This One's for the Girls

Body image is defined as the objective picture or mental image of one’s own body. Models in fashion advertisements are a major influence of body-image in today’s society. Since the beginning, models have been used in the fashion industry to promote new styles and trends. Over the years these models have changed in appearance, depending on the “perceived aesthetic preferences of the public.” For example, from the 1930’s to the 1950’s, the ideal body was considered “fuller-figured.” Some…

then and there. If they deem the baby to be a male, they automatically assume that the child is a boy and dress it in blue, expect it to want to play with trucks, feel attraction to girls, be financially successful, and be a great leader and active member of society. If the baby is deemed to be female, they call them a girl and dress them in pink, expecting the child to want to play with dolls, to be coy and shy and pure, and to aspire to a life of motherhood and homemaking. However, the…

In the formation of one’s character and value structure childhood plays an important role. Childhood as a significant area of human experience is not given ample emphasis as far as literature is concerned. In Indian English literature also women characters are widely depicted and critics have evaluated them. The girlhood of a woman is a critical part of her identity formation. In literature this period of identity formation of a woman is by and large un- examined and un- explored. Childhood…

Emotion does not directly affect the scientific method. Rather, it affects what we select to observe and how we choose to interpret it. This in turn affects our hypothesis and consequentially affects the rest of the scientific method (Jaggar 693). Adopting feminist epistemology will also provide a more objective approach to science. This is because feminist epistemology encourages people other than white men to engage in scientific experiments. By doing so, the experiment will be less biased…

In both Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the characters were put in a situation where they were exposed to a different setting than where they came from and it interfered with their identity. Changez had trouble finding aspects from his home, Pakistan to keep with him in his new country, America. The sisters struggled to balance characteristics from Dominican Republic and America because of the huge difference in the…

from a concern for what is regarded as excellence in arts, letters, manners, and scholarly pursuits. Culture informs the way a person views others and the world because everything he or she does is based off culture. Two critical factors that shapes one’s culture are traditions and opinions which are illustrated in “By Any Other Name” and “Two Kinds” written by Santha Rama Rau and Amy Tan respectively. In the novel “By Any Other Name” Santha Rama Rau expresses the idea that culture shapes the…

The lack of confidence in one's body from viewing social media results in eating disorders. Comparing body types causes depression in many women. Depression causes the mind to feel uncomfortable with one’s own body, resulting in eating less as they do not have the desire to eat because of the effects it could do to their body. In an article comparing a dieter versus a non-dieter, dieters tend to feel more depressed when social media present images of thin girls. Although they are already thin,…

Nature’s affect on Mankind Nature vs. Nurture is the argument that either nature or nurture determines one’s lifestyle and characteristics. Development of the body and an individual’s sex determines nature because of the body’s natural functions. The body’s functions in development are influenced by hormones. Nature influences the human need to be apart of a group. This in- group and out-group characteristic is what makes up different cultures. Nature has more of an impact on human…

The obsession teenage girls have regarding their bodies makes them obsessed with dieting and their weight. From middle school through high school, girls are concerned about the way they look, what they eat, as well as how others perceive their self-confidence. In Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting, Mimi Nichter examines how friends, family, mass communication and media, as well as society play a vital part in the way teenage girls view themselves. Appearances play an…

Anorexia is one of the most common causes of deaths among young women around the ages of fifteen to twenty-four. Anorexia affects many girls throughout their high school experience and statistics have shown forty to sixty percent of high school girls diet, attempting to reach this idea of perfection. Anorexia was formally diagnosed in 1874, and observations of the symptoms go back as far as 300 years ago. Anorexia, also known as Anorexia Nervosa, is the will to not eat. Anorexia Nervosa…