The Face of Eating Disorders
analytical Essay
1593 words
As Katie and her daughter pranced into the doctor’s office, Katie spotted a seat on the far left side of the waiting room while her daughter’s gaze caught a corner of the room that was filled with toys. As Katie found her way to the empty seat after checking in with the receptionist at the office window, she swiped a brochure off of the coffee table that was located in the center of the room. As Katie began to take a seat, she opened the brochure’s cover and was alarmed when this beauty’s image gawked at her. With the title “Eating Disorder Awareness” printed across the top of the page, Katie read the alarming statistics about media’s affect on girls and their self-image. “The average model, dancer, and actor is calculated to be thinner than 95% of the population” (Briscoe 1). “Medical records show that anorexia nervosa is the deadliest mental condition, and often causes disturbances with the heart, organs, and is often connected to suicidal tendencies in it’s victims” (DeNoon 1). Alarmed by the statistics, Katie glanced at her innocent, playful eight-year-old and could not help but wonder if this iconic figure was having an effect on her daughter. Clutched in the young girl’s hand was the poster child of the eating disorder epidemic, the slender image depicted on the brochure: Mattel’s Barbie. “Inspired by her daughter’s fascination with cutout paper dolls, Ruther Handler suggests making a three-dimensional doll through which little girls could play out their dreams… Barbie soon leads Mattel to the forefront of the toy industry and fascinates generations of young girls” (“Barbie Doll Makes Her Debut” 1). Barbie Millicent Roberts, more commonly known as Barbie, began her magnificent journey into 125 different careers, all while ... ... middle of paper ... ...3. Web. 19 Feb. 2014. Hoskins, Stephanie. "The Negative Effects of Barbie on Young Girls an the Long Term Results." Divine Caroline. Divine Caroline, 08 May 2012. Web. 19 Feb. 2014. "Materialism." Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2014 Meibar, Graciela. "Inspiring Girls to Science and Math Through Play - By Graciela Meibar - INSIGHT Into Diversity." Inspiring Girls to Science and Math Through Play - By Graciela Meibar - INSIGHT Into Diversity. Insight Into Diversity,Web. 19 Jan. 2014. Rand, Erica. "Barbie." Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion. Ed. Valerie Steele. Vol. 1. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2005. 121-123. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 19 Feb. 2014. Spellman, Ajai. "More than Just a Pretty Face: A Role Model Too." Daily Titan. 15 Nov. 2011. Web. 19 Feb. 2014. "The Barbie Effect." Teen Ink. Emerson Media, n.d. Web. 19 Feb. 2014.
In this essay, the author
- Narrates how katie spotted a seat on the far left side of the waiting room and glanced at the slender image depicted on mattel's barbie.
- Analyzes how barbie millicent roberts, more commonly known as barbie, began her magnificent journey into 125 different careers while balancing a thriving relationship with her boyfriend, ken, in 1959.
- Analyzes how barbie's anatomically impossible body proportions should set off an alarm within the parental minds.
- Compares barbie's weight to the united states average of 5 foot 4 inches tall, and 166 pounds. the impossible-to-attain proportions contribute to cultural ideals of beauty that invite self-loathing.
- Analyzes how the barbie market profited off of young people's desires to own every barbie with every individual accessory, including car, toy, animal, and extra item.
- Explains that barbie is the ultimate role model in careers, having experience in over 125 different occupations. mattel launched barbie's "i can be" campaign, which allowed people to submit their own ideas for her next career.
- Analyzes how barbie can be seen as a role model and figure for girls to be independent. but is the feminist movement of the 70's still relevant today?
- Opines that parents should monitor their children's toys based off of their own morals to prevent future generations from psychological and/or physical turmoil. thinness is becoming extremely prominent in today’s celebrities and “role models.”
- Opines that barbie should end because of these problems. figures in society, such as barbie, are not positive influences on the future workforce of this world.
- Narrates how katie searched the internet for more information about barbie and all of the possible problems that she could possibly be causing.
- Analyzes barbie's positive influence, umkcwomanc, and briscoe, joanna. the standards of beauty are homogeneous.
- Explains that daniel j. denoon, "deadliest psychiatric disorder: anorexia." webmd.
- Analyzes the negative effects of barbie on young girls and the long-term results.
- Analyzes how graciela meibar's play insight into diversity is based on the encyclopedia of clothing and fashion by valerie steele.
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- Eating Disorders and the Mediaanalytical essayEating Disorders and the Media Doctors annually diagnose millions of Americans with eating disorders. Of those diagnosed, ninety percent are women. Most of these women have one of the two most common types of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa (National Council on Eating Disorders, 2004). People with anorexia nervosa experience heart muscle shrinkage along with slow and irregular heartbeats and eventually heart failure.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that eating disorders and the mediadoctors diagnose millions of americans with eating disorders. ninety percent of those diagnosed are women.
- Explains the complex interaction of media and young women and proposes solutions that might help activists interested in lessening the chances of girls developing eating disorders.
- Explains that many scholars have tried to understand why people develop eating disorders. others have looked at how media interacts with negative body image to produce females who harm their bodies to be thin.
- Explains that media conveys sociocultural pressures and ideals of attractiveness by presenting them as norms. hendriks describes the thin ideal female figure as straight with broad shoulders and narrow hips, the ideal figure of a male.
- Explains that the female thin ideal has become equated with success and happiness in media’s images. increased social acceptance, for example, is a perceived benefit of being thin.
- Explains that adolescents use popular media, such as prime time comedies, to construct self-identities and make sense of their world.
- Explains that the thin ideal internalization process can lead to negative body image because women use the ideal to develop their sense of self.
- Explains that 95 percent of women overestimated their body sizes after viewing images of society's perception of ideal bodies.
- Explains zajonc's theory that the mere repeated exposure of a stimulus is sufficient for enhancement of preference for the stimulus.
- Opines that current programs dealing with eating disorders are reactive, which isn't helpful in battling developing disorders.
- Opines that girls should be educated about eating disorders before puberty, and evaluated for possible disordered eating symptoms. a study of high school girls, ages 14 – 18, shows why early detection is imperative.
- Explains that when women compare their bodies to the media's presentation of the perfect female figure, many fail to meet the standard of perfection, which plays a key role in the development of eating disorders.
- Explains that media literacy is concerned with helping students develop an informed and critical understanding of the nature of mass media, the techniques used by them, and the impact of these techniques.
- Explains that the mass media provide students with an alternative, more dynamic and persuasive curriculum than the curriculum in the classroom. the best way to fight the lure of entertainment media is to teach students to think critically about media.
- Explains that exposure to images of the ideal female body can build a complex of internalized, sometimes devastating problems within adolescents. teaching adolescents about messages in media is different from what scholars have suggested for preventing eating disorders.
- Explains that traditional media literacy programs in the united states have been problematic. the educational system does not have funding available for any exploratory programs, and american culture is pervaded with commercialism.
- Explains that american teachers act as experts and protectors of the innocent students against the evil of media. the child considers himself/herself an adolescent and loves media; participants want to be heard, active and entertained.
- Explains how butler and zaslow addressed the second problem by finding that "student knowledge and experience must be at the root of the educational and research methods."
- Analyzes how the teens established themselves as powerful, active media users who can resist negative and immoral messages and images in mass media. they argued for a discourse that includes knowledge of an active viewer with individual restraint.
- Explains that creative, interactive programs change the messages of media images into activism toward offensive media and into advocacy of healthier messages.
- Explains that the study sought to find out what would happen if adolescent girls watched one video on media literacy. if successful, volunteers could use this video to start conversation on the portrayal of women in media.
- Describes how they conducted a focus group using jean kilbourne's still killing us softly to obtain candid responses from adolescents.
- Explains that the focus group met after school in one of the student’s high school classrooms. the teacher chose six upper-level honors students who had shown excellence in school and showed their ability to analyze.
- Explains that the teacher wanted to know what high school females thought about a video whose target audience is primarily college women. they stressed the importance of honest, uncensored answers and videotaped the entire discussion for later transcribing.
- Segmented the video into topics before the focus group session. after each segment, they asked students: "what do you think about what she said?" and "is this new information to you?"
- Analyzes how jean kilbourne, the presenter in the video, conveys these messages through repetition of key themes, which is important to mere exposure theory.
- Analyzes how the media education foundation outlines these key themes as questions in its description of the video. is sexuality still presented as women's main concern?
- Explains that the wide acclaim for the video influenced their decision to use it.
- Observes that the girls went through familiarity, justification, criticism, and acceptance phases during the focus group. alice, alison, shaye, jane and valerie were critical of feminism.
- Explains that the familiarity phase is distinguishable because participants acknowledge their prior knowledge of the subject matter and have a favorable reaction to the information.
- Analyzes how the girls learned about advertising techniques through a school program known as enterprise city.
- Explains that the girls' positive reaction to information they already knew is congruent with the mere exposure theory.
- Analyzes how the girls disagreed with any theory relating to the harmful effects of advertising techniques. their opposition could stem from the theories being new to them, but some of their disagreement also stemmed from their discontent with feminism.
- Explains the phase of justification, where five of the six participants justified why new information was wrong and explained why they were correct through personal experience.
- Analyzes how the girls' faces and body language changed whenever the word "feminism" came into the conversation. shaye said she wished kilbourne would "stop the whole feminist thing."
- Analyzes how the girls justified their antifeminist views through examples from their lives. shaye's female family members have always been strong women with a strong stubborn streak.
- Argues that feminism is a radical term used to describe women who are amazonian, power hungry man haters.
- Explains that the focus group participants had other ways of justifying why kilbourne's arguments did not relate to present society. posters in the high school nurse’s office encouraging students to eat healthfully signified advancement in prevention.
- Analyzes how alice, valerie, and alice counteract kilbourne's statement that women are made to feel unattractive and unwanted without the solutions found through consumerism.
- Analyzes how mari experienced the justification phase in a different way. she defended the concepts in the video through examples from her life.
- Explains that only mari read and held subscriptions to women's magazines. the other girls only read the magazines their parents subscribed to.
- Analyzes how the five girls were criticizing kilbourne's assumptions and analyzing the new information during the criticism phase. the most articulate arguments against the ideas and concepts in the video came from alice
- Opines that culture is archetypical. there is an ideal beauty and that's what people strive for, this idea of perfection and you can't get rid of that.
- Opines that advertisers have permission to objectify a woman. alice stated that it's unrealistic to end objectification.
- Opines that valerie was the only participant who never agreed with the theories kilbourne presents. she expressed her desire to go into the advertising industry and was put off by the attack on her academic interest.
- Opines that advertising is the only way the tv show can make money, but they don't think it's a problem.
- Explains that jean kilbourne's video is real, but there is no correlation between them and advertising. valerie believes that individuals have a choice to walk away from media that makes them feel negatively toward their bodies.
- Analyzes how five out of six girls felt negatively towards kilbourne and her video, but four girls who had initially criticized her theories changed their view. acceptance occurred when the participants approved and had a favorable outlook on new ideas.
- Explains that they tracked this shift in opinion with a simple question. they asked the girls to think back about everything they had learned during the discussion and to share whether they agreed or disagreed with most of the concepts presented in the video.
- Analyzes how the girls were initially hostile to a documentary that teaches students how to critically think about the way media portray women. they managed to separate feminism from kilbourne's ideas.
- Explains that understanding the girls' reactions to these concepts is important to reduce the desire among adolescent girls to be ultra thin. media literacy programs, like the video, use media to battle media messages.
- Narrates how mari shared the ideas with her friends and discussed the problems in media. alice, who had originally been against kilbourne, said the video had made the connection between media and women's negative feelings toward themselves very clear.
- Opines that society does not need to reform or take on the advertising industry or the media as a whole.
- Opines that media changes will depend on an aware, active, educated public that thinks of itself as citizens rather than consumers.
- Opines that the study adds to the literature that proves the success of this experimental teaching method.
- Opines that activismit is important to note and respond to the limitations this study presents. albertson makes clear in her study of eating disorder prevention programs that long-term effects are not likely from such a brief intervention.
- Explains how albertson describes successful courses that integrate media literacy, psychology, and introspection.
- Proposes a volunteer program to replicate kilbourne's ideal curriculum by condensing the material into two hours and adding new, updated and current material to the video. if the discussion group were repeated to many groups of students within one school, students would start to talk to each other about what they had learned.
- Argues that if the discussion group from this study were to be replicated, companion materials could be developed and given to the girls.
- Argues that society can no longer make excuses to marginalize the problem of eating disorder and media literacy among american girls.
- Argues that the assumption that insecure feelings are just a part of being an teen is misleading. young women are fed on by media buzzards like carcasses, reinforcing impossible images of the perfect female body.
- Cites albertson, n., agras, s. and aufderheide, p.
- Explains bennett, jones, lawson, olmsted, and rodin, g. disorderedeating attitudes and behaviors in teenaged girls: a school based study.
- Explains accessibility in the social judgment process, media psychology, 3(1), 43.
- Explains cervera-enguiz, de irala estevez, gaspar, gual, lahortiga, and martinez-gonzalez.
- Describes the eating disorder coalition's statistics, citing edmunds, h., and ferrington, g.
- Analyzes the effects of priming a state of self-objectification in sex roles: a journal of research.
- Cites kilbourne's "killing us softly 3: advertising’s image of women".
- Explains that role portrayal in advertising and editorial content, and eating disorders: an asian perspective.
- Cites posavac, s., and weigel, r. on reducing the impact of media images on women at risk for body image disturbance.
- Cites riley, r., rockville, maryland, and rockler, n. on media literacy, perspective by incongruity as strategy.
- Analyzes strice, e., and thompson, k. thin-ideal internalization as a risk factor for body-image disturbance and eating pathology.
- Cites walsh, b., davidson, s. & o’dea, j. (2004). a preliminary controlled evaluation of a school-based media literacy program and self-esteem program for reducing eating disorder risk factors.
6841 wordsRead More - Eating Disorders: The Skinny on Skinnyexplanatory essay“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” (Moss). Skinny is beautiful. Bones are perfection; collar bones, prominent ribcage, concave stomach, hip bones and legs that do not touch no matter what position. All of this is achievable because happiness lies in the empty stomach. These are the ideas and ideals that bombard the eating disordered mind. These are the ideas that society projects and then questions why eating disorders are on the rise. Eating disorders were first recognized in the 1960’s and since then have branched out into subsections. Anorexia nervosa in the starving of oneself to be thin. Bulimia is the cycle of binging and purging food in order to lose weight. Binge eating is overeating as a way of comfort. Orthorexia is the extreme obsession with being healthy, and “EDNOS” is a patient who could fall into two or more of these categories. Eating disorders are the primary result of overstimulation of media displaying overly thin women as the ideal; it can be worsened by genetics and social settings.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that eating disorders are the result of overstimulation of media displaying overly thin women as the ideal.
- Explains that social media has become increasingly popular, leading to overstimulation of pictures portraying emaciated young women as "perfection".
- Explains that eating disorders have found a new way to effect society in the new age of technology: blogs.
- Opines that pro-eating disorder websites introduce new ideals that their viewers will never live up to. girls with eating disorders do not link skinny with healthy and that is the problem.
- Explains that eating disorders cause major shifts in weight in their victims, but less known are the further medical issues that follow.
- Explains that eating disorders may stem from a genetic predisposition. the esrra and hdac4 genes are linked to an increased inclination towards disordered eating.
- Explains that anorexia nervosa victims only fully recover 30-40% of the time. they suffer from distorted body image, clinical depression, and outpatient treatment.
- Cites brown, harriett, and donatelli, jen jones. "eating disorder statistics." south carolina department of mental health.
1670 wordsRead More - Eating Disorders: An Art Theraphy to Body Image in Adolescentsexplanatory essayWith the predominance of unrealistic media images and messages in our society, art therapy is the ideal approach in promoting and building healthy body image, and treating eating disorders in adolescent girls. Throughout this paper, we will explore how art therapy can be utilized with these adolescents.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that art therapy is the ideal approach for promoting and building healthy body image, and treating eating disorders in adolescent girls.
- Explains that art therapy is an ideal and healthy approach to treat eating disorders and body image issues in adolescent girls.
- Explains that media images and messages contribute to the development of eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia. art therapy provides a safe place for expression and the ability to understand the psychological concerns at hand.
- Explains that art therapy provides a multimodal approach that is perfect in the treatment of adolescents with serious body image issues.
- Explains that the splatter paint technique allows an individual to let go of their need for control or their desire for absolute perfection.
1063 wordsRead More - The Mask of Horror: Eating Disordersexplanatory essayIn this Golden age of humanity with technology at the fingertips of mankind and world wide global awareness, it's hard to imagine from the comfort of well lit homes, a large population of the human race lives without fresh water and a nourishing daily meal. In the United States of America it has been said of an over abundance of food, though many of the citizens are forced to consume highly processed ready made meals in order to survive due to poverty. These meals are high in fat, sodium and of course, calorie, leaving the consumer with extra weight. This leads to the image of "'merica" with over weight men and women on scooters. While some of this is actually a result of poor self control or a medical issue, many can attribute it to having a very low income and the substance affordable is akin to garage. "Big" a book by some author, chronicles a young women who is very overweight by the design of her home environment. Her mother is disabled, obese and living off the government. She gets a job, goes to fat camp and learns why she can never loose weight. With all of this in mind, not to mention the idolization of stick thin models and actors, its not hard to figure out what the mind of an adolescent will conclude. Weight equals prosperity; being heavy is unsuccessful and ugly, whist-while bones and tight skin stretched over cranium is attractive and desirable. This of course calls Eating disorders to mind; Anorexia nervosa, Blumina, and EDNOS (eating disorder not diagnosed).
In this essay, the author
- Explains that in the golden age of humanity, a large population of the human race lives without fresh water and nourishing daily meals.
- Explains that anorexia nervosa is a serious eating disorder that affects people of all ages. the semi-new pagan deity "ana" projections the desires of the "wanna-rexics".
- Explains that anorexia can progress to bulimia nervosa, where the individual gorges on large quantities of food and expels unwanted calories through forced vomiting, leading to serious tooth decay and heart failure.
- Describes ednos, an eating disorder not specified, as a strange mix of anorexia, bulimia, and bdd.
- Opines that eating disorders are a strange attempt to individualize themselves from the rest of their peers and enter the common world. they must learn to accept what caused them to trip down this violent and dangerous road to adulthood.
925 wordsRead More - Eating Disorders: Behind the Scenesexplanatory essayEating Disorders: Behind the scene Many citizens in the United States and other parts of the world fight with weight and body image issues. Most exercise and eat healthy to help their problems. Some take a more unhealthy and sometimes deadly route. An estimated five million people are affected by eating disorders each year (Alters & Schiff, 2003, p.36). Eating disorders are more common among females.
In this essay, the author
- Describes the reasons for refusing to maintain minimally normal weight for persons height, age, body type, and activity level.
- Explains that bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by a craving of food that is difficult to satisfy.
- Explains that eating beyond the point of comfortable fullness due to out of control feeling causes a feeling of out-of-control.
- Explains that five million people are affected by eating disorders each year. eating disorders are classified as persistent, abnormal eating patterns that can threaten a person's health and well-being.
- Explains that bulimia nervosa affects adolescent females and young adults.
764 wordsRead More - Eating Disorders and Imageopinion essayEating Disorders and Image As humans on this planet we often think about what others think about our appearance. We often, in this society, look at a person through their characteristics such as: looks, height, clarity of skin, and by how fat or thin one appears to be. In the article, The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place, by Natascha Pocek, she states the fact that, in this society, we put a lot of emphasis on diets and appearing thin. From when we are children we tend to change our views according to the ways of man, and find ways to stay fit or to lose weight.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that dieting is a good thing, but when one crosses the line of going to eating disorders, it's not just the way to lose some pounds.
- Analyzes how pocek describes her story about fad diets and how they ended up not working for her. eating disorders and dieting happen due to the image that people feel they have to fulfill.
- Opines that the struggle comes from within, telling the person that they are not good enough and must try harder if they want people to like them.
- Narrates how one friend told them about her experiences with wanting to stay slim. she grew up in a christian community and felt welcome most of the time, but the times that she didn't feel welcome are the ones that stuck with her most.
- Narrates how the girl tried her own diet plan, which involved eating a couple bites of food and then telling herself that she was full, but she still felt fat. she did various styles of crunches every night and tried new exercises.
- Narrates how the girl's eating habits continued to get worse as she tried to lose weight without others knowing. she worked herself up to 2000 crunches a night, plus her other exercises from her diet book, not hardly eating, and cut back on her exercising.
- Opines that dieting can turn into a bad thing if you take it too far, but as long as you keep it under control, it isn't bad. america views people as always needing to be thinner.
- Opines that contemporary arguments. ed. lester faigley and jack selzer. needham heights, massachusetts: allyn & bacon.
1764 wordsRead More - Eating Disorders: Cause, Rate, and Recoveryexplanatory essayStarvation is one of the most painful experiences for the human body. Starvation brought on by the self as an effort to achieve a certain image can only be defined as a mental disease and that is exactly what occurs in eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. Anorexics are defined as those who restrict their eating and lose at least 1/3 of their body weight. Bulimics are those who binge and/or purge food frequently. Eating disorders are the most lethal of all mental illnesses. These diseases are not simple diets or frequent crash dieting (although those may be symptoms) but psychological disorders that go way beyond the calorie counting and weight loss. Eating disorders can start out slow, usually as a diet to lose a few pounds or as an effort to be healthier, but can spiral out of control.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that anorexics continue to starve and do not feed their bodies until they remember to or unless it is their designated eating time. the fight-or-flight response is not the only occurrence that aids in the reduced appetite.
- Explains that eating disorders may be a genetic occurrence, and studies done by the eating disorder specialist dr. walter kaye show the link between the gene pool and the illness.
- Explains that serotonin is a neurotransmitter whose functions include the regulation of both mood and appetite.
- Describes the minnesota starvation study, where 36 men were starved for 6 months and then re-fed to understand how to help the war stricken europeans after world war ii.
- Explains that anorexics and bulimics are the most lethal of all mental illnesses. anorexia was documented in the 12th century in saint catherine of siena.
- Explains that anorexia is a damaging disorder that damages the body in its destructive path. anorexics suffer from permanent side effects like tooth decay, poor circulation, arthritis, and osteoporosis.
2015 wordsRead More - Health is Threatened by Body Image Concernsopinion essayGirls and women that are looking to have a Barbie or model body and they are risking their health, lives, and sometimes social life. Girls or women who starve themselves because they want to look like a model they saw in the magazine may end up dead or with serious health problem because they are going through eating disorder and specifically Anorexia Nervosa. Records of eating disorders caused by body image concerns are increasing every year, which can mean that one day the world will be full of people dying and having real struggles because of their body image. “Anorexia Nervosa is a serious, life threatening eating disorder characterized by self-starvation and excessive weight loss.” (Burke) If this problem is not solved it will keep on expanding and then girls and women will not have enough energy to do basic daily activities and eventually they will die because their bod...
In this essay, the author
- Opines that women and teenage girls are risking their health and even their lives because they aren't satisfied with the way their body looks.
- Explains that girls and women who starve themselves because they want to look like a model may end up dead or with serious health problems because of anorexia nervosa.
- Opines that the society must understand that beauty isn't only about body image, and beautiful bodies have to be healthy.
- Opines that the rise in disparity between model size and real women's bodies parallels the rising of eating disorders, although experts are divided on the degree to which society is responsible.
- Opines that when teamwork is applied, nothing is impossible. the number of eating disorders caused by body image concerns is increasing daily.
- Explains that burke, wendy, "eating disorders: overview" is a topic covered in abc-clio's understanding controversy and society.
748 wordsRead More - Media's Glamorous Influenceanalytical essayFashion models are becoming skinnier, while the average American woman is becoming plumper, and yet the malnourished supermodels with waists that you could wrap a child’s arm around are the prime examples of true beauty – according to today’s society via the media. Media, with the tiny models, the slender celebrities, and the idea that skinny is sexy is practically, yet sometimes unintentionally, creating eating disorders in the lives of young, insecure girls that cannot fully comprehend what they are doing to their selves. Social media along with the fashion and film industries are just a few outlets inadvertently encouraging eating disorders.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that media, with the tiny models, slender celebrities, and the idea that skinny is'sexy', is creating eating disorders in the lives of young, insecure girls.
- Analyzes how the constant repetition of the models that we see everyday changes our opinion of what is beautiful.
- Analyzes how celebrity culture influences young women's ideas on the ideal body size, leading to eating disorders. thin actors play a majority of roles in tv series and movies.
- Explains that there are 400-500 websites encouraging eating disorders with at least 500,00 people viewing them each year.
- Opines that the fashion, television, and film industries and social media ruin self-image of young women and influence eating disorders. they must realize what they've done and start offering size diversity for models and actors.
699 wordsRead More - Influences in Lifeanalytical essay“Sizes of supermodels and actresses often influence teenage girls” (Mokeyane 2). It’s known that the media contributes to most of teenagers’ views and how they think of themselves. Marya Hornbacher was influenced by the media at the age of five years old and developed a eating disorder that the age of nine. “Imagining that I am the sophisticated bathing suit lady… tan, and long and thin.”(Hornbacher 11) , she was also affected my her dysfunctional family to develop an eating disorder because they also “tend to run in families” (Sifferlin 1).
In this essay, the author
- Opines that you can be influenced by anything, the television, your friends and your family. if you are negatively impacted by these factors, they may push you to lead dangerous, life-threatening decisions.
- Explains that media affects the lives of us all negatively at some point. people are being driven to eating disorders and others by copying the behaviors of the lifestyles being projected.
- Explains that supermodels and actresses influence teenage girls' views and how they think of themselves. marya hornbacher was influenced by the media at the age of five and developed an eating disorder.
- Explains that the media promotes bad lifestyles to live by, producing shows about drugs and getting pregnant at early ages. it makes it difficult for people to rise against bad choices.
- Explains that social media can push teens to self-mutilation through other kids online harassing others, known as cyber bullying.
- Analyzes how marya hornbacher's parents contributed to her eating disorders. danny vinyard was influenced by his father, dennis, and brother, derek, to become neo-nazis or skinheads.
- Describes the various factors that can influence people, including the media, social media and media.
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