguls, political figures and wealthy investors sometimes exercise very poor judgment in their personal lives. A sitting two-term U.S. president embarrassed himself, his family, his office,
People may often be unaware of the cultural influences in their lives. They may think they are highly individualistic and original thinkers only to realize later that they are nothing like that and are actually heavily influenced by cultural beliefs. For example every culture finds itself superior to others and this is called ethnocentrism. People in the east actually believe they are far superior to those in the west because
Likewise, her mannerisms, body positions, movements, facial expressions, makeup, and her attire selected for the commercial reinforce sexuality and physical attractiveness throughout (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2001). Logos: The appeal to logic takes the form of the only spoken words in the advertisement. The words "sexy," "powerful," and "attitude" are repeated throughout the commercial, uttered in a sexual, breathy female voice. The clear message is that use of the product will increase a
" In order to see how this influences the show's representation of the interpersonal relationships of the family, one may examine a scene from the first episode, in which the editing choices serve to identify the shop as a particular kind of expressive space. The special role of the shop as a space of differential relationships and conversations can be seen in the first episode when Kourtney and Khloe are in
Clearly, in Gaudiani's own dollar sign-admiring view, the Paris Hiltons; Donald Trumps, and (even in death) the resort-hopping; trust fund baby-popping Anna Nicole Smiths of the world, along with other wealthy if more low-key types, are the real coveted readers. One easily senses this author's embedded, perhaps even automatic and instinctive, implicit buttering-up of the rich within her litany of praise, to the rest of us, of all their
9 for example, the Congregation of the Holy Ghost, formed through the union of an earlier society of priests of the Holy Spirit (founded by Claude-Francois Poullart des Places) and the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (founded by Francois-Marie-Paul Libermann in 1841), was influenced by the Sulpician and Eudist transmission of the French School through Libermann (1802-50), who was trained at St. Sulpice and was formed by
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