Beneficiaries from a Magazine

All media texts have an economic purchase. I know I do not know everyone who benefits from a magazine but there certainly is a lot. Some of the beneficiaries are:

-Editors
-Models in the ads
-Brand names
-Actors/actress’ who are in the magazine
-Artists could benefit
-Photographers
-The publisher
-Advertisers – coupons/offers
-Writers
-Stores
-Paper company
-Lumber companies
-Stylists
-Software
-Camera companies
-Printing companies
-Transportation
-Distributor

And the list can still go on, if you just think in to every single little detail. Every time you look at an ad, a magazine, the creators and everyone behind it are making that much more money for you just looking at an ad. Stores will make a profit because when you look at the ad you may think it looks really nice and would want it, so you find out where the store is and you go and buy the outfit, shirt, or dress whatever it was you wanted, and automatically they made a profit, the actors/actress’ mad a profit, and everyone on the list above makes a profit.

Barbie Meets Her Muslim Match

Who created it and why?

New Boy created Fulla; they created it because Barbie was banned from most Middle East countries because of the clothing style and her clothing. This Barbie was created because this form fit into the cultural realities of the Arab world.

Do people want it?

Young girls in the Middle East must love Fulla because it is practically the same thing as Barbie over here and young girls love Barbie. You can buy Fulla cereal, Fulla bicycles, and also since Fulla’s clothes are appropriate over in the Middle East countries you can also buy live size clothes for girls.

What Facts or Statistics used?

In November of 2003 and October 2005, 1.5 million Fulla dolls were purchased. Fulla was outselling Barbie by a 40-to-1 margin in stores.

What do you think?

I think that the Fulla doll gives the Arab girls a doll in which fits their culture. I personally think that the Fulla doll was a smart investment because it gives the Barbie experience world wide, the Barbie doll is extremely popular in the U.S and now the Fulla doll is popular to Middle Eastern countries.

Work Cited

“Fulla Doll.” 6. October. 2007. Online Image. Tunisian Authorities Confiscate Dolls Wearing Hijab. 10. January. 2008

Dixie Chicks Stand Up!

We all remember the day when Natalie Maines said “we are ashamed that the president of the United States of America is from Texas.” They have gotten so much grief for saying that little sentence, but did Pink get that much grief when she wrote her song? Did Kanye get grief when he spoke out? Why was it only the Dixie Chicks who got all the grief?

Nobody has the write to go ahead and say that they are the dumbest bimbos and that they are foolish women, who deserved to be, slapped around especially media personalities. What ever happened to freedom of speech? She did not hurt anybody from saying what she said.

How could something that small that Natalie said push people so over the edge that they would send threats and boycott their songs, or boycott the radio stations that have been playing their songs.

Why didn’t Kanye’s statement back fire on him, his was more racial then Natalie’s, Natalie’s statement was nothing, but Kanye’s statement on how "George Bush doesn't care about black people," how would that not effect the world and how they looked at Kanye and what Natalie said “we are ashamed that the president of the united states comes from Texas,” now there is a big difference there!

Work Cited
"Dixie Chicks." 7. June. 2006. Online Image. Poor Dixie Chicks. 18. October. 2007

Touching or Tacky?

I was at school in grade 5, when the teacher told us. I was shocked, I had mixed feelings and emotions. I think this has changed the world because we have so much security at the airports, the metal detectors are more sensitve. People are more afraid to fly on planes now then they were before the 9/11 attack. They came over the announcements and explained what happened and i looked around and some people were in shock and some people did not event know what the World Trade Centres were.

When I went home all we did that night was watch the crashes on t.v, that was all that was on that night, if you flipped through the different channels that all that was on was George Bush talking about the plane crashes, and since it was on all channels people then thought we were under attack, and were asking them selves are we next?

Alan Jackson had made a song about September 11, 2001, many people may think that this sons is tacky, but me personally, I think that it is touching. He is showing that he cares, and he feels sorrow for those who lost loved ones in the September tragedy. In one part of the song he says "I watch CNN but I'm not sure i can tell the difference between Irag and Iran," personally i can not tell a difference either,and CNN is not helpind us find a difference, they are not telling us any history behind everything that has happend in the last 6-7 years.

Work Cited
"World Trade Centers." 8. November. 2007. Online Image. QFG Bookstore. 18. October. 2007

Britney Spears

I do not think that people should not be making fun of Britney Spears' body image, becuase no bodies body is perfect. Plus she has had two kids so she was probably under alot of stress and on top of all that her and her husband Kevin Federline aka "K-Fed" got a divorce.

The news now a days just makes so much stuff up it is not funny, I saw a picture in a magazine of Britney Spears and it showed her having a double chin and her face was all puffy and looked fatter than usual, and it said something like "Britney Spears back at it again," i believe, but it looked like it was totally photoshoped, and in the pictures that show her stomach much bigger then it is in the photo i have above, you can tell that the photo has been altered, because if you look close enoguh you will see discolouration.

We all heard about Chris Crocker and his leave Britney Alone video, and though he is right in most of his rant. For example when he said something about her husband Kevin Federline, it was him who got her addicted to all the drugs and alcohol so why would he get the kids? He was the one who said that he just wanted money and he will not bug about the kids, but what does he do? He comes out saying that Britney is an unfit mother and should not be allowed to be around the kids again. im not saying that it is right to do alcohol and drugs when a mother, but you should take into consideration that he probably is doing the exact same things as Britney but is just more secretive about it.
Britney Spears is now up on charges for child abuse on her children. This is just another way for Kevin Federline to just cut off Britney’s visitations to the kids. If you have ever heard a parent say that they have never made a mistake with their children you have then just witnessed a big liar!







Work Cited
"Britney Spears." 3. October. 2007. Online Image. Britney Spears tops digital upload chart. 18. October. 2007

Girlfriend: plagiarism, inspiration or coincidence?

Honestly, I personally do not believe that Avril has plagiarized, because doesn’t it say that you are allowed to take 30 seconds or 10% which ever is less? She did not take either 30 seconds or 10 %, but I can see where they said that she took the heart and soul out of the other song. I know I have never heard of the Rubinoos, but I do not know about other people. The catch phrase everybody knows from her song “Girlfriend” is “hey, hey, you, you, I don’t like your girlfriend.” That is taking the heart and soul out of the song “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend," by the Rubinoos, which is “hey, hey, you, you, I wanna be your boyfriend.”

Though, it also states that whatever you take that is less than 30 seconds or 10%, you can not make anymore money than the original owner did, and Avril Lavigne did make more money especially on that one catch phrase which brought everybody to buy the c.d. Though the Ramones have a song similar to theirs why would they not also go after them? Or why wouldn’t they go after the Rolling stones for their remake of the song? Both sound pretty similar, but why just go after Avril Lavigne? Would it because she got the most money out of the portion of the song that was taken? So they thought they would get more than the other two.



Work Cited
Mark Liddel. “Avril Lavigne.” No date. Online image. Avril Lavigne Pictures & Photo’s. October. 18. 2007.

Exploitation or Adaption? Gwen Sefani and the Harajuku Girls

The Harajuku girl’s are teenagers from Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan. The way Gwen Stefani shows the Harajuku Girls maybe the way she sees them as, and so what if she has altered them a little bit, it isn’t hurting anybody. So there looks are different then the Harajuku Girls in Japan but they all do not dress the same, some kinds of harajuku girls may be gothic lolita, gothic maid, Wamono, Decora, Second-Hand Fashion, and cyber fashion.The Harajuku girls did not originate from there they first were in England and then Japan adapted them in to their own culture, but do u hear anybody picking at them? No. Though people may think that Gwen Stefani is torching them she really isn’t, in the one music video she is complimenting them, and they were the ones who signed the contract saying that they would act like dolls, they new that they were not going to be able to speak.

Margaret Cho said, “I think it is totally acceptable to enjoy the Harajuku girls, because there are not that many other Asian people out there in the media really, so we have to take whatever we can get.” Recently myself and two other people were looking through Seventeen Magazine issue May 2007 it had 157 pages, and we found out that 84% of the people in the ads were Caucasian, and 0.5% were Asian, so that just goes to show we do not see many Asians in movies and hit TV shows now a days.

MiHi Ahn said, “Four Harajuku girls, or rather, Stefani's interpretation of Tokyo street fashion in the Harajuku district.” Though I may not agree with what MiHi Ahn said but many other people may think that she is just interpreting the Harajuku style.

Work Cited
Cho, Margaret. Harajuku Girls. 10 Oct. 2005. 18 Oct. 2007.
Ahn, MiHi. Gwenihana. 9 Apr. 2005. 18 Oct. 2007.
Jason Kellner. “Gwen Stefani and the Harajuku Girls.” 28. February. 2007. Online image. RGJ.com. 18. October. 2007.