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    same. Plastic surgery may interrupt or jump ahead of a teen’s development. An adolescent could later regret the surgery due to unforeseen changes. If a teenager has surgery to enlarge her breasts at 16 for example but develops larger breasts at 20 she wasted money and needlessly put her health at risk. There wasn’t an apparent flaw in this argument to me. The layout of the second part to my argument is: (i) Teens are people (ii)People should make decisions to protect their health (iii) Plastic…

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    Life After Plastic Surgery

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    and make their lives better. One of the initiative that the people take to improve their lives which is getting cosmetic surgery. “In 2013 there were more than over 15.1 million cosmetic surgery procedures, this is an 3% increase from 2012”(2013 Plastic Surgery Statistics, n.d., p. 5). The number of procedure is increasing as time passes, and there are more types of surgery that people can get, for various parts of their body. Cosmetic surgery is increasing due to physical benefits, and…

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    perfect, with their unattainable features and thin bodies, causing women to reach for unrealistic expectations. Therefore, the unrealistic images of women portrayed in the media harm a woman’s physical and mental health by causing eating disorders, plastic surgeries, and low self- esteem. Certainly, the portrayal of extremely thin models in the media cause women to develop eating disorders. A survey asking people if they ever had anorexia was conducted by researchers from…

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    Cosmetic Surgery is something that many people use to enhance their features, help correct defects, or even to save lives. It can also help people to look and feel better about themselves. Since 2010 there has been a major increase on cosmetic surgeries being performed on both men and women. Some of the most popular procedures done are facelifts, botox, liposuction, and breast augmentation. There are two different types of procedures, surgical and not surgical. These procedures have many great…

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    Plastic surgery is a controversial topic for every age group often related to thoughts of vanity and self-serving rationalization. What has changed over the last several years though is the increasing amount of surgeries being performed on individuals eighteen years of age and under. While many consider plastic surgery to be unnecessary in all non-medical cases for minors, plastic surgery is ethical in special cases including individuals who have lost a significant amount of weight, identify as…

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    The video shows that ridding of plastic bags is possible, but there needs to be a change. Plastic bags are environmental hazardous, and even though there is a simple solution they are still being used. Until we show companies that plastic bags are no longer needed or wanted companies will still use them. There are many negative environmental effects of having plastic bags. Besides being unsightly plastic bags adds to the negative effects of greenhouse gases. According to the Northern Territory…

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    bleeding, internal bleeding, and nerve damage. These side effects alone can lead to death. Scarring is a huge side effect. Often people hate the outcome because of the permanent intense scarring. Reid Ewing once stated from personal experience, “plastic surgery is not always a bad thing. It often helps people who actually need it for serious cases, but it 's a horrible hobby, and it will eat away at you until you have lost all self-esteem and joy. I wish I could go back and undo all the…

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    come into your head? Perhaps dangerous, risky, scalpel and bloody, or all of those terms I just mentioned. I think that’s how those rich celebrities who have more than 7 digits in their bank account spend their money with. Liposuction is a type of plastic surgery that can involve both a person’s appearance and confidence. In today’s society, the beauty standard is a skeleton-thin model being over-published by media trying to convince us to believe how “beauty” is being defined. Media nowadays…

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    Plastic surgery has to do mainly with the confidence, appearance, and relationships. This three main things are the main reasons why people have plastic surgery. Plastic surgery has a lot of pros and cons, for example the pros are that there is more beauty and it drags a lot of attention. The cons could be deadly because there are so many surgery that go wrong. When it comes to appearance plastic surgeries are a big buzz. Some cosmetic surgeries may help in the outward appearance, but we should…

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    so why go through the pain and risk of having a surgery that is not needed? According to Kathryn Bayer, Americans alone in 2004 spent over $12.5 billion on cosmetic procedures (17). Today plastic surgery is known as surgical art ( Pecanac 199). A study was conducted by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery to find out what the buzz on cosmetic surgery was all about. One reason behind cosmetic surgery popularity is linked to the belief…

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