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    be damaging to a person’s image. People tell me about the many single stories that they have of me; the most common being one is that because I’m skinny, I don’t eat a lot. Everyone always tells me that, “I’m too skinny”. This happens too many times to count, with everybody. People always assume that I eat very little or not at all because I’m so skinny. I always tell them that even though I look like I don’t eat a lot, I do, they always look at me with a weird face and tell me “well you should…

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    Meghan Trainor is a recent American pop star defined by her sense of empowerment as she urges listeners to reject body shaming. Encouraging positive body image is becoming a societal norm in the U.S. and the Nashville singer 2014 debut single, “All About That Bass,” help persuade her audience that bigger bodies are better. The objectification of larger bodies contribute towards a feeling that there is a criteria for beauty. Similarly, Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” is part of a tradition of hip hop…

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    Stanley's Mistakes

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    I couldn't believe how fast I could dig holes without complaining about My hands and arms hurting. My connection to this is I used to not be used to putting on my hands like I am should the more I practiced and now i am used to it. Stanley was weak but in result of digging, he became stronger. Stanley went from being weak to being strong. As he dug his 10th hole or so his hands didn´t hurt anymore. This proves he is stronger because his first few holes his hands started to hurt after…

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    are expected to live up to social media expectation such as women need to be beautiful, sexy, and skinny in order to be successful. Reasoning: Social media portray women to be beautiful, sexy, and thin frame which often seen on T.V over and over. This is what social media intend for women to see and encourage to look like. Because of social media, women feel the need to be beautiful, sexy, and skinny in order to be accepting, to be successful, and to be fulfilled. As a results, young girls…

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    Very few women are completely comfortable in their bodies. Woman are led to believe that a thin, skinny body is the ideal body to have which is simply not true. Advertising companies portray an unrealistic image of how woman’s bodies should look. The companies should change this by having a variety of shapes and sizes represent their company. Many women are beginning to believe that being extremely skinny is the only attractive body type. Dirk Smeesters, Thomal Mussweiler, and Naomi Mendel…

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    Checkouts is about a girl who has just moved in to a new town and is having a hard time there. The Girl Who Can is a story where a young girl named Adjoa, who lives with her mom and Nana, when her Nana starts to point out that Adjoa’s legs are too skinny for a girl and now Adjoa has to prove to her Nana that her legs are fine. Both of these Girls in the two stories live in deferent clutches but still have problems that they need to face. One of the problems that both girls share is that there…

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    Dogs Vs Outside Dogs

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    Have you ever wondered why you see different dogs that look and act differently than most? Dogs might have a different lifestyle depending on where they live. Sometimes their physical traits will be represented by their lifestyle. That means that the dog might act different based on what it’s owner acts like or says.Dogs could have different jobs, they could be a different breed, or their physical traits from what they do every day. Different dogs have different styles of life. If you have…

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    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…

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    well-known companies will help also getting your name out there and a foot in the door. If you are rejected chances are you could, don’t give up. Don’t try the damaging opinions to try and be picked the next time. The biggest thing they say is being skinny be alethic. 110 pounds at the height of 5’9 which…

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    also known just as anorexia. "Every sixty two minutes at least one person dies as a direct result from an eating disorder" (Eating Disorder Statistics 2). Anorexia is a specific eating disorder where people become so obsessed with being and looking skinny that they lose so much weight until the point when their body cannot take it anymore. Anorexia is an extremely dangerous disorder that causes high risks to one's health, resulting in years of reshaping one's life or losing one's life. This is…

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