Drug Companies

Huh! That's a little interesting.  I wonder where your dermatologist receives most of his/her pay from.  I mean surly no doctor would implement only one treatment or kind of medicine just because some drug company gave him/her a little extra money, or promised him/her anything. http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/04/30/Is-Your-Doctor-Being-PAID-OFF-by-the-Drug-Industry.aspx According to this article virtually 94% of the doctors taken in this serve admitted to having some kind of relationship with the drug companies. And most of them met with a representative from a pharmaceutical company at least 16 times a month. I mean sure maybe not all of the doctors recieved money but just free samples, but I'm sure that no real doctor would take the generosity of the drug company into consideration when they are prescribing medicine. So they way the medicine world works is that the drug companies pay the doctors who then prescribe the medicine to patients who then pay the drug companies for the medicine so that the drug companies can pay off the doctors to prescribe the drug companies' medicines back to us. Isn't America beautiful!

Male gaze in art

I have also noticed how, even though men were the first portrayed nude in art, nude women are far more common. I noticed this especially around the Renaissance or 1500s, when art (especially paintings) were more realistic. Paintings such as Venus with a Mirror, Venus and Cupid, Sleeping Venus, the Three Graces, Birth of Venus, and so on all feature nude women. The artists who painted these great works were men: therefore their view, or "gaze," was biased towards women. They painted women because their view towards them was one of beauty because that is what their human instincts tell them to appreciate. This trend of nude women in art has shaped our society today. For instance, the Seinfeld clip below, the Mardi Gras tradition of flashing, and the skimpy clothes that girls wear are all areas of nudity or something along the lines of it that are socially acceptable for women but not for men.

As I read the article Why Johnny Can’t Dissent, I noticed a common theme: rebellion. It mention a lot of rebellion in the corporate world of setting companies apart through outlandish tactics that would turn their way of advertising around. Companies even went as far to convince the consumer that by taking part in their product or listening to their music, they would be individualizing themselves and rebelling against the norm.
Now, I don’t have much experience in the corporate world and being a “rebel” there, but I have been a sucker for their slogans and advertisements. Mostly make-up advertisements like Maybelline and their slogan: “Maybe she’s born with it… maybe its Maybelline”, and L’Oreal’s “Because you’re worth it”, who have me, and several other hundreds of women, that when we use their product we can achieve the flawless looks that their brand advertises.
Besides my weakness for make-up and their empty promises, I do have experience in going to high school… and my observations of the “rebels” there. To be a rebel, as the article says, is to stand out from the crowd and go against the norm and what society deems as a “regular lifestyle”. However, when I think of rebels at my school what I picture in my head and what I saw would be something similar to this picture up above.

When I look at this, I see a definite act of going against what people would consider the norm, but if these kids are rebelling and trying to stand out in the crowd, then why do they look so similar within their crowd. Can you truly rebel against something if everyone else is doing it too?