In today’s world of pop culture, image is everything. Celebrities fill our media outlets with tales of parties, elopements and other eye-catching drama. Image is not only the physical image that these celebrities portray, but it is the image they portray through their work, whether
Dove’s “Campaign for Real Beauty” revolutionized the perception of beauty in the media by showing real women, and not models, in its advertisements. This decision gave the brand a great deal of publicity, and Dove has a strong image, which supports “real beauty.” The “Evolution
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to be part of history in the making. I always wondered what that would feel like. Since I was a child, I had envisioned the entire scene. With a gold medal hanging around my neck, television reporters
As of April 23, 2009, at 11:22 p.m. “the windy city” has 1,113,258 “friends supporting the bid” according to Chicago’s 2016 candidate city Web site. The following is a statement also on Chicago’s 2016 candidate city Web site: “On April 14, 2007, the United States
Today is the 13th Annual National Day of Silence. On this day, many people refrain from speaking to call attention to anti-LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) name-calling, bullying and harassment in schools. Today, April 17, 2009, also would have marked the twelfth birthday of Carl
I am planning to graduate from college in less than a year, and I can only imagine the difficulties that I am going to have in finding a job. The job market is not as booming as many of us would like, so I am
Let me start off this blog post with a statistic. Did you know that the Department of Labor reports that workers ages 18 to 34 change employers (or occupations under the same employer) an average of 10 times? That’s shocking. It really throws out the
Most people would be content for six months with a $100,000 salary and lying on an island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. With this job, you will only have to feed several hundred fish, clean the pool and check the mail. Other days may consist
The public perception of Jon and Kate Gosslin, stars of TLC’s hit television series Jon and Kate Plus 8, varies across the blogosphere, in turn putting PR professionals to work. Aspiring to work in the pubic relations field, I am going to treat the Jon and
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAk77Kr_OwQ&hl=en&fs=1] I woke up on a lazy Sunday morning and turned on the TV to one of my guilty pleasures, the Style Network. During the first commercial break I got up to get some water. When I returned, my friend had the TV paused and
