University of La Verne Winter 2013 BUS 510: Management of Information Technology Group Project F&F Virtual Fitting Room of Tesco Instructor: Dr. Nazila Safavi Group members: ming-wei li Shunzi Jin Tzu-hao Huang Xia Fang Yan Lu Jan. 30, 2013 Table of Content Abstract 3 Introduction
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pull them into buying their products. She explains that these methods not only dehumanizes, but lowers the self esteem of women in order to gain the viewer’s awareness. To be specific, advertisements displays mainly on cosmetics to make a woman “perfect.” For example: One poster shows the face of a women without blemishes, acne, or scars. “In fact, she doesn’t even have any pores” says Kilbourne. Another advertisement shows women being turned into an object, this can lead to violence towards women
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it and lead to genetic defects. Scientists don’t know everything about the human body yet, and because of this, if we end up modifying something, it could end up affecting something important that we didn’t know about.
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media industry is booming and shows no sign of ever slowing down. We look up to these people and want to follow the same trends that they start, but the same things they buy and eat at the same places they eat. According to society, celebrities live perfect lives, they’re rich and famous and looking at their lives is an escape from our “mediocre” lives that apparently aren’t good enough for us. Our society is shaped by the changes that the entertainment world inflicts on all of us. Entertainment
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sculpture, funerary, influenced by Egyptian technique. Kouros (youth) sculptures were used as grave markers. male body idealized, broad shoulders, narrow waste, and deeply carved joints (athletic ideal). Kore/Korai is the female version of the Kouros. Archaic smile, heavy cloth draped over them=peplos, curling/stylized hair, round face. Painted pure white, marble, symmetrical face, body not symmetrical, “Business in the front, party in the back” ! Architecture: Sculpture and architecture
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Beauty Myth, Stigma, and Deviance Carol Webb Northwood University In the year 2013 where as a society people are accepting that men marry men and women marry women, it is hard to believe that as a society we still judge a person and their professional capabilities based on their physical appearance. The reality is that this is an ongoing problem, not just in the United States, but globally. The manner in which people are treated that are defined as deviant by any person or group of people
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Body Image Approximately 91% of women are unhappy with their body, and only about 5% of women are actually have the body portrayed by Americans in the media (Hurley, Katie). The idea for women, especially teen girls, to have the perfect look is so surreal. Women, especially teens, shouldn’t have to constantly be worried about how someone sees them, but should always be brought up by others about how beautiful they already are. Body Image begins with the idea of people, mainly women and teen girls
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agape with her lips glazed with bright red lipstick. An ad for the same cologne includes the bottle lying on a naked model where her crotch is. My question is, why? Why are naked women being used to sell cologne? Why is it acceptable to use a woman’s body to sell an object that has nothing to do with the woman herself? These ads are not the
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by the media will make people do almost anything to fit the world’s standards of the perfect body, perfect face and even the perfect toes. Plastic surgery offers a quick fix to help achieve this goal but no matter how much surgery nothing or no one will be perfect. With cosmetic surgery being made affordable to more people than ever before, more individuals are getting cosmetic surgery to look like the perfect person or the favorite celebrity. But then, there are some people who get plastic surgery
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her article, “The Body of The Beholder” and Guy Trebay in his article “The Vanishing Point” explore issues of body image. Ingrassia for female, Trebay for male, but they both have similar points of view. Somehow they both tell about how the skinny fashion trend affects the people, especially the young girls and the people who are trying to be model. They are usually obsessed about being skinny and they believe that this is the way supposed to be for beauty. Obsession about their body make them either
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