...Korean Plastic Surgery I. Introduction A big pointed nose like Anna Kendrick, cat eyes like Megan Fox, jaw line like Reese Witherspoon and a skinny waist like Kim Kardashian are every Korean woman’s dream. So many Korea people had done plastic surgery, it is just like wearing make up for Korean people. According to International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeon, Korea has been one of the world leader in plastic surgery. Plastic surgery becomes natural and harmless because everyone does it. It has been seen as a tool designed by human to improve body appearance and boost people confidence. So guys, what do you think? Based on the study that I had made about this topic, allow me to present my speech for today about Korean plastic surgery. Body Main idea: Plastic surgery is common among Korean. There is nothing wrong if they had undergone plastic surgery. The past years before, plastic surgery was been critic and argue that this surgery is form to trying to look less asian, but now it has accepted as part of society. A. Many Korean celebrities had surgical or nonsurgical cosmetic procedures, with many having more than one procedure in order to improve their appearance. Many K-Pop stars have openly admitted to their cosmetic procedures. They are no longer hiding the truth, and openly admitting to what they have done. 1. The society does not even consider plastic surgery to be surgery. Plastic surgery is also strongly linked to the global phenomenon of K-Pop. It...
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...forever improve, society has conformed to many ways of fixing imperfections. From surgeries and medications for honest sicklings to injections for greedy, pretentious abusers, people as a whole have transformed from the good ole days to the fast-paced, materialistic world. While discoveries in science are often for the benefit of society, is it possible that these newfound treasures are actually a preface for rot and ruin? Since most little girls could remember, the only way it seemed plausible to become successful was by living in the body of Cinderella or Barbie or Miss America. As they began to mature, nothing changed. The image remained as a beautiful bag of bones when media and celebrities were constantly thrown in their face. In the past, if they didn’t have “the look”, they were left hopeless and self-conscious. Thankfully, some idiot decided they would abuse the power of nature and science by providing these girls with an answer to their prayers. Plastic Surgery! What they didn’t account for was the impact. Now, not only were the glamorous allowed to have the image, everyone was-again, reducing the confidence in the female population and encouraging a new friend, bullying. Moreover, it is affecting the mental health of children in this conceited society. Surveys and recent research show that “ Teens view plastic surgery as a way to fit in and look acceptable to friends and peers” (Plastic Surgery). How is it that society has allowed this damage to take place? The...
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...[pic] A MODEL OUTLINE FOR AN INFORMATIVE SPEECH FIRST SPEAKING ASSIGNMENT TYPE: SPEECH TO INFORM TIME REQUIREMENT: 4-6 MINUTES MODEL OUTLINE: I’M A REAL PERSON SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To discuss three basic considerations that will help in determining if facelift surgery is for you. INTRODUCTION: I. ATTENTION STEP: In today’s society, which idolizes youth and beauty, more and more people are beginning to add plastic surgeons to their list of family physicians along with medical doctors, dentists, ophthalmologists ant the rest. Under current societal pressures literally hundreds of thousands of Americans, men and woman, are deciding that a facelift is the way to regain their youthful appearance. II. CLARIFICATION STEP: Certainly the medical profession has gone a long way in making plastic surgery safer and less traumatic than it used to be, but a person needs to give serious consideration to several aspects of this operation before they decide to have it. Anyone who is considering having a facelift should carefully study the costs, the surgical procedures, and the risks involved before they decide they definitely want a new face. III. PREVIEW STEP: The three important things to consider before having a facelift are: cost, procedure, and the risks involved. BODY: I. The cost of a facelift will depend upon the type you select. A. Basic surgical facelifts cost, on the average, about $600.00. 1....
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...Speech to Persuade Cosmetic Surgery: Liposuction Intro: Introduce myself Transition: What is Liposuction? Liposuction which is also known as lipoplasty is a surgical procedure used to slim and reshape specific areas of the body by removing excess fat deposits under the skin with the use of a vacuum-suction cannula. One thing consider is that a cannula is not always used sometimes an ultrasonic probe is used to break down fat then it is suctioned. Where on your body can you get Liposuction? Liposuction may be performed on the abdomen, hips, thighs, calves, arms, buttocks, back, neck, or face. A liposuction procedure may include more than one area, for example, the abdomen, arms, and thighs all on the same day or various areas that you choose. Liposuction is also used to reduce breast size in men with large breasts (gynecomastia). Who performs a lipo? Liposuction surgeries are performed by plastic surgeons. Any licensed physician may perform liposuction but it is recommended that they have special training Where can you have a procedure done? The procedure may be performed in a doctor’s office, surgical center or hospital. Transition: But keep in Mind that it is important that it be performed in a clean environment. Emergencies may arise during any surgery and access to emergency medical equipment and/or a nearby hospital emergency room is important What to expect during Liposuction and after? During the procedure the physician will mark your body with a pen...
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...American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), the number of surgical enhancement procedures performed in the United States is continuously on the rise due to the fact that these surgeries are ever more available and accepted at a reasonable price. Nearly 12 million plastic surgeries were carried out in 2007 alone. These numbers show an increase of 7% from the previous year and almost a 60% increase from the year 2000 (Plastic Surgery Research.info, 2009). Cosmetic surgery is increasingly popular amongst teenagers; yet the risks associated with these controversial procedures should not be overlooked because of its quick fix for low self-esteem. What was once considered a procedure surgically to correct abnormalities or to reconstruct an accident induced victim, cosmetic surgery is now popular for a number of other personal reasons. The vast increase of interest in cosmetic surgeries is not only popular amongst the older generations seeking their young adult bodies but is also progressively more popular with teenagers seeking the “picture perfect body.” Although teen surgeries made up less than 2% of all cosmetic surgeries in 2007, the obsession produced by modern media to emulate the flawless bodies of the rich and famous puts added pressure on teens to undergo the knife. In today’s society of high-tech devices and “quick fixes,” teens now, more than ever desire the immediate gratification associated with these popular surgeries. The most common procedures for...
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...article because I found myself relating to a lot of the issues the author raised. I was also interested in this article because the author raised a very important issue that almost and probably all women are going through today. I chose this article because I find that it is different from the other articles I have read. I like the article because it is not just fighting the patriarchal world we live in, and stating everything the author wants to change about the world, just like the other articles I have read; rather, this article is stating women’s insecurity and not finding a solution, but rather leaving it up to the readers. On a more honest note, I chose this article because it addresses an issue I personally have. I have considered plastic surgery to fix my big thighs, my hair, and my stomach and so on. The list can go on and not stop. It all depends on how I feel on that day, what I do not like that day and the most disturbing but honest truth, the list get longer after I have seen skinny looking girls around campus. This leads me straight into the article because one of the author main concerns is not the fact that women are choosing to change their image, but it is the fact that, are they being pressured. In this article, one of the arguments the author talked about is the social norms of the western society when it comes to women’s images. She raised the issues that companies are making millions off women in terms of changing the way they look. It might be because these...
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...Cosmetic surgery on teenagers 1. Give an outline of the various views on plastic surgery for teenagers which are presented in texts 1 and 2. In the two texts the views on plastic surgery are quite similar. Both texts agree on the fact that American teenagers might feel that a lot of pressure has been put on them, they strive to be beautiful, but their ideal of beautiful is twisted and for a normal teenager almost unattainable. One of the major problems is that some teenagers find something they don’t, for instance they might think their breasts are too small, then instead of waiting for their bodies to be fully grown or just getting used to having a smaller, they tend to breast enhancement. The adolescents doesn’t let their bodies grow to their fullest, but take the less time consuming way of the surgeon’s knife. 2. How does Valerie Ulene engage the reader in the subject in text 1? Illustrate your answers with examples from the text. Valerie Ulene manages to get a good hold of the reader by introducing the article by telling a story about herself. She explains her own experience about having a large and crooked nose, to the reader, which made her stand out from the average teenager. She mentions that she actually dreamt about getting her nose fixed, but that it was not actually something she ever considered seriously. By telling us about her experiences about plastic surgery, she makes herself equal to those of the teenagers today, who consider surgery themselves. It makes...
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...Plastic Surgery Plastic surgery, the practice of reshaping body tissues for reconstructive or aesthetic purposes dates back to antiquity. Derived from the Greek plastikos, meaning “to mold,” plastic surgery holds a critical place in cultures all over the world. For centuries, tribes would disc their lips, stretch their earlobes, bind their feet, file their teeth, and tattoo and scar their skin. If contemporary popular series such as Extreme Makeover and Nip/Tuck are any indication, plastic surgery has not lost any of its cultural power. While filed teeth may not appeal to everyone, men and women of today still have a wide range of surgical procedures from which to choose, including liposuction, nose jobs, eyelid surgery, tummy tucks, and breast augmentation and reduction. The term “plastic surgery” also includes nonsurgical options such as Botox, microdermabrasion, collagen injections, laser hair removal, and chemical peels. Plastic surgery, however, was not always so readily available or varied and was even shrouded in mystery, magic, and eroticism. For modern people, plastic surgery nowadays has become more and more popular. Some people believe that it is a technique to raise the beauty of a person. The basic intention of this surgery is to enhance the appearance of the individual by changing the parts of the body. On the other hand, other people disagree with it, saying that cosmetic surgery can post a risk of serious diseases such as heart attack. According to debatewise...
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...Michayla Reeves Scott Guenthner English 1021 2/26/14 What really shapes who we are? When you look in the mirror in the morning how do you view yourself? Most people are not comfortable with their body and the way they look because society has corrupted their minds, with the perfect image Jean Kilbourne the author of “Killing Us Softly”, gives insight to how most people will view themselves based on what society has to offer. Christ Godsey the author of “Cro-Magnon Karma: One Dude and his Body Image Issues” shares how men are dealing with identity issues just as much as women. In today’s society no one thinks that men have self esteem issues, but in all reality men deal with issues just like women, in fact they are not comfortable in their own skin. Emily Prager author of “Our Barbies, Ourselves” talked about how Barbie can give a false sense of beauty and identity. As a society and as individuals it is up to us to want to be okay with ourselves, we are given our body for a reason, why change that? Most people do not have the confidence in themselves anymore, because the media has taken that away from them. Kilbourne, makes a point that “most women are not able to be themselves, and need to seek approval from the men”. Some women think that having the latest clothes and shoes will be the way to get approval. In reality though, the style of clothes and shoes that we see in the magazines and on television are not actually true to face. Majority...
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...The Eye of the Beholder “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” but what if the beholder’s vision is blurred? The media today dictates what is beautiful, and these standards are so high that they are impossible to reach. Both Camille Paglia and Daniel Akst point this out in their essays about the effects these standards have on the general population. Paglia uses an appeal to the emotion of her upper-class middle-aged women audience who may choose plastic surgery as a method to stay beautiful whereas Akst uses all forms of rhetorical devices to appeal to everyone in defining what beauty truly is. Camille Paglia, Yale graduate and professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, says in her essay “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery” depicts the belief in the beauty of uniformity. Women have a belief that if they don’t look a certain way, then they are not beautiful, so they turn to plastic surgery. In an excerpt from her essay, Paglia shows us this example of a media sex icon “...Amazonian superheroines like Lara Croft: large breasts with a flat midriff and lean hips, a hormonally anomalous profile that few women can attain without surgical intervention or liposuction” (793). What Paglia attempts to accomplish with this essay is to appeal to the emotions of these women, so that they will not lose identity in this sea of uniformity. But woman are constantly having to compete with the young and sexy media icons and turn to things like...
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...themselves to the beautiful people in the magazines, and think that they have to look like them to look ‘’normal’’. Many teenagers want to correct their body with plastic surgery, even if they are not mature yet. The two texts ‘’Plastic surgery for teens’’ written by Valerie Ulene and ‘’Seeking Self-Esteem Through Surgery’’ written by Camille Swenney, illustrates how teenagers and their parents feel about plastic surgery 1. Give an outline of the various views on plastic surgery for teenagers which are presented in text 1 and 2. Cosmetics surgery has come to our modern society, and adolescents and teenagers use it very well, while they don’t know much about the consequences and how plastic surgery hurts the body, and even not help with one’s bad self-confidence. According to Diane Zuckerman in the text ‘’Plastic Surgery for teens´’ by Valerie Ulene, youngsters consider images of men and women who have had done plastic surgery as beautiful, or even worse, they think it is the ideal body image and they want to fit the mole. The text says that cosmetic surgery may not be appropriate for adolescents. It seems ridiculous to fix your look before you are mature. According to the text, teenagers take every imperfection seriously, and that can influence what they think of themselves, so plastic surgeons argue that surgery can improve teenagers’ self-esteem. If you don’t look pretty enough, it can be the source of teasing and self-imposed isolation. Besides this, studies shows that...
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...Nobody can choose how to look when we are born, and I believe that most of us at some point notice our own defects in our body. It’s been quite long time since many women and even men do surgery on themselves to lose some weight, etc. but apparently that it's not enough now. Many people have been doing chin implants for the past few years and the numbers has increase considerably for a better self image, self esteem, and because there is a small risk rate on that operation. I do accept that having a surgery on your chin, because a malformation or an accident it could be of a great relief. Living your entire life with a malformation on your face, could be really painful for many people. Having an accident where the result is a deformation on your face could be even more painful, since a sudden change to our appearance could be as shocking and traumatizing as for a person that loses his or her ability to walk. Speaking for myself I'm grateful that I did not have any malformation on my face and body, cannot speak for those who do have these problems, although it wasn't their choice. The chin implant surgery could really be a great salvation for these people, but there are those that take advantage of these surgical advances for their own cosmetic vanity. According to the article publish by Diane Mapes “surgical procedures that enhance and define the chin line, increased 71 Percent between 2010 and 2011, outdoing breast augmentation, liposuction and even Botox” I find these numbers...
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...3 Introduction Cosmetic surgery is extremely popular among both women and men in South Korea. The kinds of procedures that are most popular are double eyelid surgery, removal of fat, nose jobs, and breast augmentation. Koreans favour bigger and wider eyes and they often undergo cosmetic surgery to achieve this. A slimmer body is seen as an important step in achieving beauty, which encourages women to use procedures such as liposuction to eliminate fat. Nose jobs are undertaken to construct a desirable and favourable ‘pointy’ tip to the nose, over a distinctive wide and flat nose.1 Breast augmentations are also common amongst women. Various explanations have been offered for the popularity of cosmetic surgery but no single explanation is adequate. For example, explanations based on the role of traditional Korean values go some way to confirming the high value traditionally placed on the colour white, but traditionalism does not explain the popularity of surgery for ‘Westernised’ eyes. Colonialism and Americanisation are important in helping to explain the popularity of cosmetic surgery in South Korea, but these miss important traditional and gender dimensions. Feminists’ analyses exclude men, and so fail to explain the popularity of surgery amongst Korean men. In addition to explanations based on Traditionalism, Colonialism, Americanism and Feminism, this essay will argue that the dynamic and evolving nature of Korean national identity has brought us to the point...
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...Ethical Dilemmas in Global Health Care: Cosmetic Surgery on Children Grand Canyon University NRS-437V November 13, 2011 Ethical Dilemmas in Global Health Care: Cosmetic Surgery on Children Nationally and internationally public awareness and concerns regarding cosmetic surgery on children is increasing (Kitiparnchai & Then, 2011). The United States of America had over 36,000 cosmetic procedures on children just in 2009 (Kitiparnchai & Then, 2011). These elective cosmetic procedures include: rhinoplasty, breast augmentation, otoplasty, liposuction, tummy tucks, and westernizing eye surgery (blepharoplasty) for Asian children (Kitiparnchai & Then, 2011; Ouellette, 2009). Blephroplasty widens the eyes of Asians, and is even performed on newborns (Ouellette, 2009). There is no specific law that blocks the use of plastic surgery on children (Ouellette, 2009). The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery code of ethics states merely that surgical operation should not be performed if it is not calculated to improve or benefit the patient (Ouellette, 2009). The Australian Medical Association position statement on body image and health states that “ patients under 18 years of age should not have procedures to modify or enhance physical appearance, unless it is in their medical and or psychological interest” (Kitiparnchai & Then, 2011, p. 514).There is no explanation by either of these entities on how we should determine if it is in their medical and or...
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...technology has evolved, along with some of the best surgeons in the world. Doctors are now able to provide drastic and permanent enhancements to the human body. If a person wants to make life changes or enhancement to their physical appearance through the power of comedic surgery many imperfections can be modified. Americans have spent $11.5 billion dollars on over 11 million cosmetic procedures in 2006. This is a 48% increase over the number performed in 2000 according to the National Clearinghouse of Plastic Surgery Statistics. Cosmetic procedures have been proven to provide fixtures of today’s physical problems but at what cost, or risks do these procedures come with? Why do people decided to undergo surgery? Based on the article “5 Reasons Why People Get Cosmetic Surgery” (GAGE , 2007) The top five reason why people choose to get cosmetic surgery are: One for health reasons, some people may have gone through rough times caused by sickness or massive weight loss, so it's only natural for people to want correct the damage caused by their illness. Accidents are another reason why people get cosmetic surgery because they have been in an accident, and have become severely deformed and cosmetic/plastic surgery is the only option to help fix peoples...
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