...Throughout most of my teenage life, I struggled with many insecurities regarding my weight and appearance. Despite being ambitious and passionate about the performing arts, I constantly struggled with negative body image, causing me to shy away from the stage. I believed that lead roles were made to be played by the "pretty girls" and that my place would forever remain in the ensemble. It wasn’t until I auditioned for and landed the role of Grace in Cinderella that I realized that wasn’t the case. I got to explore all of the ins and outs of that crazy character and embrace being different. From then on, I slowly began to peek out from behind the curtain of insecurity I had been hiding behind, and my confidence was at an all new high. Never...
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...Eunjung Carney English 848 Mrs. Escamilla 03/16/2013 An Essay on a Miss Representation Images of women are presented in all different kinds of mass media. Such images of women in the media portray the ideal women’s body as very thin and as a sexual object. These unrealistic images are particularly found in women’s magazines all over the country. Many young women between the ages of 14 and 32 hold these unrealistic and unattainable images of ideal models’ bodies. There are numerous studies regarding the negative effects of women’s body portrayal in the media. Two of these studies, cultivation theory and self-schema theory, explain why and how women internalize unrealistic and unattainable ideal body images in three ways: women’s body objectification, repetitive exposure to unrealistic images, and women’s internalization of the idealized body. These cause women to have eating disorders and low self-esteem. Women should be aware of theses subtle but strong influences and these negative effects should be eliminated. Many fashion magazines objectify the woman’s body in order to sell products by portraying women in very sexual ways and by emphasizing women’s body images rather than women’s health and ability. For instance, a recent American Apparel ad in a magazine, with the copy “now open,” sends the message that a woman in the ad spreading her leg widely is open for sex. This sexual availability of the woman in this ad implies that she can be had by anyone. Usually...
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...During this course, I been leaning to write with the help of different literary devices such as visual texts or books. For two of the major assignment for this course 1301 English I used images to write a rhetorical analysis about the negative side of Facebook and with the help of a book called The Intervention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd I wrote a literary analysis. Therefore, while reviewing those essays I found there are some mistakes with the structure of the essay, there are enough examples to support the main idea, and I need to improve grammatical mistakes. For a good essay the structure should include the three main parts an introduction, body, and the conclusion. On both of my essays I include those three parts, however the thesis statement...
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...Spring 1 2015 / April 2, 2015 Essay Response to Deborah Willis – Picturing Us Deborah Willis’ essay, Picturing Us, tackles the issues of self-representation of African-Americans in pictures. In 1955 when Debra Willis first saw the photographs in the book, The Sweetfly Paper of Life, it left an “indelible mark” on her youthful mind. (Pg. 3). It was her first time seeing “colored” people that she could relate to. Through the narratives of the photos Willis was reminded of her family and the universal pride of other African-American families. From that point onward her sense of self was positively awaken, which promoted her to pursued books and photographs that honestly depicted stories of Black people through the eyes of other Black people. Year prior to Willis’ revelation, in 1882, Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm wanted to tell stories of Black people through Black people’s eyes and decided to start the First African-American newspaper, the Freedom's Journal. Russworm said “We were truly invisible unless we committed a crime.” Thus, in its inaugural issue, the paper clearly stated “We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us.” With the start of this newspaper, and many newspapers following, Black people developed a sense of self. Their images were positive and commonplace, a far cry from being displayed in the major newspapers as criminals and thieves of chickens. I choose the following three images from Willis essay that I reason may influence African-American’s...
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...developing and developed countries due to eating disorders and body image disturbances. Many researchers assume that the eating disorders in the modern society include psychological troubles such as self-critical thoughts and emotions, which lead individuals to a pessimistic mood. From the mentioned points above, I believe that western culture leads women’s eating disorders through media and personal relationships with westerners. I found specific researchers and their studies to support and explain my possition: a essay, entitled “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” written by Susan Bordo from Gilbert H. Muller’s book The New Worlds Reader, an research article published in the magazine International Journal Of Eating Disorders entitled “Boday Image and Eating Disturbance Among South Asian-American Women: The Role of Racial Teasing”, by Dana Sahi Iyer and Nick Haslam, and the seventh chapter, entitled “Sociocultural Influences: The Impact of Western Culture on Eating and Body Image Disturbances”, of the book Too Fat or Too Thin: A Reference Guide to Eating Diorders by Cynthia R Kalodner. During reading three resources, I come up with question how western culture impacts eating disorders due to the standards of beauty among women through media and personal connections. Susan Bordo argues that the globalization of eating disorders crosses the economic levels of countries, races, genders, classes, and ages in her essay. She believes that eating disturbances become universal events...
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...so what happens if either the inner image or the reflection we see is imperfect or distorted? Body image is a complex issue; one in which perceptions, thoughts and feelings play a major role - along with the widening gap between actual body sizes (which are increasing) and those portrayed in the media (such as Barbie and Rambo) (Brown and Dittmar 2005.1089). Whilst many other issues contribute to wellbeing, body image correlates with health, happiness and life satisfaction; it is how we see ourselves that ultimately dominates who we are and how we interact with the communities we live in. Accordingly, this essay examines the unavoidability of today’s “perfect” body advertising, the role materialism plays and the claim that thin does not guarantee sales; whilst considering to what extent mental health, personal health and happiness play in determining wellbeing, and then exploring the often overlooked effects body image has on a community’s wellbeing. Constant exposure to idealised media images is unavoidable; boys, girls, men and women alike are inundated with thousands of images, portraying (for most) desirable yet unattainable and unrealistic body and self, expectations and ideals (Dittmar and Howard 2004, 478). A selection of research suggests that it is not the advertisements themselves that pressure individuals; but rather, the individuals beliefs, values and ideals relating to their own appearance that impact on their body image and level of dissatisfaction; that advertising...
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...Ivarsson English 100 – 19 Professor Fisher Essay 4 – draft one December 9, 2014 Intro: The world we live in today is far more globalized than that of our previous generation. Before social media and other instant forms of communication existed, people did not need to worry about speaking a different language or the way it was spoken. Dialects and accents had little meaning because of the barriers that surrounded each community prohibited the inhabitants of much interaction with people from other societies. Today however, people can speak with each other regardless of location, which emphasizes the importance of the power of language. The negative consequences that come from this is that those who do not master a language perfectly or differ from perfect speech are discriminated against in the general community. A phenomenon, which writer Gloria Anzaldúa, who wrote the article “How to Tame a Wild Tongue,” calls “Linguistic Terrorism.” According to her, linguistic terrorism negates not only the speaker, but also the experiences and culture behind that person (Anzaldúa). Thesis: Although language can be used as a tool of power, the use of faulty and imprecise language negates the speaker and causes negative consequences. Body 1, Tan: An accent is an example of imprecise English, which causes people to make negative or positive assumptions about the speaker based on the information that accent reveals. Example: In Amy Tan´s essay “Mother Tongue,” she provides an example...
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...McGuffin, & Farmer, 2008). In contrast to discoveries of this nature, a study conducted in Taiwan concludes that many depression sufferers perceive the cause of their depression to be social and cultural factors, making little mention to biology (Fu & Paraboo, 2009). Although medication has proven successful in many cases for alleviating depressive symptoms, considerable amounts of research have determined that external factors such as personal misfortunes or stress, cultural and societal influences, such as social norms, and socioeconomics can impact the onset of depression (Kendler, Karkowski, & Prescott, 1999). This ongoing and complex argument of the extent to which external factors contribute to depression will be discussed in this essay, with the aim of proving that biology is not the core contributor to depression. Depression is a very common disease, affecting approximately 10%-25% of...
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...(Eating Disorder Hope). Is anorexia nervosa an illness caused by negative social conditions or is it a mental illness/mental disorder? After reading “The Slender Trap” written by Trina Piscatelli, I don’t agree with Piscatelli when she states in her reading that negative social conditions are the cause of anorexia nervosa in young women. Anorexia nervosa is a mental illness/mental disorder. According to Mayo Clinic the definition of mental illness is “…disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior. Examples of mental illness include depression, anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, eating...
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...Academic reflective essay The essay will focus on the patient involved in the given case study named as Mrs. S. In addition, the essay will give a relevant and brief history of the patient. It will also define the term ‘bio-psycho-social’ and its relevance to holistic care. For the point of discussion, the essay will focus on the management of care for patient with gastrointestinal illness resulting in stoma operation and will discuss the biopsychosocial factors affecting the patient and how this changes ‘normal’ biology, psychology and sociology. The individual chosen to focus on is named as Mrs. S. The patient involved in this case study Mrs. S. is a 48 years old lady who works in school as a teacher. She lives with her husband, Mr. S, in a small town. Her husband works as a builder, which has long working hours, leaving him not much time to look after their children. They have two girls and they are aged 12 and 10. They are a loving family. Mrs. S looks after the children, takes them to school and pick them up. Mrs. S is a very active lady with a very active social life, she likes to meet up with her friends during the weekend; she swims four days a week with her children, and she balances her time with family and her job. She is suffering from mild hypertension, drinks minimal amount of alcohol during the weekends and smokes 5-10 cigarettes a day. The term ‘bio-psycho-social’ refers to the relationship amongst biological, psychological and social characteristics of an...
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...marketing to there advantage” (Wright,2008,p24) An attitude can be defined as a “physiological tendency” that is a view on a particular object that can be either positive or negative, “businesses are now concerned with developing favourable attitudes”(Foxall,2006,p67) . Attitudes are formed though a process of individual subjective evaluation, in a business context this involves an individual assessing the cost and benefit of a purchase. Emotional responses and individual beliefs also influence attitudes. A consumer durable is any type of product that is manufactured with the purpose of being used in the long term, opposed to many goods that are manufactured for short term use. Consumer durables are meant to be used regularly for a number of years before they need changed or replaced. “A consumer durable is a manufactured product that has a relatively long useful life, such as a car or a television” ( Wanger,2004,p177) In this essay I will draw on my own experiences of the purchase of a consumer durable to asses the extent that attitudes to sustainable marketing effected my purchase. The consumer durable I will use is a mobile phone, I will briefly introduce the product followed by attitude theories and then apply these theories in context to sustainable marketing and my purchase. Main body...
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...‘A Hanging.’ By George Orwell ‘A Hanging’ is a non fiction essay written by George Orwell in 1931 in which he recounts a personal experience in Burma as police officer where he observes a ‘criminal’ being hanged. The essay presents the reader with the subject of capital punishment in a structure to challenge the reader’s views and stipulate a response from the readers as it is a subject that creates a great controversy. Orwell chooses not to use facts such as statistics and figures that simply asks and creates a black and white answer; instead he arouses the readers emotions through imagery, setting and narrative structure as he explores the themes and the message. The essay starts with a pessimistic description of the setting instantly creating a depressing mood as the rain is ‘sodden’ which creates a negative depiction. Orwell’s use of pathetic fallacy is evident as the rain symbolises sadness and tragedy. The reader is made aware of the prisoner’s unhealthy living conditions through Orwell’s wordchoice: “a sickly light, like yellow tinfoil.” The simile suggests that the light appears unnatural. The word ‘sickly’ implies the sense of illness and wrongness as ‘yellow tinfoil’ further the feeling of death, decay and unnaturalness of the prisoners being left to rot. The feelings of unnaturalness is continued throughout the essay as his point is that killing a life, whilst in full flow is unnatural and appears to strengthen Orwell’s feeling of being against capital punishment...
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...Lance Mayo ENG 101 November 22, 2013 Persuasive Essay An Outlet for Personal Expression Doodles of skulls and flowers or significant works of art? Tattoos often times give people a negative image of others. Despite the message or meaning behind them, some people without them find tattoos to be unprofessional and inappropriate. Permanent body art can be inappropriate in certain settings; especially if they reference profanity, racial, sexist, or obscene thoughts. People are sensitive to those subjects and judge others impartially. Tattoos should not be a deciding factor in an interview or position for a job because tattoos should not measure ones capability of doing work. I believe tattoos are appropriate because they are an outlet for personal expression, and in addition to being meaningful, they also sometimes serve a practical purpose. Hans Hofmann, Pablo Picasso, and Van Gogh are all artists with signature and elaborate styles of painting. They neither conformed to “normal” styles, nor painted “inside the lines”. These famous artists had specific styles that were unique only to themselves. They were portrayals of how they were feeling at the time. With Hans Hofmann's style of repeated shapes and bright colors, Pablo Picasso’s cubism style and Van Gogh’s Starry Night, are all individualized pieces of art very similar to tattoos. Tattoos are less commonly seen as artwork on ones body and more often seen as symbols of being in a band, someone on drugs or...
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...such as “The Swan” to test their hypothesis. Although they could be found in any other race, many of the results such as the pressure to have a thinner body were found in white women. Study has shown the pressure on women to have a thinner look have increased eating disorder and increased in the cosmetic makeovers in the last few years This article was beneficial because this experiment had the same objectives I have for my paper, which is to find out the effects of reality television. All the authors worked in the department of psychology so there wasn’t any reason for them to be bias when testing this experiment. This article wasn’t too difficult to understand due to having the information organized. I also like how they had chosen women from their own psychology department and undergraduates to test this experiment. That showed that...
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...In his essay “Being Fat Is OK,” Paul Campos disputes the federal government’s definition of “overweight” (206). He even goes so far as to suggest that the government is perpetrating a fraud against the unsuspecting American people by setting weight standards that are unreasonable and not founded on any scientific fact. He points out rather convincingly that these standards “not coincidentally, serve the interests of America’s $50 billion per year diet industry” (207). It is his belief that the obsession with dieting in this country is caused by a series of intricate “lies” propelled by “the dishonesty of the propaganda war that the diet industry, with eager cooperation of our government, is carrying out against the American people” (207). Campos contends that it is not the government’s concern for our health but greed that influenced the stringent standards released that define someone as overweight or clinically obese. Campos confers that if Americans were lead to believe they were overweight they would flock to the market to purchase some of the thousands of dietary products provided by the industry. By providing quotes from the editors of extremely credible sources such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Campos exposes the weak link between being overweight and our overall health. In fact, Campos shows that there is little to no solid scientific basis to support the benefits of dieting at all. By doing so, Campos successfully creates an image of doubtful integrity on...
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