...applauded while reality is frowned upon. Suppressing life’s realities and living a fantasy will never lead to true satisfaction. In the play The Glass Menagerie all of the characters struggle with accepting their realities. For example, Amanda refuses to accept Laura’s disability and is controlling her daughter’s life. In Nanci Hellmich's "Do thin models warp girls' body image?" it clearly states how the perfect body image is an illusion, such as the one Amanda wants for Laura in The Glass Menagerie proving that people choose deception over reality because they feel inadequate compared to society's expectations....
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...Eye Section 202 Monday 4:30pm – 7:15pm Course Name: Physics 246 Lab Partner’s Name: Jennifer Darlington, Hyon Hodge Date: 11/12/2012 Instructor: Dr Vermuru Word Count: 1650 Aim: The aim of this experiment is to examine a scaled up model of the human eye to understand the image formed in the eye, the optics of accommodation, nearsightedness, and farsightedness. Introduction: The basic structure of the human eye consists of cornea, natural crystalline lens and retina, as shown in Figure 1, in which the lens of the eye does little of the bending of the light rays, most of the refraction is done at the front surface of the cornea and retina plays the role of the film in a camera. Figure 1: Diagram of a human eye Accommodation is the focusing adjustment in which the muscles in the eye change the shape of the crystalline lens to change its focal length. Figure 2: Accommodation by a normal eye a) Lens relaxed, focused at infinity b) Lens thickened, focused on a nearby object Nearsightedness refers to an eye that can focus only on nearby objects. Because the far point is not infinity but some shorter distance, distant objects are not seen clearly. This defect is usually caused by an eyeball that is too long and images of distance objects are focused in front of the retina. In order to correct this defect, a diverging lens should be used as it causes parallel rays to diverge which allowing the rays to be focused at the retina. Figure 3: a) Nearsighted eye...
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...Profile & Work Experience. Comart Lithographers Pvt. Ltd. (JUNE 2011– Till Date). As a Image Retoucher. (MUMBAI-BANGALORE) • Color correction in RGB/CMYK. • Retouching the skin and the hair masking for the model images • Cut outs the model as well as product images for the ad. • Prepared composite psds for lay outs. • Special color photoshop jobs. Honeycomb creative services Pvt Ltd. (MAR. 2009– JUNE 2011). As a Image Retoucher (BANGALORE) • Retouching the skin and the hair masking for the model images • Jewelers retouching & cut outs • Cut outs the model as well as product images for the ad • Prepared composite psds for lay outs. Comart Lithographers Pvt. Ltd. (Mar. 2005– mar 2009). As a Image Retoucher (Mumbai) • Images for magazine,press ad. • Retouching the skin and the hair masking for the model images • Jewelers retouching & cut outs • Cut outs the model as well as product images for the ad • Prepared composite psds for lay outs. • Maintained production schedules and Deadlines. RACHANA IAGES (Jan. 2003– Feb 2005). As a Mac Operator. (Mumbai) • Color correction in RGB/CMYK. • Retouching the skin and the hair masking for the model images • Cut outs the model as well as product images for the ad. • Prepared composite psds for lay outs. • Maintained production schedules and Deadlines. Infinity Studio. Photographer Jignesh Jhaveri (sept. 2002– Dec 2004). As a...
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...Issue 04, April-2015 Illicit Image Filtering and Classification Techniques Miss Anita Parihar PG Student (Digital Systems) Department of E&TC Engineering Sinhgad College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra (India) Dr. D. M. Bhalerao Professor Department of E&TC Engineering Sinhgad College of Engineering Pune, Maharashtra (India) Abstract— Adult images have become a threat to social networking, which are having a negative impact, on society. We often hear the stories of blackmailing for adult images which is a serious crime. This should be stopped somewhere, further we will see various techniques to do so. We present a method to classify images into different categories of pornographic content to create a system for filtering illicit images from network traffic. Even though different systems for this application were offered in the past, which are based on simple skin color features and have quite poor performance. Latest advances in the image recognition field in particular for the classification of objects have shown that bag-of-visualwords-approaches are a good method for many image classification problems. Keywords—Bag-of-Visual Words (BoVW), Explicit Content, Neural Network, Region-of-Interest (ROI), Skin Detection I. INTRODUCTION II. The inevitable fact that technology is becoming more intertwined in the daily life of the individual will lead to an increase in court cases and in crime. Due to such image uploads as people have different...
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...look at certain images in the media of people, they come to a fairly quick response. These responses can be both positive and negative. The reason this topic had stood out among others was to see the impact of how these images do effect woman. This topic is important based solely on the fact that everyone should be comfortable in their own skin and the media has portrayed images of how everyone should look and feel about themselves. By using the article The Positive and Negative Media Image Effects on the Self which is based on experients done to test how woman react to certain body types in the media and how it effects their self esteem. After reading this article we conducted our own ad campaign for Lu Lu lemon. This campaign is directed at using the positive side of media images especially in the younger generations. We feel this campaign can be successful by using images of everyday people so that everyone can relate and feel good about being themselves. The Positive and Negative Media Image Effects on the Self. The article written by Dirk Smeesters and Naomi Mandel is a summary of research towards images of models to woman and how it effects there self esteem. The research has shown that images of thin woman have been known to cause self enhancement and some negative self image. The first part of the research that was studied was how certain woman reacted to extreme body images as well as moderate body images. They would be shown an extremely thin/heavy model or an averagely...
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...A Review of Literature of MEDIA’S INFLUENCE ON BODY IMAGE and its AFFECTS Introduction Body image is a central part of mental and physical well-being, and because the mass media are pervasive communicators of social standards, they greatly influence people’s perception by setting unrealistic standards for what is “normal” for body weight and appearance. Thus, reinforcing people to emulate and believe what they see and hear. There is an extensive amount of studies on the effects of media exposure on body dissatisfaction and the experience of negative thoughts and esteem about one’s body, which is linked to a range of physical and mental health problems, including eating disorders and low self-esteem. Body Image: Self-Esteem and Identity Several individual variables predict or influence the relationship between media exposure and body disturbances. Most of the research has been done with women and girls, for whom the “body perfect” ideal is ultra-thin, and whose media models are typically underweight (Tantleff-Dunn, 1999). To determine whether viewing images of thin models influences how women feel about their bodies, there were many studies done using the social comparison framework, finding that women engage in “upward social comparisons,” comparing themselves to the thin models depicted in the media. When women believe that they do not measure up to the models, they feel more negatively about their own weight and body. For example, Lin and...
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...Consumer Behavior Models in Tourism Analysis Study Muhannad M.A Abdallat, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Hesham El –Sayed El - Emam, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Faculty of Tourism and Archeology King Saud University ABSTRACT The theories of consumer decision-making process assume that the consumer’s purchase decision process consists of steps through which the buyer passes in purchasing a product or service. However, this might not be the case. Not every consumer passed through all these stages when making a decision to purchase and in fact, some of the stages can be skipped depending on the type of purchases. The reasons for the study of consumer’s helps firms and organizations improve their marketing strategies by understanding issues such as: • The psychology of how consumers think, feel, reason, and select between different alternatives (e.g., brands, products); • The psychology of how the consumer is influenced by his or her environment (e.g., culture, family, signs, media); • The behavior of consumers while shopping or making other marketing decisions; • Limitations in consumer knowledge or information processing abilities influence decisions and marketing outcome; • How consumers’ motivation and decision strategies differ between products, that differ in their level of importance or interest that they entail for the consumer; and • How marketers can adapt and improve their marketing campaigns and marketing strategies...
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...Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, May 1997 v36 n9-10 p551(22) Advertising's effects on men's gender role attitudes. Jennifer Garst; Galen V. Bodenhausen. Author's Abstract: COPYRIGHT 1997 Plenum Publishing Corporation We posited that media images of men influence the gender role attitudes that men express soon after exposure to the images. A total of 212 men (87% European American, 7% Asian or Asian American, 3% African American, and 3% other) viewed magazine advertisements containing images of men that varied in terms of how traditionally masculine vs. androgynous they were and whether the models were the same age or much older than the viewers. Men who had initially been less traditional espoused more traditional attitudes than any other group after exposure to traditionally masculine models, although they continued to endorse relatively nontraditional views after exposure to androgynous models. These findings suggest that nontraditional men's gender role attitudes may be rather unstable and susceptible to momentary influences such as those found in advertising. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1997 Plenum Publishing Corporation In the average American household, the television is turned "on" for almost seven hours each day, and the typical adult or child watches two to three hours of television per day. It is estimated that the average child sees 360,000 advertisements by the age of eighteen (Harris, 1989). Due to this extensive exposure to mass media depictions, the media's influence...
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...Consumer Behavior Models in Tourism Analysis Study Muhannad M.A Abdallat, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Hesham El –Sayed El - Emam, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Faculty of Tourism and Archeology King Saud University ABSTRACT The theories of consumer decision-making process assume that the consumer’s purchase decision process consists of steps through which the buyer passes in purchasing a product or service. However, this might not be the case. Not every consumer passed through all these stages when making a decision to purchase and in fact, some of the stages can be skipped depending on the type of purchases. The reasons for the study of consumer’s helps firms and organizations improve their marketing strategies by understanding issues such as: • The psychology of how consumers think, feel, reason, and select between different alternatives (e.g., brands, products); • The psychology of how the consumer is influenced by his or her environment (e.g., culture, family, signs, media); • The behavior of consumers while shopping or making other marketing decisions; • Limitations in consumer knowledge or information processing abilities influence decisions and marketing outcome; • How consumers’ motivation and decision strategies differ between products, that differ in their level of importance or interest that they entail for the consumer; and • How marketers can adapt and improve their marketing campaigns and marketing strategies...
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...Abstract— Face recognition is a biometric system used to verify or identify a person from a digital image. This involve extracting features of face and then recognize it, regardless of expression, lighting, illumination, transformations (translate, rotate and scale image), ageing and pose. The existing approaches are deblurring based, joint deblurring and recognition, deriving blur invariant features and direct approach, which uses convolution model for performing face recognition in the presence of blur. So these methods cannot handle non uniform blurring situations that frequently arise from rotations and tilts in hand held cameras. In this paper, face recognition is done, in the presence of space varying motion blur. We have taken the concept that the set of all images obtained by non-uniformly blurring a given image form a convex set. We develop an algorithm based on TSF (Transformation Spread Function) model. On each focused...
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...why does the media use airbrushing to hide any flaws a model has? If looks do not matter, why do so many teenage women suffer from low self-esteem? If looks really do not matter, why do so many young women struggle with eating disorders? It is because our society promotes a certain body image as being beautiful, and it’s a far cry from the average woman’s size 12. A common issue young women face in today’s society is the airbrushing of models in the media, creating an impossible ideal for these young women to strive for. The unrealistic standard of beauty that women are bombarded with everyday gives them a goal that is impossible to reach, and the effects are devastating....
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...Consumer Behavior Models in Tourism Analysis Study Muhannad M.A Abdallat, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Hesham El –Sayed El - Emam, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Faculty of Tourism and Archeology King Saud University ABSTRACT The theories of consumer decision-making process assume that the consumer’s purchase decision process consists of steps through which the buyer passes in purchasing a product or service. However, this might not be the case. Not every consumer passed through all these stages when making a decision to purchase and in fact, some of the stages can be skipped depending on the type of purchases. The reasons for the study of consumer’s helps firms and organizations improve their marketing strategies by understanding issues such as: • The psychology of how consumers think, feel, reason, and select between different alternatives (e.g., brands, products); • The psychology of how the consumer is influenced by his or her environment (e.g., culture, family, signs, media); • The behavior of consumers while shopping or making other marketing decisions; • Limitations in consumer knowledge or information processing abilities influence decisions and marketing outcome; • How consumers’ motivation and decision strategies differ between products, that differ in their level of importance or interest that they entail for the consumer; and • How marketers can adapt and improve their marketing campaigns and marketing strategies...
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...Chanel’s advertisement is meant for viewers of this particular magazine, Vogue, to stop and gaze what is being photographed. Here we have two models in an upward movement, with lots of aesthetic appeal between the clothes and the handbags. The point of fashion advertisements is for consumers to familiarize themselves with the newest fashion line in hopes they will in turn purchase the items being shown. Through the elements of design color, texture, and line and also principles of design balance, harmony, and emphasis we are able to analyze this image. Introduction This image is coming from the October issue of Vogue magazine. The image is from Chanel, a high fashion brand specializing in couture, ready-to-wear clothes, luxury goods, and fashion accessories. This image is meant for viewers of the magazine to stop and stare. It is also used to show Chanel’s most updated fashion line hoping to appeal to consumers. It shows high aesthetic value with utilitarian and symbolic function also present. Description of Image The image I chose from Vogue magazine is an advertisement for Chanel, a high-end French clothing company. The image features two female models making direct eye contact with the camera. They also appear to be jumping off the ground at the same time and are in the air while the picture was being taken. The models are holding onto the same flower bouquet which is in between the both of them, in the center of the picture. The bouquet of flowers is white...
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...Depleting Body Image: The Effects of Female Magazine Models on the Self-esteem and Body Image of College-age Women Influence of Magazines on College-Age Females’ Body Image Millions of women every day are bombarded with the media’s idea of the “perfect” body. These unrealistic images are portrayed in women’s magazines all over the country. The message being sent to women is that they are not pretty or skinny enough. The average American woman is 5’4” and weighs 140 pounds, while the average American model is 5’11” and weighs 117 pounds. Annually, magazine companies spend billions of dollars on diet and exercise advertisements to put in their magazines. Magazines sell body dissatisfaction to their readers through unrealistic images of women, as well as dieting and exercise information. Thirty years ago, Marilyn Monroe, a size 14, had the “ideal” body shape and size, but today’s standard is much smaller. As the beauty ideal continues to get smaller in our society, body image within American women continues to plummet. Magazines portray and compare happiness with being thin; therefore some feel if they are not thin, then they are not happy. As with women of all ages, many college-age women are believed to hold unrealistic ideals of body shape and size, ideals that can be both physically and emotionally unhealthy. Our study, focused on women who attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison that are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four. We wanted to identify the specific...
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...not able to cope with the variety of human skin colors across different ethnic. Moreover, existing methods require high computational cost. In this paper, we propose a novel human skin detection approach that combines a smoothed 2-D histogram and Gaussian model, for automatic human skin detection in color image(s). In our approach, an eye detector is used to refine the skin model for a specific person. The proposed approach reduces computational costs as no training is required, and it improves the accuracy of skin detection despite wide variation in ethnicity and illumination. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first method to employ fusion strategy for this purpose. Qualitative and quantitative results on three standard public datasets and a comparison with state-of-the-art methods have shown the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed approach. Index Terms—Color space, dynamic threshold, fusion strategy, skin detection. I. INTRODUCTION W ITH the progress of information society today, images have become more and more important. Among them, skin detection plays an important role in a wide range of image processing applications from face tracking, gesture analysis, content-based image retrieval systems to various human–computer interaction domains [1]–[6]. In these applications, the search space for...
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