...I am so thankful I made the decision to be the Body Image Coordinator for my sorority. I had not personally battled and conquered body image issues, such as an eating or exercise disorder, thus, I did not know exactly all the feelings and struggles the girls I was going to lead were going through. However, it was an issue I was passionate about, as I saw how negatively it had affected some of my friends, and was something to which I wanted to make a contribution. So in order to fulfill my job role, and make the first step to becoming a suitable advocate, I had to do some learning, about the causes of these issues, the kinds of emotions people experience during, the signs that suggest a disorder, and most importantly, the best ways to manage and overcome. Through all this research and preparation, I was able better lead the body image program we held for our new members every year. Through our...
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...HUMS 1100 WA Body Image Journal The Greek representation of the ideal body, the perfect form has been inherited to us. There are some variables, but the main idea is similar. The Greek were very concern about their appearance, it was a matter of being a man and not looking like a woman. Tanned, firm, symmetrical and muscular was ideal way to look like. I t was part of being a good citizen after all the flabby citizen was a matter of public concern. Fat was a political issue. The ideal Greek form was neither too fat or too skinny, but well defined by muscles. In their society appearance was very important. The body was displayed in the nude and it was totally normal, people could watch each-other and comment on the physical appearance. The body needed to be lean but well built-bulked up from exercise but not fat or over-muscular like a modern body builder. This is the main difference in the ideal body image between ancient Greece and our modern culture. In our modern culture, the ideal body image is very bulky, with a lot of muscle mass. We see this in our movies, TV shows, body builders. Bodybuilders displaying every muscle in their bodies, sometimes it doesn’t even look normal. A lot our athletes and TV stars have to take substances too look this way. Both Greek ideas of the ideal body and modern ideas sometimes are unrealistic. It would be so difficult for the regular person to achieve. Exercise and a very special diet can help achieve the perfect body but it would have...
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...Many people, especially young girls, scroll through their newsfeeds and see these girls who post bikini shots on the beach, or the #mycalvins underwear photos. In the world we live in, physical beauty is strived for. A celebrity known for her envied body is Kim Kardashian. She has a very unrealistic body; skinny waist accompanied by large womanly curves. This body image is what the ideal women should look like in the media’s eyes, and if you don’t have these features then you aren’t as beautiful as the rest. With this kind of message being spread across social media, it is detrimental to young girls mental states because they begin to compare themselves to women you are double their age. This can lead to eating disorders such as anorexia, orthorexia, or excessive exercising. These young girls flaunt their bodies on their accounts in order to get acceptance from those viewing their photos. If their photo of them of a beach in a bikini receives a large number of likes, they can then view themselves as beautiful in society’s eyes. However if it receives less likes than hoped for, this can lead to the girls thinking they are overweight or ugly. Social media can have an extremely harmful effect on the minds of our...
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...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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...In the essay “Out-of-Body Image” by Caroline Heldman, Heldman illustrates the strain on the relationship between a woman and her body caused by the manipulation in the media. Early on in the essay, Heldman makes it clear that the media has an issue sexualizing women and she does it through tone and the words she chooses. In the introduction of the essay she discusses the typical body figures people see in advertisements; they are “impossibly slim (and digitally airbrushed).” The words impossible and digitally suggest this sense of fabrication and falseness, a perception that cannot be reciprocated by a typical woman. She continues by suggesting that the depictions of women in the media is poisonous and highlights just how bad the impact of the media is, that it is comparable to poison and is harming not only women but young girls who view these advertisements as well. Heldman also demonstrates the direct effects the “poison” has, she mentions that self-objectification leads to eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. These disorders stand out from the essay because they discuss a serious disease that could affect young girls and women. Heldman then focuses on the young girl aspect of the problem when she mentions the American Psychologists Association investigative report. The report found that girls as young as seven years old were learning to objectify themselves after watching advertisements and across other medium. Heldman states, “Teaching them to think of themselves...
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...– BASED ESSAY • DUE: MAY 4/5 Suggested Locations* L.A. Country Museum of Art (LACMA) • lacma.org for info. The Getty Center (Santa Monica) or Getty Villa (Malibu) • getty.edu for info. The assignment is to write an expository essay that focuses on an interpretation of one artwork using a specific symbol or theme (see examples below). Your interpretation must include an analysis of the subject & style of artwork in relation to the function of the object, as we do in class. (Remember the 4 Steps of Interpretation). Also, you should identify the style characteristics of the period-culture to which it belongs. In the paper you will provide “proof” for identifying style and/or meaning by comparing it to objects in your textbook. This assignment is NOT a “report.” That is, you will not find much information about the artwork at the museum. The point of this paper is to interpret the object based on similarities to other objects that are more “known.” Your interpretation should be made primarily of your own observations in relation to the information provided by the textbook and research you conduct about the artworks’ style, symbolism, cultural context, etc. You must support your observations with facts. Also you must properly cite your sources of information in a works cited list. Consult the articles on writing available on our MyECC teamsite in the Writing Resources folder. Examples of Symbols: sun, moon, star, flower, halo, cross, tree, horn, offering, body gesture...
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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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...2014 Composition 1, Section 018 Unit Essay 1, First Draft Professor Petillo Dangerous Skinny Trend Both journalist, Michele Ingrassia in her article, “The Body of The Beholder” and Guy Trebay in his article “The Vanishing Point” explore issues of body image. Ingrassia for female, Trebay for male, but they both have similar points of view. Somehow they both tell about how the skinny fashion trend affects the people, especially the young girls and the people who are trying to be model. They are usually obsessed about being skinny and they believe that this is the way supposed to be for beauty. Obsession about their body make them either unhappy or sickly skinny. Ingrassia in her essay explore the reports that how African-American girls and white girls see their body. “The latest findings come in a study to be published in the journal Human Organization this spring by a team of black and white researchers at the University of Arizona. While 90 percent of the white junior-high and high-school girls studied voiced dissatisfaction Skinny trend is all over the media, in fashion magazines, in ads, and TV. Media has a big influence over people, especially young people. Most of the white girls grow up with Barbie dolls. Their beauty views start to get form at very early childhood. After that all the other things support their thoughts about beauty. Models are perfect beauty images for most of the people. Almost everyone...
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...Lecture 2 Investigative Essay: Anti-Communist Propaganda Part of the Cold War was fighting communism at home in the United States. As we’ve discussed in class, much of the anti-communism sentiment was fanned into a flame of hysteria. Much of what fanned these flames was propaganda distributed by the government and other organizations. This propaganda grossly exaggerated the threat of communism by using images and inflated language. For this essay, choose one of the posters or pieces of propaganda found at the following websites and write an analysis of it. For your analysis be sure to include what piece you are writing about, what kinds of images or language does it use, and how it uses images and language to manipulate fear toward communism. How does this piece of propaganda exaggerate the threat of communism in the country. The essay is worth 25 points and is due on Monday February 9. The essay should be at least a page to a page and a half long and written in essay format. Use the following websites for your search. They are also up on moodle. The Red Menace: 15 Vintage Anti-Communist Ads & Propaganda: http://weburbanist.com/2013/06/12/the-red-menace-15-vintage-anti-communist-ads-propaganda/ The Red Menace: Anti-Communist Propaganda of the Cold War http://www.kuriositas.com/2013/10/the-red-menace-anti-communist.html Writing in an Essay Format: Since this class is part of the writing requirements for your general education core, writing will be an essential...
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...Writing a Descriptive Essay Directions An essay has the same elements as a well-written paragraph. A paragraph has a topic sentence; an essay has a thesis statement. A paragraph is developed with supporting statements; an essay has three paragraphs based on the thesis statement's supporting ideas. A paragraph has a concluding sentence; an essay has a concluding paragraph. An introduction does two things: it gets your reader's attention, and it presents the thesis statement. The thesis statement identifies the topic of the essay. Look at the introductions below Example #1 If we were to place the body of every teenager who died in an alcohol-related accident in the last five years endto-end, the line would circle the globe three times. Every year, hundreds of teenagers lose their lives because of drunk drivers. Driving drunk is a growing problem in our society, and the consequences are great. Example #2 Hundreds of teenagers lose their lives because of drunk drivers. It is a problem that affects students in every school in America. Driving drunk is a growing problem in our society because more and more teens are drinking and then driving without considering the serious consequences that could result from their actions. These consequences include financial burdens, sorrow caused to those losing loved ones, and the senseless reduction of our greatest natural resource: our young people. Which introduction catches your interest and pulls you into the text? Hopefully...
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...COMM100b Interpretive Strategies Professor Elana Zilberg Winter 2016 Assignment #2: Spatial Analysis Due: Monday, February 29th by Noon Part Two: Ethnographic Site and Subject In this assignment you are asked to transform your stereotype from an image into an ethnographic subject. Take your stereotype “off the screen” or page and locate it as a body in a particular site. Drawing on the spatial analysis vocabulary covered in this section of the course, describe this site. Your site can be rural or urban, inner city neighborhood or suburb, a building (house, mall, corporate or government office building, etc.), a street, a park or beach and so forth. However, the site you choose must but be a physical space (do not use the Internet as a site). You are not only thinking about the physical space itself, but your subject’s relationship to that space. Therefore, the ethnographic site will depend on your ethnographic subject. These are some of the questions to consider in developing your essay: * How does your ethnographic subject use, appropriate, and shape the space? * Using Lefebvre’s concept of the “spatial triad,” how do you understand your site as a representation of space, a space of representation, or created through spatial practices? * How would you characterize the topography of the built environment of the site? * What macro and micro forces produce that space? * How is the site legislated or policed? * What are the dominant and resistant...
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...between Media Exposure and Early Adolescents’ Body Image Perceptions: This document was conducted by Kern Eyal who has a Ph.D. in Communications and Tali Te’eni-Harari who has a Ph.D. in Business Administration. Their journal article will be helpful for my research paper because their main focus is on the media exposure towards adolescent girl’s low self-esteem on their physical body. The study explains the young girl’s favorite television characters as an important factor for their overall low self-esteem and body image. This source also included statics with relationship to young girl’s body image. 2. Friendly Advice? Beauty Messages in Web Sites of Teen Magazines: I will be using this article because it discuss valid reasons adolescent girls are using the web for beauty advice. The study included statics in their findings based on three of the most influential website young girls are using with examining their attitudes towards the beauty products usage. This article also referenced other studies that are similar to their own findings such as young girls using the web for fashion magazines, shopping, and music. 3. Role of television in adolescent women's body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness: This study examined adolescent women being unhappy with their body image and wanting themselves to become smaller because of the type of program they were watching. This source is effective for my research essay because their finding were proven to be true regarding...
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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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...Images are all around us, they are displayed everywhere from billboards for big business advertisements to television. Billboard Images are used to, promote businesses and also help spread awareness on important issues such as drinking and driving, domestic violence, and healthy living campaigns. Images we see throughout the day are sometimes so vivid they can trigger various emotions depending on the type of subject matter. This past summer I took a road trip with my wife and children to Orlando Florida to visit family. Along the way of our trip, I noticed a billboard of a young kid carrying a teddy bear in his left hand and his right arm extended outwards towards the image of his father walking out of the door with the words dad please don’t leave, our family needs you, that particular image advertised for family therapy. The subject inspired me so much I started composing and writing music on my laptop computer during the long ride, at that moment I came to the belief that billboards are not only instrumental in convincing the public to purchase products or advertising or spread awareness, billboards images can be inspiring. Creatively, there are endless possibilities as to how we use our feelings and thoughts for images that can be inspiring. We can incorporate these visions with writing on so many levels because like they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Weather thinking critically about visuals, to writing an essay we can use images to reflect on our past with...
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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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