“Ways of hearing’’ describes the impact of space and sound on people’s lives. Krukowski mentioned that “people wear headphones to avoid ear contact.” Whether on the street or on the subway, we can find that most people ignore many things around them and immerse themselves in their world with headphones. I feel the same about this. I don’t know when it has become a habit to wear headphones before going out. Compared to the noisy roads and noisy subways, I seem to be more willing to wear headphones to isolate myself from the world, and no longer listen to each other better and lack patience with things. After a long time, it seems that I am no longer interested in the sounds of the city. People have become more chasing for quality sound. For example, we are willing to pay to go to concerts. With the development of society and technology, people began to control sound and make the sound beautiful. Although this improves our quality of life, it also leads people to always ignore the most primitive and natural things. We should open the windows and remove the headphones to feel the special charm of the city. 

Although black violence was shown in the streets I agree with Berger that newspaper and magazine editors selected photographs based on their perceived power to draw out the of their white readers, this was the best way of photographers to assuage the racial anxieties that the protests caused, conveying solidarity featuring black people as victims. Therefore, instead of portraying the protests of black people standing for their rights, they show black protestors succumbing to white violence. This was a form to evite affecting the depiction of blacks ( that could affect the social view of that newspaper or magazine ) and mantaining the white supremacy.

1. According to Berger,“publicity” images influence and affect consumers creating in them a new necessity that promises to fulfill them, to make them feel good by knowing they have the “latest” but this is accualy affecting them because what publicity makes is to create new fake necessities creating a cosumist vicious circle. This is significant to the socity because this is creating the capitalist system that we live nowadays.
2. As he compares oil painting to publicity we can see two of the most important  parts for a human, these are past and future. Oil painting was used as a form to record and share past cultures, costums, events, people, etc. Publicty actually wants to give the image of where or how you should be and what you should have to bee successfull in the future, what you should get, start, buy, consume, etc.
3. An example of an acual dream these days could be “The perfect life” that is plublished for our influencers. This dream offered by advertising use imagery to manipulate consumers by making them feel first, as If their life is not enough, as if they need more products, more activities, no work or obligations making them fell unsatisfied about what they are and what they have.

In Damon Krukowsi’s view, “Here with all these headphones is like we’re avoiding ear contact.” In other words, he believes that by wearing headphones, we block all the sounds of city life, and we are not in it. It might be accurate, but there are other reasons why we wear headphones and alienate ourselves. One of them is to avoid negative interactions with specific situations. For instance, I remember when my daughter was rushing to school one morning and was desperately looking for her Apple air pods. I was like, “you’re going to be late; just leave without them.” She responded, “no, I don’t want to because when I listen to my music, it helps me not to hear people say bad and ugly things on the train.” Even though it is a known fact that you are bound to hear all kinds of different noises when you live in New York City, and yet there is still the need to plug in headphones. By doing this, you avoid communicating with strangers or being put in an awkward position because you build a barrier of feeling uncomfortable around them. It is based more on the person’s perspective to choose to wear headphones to block out their surroundings’ sound.

                    The Awakening of Women 

      Objectification is an issue that women have been facing for centuries. It has occurred as we see in Renaissance oil paintings during the 14th-17th centuries. Women have been candy for men’s eyes and have been used in paintings and photographs for only men’s pleasure. The faces of the women in the Renaissance paintings and the photo of Donna Gottschalk from 1970 show two different emotions. The women in the Renaissance paintings are shy. The photograph taken at an LGBTQ rights parade in 1970 demonstrates a determination and confidence that women began to show in the 20th century. To this day, women are fighting a battle to hold a place in the world without being seen as just a sexual object. I believe that even though women have been represented and understood better in the 20th century, people still have a long way to go in order to end this unequal mindset. Donna Gotschalk’s photo demonstrates that the fight for women’s equality has come a long way since the paintings we saw of women from the Renaissance, but the message she was conveying still rings true fifty years later, proving that we still have work to do to achieve true equality. 

           In John Berger’s 1972 BBC video “Ways of Seeing”, Berger discusses the conflict between nudity and nakedness. According to him, to be naked is for oneself only and to be nude is to be seen by spectators for their pleasure. He also addressed the appearance of women and how they are identified in pictures and photographs. In the Renaissance oil paintings, the way women were positioned in the pictures, the elements and people surrounding them, and even the way they gaze at spectators or viewers leads us to the observation that women are the main focus of paintings. Therefore, it is their curse to be seen as an object. I believe the main reason was that most of the spectators or viewers were male. Men enjoy seeing naked women in paintings. Many men believe that this is the only value a woman possesses.  

       For the majority of human existence, we have lived in a world controlled and ruled by men. A woman’s power and talent has always limited by men. Not because they don’t have the skill level and talent to do men’s work, but because for centuries men have believed that they are superior to women. For example, a female does not get paid the same as a male. They don’t get promoted to certain positions. The photograph of Donna Gottschalk demonstrates that women are not the same as they were in the past. Women don’t want to be treated like weak, sexual objects—they want to be on an equal playing field with men. This sense of pride has gradually been awakening over time, through the women’s right’s movement, the fight for women’s suffrage, and so on.  When I look at this picture, I see more than a woman holding a sign. I see a woman that has power. I see a woman who is tired of being seen or treated as an object. The confidence in her eyes is not hidden. It is a completely different appearance than of the women we saw in the “Ways of Seeing” episode. Donna doesn’t have a shy look on her face. Instead, she has a look that is fearless and determined. 

          I am inspired by Gottschalk’s photo.  Not only for how she seems strong and what she stands for, but because the words on Donna Gottschalk’s poster hold a lot of meaning. “I am your worst fear” implies that a strong and confident woman standing up for her rights was a fear for most men during this time period. Men do not respect women enough for them to want women to hold positions of power in the world. Many men falsely believe that women are not as intelligent as men and often ignorantly say that women are too emotional to be making important decisions. Gottschalk acknowledges this prejudice by stating that her confidence regarding her equality is fearful to men, but the statement “I am your best fantasy” implies that a beautiful and confident woman fills a man’s sexual fantasy. Therefore, men want to see women in their beds, not see them as equals in the work force. Strong women are a huge threat to a man who is sexist, especially in a work environment. The smug and bold look on Gotschalk’s face would make a prejudiced man feel threatened. 

        In addition to the protest for women’s rights, Donna Gotschalk is also addressing the rights of the LGBTQ community. This famous photograph was taken at the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Parade. Christopher Street is the location of the Stonewall Inn, where only a year prior the Stonewall riots occurred and the gay pride movement was born. Here we began to see a fight for equality in another group of people that have suffered discrimination. As a lesbian, Donna Gotschalk faced even more discrimination than if she was simply a straight woman. The words on her sign could also be taken to mean that a gay person with equal rights is a fear to those that are homophobic. However, many men have sexual fantasies about women who like women. This simple message is acknowledging the huge hypocrisy of these people that fantasize about gay women but refuse the believe they should have equal rights. They want them to live only in their fantasies as they see them, not as free individuals in reality. 

            Women have been facing injustices simply because of their gender since the beginning of humanity. They are not asking for privilege. They are asking for an end to this discrimination.  It doesn’t matter what country you are born, your social status, or your wealth—if you are born a woman, you immediately have less of an influence than a man. Women spend most of their lives proving that they are worthy of the same opportunities as men, while men are handed many things in life because of their gender. While women’s equality has progressed a lot in the past 50 years since Donna Gottschalk’s photo was taken, there is still work to be done to change the way that women are the seen and treated. 

According to the book “seeing through race ” during the 1950-60s time period white controlled new wanted to show the violence of black people which was for beneficial for them since white had the power. The real things what were happening to black people were hidden but recently they have been getting light shined on what was happening to the people. The killing George Floyd lead to the protesting against police brutality and unfair treatment of the people that have been going on for longer than it show that. This protesting also gave people the opportunity to ally themselves and speak up on things that they know were wrong.

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African American, Rosa Park was born at Tuskegee, al on Feb 4th, 1913. Rosa was a civil rights activist and worked very hard to alter these ways in al. Rosa Park was the first of the new start. She was this cause people took the spirit to get up for what they believed in. She also began this up rising of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and did the big result in the social movement. Rosa park’s childhood comprised of racist discrimination and policy for racist equality.

Rosa Parks was the colored American who it has been told, started the black social movement. Rosa Parks was from Montgomery, and at Montgomery they got the local low that black people were just permitted to put at a couple of rooms on the national buses and if a white person wanted their set, They would get to make it up.

This changed Rosa Parks began climaxed with the Civil Rights act of 1964 and the Voting Rights act of 1965, which gave Rosa the champion. Rosa Parks brought for this sameness of all people. She was elected chief of the Montgomery division of black people, unsuccessfully tried to take numerous times to be her point of discrimination, and took many encounters with bus drivers who discriminated against blacks. She had numerous tributes and prizes, e.g the naacp’s Spingarn Award in 1970 and the Martin Luther King Jr. Prize in 1980. Her place is important to our country because she showed us that one individual will assist so many different people by standing up for what they believe.

She was a very powerful female at fighting for civil rights. Rosa Parks was like any different national going through their timers. At this moment people were fighting for civil rights. National right are defined as people having equal care and no discrimination. After work Rosa Parks leads to the car stop to get home. She sat down in the white only place which had trouble. The Montgomery city code stated that if one white person to go to the other place they inspirational women ever was Rosa Parks. By one act she helped shift the lives of the lives of the majority of African Americans and more importantly community in general. Rosa Parks sparked the care of U.S . When she refused to go for the dark (poor people) standards. Not only did she improve move that lives for some African Americans but she served equally for all men and females in the United States. By one brave woman our world would be eternally grateful.

Rosa stayed involved at the human organization for the development of Colored People and in 1987 she established the Rosa and Raymond Parks Association for Self-Development, which proposed to improve those young and educate them about civil rights. The Southern Christian Leadership leagues (SCLC) also established the annual Rosa Parks liberty prize.

She too a brave place and turned into the leader in the social movement. Firstly, Rosa Parks excused what she did and why she did not abandon her place, clarifying these rumors about her being bored. Rosa Parks stated, “People usually tell me that I did not abandon my place because I was tired… I was non tired physically… no, they only tried I was tired of making in.” Rosa Parks was working on intent to make the difference and she did make a brave place because she had the big risk when she did it. Second, Rosa Parks made the 381 day bus boycott and promoted lots of different people to start the social movement.

Did you remember when Rosa Parks was arrested for not making up her place she was posing at the African American area. Rosa Parks was the National rights activist that brought with the NAACP (National organization for the development of black people) to move African American rights. She was born on Feb 4th, 1913 at Tuskegee, al. She got to college in the Alabama government teachers college. After her college training, she turned into the head of the Montgomery division of this NAACP.

She may take this initial family that gets to mind when we remember Montgomery and the social movement. But Rosa Parks was not the first colored female to let against segregation. Nine months before Rosa Parks rode that car, the teenager named Claudette Colvin defied Montgomery’s racial car forces. Colvin refused to rescind her place to the white female on March 2nd, 1955.

Struggling against racial discrimination, Rosa Parks was one of those females who changed this globe for greater. She was a woman of undeniable honesty and unity. Also called “the mom of the social movement” , Rosa Parks stood powerful in her opinions to abolish this separation between black and whites. Earhart had speeches to encourage others with her passion for travel. Her eagerness for flying unraveled into her desire for encouraging females to understand their ambitions. She made girls realise their personal infinite potential.

Rosa Parks the importance of them becoming involved at the change theory was the African American civil rights activist, whom the USA legislature named “the first women of national rights” , and “ the mother of the independence movement” Parks’ act of resistance turned into the significant sign of the contemporary social movement and Parks turned into the international symbol of resistance to racial segregation on December 1, 1955, Forty-three year old Rosa Parks boarded the Montgomery, al city.

According to the book “seeing through race” , Berger explained that about how white people discriminate black people and their right during the civil war (1950-1960) era.  At that  time,  white people wanted to  deprive all  discrimination activities and image of during the nonviolence protesting from social media. They  wanted to show black people’s violence. Most of  photographers, editors were controlled by them so real picture and story very hardly came out. However, some of images of civil war and  news were represented  the social media which helped them to get their own right. I highly agree with Berger that social medial  images are utterly powerful  to convince  to other people about what exactly happening there. Recently, we have evident about GOERGE FLOYED who killed by police brutality.  many protesters pros tested against the police brutality when people saw cruel image of Floyd’s. If that picture didn’t came out in social media  , nobody couldn’t protest. Even  some news channel wanted hided that picture.

According to Martin A. Berger, white owned newspaper and magazine owners during the times of the civil rights movement often selected photographs that catered to their white readers’ base even though the heart of the movement was supposed to be about fighting for African-Americans’ civil rights. He goes on to state that the photographs selected often showed Whites still in the position of power, as opposed to showing Black led political action. If Berger is right about White run media indulging the White audience, as I think they are, then we need to reassess the popular assumption of what it is to be a White or Non POC ally.
Many of the same issues African-Americans faced in the past are being brought to light in the present, still ongoing, due to the recent murder of George Floyd. We see a majority of images in the media that are shockingly similar to those of the 50’s and 60’s. Black Americans facing brutality and racism at the hands of White police officers and White Americans. Those images and videos seem to get more views and become much more popular to images and videos of peaceful Black led marches and other political actions. What has also grown from this movement are more White people standing up for Black Americans rights. While this is a positive event, I believe more can be done to be a more efficient ally for Black Americans. After reading Martin A. Berger’s introduction Seeing through Race, it opened my viewpoint to something I previously did not realize. It is not enough to show images of violence and hate towards Black Americans, but we must instead show them portrayed as having ownership of their rights. No longer should we unconsciously show them in a light of being in an unequal position of power. We must be more discerning on what type of media we intake and continue to support and uplift our Black citizens so we can truly make a difference for them in their fight for equal rights.