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    With cellophane wrapped untidily around my head and garbed in the utmost ill fitted white spandex clothing, I performed in my first musical. Being on stage somehow translates into being unapologetic and living purely through instinct for me. So, in moments of my delivery of the choreography flawlessly, putting all the other lollipops to shame, a star was born. From a young age, my brown hair and urge to wear plaid button-up shirts with sweatpants made me different from the crowd; I always seemed…

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    In the article “Why Looks Are The Last Bastion of Discrimination”, the author Deborah L. Rhode tells how many people in America have been discriminated against in various ways. In addition, she discusses how discrimination exists today based on; race, sex, religion, weight and ethnicity. In the first paragraph Rhode said, “In the nineteenth century, many American cities banned public appearances by unsightly individuals.” Unsightly referred to individuals who were considered deformed or…

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    the film’s assertion that media and advertising use certain gender “codes.” Until now, I failed to realize how body language in advertising could say so much about gender; especially the way females are depicted. Find any issue of Vogue, Abercrombie & Fitch shopping bag, or Calvin Klein poster and you’ll see them: the knee pop, head tilted, laying down, touching themselves, biting their lower lip, legs twisted, twirling hair, crawling on all floors. This list is merely scratching the surface.…

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    Britney's Sorrow Analysis

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    Everyone has done it, seen the oversized girl walking down the street and whisper to their friend “she’s pretty for a fat girl” or “she has such a pretty face if only she would lose weight”. The author of this essay pleads guilty to such actions. From elementary to high school Overweight teens are targeted all the time. They are taunted, humiliated and ridiculed for their weight. Social media plays a part in the message in which the bigger person isn’t pertained as good looking. Some Employers…

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    countries, like in Slovenia. Demographic Segmentation Demographic segmentation divides the market into groups based on variables such as age, gender, family life cycle, income, occupation, education, religion, race, generation, and nationality. Abercrombie&Fitch has been always focused more on people with higher income. A&F is mainly focused on the generation Y, but on the other hand company targets both men and women. Psychographic segmentation Psychographic segmentation divides buyers into…

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    Biased Hiring Practices

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    Major retailers have found a new way to promote their bottom line, which is by hiring employees based on looks so that customers will raise their bottom line every year. After all a “guy wants to hang out in a store with good looking gals,” right? According to Marshall Cohen, a senior industry analyst, he feels that it is prerequisite for many companies to hire based on image, so they can enhance their brand in a competitive retail environment. When it comes to the issue of of hiring based on…

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    Eating disorders are a daily struggle for 10 million females and 1 million males in the United States, whether these disorders are anorexia or bulimia. Four out of ten individuals have either personally experienced an eating disorder at some point in their life or know someone who has. Furthermore, 50% of teenage girls and 30% of teenage boys use unhealthy weight control behaviors such as skipping meals, fasting, smoking cigarettes, vomiting, and taking laxatives to control their weight ("Eating…

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    and men that were displayed in the media were used to sell products and often had a certain look. The media has a projected ideal on the definition of beauty and body image. Media tends to depict these images in advertising brands such as Abercrombie and Fitch and Victoria’s Secret. Advertisements suggest that the ideal women be tall, thin with perfect skin and men need to be tall with chiseled abs. This is highly unlikely in today’s society to achieve and causes dissatisfaction with one’s self…

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    negative impacts that “one size fits all” policy could bring to the society. Brandy Melville has been criticized for not offering sizes to customers with different body types. Its “one size fits all” policy reminiscent of the sizing system of Abercrombie and Fitch, a popular teen clothing brand that was infamous for not offering sizes to plus size customers. However, Brandy Melville takes a step further. It only offers one size. It claims that its one-size is equivalent to regular small and…

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    “People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.” This quote by Taylor Swift expresses how she feels about music and how it helped her. Swift’s childhood is unique and mainly about her exquisite family. Swift enjoyed music so much that she wrote her own. While she was popular outside of school, inside school had its own little twist. Finally, Swift was able to release her music and won awards for them. In her spare time, Swift picked up many relationships during her hit career. I…

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