Celebrity Essay People have been amazed by celebrities since ancient times and have looked up to them as if they were gods. In Collin Palmer’s short essay response, he argues that Deborah King overdramatized the negative effects celebrities have on our lives in her article, The Impact Celebrities Have on Our Lives. Although some obsessions can be taken too far, I agree with Palmer’s position that celebrities offer a healthy escape from our stressful work and lives. Kids and teenagers need good role models–someone to look up to. In Palmer’s response, he says, “My brother is obsessed with Cam Newton,[...] because he wants to be a famous football player”(15). This suggests Palmer’s brother was inspired by a celebrity to chase his dreams and …show more content…
As King says in her article, “[...] there are some celebrities who use their fame to bring about change and are good celebrity models”(5). A lot of celebrities have their own charities or are involved in a various amount. I don’t know if King believes all celebrities are ‘no good’, but a great amount of the donations charities receive are from celebrities. Celebrities can impact the way we feel about certain subjects and help open our eyes to some of the conflicts in today’s world. According to the class survey, about 33 percent of us would try to imitate something positive that was done by a celebrity. If a celebrity asked me to donate to a certain charity, I would at least try. Not long ago, I was watching a Youtube video, and they were doing a challenge called the Arm Wrestle Challenge. John Cena, a well-known celebrity, started it to raise awareness and help fund the Make A Wish Foundation. Whoever lost had to donate double the amount the winner donated. Seeing people I look up to being so generous and giving their own money to support charities made me want to donate. How could King say celebrities are bad influences when they motivate us to give back and help
There are many celebrities who support and promote causes and charities to create awareness about peace, humanitarian causes, poverty, and illness in the world. Does celebrity activism really have the intention to help others or do celebrities get involved in it because they want to enhance their reputation? Although some celebrity activists do not have a good reputation because of their bad behavior, they contribute to society by giving donations or by supporting good causes. Celebrity activism matters because celebrities are powerful tools who raise awareness of good causes. Celebrities have the power to attract people’s attention, for instance, their fans, to influence them to support the important causes.
...ndation, Celebrity Fight Night Foundation, Children with AIDS, David Foster Foundation, DoSomething.org, Friends of Scotland, Jimmy Fund, Make A Child Smile Appeal, Make-A-Wish Foundation, Mississippi Animal Rescue League, Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center, Neurofibromatosis Inc., Operation Smile, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Pediatric Epilepsy Project, Raising Malawi, Reef Relief, Smile Train, St. Francis Food Pantries and Shelters, The Doe Fund, UNICEFF, and Wounded Warrior Project. Some of the top charity foundations for Trump, among many other celebrities, would be UNICEFF and Make-A-Wish Foundation. This clearly influences society in a positive way. By helping an innumerable amount of charities Trump creates a positive image for himself, while also helping many people, whether it be for the welfare of a particular group of people, or supporting wildlife.
The deception of media consumers allows for the abuse of economic infrastructures of society. An obsession with celebrities’ lives passifies ordinary people in accepting the stratification of the elite businesses and the ordinary citizens. Though pseudo-events and celebrity worship may not be exactly complementary, the similarities of both leaves the public to be utterly vulnerable unless they begin to critically think for themselves.
When most people talk about celebrities it is usually related to their latest fashion statement, the new movies they are starring in, or the new song they released. However, what is becoming increasingly more popular for celebrities to be associated with is humanitarian and development work. Through their use of songs, documentaries, and publicized field missions, the celebrities that partake in humanitarian work utilize their fame to attract people to support certain relief efforts and organizations. A movement first started by Jackie Coogan in the 1920s (Babkenian, 2011), celebrity humanitarianism is becoming increasingly more popular with names such as Bono, Oprah Winfrey, and Angelina Jolie serving as modern day examples of celebrities who are involved with humanitarian works. Of these “humanitarian celebrity’s,” Angelina Jolie, who is heavily involved in humanitarian work around the globe, has a great amount of criticism and praise for her work. Along side Brad Pitt, she has seen increasing popularity due to her work in the field of development, and is noted for being one of the most active celebrities in regards to humanitarian and development work, especially in the field of the refugee crisis around the world.
Over the last few decades celebrity and fame has changed dramatically, from Alexander the Great to Kim Kardashian. Talent and achievements no longer play a huge role when it comes to our celebrities. “Much modern celebrity seems the result of careful promotion or great good looks or something besides talent and achievement” (Epstein2) with that being said celebrity-creation has blossomed into an industry of its own. Keeping up with all the gossips from breaking up to hooking up, law suits and drama many might come to an agreement that celebrity culture is starting to be the great new art form in our new generation and that it ...
Andrew Carnegie once said, “The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.” With that celebrity activism has continued to changed due to multiple celebrities stepping up to the plate and becoming activists. The likes of Chance the Rapper, Beyoncé and many more have taken . Although there is a history of many celebrities being activists, to highlight a few according to Ronald Brownstein, author for the American Association of Retired Persons, “Warren Beatty, Harry Belafonte, and many more,” (AARP.org). More celebrities of our time are stepping out now, from “George Clooney’s Enough Project, rapper Akon’s newly launched Lighting Africa to the viral Kony 2012 campaign, there’s no doubt celebrity activism has gone mainstream” (theguardian.com).
Many times it is the struggle of growing up in poverty that motivates and encourages a person to want to better his or herself. Whenever a person reaches success, it is important for that person to remain humble and remember where they he or she came from. There are many celebrities that once they achieve fame and success, they remember where they came from and help others around the world that are in poverty. Celebrities achieve this by building charities of their choice. One celebrity that has given back to her community is Colombian born singer Shakira. Growing up in poverty, Shakira knows what it’s like to struggle and has taken that experience to build charities to help those less fortunate, especially children.
Using your celebrity to make a difference is something many people do. Many people like Katherine Hepburn who won four academy awards for Best Actress, and is known for playing strong-willed women in her film roles. Walking around in a masculine style, she was the first actress to not conform to what society told her to wear. If it was not for Katherine wearing trousers that it would not be so sociably acceptable for women to wear
According to the article “The Effects of Celebrity Role Models on Kids and Teens” by Eliza Martinez,“Many celebrities do not make a secret of alcohol or drug abuse and the glamorization of dying due to an overdose in the media might make your child feel that using these substances is acceptable.” The fans see the celebrities’ work and not the person themself. This is the main reason celebrities make such terrible role models. The fans will idolize them, but they don’t know what the celebrity is like on a personal level. They don’t know the opinion of the celebrity on certain issues. If they did and they agreed with the celebrity, then there is a whole other reason to look up to this person. If a fan disagreed, then they could still like their work and just agree to disagree, but it will never be like that. It is no one’s fault, but that is the main reason celebrities aren’t good role models. That is why parents, siblings, friends, other family, and even fictional characters work as role models. The people that look up to them know their role model personally and therefore know whether or not they agree with the role model’s
Even though entertainers can influence others to make a difference, they themselves don’t do anything to
We are part of a generation that is obsessed with celebrity culture. Celebrities are distinctive. Media and consumers alike invented them to be a different race of super beings: flawless, divine and above all the real moral world. In a 1995 New York Times article “In contrast, 9 out of 10 of those polled could think of something
Celebrities in a way decide for the people; oftentimes, people tend to buy something if a celebrity is advertising it. Other theorists have an extension of Dyer’s ideas on Celebrities power and effect on society. Despite the fact that Dyer’s theories may be aged, they are still applicable to today’s society as shown
Celebrities do have an impact, but it has more of a negative connotation in today’s light because people would rather talk about Taylor Swift and Kayne’s feud over something else because of it interesting. In today’s society, you will hear about a celebrity donating or helping out over twitter or something, but it will not be on the news or anything because the gossip usually surrounding these people get a lot more viewer
According to Steven Knowlton, author of Moral Reasoning for Journalists, "Celebrities of all sorts-musicians, athletes, entertainers, and others-make their living from the public and the public therefore in a sense employs them, just as it employs governors and presidents..."(54). Most journalists figure that celebrities voluntarily surrender their pr...
Have you ever think about the influences of celebrities that affect in people life. Celebrity is a kind of pop-culture that combines between interpersonal communication and media, and it creates desires from the people assumption or expectation. Celebrities are the important tools to attract audiences. The media scholars produce the celebrity content from what people expect from life. Celebrities may drive the directions of living such as habits, tastes, attention and ambition among people (Turnere). Nowadays, celebrities are all around us. They are one of the important people who can influence the media such as movies, drama, music magazines, news or even represent the nation. According to the William’s note celebrities are one part which