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. Photography stores only wanted money and did not consider what the consequences were. They used images of violence to talk down on Black people to show how they are helpless when their not. These images would show the power of White people when they should not have power over Black people’s treatment. White people were benefited from the images feeling fearless.

1. 1. According to Berger, “publicity”–what we would call advertising–images influence consumers by “images of an alternate way of life.” Berger describes how publicity influences people to shop for more items that present themselves as richer or glamorous. Berger goes on to explain that we are spending money on things we do not need because glamor comes from the eye and the mirror. The same background the photographers are using for their publicity pictures is the same as the oil paintings. The models used in the pictures replaced the goddesses in the oil painting. When people owned these paintings “glamor” didn’t exist. 
   2. Berger argues that oil painting “showed what the owner was already enjoying among his possessions and way of life;” “it enhanced his view of himself as he already was.”  Whereas publicity pictures, “appeal to a way of life that we aspire to or think we aspire to.” These differences are important because when people see publicity they want to be just like them. They want to fit that same “glamorous” lifestyle to feel enviable. We spend more money to fit the description that we witness from models, high-end products, and gorgeous backgrounds. In the past, these oil paintings represented the owners because they were already from a higher class and wealthy. The productions of images for “publicity proposes to each of us in a consumer society that we change ourselves or our lives by buying something more.”
   3. In “The Dream a Far Away Place”, Berger basically explains how fantasy is far from reality. It creates a different world for the consumer. This world is the life consumers aspire to achieve. Advertisement basically manipulates consumers with empty promises to gain value. We are so tempted to fit ourselves in this fantasy because reality doesn’t compare. We as people are dreaming of this fantasy being our world so they can become more glamorous and desirable.

Representations of women today do not and do objectify them in similar ways as what Berger argues about women depicted in Renaissance paintings. Technology has developed so advanced that women have self-control and choose what they want to paint themselves as. They are in control of how they depict their image. During the Renaissance, women looked for men to paint them how they want them to. The nude paintings of women depict the way of women views their images in a certain society. Even though women have more self-respect, they sometimes do objectify themselves in similar ways as what Berger argues about women depicted in Renaissance paintings. Women nowadays look for attention and are willing to do anything for it. There are many social media and websites that pay women to be nude and show off their bodies to the world. If women do not feel that attention from men on the street they would find different ways to receive it. Women have control over their images in the media because they choose to make sure men do not control them, but they desperately need that attention. 

1. According to Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, writers should use the model of “entering the conversation” in their writing because you would strive to become a better writer and also hear others perspectives. Using “they say/ I say”  helps writers generate their ideas. When responding to a text, you need to place it in context and engage with it while making your argument.
2. I agree that learning to look at artwork helps us analyze other situations because It teaches us to infer and seek answers to extract our point of view. It can also educate you to be more careful when forming assumptions because what you see on the surface isn’t necessarily the best indicator of what’s going on within. This, in my view, is a brilliant method to excite your mind and make you a more creative thinker.