The Skinny

Trying To Fit In For as long as most can remember, in life, no matter who you are or what you do, someone is always going to criticize, either the way you look, an action you partake in, or just anything that will make you feel bad about yourself. People go out of their way to do this because they think that doing it will make them feel more confident and more superior over you. Still to this day, there is no such thing as a perfect person and people still try to impress everyone else. You may…

James Madison was born in 1751 and in the state of virginia in the town of Montpelier where he would live his entire life. He was born into a wealthy family but grew up skinny and sickly. But even with all this happening he studied even when it endangered his own life studying. When he was 29 he served in the continental congress. When he was 36 in 1787 he kept a written record of the constitutional convention. In 1787-1788 James Madison helped write the federalist papers. In 1801-1809 He…

can not see anything actually healthy or talking about health in the cover. Not only are they portraying the typical image of a skinny woman, but they're going so far as to call it healthy. Instead of actually promoting health, the scheming message this magazine is giving, is actually making people, particularly, women have unhealthy behavior. Healthy for a woman means skinny, and not really muscular. It doesn't mention anything about going to the gym, or having muscular anything, besides the…

the King of France, the First Estate, and the Second Estate. For example, in the political cartoon titled, “The People Under the Old Regime,” three fat people are riding on the back of a skinny person (Doc A). The three fat people represent the King of France, the First Estate, and the Second Estate while the skinny person represents the Third Estate. The image demonstrates how unfair the social system of France before the French Revolution was because it shows the Third Estate as a starving,…

The things that we will do for beauty Everybody has a different body shape. Do we realize how society has an effect on us and of how our body shape is? All across the United States, people are suffering from eating disorders. The topic of eating disorders tends to get pushed aside. There are many myths of eating disorders. because of this, it does more harm than good. I remember going over in health class of what anorexia. We’re not fully educated about what an eating disorder is truly is. What…

Media portrays numerous messages such as feminism that target women than men. With the rise of the female protagonist movie, some media challenge the female stereotype to have bravery to become robust and powerful without the need of protection by muscular men. However, young girls experience restrictions that when they grow up, they will not have an opportunity to become independent with leadership skills. Instead, media such as Disney persuade young girls to live their lives as a princess.…

FATS, LEANS, AND IN-BETWEENS <> "Let me have about me men that are fat," writes Shakespeare in Julius Caesar. "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous." Now, it may not be true that lean people are more thoughtful, or that thinking people are more dangerous, but Shakespeare knew that, in people's minds, at least, certain personality characteristics are associated with certain body types. It has long been thought that fat people are content…

didn’t seem like it belonged. The ad was a tall blonde woman who was incredibly skinny and the headline read “Are you beach body ready?”. Seeing that poster repeatedly made me convince myself that I should buy the product it so I could be skinny like her. Later on the more I looked at the poster I just remembered no one looks that. The picture has to be photoshopped because I know perfectly well she is not that skinny! Ads like that and Victoria Secret commercials are oppressing towards woman…

Society’s Obsession with Perfection: Impact of Media on Self Image Magazine’s line the shelves of nearly every grocery store, enhanced with beautiful models flaunting their skinny frames, big breasts and flawless complexions. Social media feeds are stocked with an endless amount of women boasting about their latest exercise routines and diets they swear by. Television has become nothing but twenty minute long commercials, endorsing their latest beauty product with promise to transform you…

I did not give much thought to my biological sex during childhood. My first major reminder that I was a biological female was when I started puberty around age twelve. This was an external reminder that my body was transitioning from girl to woman. To me, the word ‘sex’ can be described as the genetic makeup of the chromosomes inside the human body. If you are a biological male you have XY chromosomes, and if you are a biological female you have XX chromosomes. I like that nowadays girls and…