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Think about it: if there are cameras photographing you all the time, every s-e-c-o-n-d in your life, how do you feel? Is it good or bad? It is obvious that most people’s answer is bad. Because we can easily think of the results if we always captured by cameras, which might absolutely make us feel restricted and uncomfortable. However, there are a large numbers of people, such as singers, actors, football stars, politicians or even the imperial family are almost totally live under the cameras.…

Body shaming is definitely a critical issue that many people are facing in our society. Within the song found on Genius,”Scars To Your Beautiful” released in 2015 by Alessia Cara, she tries to inform her audience that we are all beautiful and unique in our own way. Despite the negative comments that the world has to say, everyone needs to recognize their beauty and embrace their flaws. The constant criticism and judgemental comments about women and their “looks” needs to come to an end.…

Living in an image based mass media society, overweight and obese individuals are often vulnerable to negative remarks and are also targets of bias and stigma. The evidence of negative attitudes can be found in every facet of social lives; entertainment, media, and educational institutions etcetera. Infact, Daniel Callahan proposed plan to reduce obesity is using "strong social pressure to teach people that overweight or obese is not socially acceptable" (Tomiyama & Mann 2013). The New York…

An Analysis of Maybelline’s Celebrity Holiday Advertisement Cosmetics seem to be a rite of passage for girls transitioning to teenagers. They are inspired by the beautifully enhanced models in magazines and the filtered celebrities they follow on social media. But while the famous are beautiful perfect, the average person isn’t. From Natalie Portman to Tyra Banks, cosmetics companies employ fresh, famous faces to promote and advertise their product. They prey on the innocence and the income of…

“Love your body, but also accept that it is utterly undesirable” . Nowadays, women are unhappy with their bodies, which creates social anxiety among them. The author Jennifer Weiner in her opinion article “Skinny Women Who Eat Cheeseburgers in Magazines” published in the New York Times on August 11, 2017, writes about American women whom every year when summer is close start worrying about how their body looks because they all want to feel confident in their swimsuit. The writer successfully…

The average model is seen as tall and skinny, but everybody comes in different shapes and sizes. Unfortunately, young girls try to do everything they can to become “perfect” even when their bodies haven’t fully developed. Also, these kids look up to many people in social media like the Kardashians who have gone under many surgeries…

Introduction In a world increasingly influenced by technology, the ways in which people express and evaluate themselves inevitably adapt to this change. Specifically, social media allows its users to find work-related connections, romantic relationships, and new friends based on common interests (Ellison, Steinfield, & Lampe, 2007). Not only this, but the creation of a variety of different social media platforms that exist allows users to express themselves in several different ways from text…

Television, glamour magazines and the internet are a few of the powerful social forces that influence the impossible body image of perfection. Both men and women strive to gain their self worth and self confidence from mirroring what society brands as beautiful. Consequently the journey to achieve this false sense of beauty leads to erroneous eating disorders, unnecessary medical procedures and other poor choices that puts their life at risk. The impact of this destructive social influence…

Since I was very young my family has always encouraged a thin body size as the “healthy” body. I remember, we always had very traditional family dinners with a meat, carb, and many vegetables and we were not allowed to leave the table until our vegetables and salads were finished. After dinner, we typically took walks around the golf course, played soccer or basketball, or swam. Nothing about this appeared to me as anything out of the ordinary or even an encouragement to be fit and thin. I had…

“America, you 're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you 're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the other, we 're being marketed makeup and clothing that obviously turns us into someone different” (Svitak, Adora). Society has created an image for the ideal body in today’s world that is harming girls everywhere. With the major advancements being made in technology everyday it is allowing for woman from multiple cultures to show off their bodies to the world.…