Extreme Makeover

something being wrong with themselves. Seeing it as being a problem because of their looks, personality, or even both. This can later lead to a low self-esteem, and cause them to go to extreme measures to meet society’s expectations. Maintaining and being a certain weight is one of society’s expectations for women. One extreme measure that many women may go to when trying to meet this expectation is crash dieting. Crash dieting is one eats very little so that they can lose weight in a short…

Medical tourism is a type of touristic travel which involves a person who lives in one country to travel to another country to receive medical aid. Medical procedures taken abroad have a variety in options like dentistry, hip replacement, cosmetic surgeries, oncology, cardiology, cardiovascular surgeries, cancer treatments, scans, orthopedics and neurology. Popular sites that are the hot spot for undergoing medical procedures, in increasing to decreasing order, are primarily started off with…

Who would've known that this once abandoned desert would turn into an energetic city, sitting on top of an ocean of oil. Dubai is booming with ideas from tycoons. It is filled with a healthy supply of oil, breathtaking scenery, and insane architecture that is ahead of our time. "Dubai is one of the seven emirates that constitute the Arab Emirates" in 1971, the city of Dubai began to skyrocket, but has been mentioned many times since 1095. During that time, the Byzantine and Sassanine empires…

(1948-1960) In the tracing of the social and historical connections of the genre many authors consider “Candid Camera” as the first reality show. Emerging as a Radio show , in 1948 this show gets its TV version followed by great popularity. The show illustrates situations in which ordinary people are found in unordinary situations with comic outcomes (E.g. Woman asks help for her car, when passersby learns that the car has no engine). The hidden cameras from many angles follow the actions, and…

Technology is a substantial benefit in life. The internet is used tons of times during the day, but eventually, technology has a detrimental outcome. Technology helps advance a society, but the lack of relationships and human communication, oppression by a large governmental or corporate institution, and use of futuristic technology caused by advancements is dangerous. Humans are using less social skills due to constant messaging with their fingertips. Governments and institutions are beginning…

popular doll in the world. She is a worldwide fashion muse and pop culture icon for girls of all ages. Barbie has worked with many designers over the years being created and improved. She creates an unrealistic body-image causing some women to go to extremes to look like her. Barbie is so popular she is collected and has had lawsuits over her. The world’s famous Barbie dolls were created by Ruth Handler. She got the idea of Barbie from her two children playing with paper dolls, fantasizing…

Mrs. Doubtfire follows Daniel Hillard, a recently unemployed voice actor following a messy divorce. His ex-wife Miranda had divorced him after coming to the realization that her husband was an extremely immature father to their children Lydia, Chris, and Natalie as well as an unfit husband to herself. When she files for divorce, Miranda originally gets sole custody of the children, but the judge tells Daniel that if he is able to find a steady job and a suitable residence within three months,…

Teenage Plastic Surgery Teen plastic surgery is becoming increasingly common as popular culture places greater pressure on people to look perfect. There was over “223,000” cosmetic surgery procedures performed on minors in 2003. Over “236,000 cosmetic procedures” were given to people aged 13- 19. “75,000” of the procedures were surgical and include “nose reshaping, breast lifts, breast augmentation, liposuction, and tummy tucks (Zuckerman). The question that remains is, should plastic surgery…

In a world as evolved and enormous as today’s, a striking question is whether we as humans can ever go back to a simple lifestyle. The simple answer is no; no matter how desirable and nostalgic a world without all the gadgets is. Ever since the industrial revolution, the world has run almost solely on industrial capitalism. The idea of a perfect socialist society with complete fairness and equality in its entirety is only found on TV shows like HBO’s Walking Dead. The world would need a…

patriarchal beliefs and thus developed their meaning of what is right and what is wrong. Along with this educational institution passing down sexist beliefs through the surrounding culture that these cadets are surrounded with, they been proven to be go to extreme with their actions of attacking that have emphasized the massive influence an institution has in bequeathing a sense of what is right and wrong. Whether it be a military college or secondary public education, the environment surrounded…