...As an example we can explain the Of her experiences, Nightengale says: My eating disorder started my senior year of high school. I remember reading teen magazines as a young girl and wanting to look like those girls, but I had not a clue how to achieve that goal. At 17, what started out as a friendly competition with a friend turned into something else. At first she lost more weight than me, but after my first real heartbreak and [High School] graduation and starting college, I felt that controlling my eating was the only way I could have any control. What started out as exercise and a healthy diet turned into obsessive workout and calorie counting, until I lost control and became bulimic for about a year. I also had breast implants when I was 19. Mine were unusually small, so on top of feeling I lacked femininity, I also felt like a freak. My doctor gave me larger implants than I had asked for, which led to me being treated like a ditz for 10 years (Interview 2010). Year’s later, at 5‟7” and 130 pounds, Nightengale still finds herself struggling with her body image. “I think about my weight constantly. I always wish to be just a little bit smaller...
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...of those skinny girls who could wear “brand named” clothes. I have been fighting my way through life, emotionally and physically. There were many times that I blame myself for the way I am. There was many times where I just wanted to give up and shut myself out and forget about the world. I felt like I didn’t have what it takes to fit in with society. I sometimes ask myself, “Why does society want us to look a specific way?” People of all different sex/age are influence by print ads, fashion, and the media. It gives people the need to be someone they aren’t. People have dramatically changed their bodies and the way they look due to the media. They go from a normal body to something that looks totally impossible. Some people over exercise and some starve themselves. This includes girls being overly obsessed with how their bodies look like; having the idea that the right body is supposed to be skinny, boys having the need to build muscles, and how others look down upon those who looks different. Today, girls have the urge to be skinny because of the models being used to sell specific items from brand name clothing companies, such as Victoria Secret, Hollister, Areopostale, and more. The only way to get customers is to use attractive girls with big breast and “sexy” bodies to sell their items. For example, Victoria’s Secret is a place where people can purchase bras, panties, sleepwear, and cosmetics. These VS models are known as “Angels”. It makes society view that real angels look...
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...affect us negatively is how we view our body. You’re not good enough. That’s what people say, that’s what the media says, that's what almost everything around you implies. You're not good enough. You're never going to be good enough. But that’s the thing about humans. We’re never satisfied with what we have. In other words, we’re greedy, we want too much. If you're not like the girls on TV, they judge you. If you are like the girls on TV, they still judge you. There's always something they can say. Ugh, you’re too fat or, ugh, you're too skinny. Who here watches television? Yeah everyone, why? Because it’s entertaining. So imagine this, you’re sitting on your couch in the middle of your favorite show, when it cuts to a commercial. A Dunkin Donut advertisement pops up and you decide that you want to go there for something to eat. But then a few minutes later, a weight loss commercial blinks on the screen, you see a whole bunch skinny girls and muscular guys, your...
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...and that the average American is exposed to over 3000 ads a day. That can be on TV, billboards, magazines, and even clothes people wear. Jean next talks about the effect ads have on us and especially women. Advertisements are telling us how we should look, what we should wear, and what we should drink. Advertisements go deeper than just that. They make the most dangerous seem safe, most impossible easy, and they make everyday beauty in beings, ugly. For example, advertisements show us that if we're not stick skinny, we are not going to be accepted in the fashion world. They also make it seem like the real world isn't going to accept you because you don't look good if you're not really skinny. 2. Jean suggests that the typical images for male figures are having a much built body, the right hair, and covering nothing up but your crotch area. This interprets sexuality. The same goes for women. typical images for women are a big chest, a big behind, slim waist, long legs, skinny, oh and flawless. The stereotypes these advertisements perpetuate are that men are supposed to be taller, bigger, heartless, and tough. As for women, they have to be smaller, looked down upon, and even always being innocent. When it comes to race, a white boy has control over the white girl. But when it's a black boy and a white girl, the girl has the control. Go figure that race would have a part in advertisement. Another way race is involved in this is when it comes to colored women, they're seen as animals...
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...Motivation occurs when a need is aroused that the consumer wishes to satisfy. In this case, the motivation is to be skinny based on the need of social acceptance. Once that need has been activated, a state of tension exists that drives the consumer to attempt to eliminate or reduce the need. Diet pills are an easy way to satisfy the need of acceptance by helping make someone skinny. This reduces the tension without much effort. Needs may be Utilitarian or Hedonic. The need here is to fit in (social acceptance) and to feel good about oneself, which are sort of a blend of utilitarian and hedonic needs, but in the case of Singapore lean more towards hedonic, because it involves the emotions more than practicality. However, it could be utilitarian if someone were overweight but considering that Singapore has an obesity rate of only 4.2%, it is clear that there is no real need to lose weight artificially. The desired end state is the consumer's goal. The goal is to be thin like the models in the glossy magazines. Magnitude of tension a need creates (or degree of arousal) is called a drive. The tension is the feeling that one is not already skinny enough, so to resolve this tension, one is driven to find a solution (such as diet pills). Personal and cultural factors combine to create a want which is a manifestation of a need. Diet pills satisfy the want to be skinny without having to put in the hard effort such as eating healthy and exercising. Motivational Strength: I believe...
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...With this new age of technology, kids are exposed to so many things. They have access to info from all over the world to enhance their knowledge. However, I’m afraid that these sites can sometimes do more harm than good. The real question is: are adolescents being pressured to be skinny? Now, being thin is the new “thing”. There are celebrities with model bodies that everybody adores. Yet somehow, they do not realize that they are pressuring our society to be overly skinny. There are over 30 million people in the USA alone that take these messages to the extreme, starving themselves until they are unrecognizable. Some of these fatal diseases are called anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. These diseases not only physically affect victims, but also psychologically. In fact, a large number of patients treated for anorexia were in psychological counseling, and were also treated for depression and anxiety. But are we, as a society, attempting to help? Nope. Not even a little. We’re so caught up on today’s new “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” show, that we’ve been so blind as to never notice the people...
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...Zora Neal Hurston wrote Sweat during an era when men dominated in the world, and often on the pages of literature. However, Zora is still able to create a heroine, for the time, which stands off the pages and speaks, I matter. Heroine Delia Jones, also caught up in a world controlled, and tempered by men, finds a way to hold onto her independence – and in the end gain her freedom. Hurston’s Sweat depicts beautifully the struggle between husband and wife for control, through her incorporation of symbols in the snake, and use of weight. From the beginning of the story the reader can see the struggle for power between Delia and her husband Sykes. Because, Sykes does not work, Delia is the head contributor to the household. Thus, she is the real controller of their house and property. Sykes does not actually own anything, yet he tries to uphold the illusion that he is in power. He tells Delia “Ah ain’t gointer have it in mah house. Don’t gimme no lip neither, else ah’ll throw ‘em out and put mah fist up side yo’ head to boot.” Once again, pushing his delusion of control. His terrorization of her through physical violence is all he truly has, because he is not actually running anything. I believe he brings in the snake into the house, because it is his final plot for ultimate control. The snake then becomes a symbol of his authoritarian masculine energy. I believe Hurston intended this as Delia's true fear. It also reflects the shifting women's issues at the time. At this time many...
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...cultural change that would be benifical to the mental health of Americans would be the image that society portrays as the "perfect female". i think that we as a society stress that attractive women need to be skinny and clear skin that it puts a lot of pressure on younger/ teenage girls to try to look like that. willing to do anything to be considered attractive or perfect young girls put their body through some situations that their bodies are not meant to handle such as anorexia, bulemia, and binge eating. In recent studies (Smolak, 2011) 40-60 percent of girls starting at the age of are worried about becoming overweight and continue to worry about it for the span of their life. The detrimental part about this is the fact that it is causing health problems to young innocent boys and girls that are under what they think is a microscope of their peers. There is so much pressure on the people that are worried about what they look like and worried about what others think about them that they turn to a horrible option in eating disorders. Not only do eating disorders cause muscle loss, reduction of bone density, lack of nutrients, and fainting but it also can result in death. A change in this i think would be more advertisments showing that you do not have to be super skinny to be considered attractive or to be a super model. commercials and magzines could put girls that are bigger than the normal cover girl or bigger than the thin super model that everyone is used to seeing on...
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...Tribune Business Build by Helping March 3, 2011 People who own businesses have to be resourceful to be successful. Some turn to helping non-profits to raise awareness of their products... ...Big Skinny, on the other hand, went at it in a BIG way, erecting a 21 foot by 10 foot wallet right in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. Guinness World Records quickly crowned it the World's Largest Wallet. Several not-for-profits benefitted from this unique fund-raising vehicle to remind holiday shoppers to help the poor and others in need. Day after day, representatives of these groups told about their worthy causes and collected donations. Each group had its own pocket in the giant wallet. "Our hope is that the big crimson wallet urges folks to open their wallets to help address the needs of the underserved community," says Alexandrov, who also arranged for the Big Skinny website to stream live videos from historic Harvard Square of all those who participated. Those groups served include the Jose Mateo Dance Theatre, Salvation Army, Pediatric Aids Treatment Solutions, Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, Old Cambridge Baptist Church, Solutions at Work, Earthen Vessels, Molecular Frontiers, Cycle Kids, Cambridge Arts Council and Medulla Thyroid Cancer Research at John Hopkins. The Big Skinny Wallet, conceived by Alexandrov, solves the top five wallet problems. It is made of ultra-thin nylon micro-fiber and its unique design results in a 50 percent reduction in size. www.macedonian.org ...
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...walk down the street or look in the mirror and it becomes a case of welcome to the "real" world, us. Where everyone is in all shapes and sizes, colors and ages. Like in the book The Mouse that Roared, the authors shows how Disney attempts to hide behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, while simultaneously exercising its influence as a major force on both global economics and cultural learning. In the fashion industry I feel that it is the same way, while forty percent of the United States is obese, Vogues magazines and many others show those unreal skinny bodies that everybody is dying to have. The fashion industry has shaped women’s ideals of what to wear and what to look, and until the industry can shift from encouraging people to be a shape which nature never intended them to be, however, the media will continue to form young people’s view of the world, a world that is apparently populated by only thin girls. The words "eat" and "boring" are usually never found in the same sentence, but leave it to a supermodel to accomplish this task. Bodies in a bathing suit, underwear, or a skimpy tank top flood magazines magazines today. How many times have you flipped through the pages of a Vogue magazine and spotted an article about how women should have a good perception of themselves and "celebrate those curves?" However you then turn the pages the only thing you see is skinny no curves at all. The Mass media influences lot teenagers. Therefore, it is much more...
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...Stunkard AJ is stating that obesity is all around the world, is not just towards children at a young age but also towards adults and teens. Not only are they mention that they are “big” but the media is saying it's wrong that they aren't “fit” as other people. Social media only wants “fit” or “skinny” people because that's what's “beauty” and “attractive.” This causes more damage to preteens and teens because after time those pre teens who are already skinny naturally become paranoid or believe they are too fat and cause themselves to starve to death because they think they are not “attractive” enough. Or telling them how they look isn't enough or how they should eat health to maintain a healthy body figure. Many preteens and teens who are “big”and “large” are unwanted by peers who are “fit” or “skinny” because they aren’t beautiful enough. They start making fun of them telling them rude things. By doing so, these teens who are overweight start feeling depressed and build up anger and hate towards themselves. These things being told to them can cause a big risk to their lives and create negative effects. Most discrimination goes towards teens and women because they must be “good looking”, “skinny” or “fit” because that’s what's appropriate for the world to see. This also affects adults who are obese have trouble finding jobs because they can’t work to the “pace” they need them to be at. Many people judge men and women who are obese because they aren’t “good looking”. There are a...
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...Shaming In the Media Recent research on discrepancies related to distorting body image demonstrates how the media is a key variable in the recent increase of eating disorders. Up to 24 million people suffer from an eating disorder in the U.S. The constant exposure to these ideals in the media is closely related to increased body dissatisfaction and self-objectification, according to Kimberly Bissell of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. Numerous research studies concur there is a lack of body-type diversity in most media forms. “Real Women Have Curves” and “Real Beauty” campaigns have been overwhelming the media, pushing for women to embrace their curvy figure. Does this send the message that women who are not curvy are not real women or do not have true beauty? In our culture, certain appearances are predisposed to certain stereotypes and health assumptions. Fat is automatically lazy, unhealthy, bad and out of control, while skinny is automatically productive, confident and healthy. Being thin comes with the positive connotation and association of success. Society often links success to being thin, further enforcing its social desirability, according to Kristen E. Van Vonderen and William Kinnally of the Journal of Mass Media Ethics. “It might be surprising to know that weight stigma hurts both thin and fat people,” stated Deb Burgard on the National Eating Disorder Association Website. “In my work with people of all sizes who are struggling with disordered eating...
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...MEDIA INFLUENCES ON EATING DISORDER ABSTRACT: The media as well as the eating disorders are commonly at odds because much frequently than never, we view various photographs of anorexic masses that are somehow galmourised as well as depicted the ideal beauty. The question now arises that whether does the media have an influence over eating disorders? What is it the most about the media is that it makes female fatally overwhelmed to the unrealistic and serious pressure towards slenderness? The affect of the media on the development of the eating disorders like Anorexia, Bulimia or Compulsive Overeating can’t be disproved.Since from the very early age the people are pelted with the images along with the messages that reinforce the idea to be pleased and successful that the individual must be lean. Now, as seen in daily day to day life that it is notified as a message that fat is bad, whether it is a television, a magazine, or a newspaper, or listening to the radio, or whether shopping in the mall. The most fearsome part is that the destructive message it conveys is somehow reaching towards children. Adolescents sometimes really feel like fatally blemished if their hips, weight etc. doesn’t match up I comparison to those of famous models and actors. Today even the children of the elementary school aged are also obsessed in respect to their weight. Even if the contention is also made that the media’s depiction of women is just only a mirror of the society and not as an...
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...Many of the boys enjoy swimming or playing on the beach, but Simon spends his time helping Ralph or in the jungle. Ralph complains to Jack, “All day I've been working with Simon. No one else. They're off bathing, or eating, or playing” (Golding 50). Ralph is conveying that Simon is helpful whereas the other boys are not. This displays Simons’ difference from the other boys because he is willing to help Ralph rather than playing like the other boys. Another way Simon is different from the others is by his time spent alone in the jungle. After feeding the younger boys, Simon moves deeper into the jungle. To ensure his secrecy he “glanced swiftly round to confirm that he was utterly alone” (Golding 56). Rather than spend time with the other boys,...
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...products. What are the people really eating? Once in my human biology class Dr. Walter Hoeh said: “The food that you eat every day will not kill you now but it will kill you after twenty to thirty years from eating the food, however, eventually you will die from the food.” He explained how food affect us, when we heard the explanation we were shocked because we buy food without reading the ingredient. When you eat processed food it tastes delicious and you crave for more, but you are only eating sugar and harmful fats and that type of sugar and fats are harming the human body. According to Ms. Epel in the skinny of obesity episode 2, she said:” I'm suspicious a anything that says low-fat diet because you know that that means that they had to compensate with a lot these added sugars there's more than five ingredients its probably a processed food and there's probably not much real food in their it is almost impossible to buy those...
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