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I chose makeup as my cultural artifact. It represents me as the young woman that I am today in the sense that it helps me when it comes to my confidence. It was not hard at all to find representation of makeup in the media and pop culture. As a matter of fact, makeup is actually encouraged for women in the media and pop culture. Any advertisement that has a woman in it, I can guarantee you that she is wearing makeup. At any fashion show, I can assure you that every single model is wearing makeup. Every actress on set is guaranteed to be wearing makeup. Every female artist wears makeup during their performances. All women on a red carpet wear pounds of makeup. Makeup is everywhere and is highly encouraged by the media and in pop culture. I've been wearing makeup since I was fourteen. At that time the message conveyed was that you needed it in order to be pretty. That you had to wear it to get a boys attention. It's funny because as you grow older you realize that boys actual
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Prompt One: My cultural artifact is a purse. I chose this because I always carried a purse similar to this one even though I was only six with no business having or needing one. It was filled with snacks and cheap play makeup that target sells to little girls that want to play makeover with. I was compelled to choose my childhood purse because it was something I adopted from watching grown women. They always carried purses around and wore makeup so I felt that I also needed to. It was something that I picked up as a young girl about women. Whenever I would go to the mall I observed hundreds of women because a little girl has nothing better to do than to look around. The one thing most of them had in common was a purse so there I was, a six year old that now needed a purse. Prompt Two: The social world in which my object, the purse, exists and acts is on a day to day life of most women. The creators of the cultural object is the fashion industry. They are al
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