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Cultural Identity is part of a person's self-conception and self-perception and is involved with ethnicity, religion, social class, generation, food, and forms who you are as a person. Food, traditions, and ethnicity are factors that shape my cultural identity. Christmas dinner and annual fishing trip with my dad are the two activities that form my cultural identity and who I am. In my family, one of our traditions are the Creta’s Christmas Dinner. The dinner symbolizes my family's ethnicity…

Body image has changed throughout the years. The thought of having to have this perfect body has grown. Body image is an issue in today’s society especially through the media outlets. What is body image? Body image is what one sees about themselves. What he/she imagines their appearance to be. This could include their weight or height. Most importantly it is how one feels about themselves. Do they feel happy with what they see? Maybe they feel sad with they see. Roughly 91 percent of women are…

Intersectionality itself is how the way people define themselves intertwine to shape who we are as a person and how we live our lives. These different categories that people are put under can give either advantages or disadvantages. These categories include race, sex, gender, class, religion, and ability. With these different intersections…

“Following the viewing of images of female fashion models, seven out of ten women felt more depressed and angrier than prior to viewing the images”- Radar Programs. Beauty standards have been present in almost all formal societies. They are proven hurt a woman's body image ("The Disturbing Effect Our Beauty Standards Have on Women Across the World."). Standards of beauty portrayed in the media are unattainable for most women. Bad self-image can lead to mental disorders, substance abuse, self…

published The Shape of a Girl, a play related to the dramatic story of a young girl named Reena Virk who was tragically affected by bullying, a characteristic behavior of adolescent development. Throughout The Shape of a Girl, MacLeod effectively exploits the Aristotelian dramatic elements, and she uses Reena Virk’s story as well as the thoughts that it produces in the antagonist’s mind to portray both adolescent character…

domestic and professional personnel. In order to monitor such things, there has to be a standard in which to compare, and thus norms have been created in BMI and body shapes not just for children, but adults also (De Vogli, et al., 2011). These norms led to the medicalization of obesity. By having a set standard which a BMI or body shapes need to adhere, when a person falls outside of this category is has to ‘corrected’. This diagnostic procedure of classifying a person as obese victimises…

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.…

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…

Advertising and media roles often play an important role in everyday life, and messages often relay to young women about beauty are often harmful and misinterpreted.The female image and what women should or could look like in marketing and advertising in particular is a trending controversial topic. Advertising can be portrayed through positive ways but often times they are negative. In one scholarly article written by (British Journal), reads “ the mass media is described as the loudest and…

I believe that teenagers have a big problem with their body image, teenagers look at magazines and the media and see Photoshop women and men. This is a social problem because of how teenagers are becoming sick with having the idea that they need to be sex skinny or manly with big broad muscles. Teenagers today look at media images all the time, with commercials, magazines, billboards and models. These pictures make teenagers with different types of bodies feel discouraged about themselves and…