...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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...more likely shaped by how the society views a woman. As such, if fashion magazines are indeed in the means of shaping women's view as well as society's view of a woman, then the representation of women in the magazines becomes very important in order to explore how women are portrayed according to those two views. Reading a fashion magazine on the surface simply contains fashion-related articles in thick glossy pages. On deeper surface, on the other hand, those articles actively are where women as well as society see how a woman should be. It is also implied that they become the source of stereotypes of women which many of them are always about marginalising women. Amongst many high fashion magazines, Elle is strongly believed to be one of the most leading high fashion magazines in regards to the fact that this French origin magazine widely spreads its international editions published in over 60 countries which one of those includes Indonesia. Like other Elle editions worldwide and other mainstream high fashion magazines, many ultra expensive bags, clothes, perfumes, and the sorts appear in Elle Indonesia in two forms: articles and advertisements in which unsurprisingly occupy more than half of the total pages of the magazine. Most of those advertisements are exposing the whole women’s bodies from head to toe, but some extreme ads expose women’s body parts rather than faces. In other words, women in ads are closely associated with being an object instead of a living subject...
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...In contemporary society, women live a contradiction – they exist as a subject as well as an object. Drawing upon the works of de Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty, Iris Marion Young explores feminine embodiment in her works called “Throwing like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and Spatiality.”1 She combines the lived body theory of Merleau-Ponty and the theory of the situation of women expressed by Beauvoir to explore the modalities of feminine body experience. 2,3 By investigating the different ways men and women hold themselves and use their body, one can comprehend the root of the differences between the sexes. By exploring observations in daily life, such as throwing a ball, Young explores the reason for terms such...
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...important in Buddha’s teaching for at least four reasons as mentioned below. Firstly, as we all know, all four noble truths focus on suffering and the five aggregates are the ultimate referent of the first noble truth. Therefore, it is important to understand the five aggregates in advance, in order to further analyze the Four Noble Truth. Also, they are the objective domain of clinging and can help analyze the causal origination of suffering in the future. Thirdly, in order to release from suffering, the removal of clinging is an essential step, which is tightly related to the objects around (King 1989, 158). And its tentacles are named as five aggregates. Finally, in order to obtain the wisdom that can have a clear and accurate insight into the real nature of the aggregates, which is essential for the removal of clinging, we should have a deep understanding of the five aggregates as basis. And in this essay discussing the Buddhist analysis of human life, it will first introduce the five aggregates focusing on its nature, different kinds of components and typical forms. Then it will analyze the internal cooperation and relationship of the five...
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...Bailey Gerard-Custodio Ms. Dane ENGL 2593 November 26,2013 Essay 2: Patricia Hill Collin’s Thoughts on Shadow Tag Patricia Hill Collin’s main argument in, The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood, is that race controls the type of objectification a woman will face. Meaning, race controls the way society perceives a woman. In the novel, Shadow Tag, Louise Erdrich tells a chilly story of a marriage controlled by possession. A woman is shown objectification through her cultural origin and background. Throughout the novel, Gil wished to possess Irene. His possession over Irene’s body was obtained through his depictions of her in his artwork. The idea that an object is something you can obtain and possess would relate the novel by Louise Erdrich to the argument of Patricia Hill Collins. Gil’s obsession over his wife’s body also created a form of domination that utilized a form of oppression. Patricia Hill Collins writes, “Sexuality becomes a domain of restriction and repression when this energy is tied to the larger system of race, class, and gender oppression.” Gil controlled Irene’s image and sexuality through a form oppression that accompanied her race, class, and gender because he found that it exemplified his talent as an artist. “He painted Indians when he painted his wife because he couldn’t help it—the ferocity between them, the need. Her blood ancestors came out in Gil’s painting as he worked.” Gil painted Irene in the way he wanted people to perceive her. He used her ...
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...Martha Wilson and Sarah Lucas are two artists who use the female body as their primary subject matter and whose work explores the social constraints that surround it. Before the 1970s, the art scene had for the most part enacted very narrowly defined gender roles: male artists ran the art world, making them the dominant voice for both genders and how they were portrayed. Women tended to be objectified, while men had the freedom of expressing their identities in more complex representations. In the 1970s, artists (mainly in New York to start with) began to interrogate traditional roles assigned to women, problematising dominant depictions of women in the domestic and public spheres as well as beauty standards. Though gender became a dominant subject matter and discourse in the 1970s, the artists of this period were not the first artists to deal with topic. In the early twentieth-century, artists like Claude Cahun, Hannah Hoch and Frida Kahlo produced self-portraits, which explored the fluid nature of gender, refusing to comply with the static categories of masculine and feminine, and producing a more complex image of what being a woman could look like....
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...character and the quality of my life.” This quotation by Anderson and many like it refer to a way of ‘coping’ in the event of misfortune, and has generally been linked to identifying one’s self in their perception to the external world. Throughout this essay the main concept that will be reiterated is sublimation and its relationship with repression both which are used in coping and their impact on narcissism and its development within the structure of the mind. These will all ultimately come together to further the understanding of todays’ western society in terms of the enforcement of repression against that of narcissistic concerns and the inevitability of sublimatory...
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...our modern-day society manages the same. Geary somehow mostly misses this assessment, and instead through a collection of essays provides an in-depth appraisal of the reverence of the lives of saints, their burials, and the subsequent respect of the relics of saints. Geary’s essays are divided into the following sections: Reading, Representing, Negotiating, and Living. These chapters highlight the challenges that have been faced by early medieval specialists in terms of the sources available to them. Reading the sources is perhaps the most challenging as seen by Geary. Geary advocates for a triple process of evaluation: a traditional interpretation of written sources, examination of how...
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...How to prepare for IELTS - Writing Contents Page Details of the writing test Task 1 Bar and line graphs, pie charts & tables Process or flow charts Objects/how something works How to prepare for Task 1 Task 2 Questions How to prepare for Task 2 General tips for writing 2 2 4 7 9 10 13 14 17 19 Make sure you have a copy of the How to prepare for IELTS – FAQs booklet in addition to this booklet. 1 How to prepare for IELTS - Writing Details of the Writing Test Procedure of the test The writing test is the third test you do on the test day. You have 60 minutes for this test. There are two tasks or parts to do. You will be given a card with the two tasks – one task on each side of the card. You can make notes or write your plans on the card but it will not be seen by the examiner. You will also be given an answer booklet. You have to write your essays in the answer booklet. Notes are not acceptable and essays under the word limit will be penalized. How to prepare for IELTS - Writing Length & Timing You have to write at least 150 words. You are advised to spend 20 minutes on this task. Marking The Tasks This task tests your ability to perform one or more of the following functions in English: describe and interpret graphic data describe the stages of a process or procedure describe an object or event or sequence of events explain how something works Task 1 Your performance in Task 1 will be assessed on the criteria below: Task Achievement Being...
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...|Analysing an Essay Question | 1. Introduction Common criteria of undergraduate essay writing focus on the following requirements: students need to be analytical and critical in their response students need to structure their writing logically students need to be persuasive writers | students need to answer the question | This booklet looks at, how to analyse your essay question. Other Learning Centre booklets in this series deal with the other aspects: • Analytical Writing deals with the difference between analytical and descriptive writing • Planning and Structuring an Essay deals with logical structures • Developing and Supporting an Argument deals with persuasion Expectations of student assignments One of the difficulties experienced by students, particularly in first year, is understanding what standard is expected in essays at tertiary level. As well as this, each subject discipline has its own ways of doing things and its own conventions about essay structure and writing style. For instance, in some subjects it is acceptable to write very personally and put forward your own opinions and feelings on a topic and in others such a personal response would not be appropriate. You need to find out the expectations and conventions...
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...In Susan Bordo’s “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body”, she discusses the idea of men as sex objects, their effect on society, and the stereotypes of male modeling. She discusses some very interesting topics and is not afraid to offend readers while digging into ideas of controversy. As I read her writing, i felt swung to believe the same things she does. Her diction and tone were very compelling. She also did not steamroll through her argument. She mentioned other ideas and counter arguments throughout the writing, then either rebutted them or provided another way of thinking. As a reader this was very powerful and lead me to believe most things she said. This is something I have implemented in my writing and will continue to work on....
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...John Locke wrote many books and essays to show his beliefs and views. John Locke’s A letter Concerning Toleration with the concerning the true extant and end of civil government was written in 1689 in Gouda, Holland. His beliefs and views shaped the world as it is today. John Locke start off his essay with writing about political power. He states, “Political power, then, I take to be a right of making laws, with penalties of death, and consequently all less penalties for the regulating and preserving of property,” John Locke defines political power as the right to make certain laws to protect and regulate property. These laws are put...
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...2017 WS Midterm Exam Winter 2017 Part 1: Brief Essays – the Beauty Myth 1) In Wolf’s “Chapter 6: Hunger” in the Beauty Myth she argues that anorexia and bulimia is taking over women in the West. She claims that, “Women must claim anorexia as political damage done to us by a social order that considers our destruction insignificant because of what we are-less,” (Wolf, 208). I agree with the feminist perspective in “Hunger” that women are affected by pop culture and media to starve themselves until the point where they are unstable. Unfortunately, many women in the US are influenced to look like women in pop culture, however this has caused millions of suicides and health issues that...
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...Contents Character map Introduction Tips for writing essays 2 3 15 Essay 1: ‘Vincent’s fulfilment of his dream seems to be the triumph of individualism but really rests on the support and cooperation of other people.’ Discuss. 17 Essay 2: ‘The characters in Gattaca are too caught up in private dreams and personal ambitions for genuine relationships to be possible.’ Discuss. Essay 3: “That’s how I did it, Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.” ‘Vincent defies and transcends his destiny and, in doing this, inspires others.’ Discuss. Essay 4: ‘Gattaca shows that categorising people into a hierarchy of castes, into ‘superior’ and ‘imperfect/inferior’, is both false and dangerous.’ How? Essay 5: ‘Gattaca shows that the rights of a person surpass the need for control within a society.’ Discuss. Essay 6: ‘Gattaca’s director, Andrew Niccol, said: “I would hate for anyone to look at my film and think it is advocating that you never tamper with genes, because there … will be many positive things to come out of this … science in terms of curing diseases”.‘ So what is Gattaca condemning? Essay 7: ‘Gattaca presents a world destroyed by the pursuit of perfection.’ Do you agree? Essay 8: ‘The society of Gattaca works to repress rather than to enhance the potential of human beings.’ Discuss. 22 27 31 36 40 45 50 Essay 9: “I belong to a new underclass, no longer determined by social status or the colour of your skin. No, we now have discrimination down to a science.” Does...
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...Surgery are of the top three chosen procedures for both male and female genders. Plastic surgery has been an argument for decades; society has made it a social norm, but now health risk and the biblical principles one stands on argue every point society tries to stand for. In the past, a woman’s beautiful physic depended on her bodies’ curves and her child-bearing abilities. “A woman’s body with a round, soft stomach and a full bottom that signifies reproduction was considered as beauty. Today, a thin, firm body with full breasts and a tight bottom is the ideal body” (Lee 504). Society has constructed woman’s views on their body to constantly be changing and improving and this is resulting in the constant fear of never being good enough. ”Our culture has taught women to constantly monitor their bodies as objects of imperfection and to pursue improvements because, compared to the ideal body, women’s bodies are naturally flawed” (Bordo 1993) (Lee 504). Plastic Surgery started in World War I as a result of wounded veterans, and has quickly spiraled out of control to fit the needs of our society. ”In the affluence of the postwar era, however, plastic surgery broke through the barrier of reconstructive surgery to the new definition of esthetic surgery to beautify patients’ appearance rather than restore their dysfunctional bodies” (Lee 5-5). As our Society continues to change, we must ask ourselves: “when will enough be enough?”. As plastic surgery rapidly increases in today’s...
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