This picture is a good example of hegemony because it speaks for it self. It is really the oppisite of it which helps explain it better for me. The two babies are holding hands to show equality. No one baby is better then the other or more powerful. The quote says the dont want to live in a hegemonic system where human rights are ignored. In hegemonic systems there is a dominant group a group that is over another. so when you think of hegenomy just think of the oppisite of this adorable picture!
This picture is a great representation of hegemony. It has corporation on top of corporation in order of dominance. It shows howNAFTA has more power then walmart but the WTO has dominance over NAFTA. Also if you close at the bottom you see bulls with blood running down its back and under that you see people pushing the bulls. this is showing how the working man is below all of the corporations trying to carry all the weight. then above every thing comes uncle sam the biggest thing in the picture. He also has the whip that has been hitting the animals back with blood at the tip of it. This is a great example of how a hegemonic system works the bigger the object in the picture more power and dominance!
This third and final picture is also a good representation of Hegemony. This is the cover for hip hop artist Kanye West's new song called power. The song basically talks about how no one man shoud have all the power that he does. This is showing how something can be dominant over something else. He feels like do to his money and fame he holds alot of powe over many people. Kanye does not see him self as equal to everybody else he feels as if there is some dominance he holds.You notice in the picture power is over everything and ends up k9lling the king says alot !
For the first picture, I understood what you were saying with the two little boys holding hands that ment equal representation. But I didn't really understand what it had too much to do with hegemony. For the second picture I also did too. You stated that you thought the boxes were stacked in order of rank or importance, where I never thought of that when I chose it. For your last picture I liked a lot and thought it represented hegemony to the point exactly. It is very cool how just the head with the crown represents kanye because yes he is the king of hip hop, with all of his wealth and fame. But it is showing with the knife that it might not be all that great is what I got from it. Overall good job!
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