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TheOddysseyOnline.com, fifty-three percent of 12 year old girls feel unhappy with their bodies, 78 percent of 17 year old girls feel unhappy with their bodies and 65% of women and girls have an eating disorder. In today’s tech savvy world, the media is an integral part of everybody’s lives yet it is also a devastating tool that can ruin many women’s lives. For example, in the media, women rarely take lead roles and the idea of an ideal body is often emphasized in many advertisements. In a way,…

As a society has increasingly portrayed the notion of beauty via social media and celebrities, the action has gradually altered the perception of people to believe that thinness is the definition of beauty, which could cause teenagers to encounter with eating disorders as claimed in Dugan’s article. However, the purpose of this essay is to identify illogical fallacies in the article “Eating disorders soar among teens - and social media is to blame”, which was written by Emily Dugan and published…

dance requiring balance, control, and poise that can rarely be found anywhere else. However, there is also a dark side to ballet, one that involves body image issues and eating disorders that consume a dancer’s life. The influence of certain choreographers, the media, and teaching methods in ballet can all affect the way ballerinas feel about their bodies. There have been reports of eating disorders and deaths resulting from the pressure to be perfect, like the famous death of Boston Ballet…

Sleep gives people a chance to rest and get better when the body is not feeling great. Many high school students miss several school days due to the fact that they do not feel well in the mornings. This feeling may come from not getting enough rest each night. These students come back in a few days and have to…

Fellow Peers, In the past 30 years, there has been a significant increase in childhood and adolescent obesity in Canada. Consequently, this may result in an increase in the chronic health problems of our future population. There are numerous reasons behind childhood and adolescent obesity such as sedentary lifestyles, poor nutritional education, and lack of proper role modelling. Unhealthy lifestyles during childhood are an important issue to tackle because obesity at a young age strongly…

How We Forget In the words of Christina Ricci, “Any obsession is dangerous.” This can be applied in today’s society, as we seem to have a never-ending list of obsessions. Whatever they may be, these obsessions come in many forms, and are omnipresent in our lives. However, society’s obsession with beauty, social media, and celebrities seem to be the most prominent, and have the most damaging effects on the human race as a whole. The pressure to be beautiful is one of society’s greatest and…

Sofeline Molin ENC1101 Ms. Evens 23 November 2015 The Perfect “BODY” Our famous Victoria Secrets came out with a new ad campaign titled “The Perfect Body”. The ad campaign display ten models standing very tight together with their flat stomachs, long legs and a perfect glowing skin tone that match a brick of gold. The founder of Victoria Secrets is Roy Raymond who then sold the company over too Leslie H. Wexner. He created lingerie undergarments for women and his goals was to create…

What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know by Rachel Dempsey & Joan C. Williams (2014) shows how gender polarization effects the treatment of women in the workplace. It highlights the problematic situation women often stumble upon of being too feminine or too masculine and thus being perceived as not being professional. For example, one existing event correlated with this ideology was during the 2008 presidential election. In this election, Hillary Clinton was running…

Actually, food industries use every available technological technique to adapt their products into the preferences of children; creating campaigns that influence children's habits and diets; yet, this impact can be devastating. "Increasingly, fast food conglomerates are using toy tie-ins with major children’s motion pictures to try to attract young people. Nearly 20% of fast food ads now mention a toy premium in their commercials" (Committee on Communications, 2006). Unfortunately, childhood…

For the artifact of choice from my museum visit that I have chosen is the Figurine of the Goddess Wadjet exhibited in the LACMA Museum. My first glance at this figurine instantly caught my eye because of the movement of this piece and in class we have talked about how the egyptians were attempting to create work of arts with movement. I see the figurine with it’s left leg stepping forward and it’s right left remain in neutral stance behind the left leg. Also at the same time the left hand…