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  • Message To Young Girls
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    The Skinny Dilemma " Anorexia... strike (s) a million Americans every year and... one hundred fifty thousand die annually' (Brumberg 20). This outrageous number of deaths has unfortunately been increasing since the 1970's. This deadly disease focuses its attention on young teenage girls. The media gives out messages to promote their products and, knowingly or unknowingly, sends the message to young girls that they should and can look like the models on T.V. Immense pressure put on young girls to...
  • Ideal Image Of A Young Girls Body
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    BODY IMAGE IN THE MEDIA How does the media influence our body image In what forms, does the media influence our perceptions about our body These were the two questions that I asked myself in order to do the research paper and the panel discussion. In my opinion, I would agree that the media does influence and promote women and men to believe that the culture's standards for body image are ideal. Hence, the phrases, "thin is in" and "the perfect body" are two examples of "eye-catching" headlines ...
  • 30 A.M. And Jonathan
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    i see a pretty face smashed against the bathroom floor... "Jonathan sat on the floor next to the window in his dark bedroom alone. He watched the cascade of rain drip down his window from off the roof. Lighting stroke across the morbid night sky. His body, which was curled up in a ball, was leaning against the wall. His sad brown eyes were filled with salty tears while listening to his father and stepmother fight in the kitchen. His stepmother was very contemptible. His father wasn't. He was a g...
  • Media's Interference With Adolescent Girls Images
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    What if you were surrounded by media messages telling you that, "people will like you more if you have the perfect body" or "being perfect makes people like you"? How do you think young female teenagers would interpret these messages that the media are portraying? 81% of ten year old girls are afraid of being fat, of being considered ugly. Why do you think ten year olds would ever care about how they look? It's because of the media implying that being slim is beauty. Due to the media's brainwash...
  • Ideal Body Size And Body Dissatisfaction
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    This study examined the perceived role of three types of sociocultural agents (peers, parents, and media) in influencing body dissatisfaction and dietary restraint in adolescent girls. Participants were 577 grade 10 girls from six schools who completed questionnaires in class and had height and weight measured. Two path analyses resulted in a similar pattern. While current body size strongly predicted ideal body size and body dissatisfaction, perceived influence of multiple sociocultural agents ...
  • Need For The Ideal Body Image
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    Everyone who brings home a bad report card knows that with a little effort they can better their grades. Yet there are some things in life that you cant change and the way you look is one of them. In today " society teenage girls face an ongoing battle to attain the perfect body image. The following paper discusses the definition of perfect, why we strive to attain this impossible ideal, why we don't fight to change the image, and the consequences that can result from this battle to please. A di...
  • Perfect Scent
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    (Continue from page 310, after 'For the First time they had done something out of love') Grenouille does not feel dead oddly enough. One would figure after being torn to shreds and devoured by cannibals that your life would be over and you would be no more. However why does Grenouille's feel alive as if life had just begun? He sits there, feeling no physical presence to call his own and yet he feels vibrant and exhilarated. Like the many scents memorized throughout his life, thousands upon thous...
  • Girls Experience In Adolescence
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    From Girl to Woman: Gender Roles and Socialization in Adolescence Reviving Ophelia: A Brief Overview Adolescence is one of the most difficult times for development. This difficulty is experienced very differently for boys and girls. This paper will examine how gender role socialization effects girls more specifically, the emergence of eating disorders and depression in adolescent girls. Mary Pipher, Ph. D. in her book "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls", discusses extensive...
  • Erzebet Bathory
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    Author: Michelle Munro Published on: February 28, 2002 In 1560 Erzebet Bathory was born into one of the oldest - and wealthiest - families in Transylvania. Her ancestors had assisted Vlad Dracula during his rise to power; other relatives went on to become cardinals, princes, Prime Ministers, and King of Poland. She was a healthy, energetic child, a quality found to be unique for someone of her social status. She was also vain, often boasting of her fresh complexion that she believed was her best...
  • Body Weight
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    Anorexia is a condition that affects every part of you, your body, and your mind. In the world that we live in, where on every magazine cover, every tv show, and even in your home room, you see beautiful, skinny girls that seem to have everything they want. They seem to be popular, always happy, and have the perfect body. Many girls that are just beginning to go through adolescence feel that to be these perfect girls, they have to be skinny. They turn to anorexia. Anorexia is a serious eating di...
  • Images In A Teen Girl Magazine
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    Women frequently compare their bodies to those they see around them, and researchers have found that exposure to idealized body images lowers women's satisfaction with their own attractiveness. One study found that people who were shown slides of thin models had lower self-evaluations than people who had seen average and oversized models, and girls reported in a Body Image Survey that "very thin" models made them feel insecure about themselves. In a sample of Stanford undergraduate and graduate ...
  • Blood Of Peasant Girls
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    Countess Bathory was Hungarian by birth. Records give her entry into the world as I 56 I. As a girl she was beautiful with long fair hair and an exquisite complexion. She was married off to an aristocratic soldier when she was fifteen and became mistress of the Castle of Csejthe in the Carpathians. Life in the dark, gloomy Csejthe Castle, while her husband was away on his various military campaigns, became very boring indeed. She was determined to liven things up. First she gathered round her a ...
  • College Girls Gain Weight And Diet
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    Weight Obsessed Women Todays media places an extreme amount of pressure on women to maintain a slender figure. Through childhood to adulthood, women are bombarded with images of stick skinny women, and this is the way almost every woman wants to look. Although there are other factors, the media is the primary source of the obsession with being thin. Why has this become such a popular trend This is what society says is acceptable. It has been proven that these images of perfect women do affect th...
  • Young Girl
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    It was a dreadful afternoon, big droplets of rain fell directly on my face and clothes. I tasted the droplets that mixed with my tears, the tears I cried after the incident. The pain in my foot was excruciating. It caused me to make a big decision of whether I should visit you or not. I decided I would. I limped towards my bright, blue car where my bony, body collapsed onto the seat. I started the engine up but at the same time being cautious of my bleeding foot. I then drove to the destination ...
  • Family Life Cause Anorexia Nervosa Some Girls
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    Turning on the TV today means seeing girls in swimsuits, models on a runway, or beautiful girls starring in movies. What do they all have in common They all have skinny, perfect bodies, and they all influence how many girls today look at their bodies. In today's day and age many young women are very sensitive about body image and how they fit into society's standards. Because of this, more than 100 girls and women die each year from eating disorders. In DePaul High School alone, 95% of the girls...
  • Tie Between Television And Eating Disorders
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    Mission Impossible: Keeping Up With America's Beautiful Body Image Everyone hears beauty comes from the inside, not the outside, but due to constant bombardment of beautiful, thin, glamorous girls deeply engraves the image in the mind's of women that they need to accomplish those looks to matter in today's society. When a thought is flashing in front of women at all times of the day, it is extremely difficult to get the idea out of their minds. Every move of the day that women make can revolve a...
  • 1 In 3 Girls
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    The media is a powerful tool that influences the majority of the population. It has the largest impact, although, on teenage girls. All across the United States, millions of young girls see as many as three thousand ads each day, either in magazines, on billboards, or on television. These same adolescent girls are suffering with a range of problems, everywhere from low self-esteem to life threatening eating disorders. Many girls look at magazine images and ads that they see, and visualize the 'p...
  • A Negative Body Image Perception
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    Hypothesis: The majority of teenage girls in Western Australia have a negative body image perception of themself. Body Image: Body image defines how an individual feels about their own body. It is their opinion of their personal appearance and relates to an individual's judgment of their size, weight, shape and physical appearance of either a particular body part or their whole structure. Body image can be defined as. ".. a concept or scheme incorporating a collection of feelings and perceptions...
  • Girls Long For The Perfect Body
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    On coffee tables all around America sit the current monthly edition of Vogue magazine. A magazine that is created in order to show America, especially teen girls, what the current perfect body image is. This body image is most times unattainable unless eating rice cakes and water for every meal is appealing. America had become a media infiltrated society. This infiltration has taken a large toll on the female body. What is sexy and beautiful, now-a-days is determined by movies, television and ma...
  • Attractive Figure For His Potential Mates
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    What makes an ideal mate? In chapter 5 of Research Stories for Introductory Psychology, the emphasis of female figure in mate-choosing is investigated. Using evolutionary psychology, many scientists have researched the human mating strategy. The ultimate goal for all humans is the passing on of genes. However, there are different traits that increase attractiveness of a man to a woman that can be explained scientifically, not just socially. The waist to hip ratio (WHR) of women is thought to be ...

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