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It still astonishes me to this day that toys for children are divided by genders. And although we try to deny it, we’ve all done it at some point: Hot-wheels are for the little boys, Barbie’s are for the young girls. And boys playing with hot-wheels can grow up from their childhood with no affects except for happy memories. While girls with Barbie’s not only have memories, but also that little voice in the back of their heads: why can’t I have the same body as Barbie? And it’s everywhere, 10…

body image. Stephanie Armstrong (2011) stated that about 90% of fifteen to seventeen year old girls wanted to change one or more features of their physical appearance. Armstrong also mentioned that weight was ranked as the highest feature adolescent girls wanted to be changed. When it came to adolescent boys, she commented on how up to twelve percent of teenage boys use unverified supplements, steroids, or both. According to the National Eating Disorder Association [NEDA] (n.d.), body images is…

Some research could suggest that there are many other causes for body image disturbance, although it has been proved that types of media does influence how we perceive our own bodies. Advertisements send messages about body image that are dangerous and cause detrimental effects to millions of young women (Blood 2005; Bordo 1993; Hess-Biber 1996; Kilbourne 1999, cited in Heiland, 2008). The role of the media specifically, have as of late gotten maybe the most consideration as a conceivable…

Societal beliefs can have a great effect on our body image. Everyone knows that Superman is strong and has bulging muscles and that Barbie is thin and successful. That has been engrained in our heads, ever since we were children. Much of our society follows particular beauty ideals that are very impractical, just like Barbie and Superman. These ideas are reinforced in our Westernized states. Looking at socio-cultural beliefs, they emphasize a current societal standard to look thin. They not…

Levine & Smolak (2009) posits that the measure of any successful prevention program is the defining of its purpose. What is the overall goal that the program is attempting to prevent? “Thus, defining what problem behaviors or risk factors are to be prevented (or changed) and which protective factors or health enhancing behaviors are to be strengthened is the starting point” (Levine & Smolak, 2009, p ). The identified program for this proposal is eating disorders or eating disturbances. Both…

The sculptural portrait of Faustina the Elder is made of marble and was sculpted between the years of 140 and 160 A.D. She is a Roman piece by an unknown artist, and is housed in the Getty Villa. Faustina is composed of strong lines and shapes to draw the viewer into the vertical dominant composition. Multiple forms break down into triangular shapes that bring the eye up and down the length of the piece, in order to add some movement to her otherwise static pose. Faustina the Elder stands…

Teslacrypt (a.k.a. EccKrypt ) is a malicious program that encrypts users ' files without the knowledge or consent of the user. It falls into the sub-category of ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts the user 's files using AES encryption and forces them to pay a certain amount of money to decrypt the user 's information, essentially holding a person 's data as hostage. It first emerged around February 2015 along with its counterpart, Alphacrypt, which was released in April 2015, and it has…

at the threshold of the continent. The allusion to Dante’s Inferno continues as Marlow journeys to Brussels, he describes the city as “a white sepulchre”. The city’s description becomes a first hand example to tombs and death that are vital to the image of Hell. As Marlow goes to his meeting in the fogged city, he sees two women “knitting black wool”. The portrayal of the women knitting directly relates to the Fates that are so often portrayed in Mythology and Dante’s telling of Hell. The…

Maya Angelou, a renowned American poet once said ‘We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated’. Being a poet of African descent, she was able to manifest this in her poems by making a connection to Africa and its history. Similarly, David Diop, a contemporary of Angelou was of African descent but he was born and raised in France. Even so, he spent a significant amount of time in West Africa which helped him connect with his mother nation. His works were mainly on political…

Some critics argue that Conrad is exposing colonialism in his novel, one of those critics is H. S. Zins who claims that:" when Conrad was writing his anti–colonial and anti–imperial Heart of Darkness. In that African novella he described imperialism as robbery with violence" (1). This is true when he describes the Belgian colonization of Africa, but when he describes the British colonization he praises it and celebrating imperialism. Said in his book Culture and Imperialism states that: "Yet…