The Issue Adolescents Have with Self-Image

Self- Image: Adolescences

General Purpose: To Inform

Specific Purpose: to inform my audience on the issue adolescents have with self- image.

Central Idea: Ideas about self-image is a broad array of issues with personal and social implications such as social media, peer pressure, and culture.

Introduction: What is Self- image

I. Attention getter- “At the age of 9 she began to bind her feet on her own. She did not know the elaborate method of the traditional foot binding… She invented her own method of binding, wrapping her feet tightly with layers of elastic bonds to prevent her feet from growing longer and wider. Though she did not bend her toes under her soles or break her bones, it still hurt. Her bandage feet were on fire day and night. Each step felt as though she were walking on broken glass barefooted. But she bore the pain silently and with much pride she was determined to keep her feet from growing” (Ping,)

-Wang Ping, Aching for Beauty: Foot binding in China

II. Background- Defined by the Merriam-Webster online dictionary self- image is “a subjective picture of one’s own physical appearance established both by self- observation and by noting the reactions of others”

III. Central Idea- There are three factors that help adolescents figure out whether or not they are independent or dependent these factors are: social media, peer pressure, and family/ culture.

IV. Credibility- I personally as an adolescent struggled with my self-image. Throughout middle school I felt like I wasn’t pretty enough and was way too skinny once I gained weight I felt as if I was way too big. It wasn’t till I was in high school that I learned beauty is in the eye of the beholder,...

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A. Each of these factors plays an important part with the adolescent and all have greatly taken a toll on our American society.

B. Remember Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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