Popular Culture: Perpetuating Fat and Slut Shaming Popular culture is notorious for many things, but the portrayal of the obese and the portrayal of women have the most influence in my life. The twisted ideals that have been held up for years have molded my mindset and my self esteem through popular tv shows, movies, music, and toys. For example most girls grew up playing with Barbie and Ken dolls, but as a little girl I was never allowed to get Barbies because they were too expensive. I was…
I Once Met a Diabetic Named Laura In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s, “The Myth of the Latin Women: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria”, Cofer is talking about how hard it is to be a Latina girl and not get stereotyped in the process. Many people can relate to this because of the multiple ways to be stereotyped such as a jock, a nerd, or a hipster.. This is something I can personally relate to because, of the many people stereotyping young kids and adults with diabetes. In this paper I will be showing you how…
Will Cosmetic Surgery Make Teens Happy? “My nose looks too big. My ears look like elephant ears. My chin looks too big. I’m too fat.”, voices in a teen’s mind kill them slowly. Have you ever thought that there’s something about yourself that you hate, and it could be changed through cosmetic surgery? Teens have been wanting cosmetic plastic surgery since they don’t like a feature of them. They’ve been bullied or bully themselves about the physical feature. They believe that by having cosmetic…
We both know it, Celebrities are role models Celebrities (such as professional athletes and entertainers) should be role models. Raise your hand if you have a role model who is an athlete or entertainer? As you can see most of us have a celebrity role model. I of course have one myself Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift has inspired me to surround myself with people that don't influence me to do bad things, which is something Taylor Swift does. Taylor Swift also dresses age appropriate instead of like…
Everyone faces a problem weither it’s big or small and hopefully you can or have overcome it. There are people all over the world who face problems like diversity, being judged, getting hate, or flaws. In higher levels of ballet people or teachers have an image of a “perfect ballernia” and to people Misty Copeland didn’t fit their image. Conflicts Misty would face to becoming principle ballernia is her color of skin, muscular legs, curvy body, and from sterotypes they think African Americans…
older than their age. Beauty pageants for young girls have become more popular since the show “Toddlers and Tiaras” aired on TV for the first time. In 1996, a 6 year-old daughter, who was famous for beauty pageants, was left dead in her basement at her own home. The case is still being questioned as to who killed the little girl, but I can almost guarantee you that the parents wish they would have never allowed their daughter to partake in pageants. Here are some reasons why beauty pageants are…
This writing starts off with the author as a young girl watching beauty pageants in the living room. She’d watch the shows with her mother as she narrates what she enjoyed and envied about these women. She tells about her parents’ divorce and all the hopes her mother had for her, including winning a pageant of her own. She comes to know later that her mother knew she was too weird, chubby, and poor to ever win. During her pageant she stood out like a sore thumb, and ultimately lost the pageant.…
defines success and beauty. This theme is portrayed by the use of costume, dialogue, and sound/ music. Society has a set look on what success and beauty is and the Hoover family challenges that. In the beginning scene the use of costume is used to establish the idea of societies definition of success and beaut. Olive is an important example of how society is defines beauty and success. In the opening scene of we have a mid shot of Olive in front of the TV looking at the beauty pageants…
Nike is known for the empowerment of all types of people, always trying to prove and show that anyone can do anything, that they are invincible while wearing their products. In this specific ad, Nike is reaching out to young girls who are forced into the social norm of being a girl. Girls don’t play sports, kick balls, run. Girls sing, and they gossip and they shop. Nike sets a scene we are all familiar in and can relate to. Everyone gets nervous before performing, and while performing, you want…
Passing the Torch lessons has made Jayrhien improve as a musician by learning the fundamentals of playing the violin. During our lessons together, Jayrhien learned how to properly hold the bow and violin. Learning this skill took harder than I expected due to the amount of correction we had to do and the time it took to fix it, but eventually, Jayrhien was able to fix her wrist and bow hold. We then moved to learning the positions of the finger depending if the note was natural, flat, or sharp.…