...Radiance Reconstructive Surgery Reconstructive surgery, a trend that has been developed over the years has reached a new level; radiance reconstructive surgery. This new trend in reconstructive surgery is literally what the name suggests, radioactive. Radioactive waves are used to perform and complete the reconstruction process. There are various methods which can be used to achieve the objective of popularizing the method; campaigns to educate and inform the public as well as helping them understand the process and a question and answer session to give any further information needed. As well as procuring new clients, it will also help the company reassure and build confidence in the current clients. Lifestyle, sponsorship and even marketing are what Radiance should focus on; these are extremely important aspects to any company. These areas help to ensure a firm not only care about the community but garnering profit as well. The venues would include such places as training facilities and gyms. However, they should place their marketing wisely as to not encourage children to believe their bodies are anything less than what they should be given the amount of influence that any type of media has on the perception of young people. Melissa should employ a number of damage control techniques to help change the perception of the company by its stakeholders. The steps to take would be; make absolutely certain the public relations are dealt with, build a campaign that show...
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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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...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 teenagers...
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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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...Gaspare tagliacozzi was born in 1545 and died in 1599. He is considered to be the creator of cosmetic surgery. He created a technique to transplant skin from the arm to an amputated or disfigured nose, and was a skilled reconstructive surgeon for eyes, lips and ears. When plastic surgery became popular, surgeons took skin from various donors, such as a neighbour’s pig, but were confused when the nose would shrivel and fall off. Plastic surgery has many purposes. Generally it is used to improve the looks or functionality of a certain aspect of a person’s visage. This can include tummy tucks, breast implants and brown lifts but can have an enormous effect on patients with depression. However, the purpose of reconstructive surgery is to correct any physical features which are deformed or abnormal, but many people consider it as a luxury. Sheyla Hershey is a 28 year old Texan who is the proud owner of the world’s largest breasts. After having 9 breast implants she now has a 38kkk bust. Altogether, Americans spent approximately $13.2 billion on plastic surgery in 2006. A study was carried out for teenagers in order to find out how many have considered plastic surgery. Four in ten teenage girls said they have. Two thirds of the 2,000 girls quizzed, average age 14, said the pressure came from celebrities with perfect bodies such as Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé Knowles A majority said they also feel tremendous pressure from boys who increasingly expect their girlfriends to resemble...
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...Not only do people accept plastic surgery, they embrace it as a solution to personal and professional problems. While appearance has always been important, mainstream acceptance of plastic surgery has created a society that values appearance over ability. Teenage girls and middle-aged women seek acceptance based on their appearance in all aspects of their lives. Teenage girls want to be the prettiest and the thinnest due to the pressure of society and their peers. Middle aged women pursue plastic surgery in hopes of enhancing their looks and looking younger than what they are. Today’s society is so centered on appearance that it can be very misleading to the minds of young girls and women. There are images of female bodies everywhere in today’s society. Women are used to sell everything from cars to food. Television and big screen movie actresses are typically tall, young looking and thin. The majority of these famous women have used some type of fad diet or practiced mal nutrition. There are articles everywhere urging women and young girls to lose weight. They make claims that beauty and the perfect body will provide the perfect marriage and rewarding lifestyles. Beauty truly is only skin deep. One cannot achieve what they desire based on their looks alone. You can turn on the TV or open any magazine such as US Weekly and see the latest cosmetic surgery that some actress recently underwent. There are publications everywhere promoting what’s new in...
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... How to Contour Contouring means a makeup technique of sculpting the shape of face or other desired parts of the body. This technique has earned a huge popularity since the television celebrities started doing this method to make their cheekbones or nose line appear enhanced. Formerly, only makeup artists of the celebrities used to use this technique for them. Since one can contour his/her face easily with some everyday products it has now become widely popular with the makeup lovers. Contouring needs a lot of practice when done at home. Here we’ll be discussing the basic process of contouring face. Things required: 1. Foundation of a few shades ( one shade of your own skin tone, one of a bit lighter shade, and one of a darker shade) 2. Makeup brush 3. Concealer (if you have blemishes) 4. Highlighter (this can be skipped if you wish) 5. Blush (this can be skipped too) 6. Setting powder (optional) Let’s get to the process. 1. Cleaning the face Start with cleaning the face. Exfoliate if needed. Apply moisturizer after that. Let the moisturizer seat on the skin for five minutes. 2. Apply Foundation Now take a foundation of the same shade as your skin tone. Apply foundation all over the face including jaw line and your chin. Blend it properly. Apply concealer if you have blemishes on your face. Then take a foundation of as low as two shades lighter than your skin tone and apply it on the places you want to highlight. For...
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...a fiction with the worldwide spread of plastic surgery in the last decade until it became within reach in Morocco. At first, plastic surgery for esthetic purpose shouldn’t be confused with the reconstructive surgery that is used to get rid of serious imperfections caused by an accident or a birth defect. In our research paper, we are dealing with the plastic surgery also called cosmetic surgery. One of the team members’ relative who is surgeon has told her about a Moroccan woman who died because of a liposuction. Chocked by this story, we decided to learn more about the cosmetic surgery in Morocco which has lately raised many ethical issues. We believe that plastic surgery is unethical because it is against the Islamic principles and because it causes psychological and physical harm. We are trying to find out the opinion of Moroccans about it and we suppose that Moroccan people believe that plastic surgery is unethical and that they are aware of its danger. Competent plastic surgeons, reasonable prices, medical technology and infrastructure explain the rise of plastic surgery in Morocco. According to Salaheddine Slaoui, a specialist in cosmetic and reparative surgery, “the number of plastic surgeries had also doubled in the last decade. About 80 plastic surgeons -- working in both private and public clinics -- are operating in the country, mostly in Rabat and the economic capital Casablanca” (2011). However, plastic surgery has raised many ethical issues including...
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...forty-three-year-old women from the United States, all results of a surgery she elected to receive: a tummy-tuck (Mozes). After her one choice, to receive plastic surgery, her life was drastically changed, and not for the better. Today’s modern obsession with plastic surgery started in the 1970s and is only progressing. These procedures have gone from being only for the rich to being commonplace for people across the world (Epstein). Originally, plastic surgery was created to improve appearance, by changing what the patient saw as imperfect and helping them feel like their best. Contemporarily, this “fixing” has generated...
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...Suppression of Individuality in Radiohead's, Fake Plastic Trees "Fake Plastic Trees" criticizes how modern society stifles individuality and forces people to swallow idealized conceptions of how life should be. The whole song centers on the idea that humans, either through their own fallibility or through society's relentlessness, easily and obliviously mold their lives according to the unspoken standards they set on themselves. The result is a shallow, artificial, "fake plastic" living that perpetuates itself and destroys uniqueness. The first two verses, which reveal the tragic consequences of pretense, evoke feelings of despair and pointlessness. The image of a woman watering a plastic money tree is heavily shadowed by shades of existentialism. The act of nurturing is the woman's attempt to create something genuine, something reflecting her identity. The bleak, futile reality lies in the fact that her "creation" thrives unto itself, surviving as the product of society's goals and inhibitions and outlooks, not hers. The plastic tree is a misconstrued representation of her true self. Helpless and beguiled, she falls victim to the ruthless nature of society and its indifference to the individual experience. Her green plastic watering can For her fake Chinese rubber plant In the fake plastic earth That she bought from a rubber man In a town full of rubber plans To get rid of itself This artificialness of life is all-encompassing; no one is...
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...Cosmetic Surgery Wendy Love Com/150 January 22, 2010 Samantha Desaulnier Cosmetic Surgery can be expensive and dangerous, save and improve the quality of one’s life; only some are good candidates for it. Have you ever considered having cosmetic surgery and if so, what are your reasons for wanting it or possibly needing to have it? There are many reasons people consider having cosmetic surgery such as those ranging from an unsightly bump on their nose, the extra skin folds from the extreme loss of weight, to wanting a tummy tuck, breast augmentation or reduction. Are your own reasons for the purpose of boosting your self esteem? Many people consider cosmetic surgery for that reason. To make them feel better about what they feel or believe are body imperfections. There are other reasons many people consider having cosmetic surgery. Two reasons may be to save or improve the quality of their lives. People who have had a massive tumor removed would surely want to have cosmetic surgery to correct any disfiguration from prior surgeries. Other reasons may range from the loss of one or both breast stemming from the effects of cancer, deformities due to birth defects, and injuries due to unforeseen accidents. Considering cosmetic surgery as an option is a heavy decision to make. You must think about how this will improve the quality of your life and the changes that will come from it. Whatever your specific reasons are, you must consider all aspects of what cosmetic surgery entails...
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...Plastic surgery is common things among people nowadays. The cost incurred to do the surgery also not too expensive. Mostly we heard female are desired to do the plastic surgery but now men`s also desired to do the same thing. There are the reasons why people choose to have plastic surgery and the several risks involved. The first reason why people choose to have plastic surgery is low of self-confident. As we know, have many factors why people feel like that such as their body appearance, ugly faces, and so on. Even though they always do exercise and try to cut their eating, their bodies still same and not have any improvement. As Van Dusen (2008) pointed out in her introduction, they do not think they look as good as they feel before do plastic surgeon. Other than that, the reasons why people choose to have plastic surgery are to improve their looks appearances. Of course, for those people who are fat, will hope to be slim further on to easy build their level of self-confident. According to Van Dusen (2008), ‘spare tire’ are involves in the typical male demand. Furthermore, some other people choose plastic surgery because of want to be like their idol celebrities. Meanwhile, the first risk may occur to those who are choose to have plastic surgery is temporary numbness. As we can see, people who had doing the surgery was effects on their face are become too stretched. For instance, when their smile or laughing the skin in their face was became stretch. Some other people...
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...: Cosmetic surgery on teeangers 1. Both texts do in fact seem to agree in general on the view on cosmetic surgery and query the idea of increased self-esteem. Even though text 1, “Plastic surgery for teens” by Valerie Ulene, focuses more on the surgery and text 2 more on image and self-esteem, they do to some degree share the same angle, problematizing the image issues of teens and the consequences of surgery. The president of the National Research Center for Women and Families, Diane Zuckerman, does for example appear in both articles, due to her relation to the issues. In the first article by Valerie Ulene, she emphasizes the problems of the modern world’s view on beauty and the culture of unrealistic ideals. This is in her opinion one of the primary issues in this topic, and she does as well refer to a study that shows no evidence of improving self-esteem after surgery. Valerie Ulene is querying the surgeons herself, but does refer to the president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Dr. John Canedy, who seems to have a critical view as well on cosmetic surgery among teens, but doesn’t exclude the possibility of improved self-esteem. By this it is crucial in Canedy’s view that the surgeons select the patients carefully. Text 2, “Seeking Self-Esteem through Sugery” by Camille Sweeney does, as mentioned before, also focus on the beauty issues of the modern society and “a culture of celebrity obsession and makeover TV shows”. This is among others expressed through...
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...Rhinoplasty or more commonly known as nose surgery is used to reshape the nose and is one of the most common of all plastic surgery procedures. Rhinoplasty can reduce or increase the size of your nose, change the shape of the top or the bridge, narrow the span of the nostrils, or change the angle between your nose and your upper lip. It can also be used to correct a birth defect, injury or help relieve some breathing problems. It can enhance your appearance and self confidence but it won’t necessarily change your looks to match your ideal, or cause other people to treat you differently. The best candidates for this surgery are people who are looking for improvement, not perfection, in the way they look. If you are physically healthy, psychologically stable, and realistic in your expectations, you may be a good candidate. As with all surgeries there is always a possibility of complications including infection, nosebleed, or a reaction to the anesthesia. In preparing for your surgery you will get specific instructions including guidelines on eating, drinking, and smoking. Before the surgery you must quit smoking and may not resume smoking until you are completely healed. Smoking can cause skin death and cause permanent scares. You must fill all your pain killing medications before the surgery. Also, have a nice little recovery area with all your necessities. You need lots of pillows, books magazines, the television remote, videos, favorite CDs, nasal spray, hot water bottles...
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...implies, is through the visual self. This is supported by Thesander’s (1997) assertion that “the most characteristic aspect of fashion is its ability to transform objects into symbols. Clothes are transformed into fashion garments and the body becomes the fashion body.” (67) In this essay, I will discuss, using various readings, about how women’s bodies are moulded by society and how it shifts with the current ideals of beauty. I will also elaborate on how the body is used as a shell to depict what the inside holds, in other words, the identity of the being residing in it. I will use Michel Foucault’s theories to explain how the body is affected by the subjection of discipline and examination. Then, I will use the concept of cosmetic surgery to show how the body is an ongoing project to be worked on, and how its participants employ it as a tool to improve their image, thus their perception of self-identity. The first part of this essay discusses how bodies existing within societies are obliged to conform to social expectations. While being a surface upon which the text of one’s identity is read, it is also obliged to live up to the archetype of beauty, therefore, it is a...
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