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The messages in Seventeen cover are designed to apeeal to young women in Amercia , but a more crytical analysis can reveal certain thinghs, if we are to understand how magazines shape behavior. So, let's play 7 errors game:

01 - Clothes, hair and make up were chosen for those girls by the magazine.
02 - Advices for - dating - guys are given to these young girls.
03 - Coupons are offered to consumers as indications on what they should buy.
04 - Make up itens are given to readers as incentive to - buy the magazine and - follow the make up 'tricks' they are teaching. 
05 - Reader's stories are used as a negative example, in opposition to the good example (the cover girl).
06 - The model, set as an exameple, is presented as someone who talks minly gossip.
07 - Also, advices are also given on how to make money fast (implying that work should not be a concern to those girls).

Of course, people are not empty-minded to follow everything by the boo...

Before anything, I would like you to watch this video:
 

So, what do you think?
To add up to thhis discussion, I would like you to watch this other video:


So, what do you think now?
How do these videos are related? Did you like any? How to they relate to what you know or think about the relation between violence and video games?
I am eager to know what you think in the comments below!

p.s.:
To help you study for your tests, I 've created a review page for each level I teach. Also, I've created a Midtrem Monitor evaluation sheet (It's in Portuguese), and I would like you to answer it:
English V Review 
English II Review  

Guys, we are going to meet today online to chat for 1h or so.  But I would like you to watch this TEDxTalk. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story


To take part in the conversation, just click on the link "chatroom"  tab of our social network. Or just click here.
Cheers,
Anderson

Guys, I am just speechless.
I was browsing through the depths of the internet looking for a video that might help me out on teaching classes for you that might show a little bit of what -I think - is wrong with this thing called beauty industry and I came up with this:


I am particularly not against the use of make up, I actually think it has historical value and its ritual can somehow bring a somewhat empowerement to women by being able to control, in a way, the way they look (but that is another topic, lemme focus back on track) but I don't really think such a pretty little girl who doesn't even know what a moisturizer is uses that much of makeup and is not able to use it as a pro, but also is encouraging other young girls to follow her steps. So, guys ,what do you think about that? What would you say if you could send this little girl a message(By the way, you can access her video on youtube and leave her a comment)?

Hey! What's up?
One thing I wanted to show you last class (but sadly the sound was not ok) is a video form Cameron Russel, a Victoria's Secret's angel, in a TED talk. In this lecture, she talks about the perception and the construction of the beatuy concept in the fashion market. So, please watch it and let me know what you think about it, ok?
So, without further due, here's the video: