Crash and "The Arab Image" have many similarities and differences. In both the article and the movie the over all theme is to change stereotypes. You can tell through out both that their message is the same, that you cant judge anyone by the way they look. In the movie Crash there are obviously some bad people and others who are just caught up in something bad. This is similar in "The Arab Image" the author tells us that you can not judge Arab people for some of the fanatics and then you can not tell what their religion is just by looking at them either.
There are also differences. "The Arab Image" is focused on one group of people and the movie Crash is focused on many different groups, but through out both the message is the same.

Joy~synthesis

To me joy is the feeling you have when your are truly happy with what is happening and the people around you. When you are comfortable with your surroundings and have time to put aside any stress or worries.

Joy, to me, is doing something that makes me happy. It's something that that makes me smile and laugh constantly. It would also make me feel calm and relaxed. ~Kristin~


Corey+Kristin
Joy comes from internal blissful events that causes a relaxed and happy mood.

I believe a lot of things on news programs are similar to the story "The Allegory of the Cave" The people in the story are cut off from the world and only know what they are told. When we watch television programs and news programs we can only know what broadcaster and others are explaining to us. We see terrible things when we watch and dont even flinch, but if we can relate to the situation and have had something like that happen to us then it is a different story. Just like the people in the story we cant go back to the time when we didnt know what it was like. We cant just forget how we felt or what the situation was like. Television and news programs especially is just like in the story where they were only shown pictures of what the world is like, but until they saw it for themselves they couldnt truly understand.

Gender Issues

I think that these new Dove adds are an effective way of ending some gender steriotypes that have become out of control. They are attempting to show the public what woman really look like. Even the models on billboards dont really look like that. We forget about computer touch ups and the time hair and make up takes when we are just passing by the massive advertisments on the way to school or work everyday.
Dove is trying to show the public that woman are all built differently and trying to protray them as one thin, typical beautiful type is pointless and unaffective. In this particual photo half her face is with no make up and completely natural. It is not bad looking by any means but the half on the right is her after hair make up and computer touch ups. She looks amazing, but its fake. Dove is showing us that if men dont have to be six foot three body builders then woman dont have to be petite with perfect features.
Most adds for beauty products use professional models who are typically beautiful. Tall and thin. They are affective to a point that they can usually sell the product but how does there consumers feel after they have bought it. Unsatisfied and slightly used, what they thought was going to work miricles is not better than the next product. Dove has taken a different approach. They want to make woman feel good and that means making them like the features they all ready has instead of looking at what the rest of society is trying to make them think what they should look like.
Dove is successfully changing what woman see when they look in the mirror. Woman feel like they where supposed to look a certain because society has told them this for so long, but now there is finally an entire product that has decided to change that.