How Perfect Do Girls Have To Seem Analysis

Intro: Why do females care so much about the way they look? This growing issue is exacerbated by the influence of media. Because girls often compare themselves to celebrities and the media they feel the pressure to duplicate what they see which causes low self esteem and drastic unnecessarily changes to their bodies. I. Topic sentence: Because girls care so much about the way they look, they start to develop low self-esteem when they do not have the “perfect” body type. A. Quotation I.C.E.d

Intro: In the article “How Perfect Do Girls Have To Seem” by Patrick McCormick he states, cite: “This deepening obsession with the body has left more and more women ill at ease with their bodies, and thus with themselves” (McCormick).

Explain:

Explain: Because the main type of women shown in media have this “perfect” body girls believe this is what women are supposed to look like.

B. Quotation I.C.E.d

Intro: Ray Routhier points out that, cite: “they’re often photoshopped airbrushed, edited to look thinner and to appear like they are have perfect skin” (Routhier). explain: what girls often don’t realize is that these women are not exactly real. They are fixed up so they appear to look this beautiful in real life when in actuality they look like an average woman. C. How does this paragraph support your thesis? The media is giving females a false picture of what girls should look like which is unhealthy for girls when they try so hard to reach the beauty they see in the media. It is all fake and unrealistic.

VI. Topic sentence: What does pretty means? If this is asked to different people everyone will have something different to say but the media has a whole idea of what pretty should look like; blemish free, skinny, and

Quotation

Intro: Routhier states that, cite: “To girls today the word ‘pretty’means skinny and blemish-free” (Routhier). explain: This puts the idea that pretty means skinny and having flawless clear skin. It puts an unrealistic idea which can not always be reached. B. Quotation

Intro: Elissa Rodas says in the article “The Need to Look and Feel Beautiful” that, cite: “the media expects a young girl’s skin to be flawless and acne free, and if it’s not, then they should use makeup to give them that ‘natural look’” (Rodas).

Explain: This shows that if clear skin can not be achieved then girls should wear makeup to make it look like they have nice skin. This puts an unnecessary pressure on girls that they need to have nice skin or else they will not be beautiful.

C. Quotation

Intro: Rodas states that, cite: “These ads take advantage of the need to look and feel beautiful. Without makeup, many women cannot feel beautiful, no matter what age” (Rodas).

Explain: Ads not only try and pull you into buying their products but also try and show that makeup is needed in order to look beautiful even if you are old or young.

C. How does this paragraph support your