...The Tainted Body Image Media Puts On Young Women Women come in all different shape and sizes, but today’s media sets an image of what beautiful women in America are supposed to look like. Beauty by society and media is characterized as women with a “perfect hourglass shape, no excess fat or cellulite, white teeth, bronze skin and thin legs” (HubPages, 2010, p. 1). However, women of this description are not normal. The average height and weight of a woman is 5’4” and 145 pounds. Beauty is subjective, but women of all ages strive and compare themselves to models who are 5’10 , 115 pounds. Images of flawless females are seen all over through advertising, motion pictures, television, and magazines. Media has a negative effect of women, pressuring girls to look a certain way, which can be both physically and emotionally damaging. Times Are Changing In the 1800s rubenesque woman were considered to have the ideal figure . Early 1900s voluptuous women with extra weight were considered to be wealthy and have good health. The 1920s started the shift of women being thin; consumer customs embarked on the newly designed female body image by way of fashion, cosmetics, advertisements, and Hollywood. Being thin was the new indication of wealth . Marilyn Monroe, size 14, in the 50s was a sex symbol, but the biggest change in female body image came from Twiggy Lawson in the 60s. Twiggy was an underweight supermodel classified as the ideal body image. In 1992, Wiseman, Mosimann, and...
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...Running Heading: Discrimination or Inequality: The Ideal Women Body Shape Kelly Rowland Research Paper: SOC – 412 - 341 Tarleton State University- Central Texas Professor: Dietert, Michelle Summer, 2008 Discrimination or Inequality: The Ideal Women Body Shape When I think of how the American culture views the woman body shape as the epitome of feminity, I get a little worried. In our society and in many other cultures, women are judged according to their physical appearance. Whether it is Africa, Asia, or the United States, women psychic can make life easier or harder for them. Many women become obsessed, depressed, and compulsive about their body shape. Body dissatisfaction can lead to eating disorders and low self-esteem Research on eating disorders have been concentrated on the effects of the wafer thin western Europe and North America body types (Forbes, Doroszewicz, Card, and Adams-Curtis, 2004, pg 333). Being wafer then started between the 1940’s and 1950’s. Very slim fashion models paraded across the run ways wearing the latest fashions on display to the world. As we all know, fashion models are seen as some of the most beautiful women in the world. Thus the ideal woman body shape surfaced. Rodin, Silberstein & Striegel- Moore are just a few of the researchers who have concluded that women who achieve extreme slender body types is unhealthy and unobtainable for long period of time ((Forbes, Doroszewicz...
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...Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw How do you find compassion? Become a patient yourself and that is just what Jack MacKee is about to do. We, We don’t have it Anne, it’s not a team game Dr. MacKee often puts himself first and takes his family for granted. Throughout the movie, the audience can see that his profession comes first. From the first interaction that the audience sees him having with Anne regarding parents night and how he has yet again forgotten about it. To a date that he and Anne were supposed to go on and she asks him, since he looks exhausted, to not take a phone call. Anne is left feeling dumfounded as to how to interact with Jack. There is one point in the film where she tells him “I wake up with this sensation; Am I tired, hungry, sad? Then I realize: I am just lonely”. (Feldman, Glick, Ziskin, & Haines, 1991) It was not really until he receives a letter from his friend June, whom Jack had approached about not being able to talk to Anne, he really started to need Anne in which he relays to her shortly after his surgery. It is ok Jack, I have always wanted to slit your throat…now I have the chance to do just that. To Jack, it is very much a boys game sort of like a clique and if colleagues do not play the game his way, colleagues do not get respect. Jack has his “guys”, the ones whose back he covers and vice versa then he has his colleagues that he completely disrespects for the compassionate way they practice. It was not until he, as a patient...
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...Film Analysis 1 -Eat, Drink, Man, Woman Eat, Drink, Man, Woman reminds us of universal wants and needs through the lives' of a father and his three daughters. The family struggles to keep their bond while dealing with individual challenges and hardships. In the end, these struggles are worked out with the help of family, as we see each character grow and develop; which causes the family to be redefined all together. Interesting to me, was the theme of tradition versus modernization. This was central to Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, and it is shown in the development of the characters, in the symbols and motifs, and even in the use of light and sound. I would like to further explore this theme and the implications. The characters develop through conflict resolution, and each conflict presented shows some spectrum of tradition versus modernization. Let's begin with the conflict between Senior Master Chef Chu (Chu) and his middle daughter Jia-Chien (Chien). Chu is traditional in his ways -he prepares food traditionally, he was matched with his wife traditionally, he was faithful and committed to his wife, and even after her death, he is incredibly slow to remarry,he provides and cares for his family, he values family tradition, and he does not talk about his feelings. Chien is a representation of modernization -she is a powerful woman in the workplace who seemingly does not place high esteem on family values. She is not committed to any one man, even though she longs to be wanted...
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...That night a little girl was raped and murdered, for what? She was only 6, she didn’t know what she was doing. She had a full life ahead of her and she was killed because of the fact she was strongly sexualised. “It as taken at either a child beauty pageant or a cheerleading competition. It showed several girls under the age of 10, their sweet faces tarted up with makeup and their hair fixed in adult fashions. My first thought was, “Every pedophile who sees this will cut it out and paste it on his wall” ("Child Beauty Pageants Should Be Eliminated."). For any pedophile or child predator child beauty pageants are winning the lottery. These events endanger the children's safety. “According to the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act, child abuse is “the physical or mental inquiry, exual abuse or exploitation, of a child under circumstances which indicate the child’s health or welfare is threatened or harmed”("Child Beauty Pageants Should Be Eliminated."). Putting a child in an area where they could be in danger is child abuse. These events may be fun at the moment but thanks to thar strange man in the audience looking a little bit too hard at a 6 year old girl, you never know what can happen...
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...met with hatred and scorn for the perceived terribleness of his crime, which not only includes killing a little girl (who so happens to be the police commissioner’s daughter), but of cruelly kidnapping and molesting her as well. Perhaps because the dead little girl is the daughter of such a prominent man does the case fly through the courts without anything resembling due process, and it’s as if no one realizes that the perpetrator lacks the mental faculties needed to represent or stand up for himself when everyone is against him from the start—even including the policemen and lawyers whose job it is to assume his innocence. Instead, they work only to prove his guilt, because there’s literally nothing to stop them. Especially not the law. What follows is a story that takes place in two time periods. There’s the modern storyline, where the father’s grown-up daughter works as a lawyer to clear his name—though that takes up far less screen time than the flashback to 1997, the year that her father was accused and imprisoned in Cell No. 7. It was there that he met the cellmates who would become not only his friends but also family to him and his daughter after they devise an (admittedly improbable) plan to sneak her into the prison. Soon the entire prison population joins in the effort to try and save the innocent man from being executed, culminating in a heart-rending and revelatory masterpiece which manages to shine a spotlight on humanity at its best and at its unbelievable, infuriating...
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...Jennifer Archuleta Professor Musgrave English 205 December 13, 2011 The Effects of Media on Body Image Imagine growing up in a modern day society. Everywhere you look there are images of beauty, representations of how beautiful people are supposed to look; flawless and thin. You grow up believing that this unattainable image is the only image of beauty. As you look in the mirror and see only flaws in your reflection, you rack your brain of ways to make yourself more beautiful. This becomes your obsession. Your dream is to become a model, but in the very start of your career, a fashion agent tells you that you will have to lose ten pounds in order to find work. This was the beginning of the end for former model and actress Isabelle Caro, just one of the many women affected by the media industry and the negative effects it has on body image. With Isabelle’s obsession to be thin, she battled with anorexia until it ended her life at the young age of twenty seven. In modern culture, a great deal of importance is placed on our looks and body image. This is portrayed by the media through magazine pictures, television advertisements, billboards, and the influence of models and actresses. Although the media affects both men and women, I will be showing how it specifically affects the behaviors, viewpoints, and attitudes of women. The media portrays a beautiful woman as being someone who is thin and flawless. Photographs of models that are posted in magazines are brushed-up, touched-up...
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...The Preacher's Priority: Protect His Family from the Peril of Pornography Pornography has long been a destructive element in our society but since the arrival of the Internet, it has grown to proportions that no one could ever have imagined. Unfortunately, it has infiltrated our churches through the lives of Christian men and women and it is clearly undermining the development of godly character and leadership. The human body has become an object of worship, a god in our society. In his book Sexual Healing: a Biblical Guide to Finding Freedom from Sexual Sin and Brokenness, David Kyle Foster is right when he says, “One of the greatest problems that we have in dealing with pornography is that we do not recognize that it is evil. We minimize, rationalize, and deny the truth behind it. We do not repent for being idol worshipers and grieving the heart of our God” (205). Pornography not only destroys the man but it is ruining marriages, families, and even churches. It has created such a stronghold on men within the body of Christ that many have become neutralized from being any kind of force for the kingdom of God. Ephesians 6: 12 says, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places” (NASU). Pornography and sexual immorality are from the supreme ruler of darkness. It is one more device to draw men away from serving God. Pornography...
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...СОДЕРЖАНИЕ введение 2 1. Основные особенности произношения американского варианта английского языка 3 1.1. Основные фонетические особенности американского варианта английского языка 4 1.2. Лексико-грамматические особенности американского английского 5 1.3. Грамматические отличия американского варианта 6 2. Основные особенности произношения канадского варианта английского языка 8 2.1. Основные фонетические особенности канадского варианта английского языка 8 2.2. Лексико-грамматические особенности канадского варианта английского языка 9 3. Основные особенности австралийского варианта английского языка 10 3.1. Фонетические особенности австралийского варианта 11 4. Основные особенности новозеландского варианта английского языка 12 4.1. Фонетические особенности 12 4.2. Грамматические особенности новозеландского варианта английского языка 12 Вывод 13 Список использованной литературы 14 Приложение 15 введение Задача, которую я себе ставила, начиная работать над данной темой, состояла в следующем: - изложить основные фонетические особенности каждого из наиболее известных вариантов английского языка, не забывая при этом о грамматических и лексических отличиях. Причем я исходила из того, что британский вариант английского языка известен тем, кто будет читать эти строки, поэтому все (или почти все) сопоставления, сравнения и прочее делаются на основе британского английского (British English (BrE)). Британский вариант английского языка специально в реферате не...
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...Ethics Steven J. Ramsey University of Minnesota Introduction In this paper, I will be applying ethics – principles of right and wrong – from an administrative perspective to three specific situations. In the first situation I describe the application of two ethical principles in relation to access to healthcare at a hospital. The next situation deals with the moral issues raised by mandating the use of ultrasound technology. Here I explain which ethical principles are used to justify this practice, and which ones are violated by this practice. In the last situation, I describe an ethical dilemma I was personally faced with and the ethical principles I used to resolve it. 1. Access to HealthCare The Principle of Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is the moral theory that says the rightness of an action is determined by its contribution to the greatest good for the greatest number. This theory argues against specific actions that would benefit an individual in favor of actions that serve to benefit society overall. Using this theory as a principle for making healthcare decisions, the objective becomes to maximize the health of the population served, which is in conflict with the widely held objective to maximize the care to every individual patient. For example, when having to choose between offering a program that benefits one thousand patients every year verses a program that benefits only five patients...
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...Social Psychology’s Effects on Attraction Joshua Newton PSY 326 Dr. Cindi-Marie Willoughby How and what attracts us to others is interpersonal attraction. As a military student, I am continuously judging individuals when I initially meet them because I am constantly evaluating my placement in society. What initiated my interest to research social attraction was my weakness for the opposite sex. I was and still am inquisitive as to what draws me to all women and towards certain type of the opposite sex. Originally, I thought I was attracted only to women from a physical appeal in an initial meeting, but I found there is more to the question. Even though physicality is a considerable amount of interpersonal attraction, studies have proved there are numerous factors determining roles in attraction on initial engagements. Among the most reflective opinions I found, essentially the first interactions are proximity, similarity, and physicality. It is our acceptable appetite as humans to determine whom we are drawn to, even as infants. After further study from psychologists, I collected data elucidating what dictates interpersonal attraction for an assortment of people and its connotation in everyday life. We are continuously meeting new people, seeing new faces, and deciding whether we experience attractions to individuals deliberately or not. As a result, the first acquaintance of others is most significance in the likelihood of developing a...
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...Executive Summary This paper is organized to discuss the framework called the Balanced Scorecard (BSC), by Robert Kaplan and David Norton, translates an R2i's mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures that provides the framework for a strategic measurement and management system. The BSC was developed to measure both current operating performance and the drivers of future performance. The objectives and measures on a Balanced Scorecard should be derived from the business unit's strategy. A scorecard should contain outcome measures and the performance drivers of those outcomes. The scorecard measures organizational performance across a set of leading and lagging performance indicators grouped into four linked perspectives: financial, customer, internal processes, and learning and growth. Processing complex, unstructured information can be difficult. The BSC enables R2i to track short-term financial results while simultaneously monitoring their progress in building the capabilities and acquiring the intangible assets that generate growth for future financial performance. The BSC enables managers to monitor and adjust the implementation of their strategy, and to make fundamental changes in the strategy itself. The BSC provides a representation of the organization's shared vision. The BSC communicates a holistic model that links individual efforts and accomplishments to business unit objectives. Thus, a shared vision and shared performance model, structured...
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...analysis 7 3.5.1 writing techniques 3.5.1.1 fdt (Stream of conciousness) 3.5.1.2 fds and ds 3.5.1.3 Direct Characterization and Indirect Characterization 3.5.1.4 internal conflict 3.5.1.5 change of literary form 3.5.2 paragraph level analysis 4. referrence 9 Like The Devil Wears Prada, Everyone Worth Knowing is essentially a morality play in which an unglamorous young single woman is suddenly thrust into a glamorous New York industry and slowly starts to get comfortable in it, despite keeping herself at a distance, at the expense of her relationship with family and friends, only to decisively reject it and begin to get what she really needs. Unlike its predecessor, however, the novel depicts far more decadent behavior from its wealthy elite, including casual sex, the frequent use of various illegal drugs and...
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...God's Not Dead is a 2014 Christian drama film directed by Harold Cronk, and stars Kevin Sorbo, Shane Harper, David A. R. Whiteand Dean Cain. The film was released to theaters on March 21, 2014, by Pure Flix Entertainment.[4] ------------------------------------------------- Plot Josh Wheaton (Shane Harper), a Christian college student, enrolls in a philosophy class taught by Professor Jeffrey Radisson (Kevin Sorbo), an atheist, who demands that his students sign a declaration that "God is dead" to get a passing grade. Josh is the only student in the class who refuses to sign and is then required by Radisson to debate the topic with him, with the class members deciding who wins. Radisson gives Josh twenty minutes at the end of the first three lecture sessions to argue that God exists. In the first two debates, Radisson has counter arguments for all of Josh's points. Josh's girlfriend Kara (Cassidy Gifford) breaks up with him, fearing that standing up to Radisson will jeopardize their academic future. Ultimately, it comes down to the third and final debate between Radisson and Josh, who again both make compelling points. Josh then halts his line of debate to pose a question to Radisson: "Why do you hate God?" After Josh repeats the question twice more, Radisson explodes in rage, confirming he hates God for his mother's death that left him alone despite his prayers. Josh then casually asks Radisson how he can hate someone that doesn't exist. In the end, Martin (Paul Kwo), a foreign...
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...Blackface Chic: High Fashion, Racechange and Cultural Tourism Race, Identity, and Public Culture Popular cultural representations, in particular those in the fashion industry, have recently reinvented a historically loaded image in their performances: blackface.1 In the past several years, blackface and other images of physical transformations of race have appeared in a number of high and popular fashion contexts including a “yellowface” fashion show in Shanghai sponsored by Karl Lagerfeld, supermodel Heidi Klum photographed wearing only chocolate syrup, an issue of French Vogue featuring a white model in black body paint and elaborate “African-inspired” costuming, a photograph in V Magazine of two models, one in blackface and one white, wrestling, two episodes of America’s Next Top Model involving racial and biracial transformation, and an editorial naming American Apparel and showing a woman in blackface. Blackface, though in a contemporary form more accurately described by the term “racechange,” or the performance of one race by another (Gubar 2000), far from being taboo have become an aesthetic in the fashion industry. Though popular magazines and newspapers such as Essence and a number of fashion blogs have responded to particular instances of racial transformation, there is relatively little scholarly work on the rise of racechange in contemporary fashion. This essay attempts to fill that gap in scholarship by examining racial transformation through...
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