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Evaluation of Dove

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2T-Rh838GA ~Dove Self-esteem project 

Dove has been able to rebrand and showcase a different side of what its brand stands for on social media. They have launched several body-positive campaigns over the last couple of years that are aimed to show women and young girls to love themselves again despite pressures from social media. Dove is aiming to bring attention to the way women and young girls are typically portrayed on social media and switch that narrative to a body positive and realistic one. Dove has chosen to include women of color, plus-size women and disabled women in its campaigns. The new wave of inclusivity is refreshing coming from such a big brand with a huge platform like Dove. One look at their social media page shows that they are up to date with trends and the news and look to make relatable content for their audience. The only suggestion I have for Dove is to make their social media even more inclusive by adding representation for the Latinx, Indigenous and LGBTQ+ communities. If they want to further expand their audience I would also recommend creating campaigns geared towards these communities and other minority communities. 

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you need me

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1. I know letting go may feel like hitting pavement but sometimes staying is like getting hit by a train you’ve seen coming for miles. 2. There are symphonies that are screaming it is going to get better. Listen to the music. 3. The most fight you’ll ever feel is from inside your heart. 4. Nostalgia is only good for telling you bedtime stories. Don’t let it tuck you in at night, don’t let it keep you warm. 5. Keep the moments that you wish could live on for a gazillion years close to your heart, never let them burn out. 6. You’ll find someone that’s not them. You’ll love again and it’ll be pure and significant in its own way. 7. They remember it all. They’ll see how much you impacted their lives much later. 8. You may hate high school, but it’s when it’s almost over that you get flashes of when you were young and passed notes with your first love in art class and had talks with teachers that really mattered and you’ll want it to slow down. Take it in, there’s good in everything. 9. Sometimes the one that was your perfect match will be the one to watch you burn. 10. What’s meant to be yours will always find its way home. 11. It’s okay to change without them. Remember that you are the main character of your story. 12. Music cures it all. 13. Telling the story of how I fell in love with you still warms me from the inside out. Teach me how to let go of you. 14. Falling out of love makes you feel like you’ll never want to do it again, but the feeling of your heart dropping when he tells you he’s wanted you all these years is worth the stab at the end. 15. You jump off the cliff hoping there won’t be daggers at the bottom, and when you’re young you think you know how much it’ll hurt. When it comes, you’ll realize you had no clue. 16. My biggest fear was not being with you. I’m becoming someone without you, and it doesn’t feel right. 17. The nicer you are, the more beautiful you become. 18. One day you’ll meet again, and it’ll be just as scary and beautiful as the first time. 19. You’ll find your person. You may not recognize them at first because they’re not as shiny as they are in the movies, but you’ll know by the calm they bring. 20. Thank God for him. 21. The boy who runs in my dreams isn’t as dishonest. He holds my hand whenever I need to feel less alone and I sit around his kitchen table and talk to his mother about poetry. She goes on to say something about how statistically people are more afraid of love than anything else and the things I don’t say- tell her all there is to know about me. That I’m afraid beyond measure of what love can do to a person. Because I spent the last two years loving someone who didn’t know anything other than tearing apart the sole purpose of my existence. The boy who runs beside me in my dreams convinces me that love isn’t always teeth and bite marks. In my dreams, my scars aren’t there because I never tasted a bitter love before. The boy in my dreams loves me enough to let me meet his mother and destroys the idea that love is what I came here to die for. 22. Maybe love stays, maybe love can’t. Maybe love shouldn’t. 23. I glance off in another direction, but I always glance back at you. 24. Things that are sweet like this attract the worst kind of hungry. 25. I don’t think you’ll ever realize you changed everything for me. 26. I found faith that summer. The lips told stories I fell asleep to, the hands promised to hold on. But bliss is temporary when you pull your hands away from your eyes, and summer only lasts 3 months. 27. Let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.

27 Things to take into 2017, roseyheartbeats  (via wnq-writers)

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I want to apologize to all the women I have called beautiful before I’ve called them intelligent or brave. I am sorry I made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is all you have to be proud of when you have broken mountains with your wit. From now on I will say things like you are resilient, or you are extraordinary not because I don’t think you’re beautiful, but because I need you to know you are more than that.

Rupi Kaur (via wordsnquotes)

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That’s what friends do: they notice things. They’re there for each other. They see what parents don’t.

Nina LaCour, Hold Still (via theliteraryjournals)

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Watch: As Blythe’s poem ends, it’s clear what we must do in the face of rape culture and “pocket feminism.”

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I was there! We talked for like a while and you where rally cool. Just wanted to say hi!

Bookish Adventures: My First Book Signing!

AAAAHHHHHHHH I’ve been excited about this since I sent my mother my “wishlist” in November/December-ish. I asked for The Selection Series new and in hardback (I’m normally cheap and don’t care/ go for used and paperback.) for Christmas because I knew Kiera Cass (@partylikeawordstar) was coming to Barnes and Noble Metairie. This was my first book signing! Like EVER. I bought all 4 books (The Selection- The Heir) just for her to sign.

 Hardback + Those Beautiful Covers + Signed = Feeling Kinda Luxurious.  Aesthetically, it’s a great start to my book collection and making my shelves look like the beautiful ones I see on social media (GOALS). But back to the actual signing….

The signing was on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 7 p.m. I had a LONG day that day and still had more to come. Although it wasn’t the end, it was certainly the cherry on top.  Unlike a few suckers I stood next to in line, I got there at like 6:30 and was in the middle of the line. 

Ms. Cass was punctual, very engaging, and very friendly. She answered questions about The Selection Series, the new release of The Siren (which I will probably be buying whenever I go on my next book-buying spree), and The Selection movie.

Things I learned:

Authors have little to no say about what their covers look like

She doesn’t have a “dream cast” for any of the roles in the Selection Movie

Her inspiration for The Siren was from a dream/waking up from a nap and thinking about the legend and myths of sirens

AND I got a cool Siren book cover.

Great first-time experience! When was your first book signing? If you haven’t had one yet, what author would you like your first book signing to be with?

Happy Reading!

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Thank you so much @partylikeawordstar for coming out tonight and just being incredibly awesome. And for not giving up, you are one awesome Puerto Rican!You could not have been any nicer, and I really hope I get to see you again. You have inspired me more than you could ever think. Thanks again. -Adamaris

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So tiny

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“The world has no right to my heart.”

Eadlyn Schreave

Winter

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“And if there’s a reason I’m still alive when everyone who loves me has died, I’m willing to wait for it.”

Katniss Everdeen Winter