In her serious article, Devastating Beauty, Teal Pfeifer creates an informative composition that discusses how magazine include images of very thin, beautiful women. Pfeifer encourages to boycott these images in order to decrease the negative feelings the magazine consumers have toward themselves and their bodies. Through the incorporation of sophisticated diction, Pfeifer creates an ethical appeal by appearing knowledgeable through her word choice. The word emaciated has a negative connotation. The word means to be abnormally thin or weak (denotation). When one hears the word ‘emaciated’ they think of one who is anorexic. This could be caused by self-consciousness one may have with her body so to try to fix it, one may stops eating to become more …show more content…
This word is the action of singling someone out for cruel or unjust treatment (denotation). When one hears the word’ victimization’ they think of one treating another poorly. Pfeifer includes this word because many treat others poorly because of their body image. Also when a women looks at a magazine with a model on the front cover, she may feel worse about her body because she is not as thin or healthy as her. The reader can visualize this by their own experience looking in a mirror or at a magazine and thinking the same thing.The word insidious has a negative connotation. The word means stealthily treacherous or deceitful (denotation). When one hears the word ‘insidious’ they think of something that is sneaky or dangerous. This word is included instead of others because it represents the message girls are given to wear a size 0 or 1, this puts pressure on them and gets worse as they grow up. The reader can visualize unhealthy girls who are just trying to ‘fit in,’ but in reality they are damaging their bodies trying to become perfect.The word stringent has a negative
Beauty is a cruel mistress. Every day, Americans are bombarded by images of flawless women with perfect hair and smooth skin, tiny waists and generous busts. They are presented to us draped in designer clothing, looking sultry or perky or anywhere in between. And although the picture itself is alluring, the reality behind the visage is much more sinister. They are representations of beauty ideals, sirens that silently screech “this is what a woman is supposed to look like!” Through means of media distribution and physical alteration, technology has created unrealistic beauty ideals, resulting in distorted female body images.
The ethical principle of nonmaleficence demands to first do no harm and in this case protect the patient from harm since she cannot protect. Nurses must be aware in situations such as this, that they are expected to advocate for patients in a right and reasonable way. The dilemma with nonmaleficence is that Mrs. Boswell has no chance of recovery because of her increasing debilitating mental incapability and the obvious harm that outweighs the intended benefits. If the decision were to continue treatment, suffering of the patient and family would be evident. Autonomy is the right to making own decisions and freedom to choose a plan of action. When making decisions regarding treatment of another person, it is important to respect the expressed wishes of the individual. John says that his mother would want to live as long as she could, but questions arise related to her quality of life and perception of prolonged suffering by prolonging the dying process. In BOOK states that quality of life changes throughout one’s life ...
In every magazine and on every page there is another source of depression, another reason to skip a meal or two or a reason to be self-conscious. In present society people are overly focused and determined on the perfect body that both the fashion and advertising industry portray and promote. Through diction, pictures and celebrities presented they are trying to convey a message to their viewers that is “suppose” to be used as a source of motivation and determination. The message they are truly conveying is self-conscious thoughts, depression, and the promotion of eating disorders. It is estimated that millions of people struggle with depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem; concentrated on dissatisfaction with their body image (Ballaro). The advertisement and fashion industry are conveying a message that creates an internal battle for their viewers, though they should be creating a fire in their viewers that provides motivation to be healthier, take better care of themselves and a source of inspiration for style.
From the moment we wake up in the morning media is at our finger tips. As our day goes on we cannot escape all the visual media. One image after another a person’s self-confidence is either boosted or destroyed. Through the use of Photoshop a picture can be altered to get the perfect figure, skin, and hair, but when is the line drawn, when has it gone too far. Hailey Magee takes a stand when it comes to the ethics behind Photoshop in the world of beauty, “In this “Ethical Inquiry” we explore the ethics of digitally altering photos of individuals so as to make the subjects appear “more beautiful” in alignment with cultural standards of beauty”. Shiela Reaves, Jacqueline Bush Hitchon, Sung–Yeon parks, and Gi Woong Yun agree with Hailey Magee in the discussion of photo manipulation in beauty and fashion. “This study is concerned with the moral dilemma that stems from the digital manipulation of magazine ads to render models thinner. Exposure to the “thin ideal” has been linked to such damaging psychological responses as body dissatisfaction, loss of self-esteem, and to eating disorders”. Women and men are constantly affected by exposure to models that achieve the unrealistic beauty outcome of the media. Using the theories of social comparison and cultivation/ media literacy we are able to explain why photo manipulation makes women take on the thin-ideal. In the media driven world photo manipulation has become an accepted practice since it increases sales and fulfils the “thin ideal”, but the emotional and physical damage it has on women is catastrophic.
Authors and writers alike must always consider the ethical implications of how they represent people, and topics. They must consider how their representations can be perceived by the persons represented, and by the general audience reading the text. What, however, is ethical, as there are many different ethical theories that try to explain and give a definitive answer on what is right and wrong? For the purpose of this essay, what is an ethical representation will be defined by the level of respect given to the subjects, the truthfulness of the information portrayed and the motives behind the representation. Helen Garners short story The Spare room, is a text that can be analysed to assess how taboo topics such as death has been represented
Language, culture, and context all influence the connotation of a word. In William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Addie Bundren questions the universal understanding of words by insinuating they unfairly represent the feelings or being of an individual. Within Addie’s internal monologue, she constantly ponders the meaning of words and names. In the passage on pages 172 and 173, Faulkner creates Addie Bundren’s character to prove humans inadequately utilize language to represent sincere emotions and beings.
“too delicate-boned. It was hard to imagine bones at all under those layers of fat”(106)
Advertisers use women that are abnormally thin, and even airbrush them to make them appear thinner. These advertisers promote a body image that is completely unrealistic and impossible to achieve (Dohnt & Tiggemann, 2006b). It has been instilled in these advertisers’ minds that a thinner model will sell more (Hargreaves & Tiggemann, 2003). Media has a direc...
When we look into the mirror, we are constantly picking at our insecurities; our stomach, thighs, face, and our body figure. Society has hammered into our brains that there is only one right way of looking. Society disregards that there are many different shapes, sizes, and colors. Then society makes us believe that corporations can shove detrimental products to fix our imperfection. As a consequence, we blame media for putting all the negative ideas into women’s brain. It is not wrong to say that they are in part responsible, but we can’t make this issue go away until we talk about patriarchy. In the article Am I Thin Enough Yet? Hesse-Biber argues that women are constantly concerned about their looks and if they are categorized as “beautiful” by society. These ideas are encouraged by corporations that sell things for us to achieve “beautiful” but the idea is a result of patriarchy. Hesse-Biber suggests that if we want to get rid of these ideas we need to tackle patriarchy before placing all the blame on capitalism.
The most fashionable, sought after magazines in any local store are saturated with beautiful, thin women acting as a sexy ornament on the cover. Commercials on TV feature lean, tall women promoting unlimited things from new clothes to as simple as a toothbrush. The media presents an unrealistic body type for girls to look up to, not images we can relate to in everyday life. When walking around in the city, very few people look like the women in commercials, some thin, but nothing similar to the cat walk model. As often as we see these flawless images float across the TV screen or in magazines, it ...
In her novel “Beauty Myth”, Naomi Wolf argues that the beauty and fashion industry are to blame for using false images to portray what beautiful woman is. She believes the magazines are to blame for women hating their bodies. Wolf states, “When they discuss [their bodies], women lean forward, their voices lower. They tell their terrible secret. It’s my breast, they say. My hips. It’s my thighs. I hate my stomach.” (Wolf, 451) She is focusing on how w...
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Understanding the theories of victimology is important to understand the victims, we need to understand the four main theories of victimization. These theories are the principals of victim assessment. It will give the officer the tools to understand the motive behind the victimization giving him different types of views to analyze the victim. The four main theories of victimization are: Victim Precipitation, Lifestyle, Deviant Place, and Routine Activity. These four theories according to victimology give us the idea of how the victim become to be a victim. The word Victimization meanings “an act that exploits or victimizes someone” and “adversity resulting from being made a victim” (Vocabulary.com. Dictionary Victimization (2017)). By understanding the victim and the influences of their social life is important so we can give the victim the treatment and
There is powerful and strong word choice and metaphors that Racine inserts in various places of the excerpt. One strong word that Phaedra uses is “burn.” The word “burn” operates in the context of showing great passion and love for Hippolytus. There is this undying flame that has never gone out for Hippolytus. The word “burn” serves as a great conduit in her channeling her passion and emotions to Hippolytus. She has this un-quenching desire to make love with Hippolytus. The word “starve,” used in this context, is an indication that she is missing an ultimate piece in her life and that is Hippolytus. She longs for Hippolytus; She is deficient and lacking something and without Hippolytus, she will grow severely weak emotionally and physically. She will die if she cannot get the love, affection, and appr...