...Social Psychology 315 Critical Thinking Exercise - Manufacturing Beauty Cindy Jackson’s Social Self, Self-Concept, Self Esteem, & Self Presentation Self-concept is the individual’s beliefs about him or herself, including their attributes and who and what the self actually is. Self-concept can also be about a person’s identity which also plays a key role in determining that individual’s behavior. Cindy Jackson’s website reveals that she had very low self-esteem as a child. She had believed that she was very unattractive, I would even go as far as saying a misfit. She disliked her physical appearance, which means she couldn’t accurately describe herself using observable characteristics. In our textbook Myers states “Our self-concepts include not only our self-schemas about who we currently are but also who we might become – our possible selves.” So Cindy already had a plan thought out about who she knew she’d become. She had a wish list from 1987 that included the changes she wanted to go through. Some of her changes included wider, less tired-looking eyes, a small feminine nose, high cheekbones, fuller lips, perfect white teeth, a smaller, more delicate jaw and chin, eradication of premature facial wrinkles, a flawless, unlined complexion, and a few more changes. I think when she was younger she suffered identity issues. She even went as far as considering herself a ragdoll at the age of 6. She basically wanted to be a real life Barbie. She wanted to be practically perfect...
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...Cosmetic surgeries 1. At first the writer of text number one talks about how, when she was a teenager, she wanted to get her nose fixed, but then starts to think further about cosmetic surgeries. At first Valerie Ulene talks about how damaging it is for teenagers to he a victim of the ideals in TV and advertisements. Throughout these social anticipations about our appearance, and how we have to fit these extreme expectations, can be seen as a trigger for adolescents to make drastic decisions about changing their bodies and looks. And you shouldn’t want to change anything about your body, when you are a teenager, because your body aren’t done developing, so something you may pay a very big amount of money for, you wouldn’t have to pay for, because your body would have made that change naturally. And you would have saved a tremendous amount of money. But a pro, which is mentioned, is the fact that this surgery might help on the teen’s self-esteem, because if this changes a part of the teenager’s body, which was going to hold back this person, the surgery might just be a good thing. But as it is pointed out there is no study, which confirms that cosmetic surgeries are helping on the over-all body image or the self-esteem. Another argument against cosmetic surgeries for teens is that as you pass along adolescence, you learn to accept your body flaws and small mistakes. The second text “Seeking Self-Esteem Through Surgery” written by Camille Sweeney she is focusing through...
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...discussed how the media and advertising companies have evolved in the last 20 years. Advertising is more a part of our lives today than it has ever been. In fact, advertising today has become a serious business with profits nearing 180 billion dollars a year, something that we all agree should be taken seriously. Consumers get bombarded by approximately 3000 ads per day and it has been estimated that the average consumers spends on average 3 years of their life watching just ads alone. No wonder that advertising is the foundation of the mass media. The problem that she points out is that while advertising is selling products it also perpetuates the ideas, values, beauty, and notions of love and happiness and, to a certain extent, the idea or concept of normalcy. This is the area that I personally have a problem with, since it also subliminally imposes on how to act, react and worst of all, be. How does advertising cause that effect? How can it be so powerful? It starts by surrounding you with what it means to be beautiful, by creating or suggesting a false sense of beauty and making you feel diminished, not worthy and shameful, to the extent that if you don’t fall in that category of what they consider beauty, you have failed. It is powerful because failure is inevitable, since the main focus of beauty according to advertisers standards fall primarily at a body type that only 5 percent of the population have, therefore, setting you up for failure; However, not before telling you...
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...this isn’t the case anymore but unfortunately it is considering the fact that although women now have equal rights as men and aren’t necessarily controlled by them anymore, men still are considered the dominant, stronger and more powerful sex. Due to this, women's physical appearance plays a very important role in society. Because of women being perceived in such a way, the only thing that gives women absolute power over men is their physical appearance, a man goes weak for a beautiful female. The sad thing is that we have let society define the beauty of a women and a major part of this society is the media. Women have always been perceived and portrayed as sex symbols, as if that is what they are only good for. Men and others in society don’t care about a woman’s intelligence if they look good. Our society has let a woman’s looks overshadow everything else that she is. Our society, has constructed itself into a society so image obsessed when it comes to women, in which color, body figure, and every aspect of a woman’s face is the source to why people approve or disapprove of that woman. Media affects the way young girls and adult women all around the world view themselves. This is why our generation of women is so self-conscious about their physical appearance, and this is affecting their health. There are many methods in which the media encourages women to disfigure and damage their bodies. Even celebrities and models, which are the people that represent what women...
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...Some consequences of bullying can be getting expelled from school, and a lot of the time people who bully, do more criminal activity than their peers. One credible source with accurate statistics is verywell.com and they say that by the time former bullies are in their 30’s 60% of them who bullied 6-9 grade have at least one criminal conviction. Bullies can end up with serious consequences. But there are ways bystanders can get punished to. Bullying does not only affect the victim and the bully. It can also negatively impact the bystander in many ways. One way bystanders can be affected by bullying is they can join into the torment and also become a bully themselves. Statistics from eyesonbullying.org say that most bystanders, who either see or hear about bullying, don’t report it because they are scared of getting bullied themselves. Then, there are different kinds of bystanders according to eyesonbullying.org. One of them are people who start bullying by telling the bully to start bullying. Another type of bystander is one who encourages the bully by laughing, cheering,or making nasty comments which will add more fuel to the bully to keep...
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...procedure. The assigned question is, “What should Christine do?” I have identified the following ethical questions. 1. Does Christina really need cosmetic surgery? There is always a risk involved whether in the United States or overseas. Does Christina really think it is necessary for her to get cosmetic surgery and spend all that money? After all she does want to save enough money to start an art studio. 2. Is it right that Americans have to pay more than double on health care when the quality of health care in other countries is just as good as it is here? 3. Is it right that that hard working Americans do not have the freedom to go overseas to get cheaper medical procedures? While Christina is involved in a very non ethical line of work and is able to beat the system. 4. Is it right that struggling foreigners overseas cannot afford routine medical attention while Christina is able to come over there with money made from stripping and can get surgery a that is not needed? 5. Is it right that Christina should have to pay the extra 70 to 80% percent on a surgery when she has the job flexibility to go overseas and pay less for the same amount of care if not better? I believe that issue five is the most central issue at hand. I think that if Christina wants to be able to get cosmetic medical surgery she should be able to. I think that if Christina should have the right to travel overseas to save money if she thinks that it is safe to do so. Health care in...
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...means that in special women are the ones that are being affected. It is intended to explore the effects beauty advertising has in women including: Plastic surgeries increase, eating disorders, the concept of Madonna, sexualisation of minors and Racial preferences. Also, the main purpose of this essay is the one of stating and presenting how fashion adverts had state an stereotype of how a woman should look like in order to fit in...
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...Examining Nursing Practice: A Personal Framework After graduating nursing school in 2008, I started working as an Operating Room nurse (OR) at a level one trauma center, which specializes in neurosurgery. I now scrub and circulate neurology, urology, ENT (ear, nose and throat), and plastic surgeries. I am also a charge nurse and in charge of orienting new nurses and graduate nurses. The OR is fast paced and challenging. One never knows what is going to come through the doors, but you have to be ready at any given moment, to do anything from removing tonsils to clipping an aneurysm, in a matter of minutes. In the OR, often times the team gets caught up in tasks that need to be performed to get the case going, and sometimes forget that a human being is lying on the table with both physical and emotional needs. That is why, I teach my new graduates and everyone that I precept to act like it is a member of their family lying on the table. Often times just a friendly word or a smile before the patient is put under anesthesia can make a world of difference. If there is time, I also update the family to what is going on in the OR and try to answer any questions that I am able to. Sometimes surgeries last for sixteen hours; just an update can mean the world of difference to an already anxious family. Some OR nurses might tell you that their nursing is more focused because they have little interaction with the family and patient, but I try to give holistic care to my patients...
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...media. Gender sex roles also placed me to be secretive with my sex life and nurturing. My body image makes me insecure when it comes to intimacy. There were no specific sexual guidelines that my family made me follow. I was raised in a family where I was able to explore and have my own opinions about sexual situations. Not having guidelines or a path made me lost and confused once I obtained sexual behaviors. My experiences from friends, my mom, religion, and media influenced the development of my sexuality. My mom never really educated me about sex or contraceptives. She would just tell me to stay away from sex as if it wasn’t normal, but never went into detail. My mom wasn’t concerned about sex until she knew I was having sex. Even then it was brief and awkward. I can tell in her voice and body gestures that she was in an awkward position as well. She never took me to get contraceptives, so I assumed that it wasn’t important. My mom being a single parent might have something to do with her not educating me about sexuality. The majority of my life I grew up with no male figure in my household. My dad past away when I was two years old. I also grew up with 4 sisters, no brothers. When I reached middle school onto high school, I missed not having a dad. I remember seeing all my friends with their dads going camping and fishing. To fill that emptiness, I would have boyfriends that made me feel protected. In a way, it replaced my dad. I don’t have any memories of my dad, but I do...
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...with not only adults but children as well. The Center for Disease Control and Prevent (CDC) states that statistically speaking more than one-third of US adults (35.7%) is obese, for children the CDC states that 15.21% are obese. JAMA (2012) Many blame the recent development of technology i.e. video games, TV, and the media. Even our economy could be the one to blame, but we’ll dive into that later on. Throughout this paper I will be talking about the causes of obesity, the effects obesity has, and how can we prevent it. What causes obesity? Throughout the generations we have experienced a lot of changes in the world such as advancement of technology, medical sciences, etc. Many children now a days are learning how to get an infinite kill streak in Call of Duty, rather than learning how to play ultimate Frisbee, or 2 hand touch football. We also put a lot of emphasis on lets say a new console like the PS4/Xbox One. Look at how much advertising and promoting we did so the children would go crazy over these new game systems. Companies like Sony and Microsoft look at how much money they're going to make over the consequences there systems would cause. Though some could argue that professional gaming could be a sport. Gonchar (2013) Who’s really...
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...Mai trip orientation meetings, and conclusion. Thai food fair First of all, I decided to cook six kinds of Thai food: First kind is “two different taste of Tom Yum Goong”, which is a spicy shrimp soup, second is “Poo Pad Pong Karee” which is Thai crab curry, third kind is lab Gaiis the kind of spicy and sour dish, fourth kind isKai Jiew Moo Saap which is Thai pork omelet, and the last is gaengsom which is Thai sour curry. I thought that they never tried six menu before. So, I hoped they would surprise and love it. I went to supermarket and bought some ingredients. In Thai food fair day, I went to the university early to prepare for food. It was very impressed to me that everyone helped me prepare all ingredient. They learned Thai food’s name and how to cook Thai food. After I finished cooking all menu, we start eating and talking together. They were surprise because they never ate them before. They love it. Teacher Don and Misato couldn’t stop eating. Everyone said its delicious and I really happy to hear that from them. Stages of Intercultural Sensitivity In this topic, we studied Milton Bennett’s model of intercultural sensitivity. There are six...
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...Nicole Gallucio English 102 Prof. Rhodes October 25th, 2010 Are Eating Disorders Caused By the Media? Have you ever looked in a magazine or watched a fashion show on television? If you have then you have been subjected to the media portraying models as the hottest thing on the planet. What you don’t know is that a good portion of these models are suffering from eating disorders. I believe the media is to blame for our nation’s epidemic of eating disorders because, not only do magazines and television portray skinny to be in, but also songs in our culture convey the attitude “…that only the beautiful and thin are valued and loved” (Hesse-Biber 88). Some women and men in the world are happy about how they look. Some think that they are ugly and reach toward plastic surgery, but even more think that the only way they can be happy is by starving themselves, or throwing up everything they have eaten that day. In this paper I will discuss facts and information on how the media is to blame for our nation’s epidemic, the pro’s and con’s to eating disorders and the media, and a few possibilities on how to fix this epidemic before it starts to spiral out of control. When you think about the billions and billions of people in this world, it is hard to believe that “2 million Americans-most of them women and girls-do suffer from eating disorders” (Gorman 110). That number is shocking isn’t it? How about the fact that “approximately 1 in 150 teenage girls in the U.S. falls prey...
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...The year is 3069. Our president, Perez Hilton the fourth, is spending trillions of dollars a day researching the elusive “Gay Gene.” His top scientist, Walt Disney, (who was brought out of his frozen chamber just two years back to spearhead the research on the gay gene) comes rushing into the spherical office with fantastic news, “Mr. President! It is done, I have successfully located the gay gene! Yippieee!” “Excellent, we will begin insertion immediately, this is going to be even bigger then the new Justin Spears CD!” Perez replies gleefully. The insertion is a process that all new born babies must go through where they will be given the gay gene so that they grow up to be gay. A large island just east of Jamaica, Efronia (named after the gay god Zac Efron), has been built as the fabulous Eden for the gays to flock during the eradication. Once everyone is safely corn-holed inside Efronia the rest of the world will be destroyed by nuclear warfare, effectively eliminating the parasite that has been ravaging the planet, the straight man. Our story leaps ahead years after the Eradication… the insertion is working perfectly and Perez, who is now known as His Fabulousness, looks at his land of Efronia, and it is good. The sky has been changed so it is constantly changing colors like a rainbow, the roads are painted yellow and made of brick, in honor of Judy Garland, who is studied in school as a hero of the old world. All intersections in Efronia have a statue of Zac Efron...
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...March evening, and the 35-year-old venture capitalist was reflecting on the recommendation he would have to make to his firm's investment committee the next morning about Jack Brandon's young company, Seven Peaks Technologies. Seven Peaks had developed an innovative device for cauterizing blood vessels during electrosurgery, and although the feedback from surgeons had been excellent, sales had been slow. The Palo Alto-based venture capital firm where Harbinson worked, Scharfstein Weekes, had invested $600,000 in Seven Peaks from its newly raised second fund of $100 million. SW's current investment strategy focused on early-stage medical technology companies, and Seven Peaks was a typical investment for the firm, which liked to get in on promising ideas modestly and then follow with additional rounds of capital after technological and market milestones had been met. The $600,000 was nearly gone; Harbinson and his colleagues had to decide whether to put more into the struggling company. Seven Peaks was looking for another $400,000 to develop a second product based on its proprietary technology, which enabled surgical instruments to do their work without sticking to tissue-a frustrating problem for most electrosurgeons. Brandon still believed in his technology and in his ability to commercialize it. Harbinson was impressed both with Brandon and with the technology's...
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...“We left the gym about 8 p.m. to go to my house. When we got to Taft Ave. in Beltzhoover, a police car sped up behind me and turned on its red and blue lights. I pulled over immediately wondering why I was being pulled over now! Then out of everywhere, other police cars start surrounding my car! I was on the phone with my neighbor, Robin Player, having one of our many conversations about improving one’s self, improving one’s community, etc., before the police got behind, so she was on the phone when it all transpired.” Events like the one he was about to encounter would rankle anyone. But Rayco had been through this before and he was ready. At least, he thought so! As with every encounter he had with the police, what was about to unfold was nothing short of theater. “Police cars, lights,... more cars,... more lights! Then a voice over the intercom says, ‘Exit the vehicle with your hands up!’ I holler out of my window, ‘What am I being pulled over for?’ The same voice, ‘Exit the vehicle slowly with your hands up!’ Now I notice that there are a lot of guns drawn and aimed at me! Jelani is crying! Lil Rayc is quiet. Now I’m getting worried, not for me, but for my children! My windows are tinted 100%! The police can’t see in my car! So I start to holler, ‘My babies are in the car!’ The police didn’t care! They just hollered back, ‘Get out the car and get on the ground or you will be tazed!’ I had to think fast! If one of my young partnas would have came by and they had heat...
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