Teen Vogue

“I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it,” was said by Demi Lovato. Demi Lovato is someone who has had a positive impact on many people’s lives by overcoming adversity and learning from her mistakes in the past. Demi has had a rough past, but she doesn’t let it define her. Instead, she is a light to young people to let them know that a life of drugs and depression is not the road anyone should go…

running. Women in these magazines are shown as tools to advertise these products. The way females are portrayed back then and today are still the same. After reading “Sex, Lies & Advertising”, I went and bought a female targeted magazine titled, “Teen Vogue, by Stella Maccarney, to read and get a better understanding of modern day magazines. The magazine featured many popular female clothing industries such as Gucci, Simon, Guess, Bongo, and many others. The magazine also featured many female…

Media Assignment 1 Brainstorm five research questions you would like to pursue during or after this course. Make sure to interrogate each question for clarity of language and be prepared to explain how you might go about answering it, to the best of your ability. 1. Effects of sexually objectifying ads on body image of high school females. This research paper will concentrate on how depiction of sexual objectification in popular glossy magazines affects self-perception of 14-18 years old…

“You see, the discussion surrounding appropriation takes on so many more layers...layers that desperately need to be brought to the discussion”(Jaikaran). Cultural appropriation is the use of other cultures’ customs for one’s own purposes not belonging to that culture; often perceived as offensive. As the world changes and progresses, more acceptance of cultures unfolds. Acceptance of cultures will never fully occur if said cultures are considered separate from the rest of society. Cultural…

magazines when I was younger made me want to be as happy as they look and I thought the only way to be happy like those girls was to be beautiful and skinny. Take victoria secret model Candice Swanepoel as an example. She is an inspiration to many young teens and adults. Not many people know however Candice is 5’9” and weighs around 121 pounds making her underweight for her height. However, Candice is not the one to blame, the media as a whole is the one to blame because viewers see Candice as a…

when we fail"(Kilbourne, “Killing Us Softly 4”). Achieving this “absolute” flawlessness is inevitable. Cindy Crawford once said “I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford”(© Fashion Foie Gras 2009-2015). Many of the women in these ads and on the cover of Vogue don’t even exist. Some of the woman in these ads are really five different women photoshopped into…

dress and future style of dress. In reality, many of us know that frilly skirts and button down cardigans match a hair bow will not be lived down in our lifetime, it is one of the most prevailing clothing mimics of western culture, the Lolita fashion teens just do it with a bit more elegance. Classic Lolita fashion was planted in the world of dress in the late eighties and has managed to reinvent itself all the way into the twenty first century.Now, because I am unable to tell the future I can…

The desire to surgically alter appearance is treated as normative for teenagers as it is for adults. Teens are told "more and more teens are choosing cosmetic surgery" in magazines and on other social networking sites. Even mothers and daughters are getting cosmetic surgery together as if it is completely normal. “In 2012, more than 236,00 cosmetic procedures were performed…

on to harm young children emotional, and disrupt the very fabric of childhood sexual development. In addition to this said as something airs so hypersexualized people have come to realize it is not just attracting the attention of children/young teens it is also drawing in pedophiles. self leaves children in danger and makes them want to experiment with what’s be marketed towards them. When this goes into play children, often time 's exploited themselves, and end up in very dangerous…

for example, the movie Gnomeo and Juliet,which took Romeo and Juliet and used the main ideas and themes and other plot points to make a movie. One example of an art transformtion of Romeo and Juliet is 'The Curse,' by Annie Leibovitz in 2008 for Vogue Magazine. Her artwork of Romeo and Tybalt brings a scene from the play to life. One theme in Romeo and Juliet that has been adapted by…