The Role of Hope

In my experiences the role of hope changes all the time, depending on the situation.
I can hope to make a good grade on a paper or a test.
I can hope to stay in contact with every single one of my friends.
The list just goes on and on. In our book Sanders talks about the different kinds of hope, and then he starts to talk about the dog that he had as a child. Doby was a very happy-go-lucky dog who was constantly on the move, hoping for the best. This for me in the best kind of hope, the positive, glass half full attitude. The ability to love everything unconditionally also involves hope. No matter what happens to me good, bad, exciting, terrifying I always have hope that it is going to work out for the best not only for me but also everyone that it could possibly involve.
This aspect about me goes back to the first entry that I made about hope when I talked about being a little girl on Halloween just about dripping with hope that I would be able to have the carrot cake. This is an example of how I love when hope is positive.
All in all I feel that the role of hope is to offer positive influence to different situations, no matter what.

Dior, Bitch Mag, American Apparel

 Dior Website:

1. The audience for this website is women in their late 20’s to early 30’s in my opinion. Girl couldn’t make an entrance with out her lipstick.
2. When I first come to this page the colors are what first strike my attention. There is a lot of black and neutral colors used, except for the new lip stick that’s being advertised is a pale, hot pink. Other words that come to mind are, fashionable, sleek, sensual, mysterious, dark and clean.
3. Because the page uses very little color in the ads it allows for the products they are trying to sell to me a major focal point of the ad. For the Miss Dior ad Natalie Portman is looking at the camera straight on and is holding her self in the nude. She has a black bow in her hair and a very minimal amount of makeup on. I feel like with this they are trying to show the innocence of not only Natalie Portman, but how innocence is able to be captured in their perfume. The font of this page is very plain and simple which shows just show simple the product actually is.
4. The information that comes up in these four slides is, how important lipstick is, the newest model for the Miss Dior perfume and the newest anti-aging creme. The major theme that comes up in each slide is the importance of makeup and looking/smelling flawless everyday. 
5. The goal of this page is to get women interested in buying Dior products from lipstick to fragrance to facial cleanser. Christain Dior uses the slogan through Kate Moss “girl couldn’t make an entrance without her lipstick”, implying that women are socially accepted unless she is wearing her makeup. 
6. I feel that the women in these ads on the Dior website are totally doing their job, selling make up, making women feel like they have to have make up to be able to be a part of society. If a man were trying to sell anti-aging creme or pink lipstick he would not have the same results as Kate Moss or Natalie Portman do, simply because in our culture it isn’t normal for men to wear makeup. 

Bitchmagazine.org:

1. This is a very different blog website. I feel like the audience is woman who are all about woman power, you could say feminist. 
2. The words that first come to mind are powerful, political, strong, independent. The background color to this website is two different shades of purple; purple is the color of power and royalty. 
3. Color on this page is very eye catching even though there are a lot of lighter purples and light greens, it makes the main messages that are in black pop even more. The font of this page is very simple and plain, there are not a lot of curls and rounded edges; this shows that the authors want their information to be taken seriously and show that the information should get your attention, not the stuff around the worlds.
4. There are several articles on the first page, some of these articles include, gay music, abortion billboards, music of Grey’s Anatomy, voting in Australia, top five best screen plays of heroines in literature. The main focal point is with out a doubt the importance of being a woman and standing up for your rights as a woman. 
5. The goal of this website is to allow for women to voice their opinions and be able to read the opinions of fellow women around the world. With each article becoming more and more sure of the importance of being a spirited, self-determined woman. 
6. I think it is extremely important for women to have a place where they are able to freely state their opinions with out having someone tell them they are wrong or silly for thinking progressively. I strongly feel that if men were able to freely write in this blog it would not be as popular and successful as it is now. 

American Apparel

1. This is one of my favorite clothing websites to look at I’ve never never really understood why I can honestly say that I don’t own any American Apparel clothing, but I have spent quite a bit of time on this site. The audience for this website again is women who are into different patterns and textures in clothing. 
2. Upon coming to this website the words that first come to mind are eclectic, worldly, slightly simple and indie. 
3. The main color of this website is white. White is a rather pure color and allows for things to be seen/stand out extremely well. This allows for the clothing to become the focal point of the website. Even the models are extremely simple and are not sporting loads and loads of make up like the models of the Dior website for example. 
4. Information on this website is very straight forward. The first aspect to this website is it gives web page visitors ideas for potential outfits that could be put together with their clothing. The other part of this page that is very different is it shows pictures of the factory where the clothes are made, this is very abnormal for clothing websites to broadcast. The emphasis is most significantly placed on the clothing. 
5. Selling clothing is the prime goal of the American Apparel website.
6. The women featured on this website are what I like to call simply pretty, they are not “drop dead gorgeous” and they intelligibly model the clothing. American Apparel makes male clothing as well and so they have male models who fit the same basic role as the women in this website.