dom+reflection

On my four walls I tried to show the mores of the American people. Also I showed the effect the mores of the upper class has effected the middle and lower Americans. Another issue i decided to deal with was family life in America. On the first wall I decided to show the lower class first. I chose pictures like the housing projects of today, Spike Lee's When the Leeves broke and a picture from the dust bowl. I felt these pictures were important because as seen in the Grapes of Wrath, the lower class people were not treated as equally as upper class Americans. We still see this in America today with the incidents such as hurricane Katrina. On my Second wall I showed the lifestyle of upper class Americans. Lifestyles primarily based on materialistic objects. It seems thats as years go on the mores of the American people has been focused on financial success. Without success there will be no happiness. People have started teaching their children this at a young age with the constant stress of going to a good school in order to be financially successful. On the third wall I showed the effect that the media has on American people. Also an issue that is embedded into our American mores. Women and Men working hard in order to appear as what they see on T.V. and magazines. This is causing an unrealistic lifestyle to grow and seem acceptable. My fourth wall shows how much family life has change in America. There used to be an image of the American family life that showed families like the Brady Bunch. As America has grown and become more diverse, this image no longer exist. There is no longer a certain type of American family that is thought of but a more broad range of people such as interracial families, divorced families, functional, and dysfunctional families.