What's in a Name?

Words bring identity. Language brings a community together and allows for one another to communicate. Davidson argues that intranslatability is not possible with complete failure because both parties need to know that they are not talking about one common object. In order for you to know they're different, you have to know they're not the same.  Language communicates ideas and even an attempt to communicate shows partial success. Davidson rejects conceptual relativism.
 Language gives an object meaning, but what's in a name? It amazes me that once we see an object, a word connects and brings it to life. Our own beliefs and experiences are affected by what we see. Berger says that "we never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves (9)."
Art surrounds us the same way that language surrounds us. Images tell a story that words can never describe and portray. Sometimes gender roles and society's consumerism distorts natural beauty. Men are dependent on power and women must continually watch themselves. Berger believes that "men act and women appear (47)." Men desire women like an object. Men's sexual desire for women can be seen in images, oil paintings and publicity. Sex sells. As readers, we are active agents living in a passive world. Publicity persuades us of a transformation into a glamorous lifestyle. Berger states that "publicity is effective precisely because it feeds upon the real (132)." We want to be envious of ourselves, so we buy into this fake happiness. Women and publicity have similarities because "to be able to buy is the same thing as being sexually desirable (144)."