Summary of text 1”Body Image”
The text describes what the word “Body Image” means and how it effect young people. Young people self-image is about how they feel and how they look. It is often based on surrounding environment and often a bit twisted. The text explains what happens too kids when they reach the teen years. They become more aware of how they look. Sometimes they may not feel confident about themselves. This leads to things like depression, eating disorders or even plastic surgery. It also focus on the fact that it is not only a girl problem, it happens to boys as well. The text blames the media for the young people’s behaviour. The media teach young people to change the way that they look. The reason why super models are famous is because they look unique. Movies and music videos often use supermodels and it understandable that the young girls and boys are influenced in a bad way. The girls used in those music videos or movies often have big boobs thin hips and a perfect little Barbie face, and the boys have broad shoulders, abs. It makes the young people change the way they look. The girls use a lot of makeup, plastic surgery, starving themselves and exercise a lot. Some of the boys begin to use steroids over-exercise and eat abnormal meals to reach the perfect body type. Many of those things is unhealthy for the young kids because they are not fully-grown. The text also blames the internet for showing an unrealistic picture of the perfect body and young. Stuff like magazines use pictures that is manipulated in computer software programs.
Give an outline of the various attitudes to cosmic surgery presented in the three texts.
Text 1 focusing on what leads young people into plastic surgery, it blames the media, magazines and the internet. In addition, how it makes an unrealistic picture to the young teenagers.
Text 2 tells the story of some young girls in the UK who wish to enlarge their boobs and how they feel about it. How their mothers react to the fact that they want to change themselves in an unnatural way. It also shows some examples, of girls who regret the fact that they changed, and how some of them ends of changing their minds.
Text 3 tells the story of how Asians turns into plastic surgery like never before. And how they actually have a long beauty-tradition for, and the reason why they boom is coming a little late is the lack of welth and plastic surgery techniques
Comment on the following statement from text 2 “I wouldn’t like to be a teenager growing up, there’s too much pressure on them now…”
I clearly understand that statement, because young people nowadays has so many options and possibilities and is influenced from so many sides. You have the possibility to educate and become almost whatever you want. Your surroundings puts a huge pressure on the way you look, almost no matter if want it or not. And in line with the world getting more and more globalized young people does not only relate to their close surrounds, they also have to catch up with the rest of the world. Write an article for the magazine Young people in which you discuss why so many people will do anything for beauty. Why will young people do almost anything for beauty? That is a very good question, and for many parents remain unanswered. The reason why is that young people nowadays get affected not only from their surroundings but also from the media. The internet carries a lot of the responsibility, especially the social media. Facebook and Instagram is a place were many young people sign up and create a profile from where they upload pictures. However, those pictures are often not just everyday pictures. Young people put a lot of time into taking the best picture, and they do not look like they do in real life. The pictures is often manipulated, and if not the face they put on is super unnatural. Every time they achieve something in their life for example on a vacation they bungee jump, the moment after a picture or even a short movie clip is uploaded to one of the social medias. Another reason is the movies and beauty magazines. They often use skinny or pumped up models. Which affect the youngster in many ways. Can anything be done to change this twisted body image? I think part of the responsibility lies within the education system. They could educate the young people in not taking the internet that serious, and help the students to think of themselves in another way. Beauty comes from inside and it’s not shown with tangible things or with a plastic face. But still, struggling throughout the teen years is also a part of being young.