Week 12... 1 AND 2

All round the world today the media is influencing body image and how people see themselves. The way that the human is portrayed is something that not only affects women but men as well. Many people do not realize how influential these television shows, magazines, and models can be. The way in which the everyday person is affected can be anywhere from nothing, to depression, to starvation leading to hurting their bodies, and in some cases death. Reasons for which body image in the media is causes a negative effect on the world are the depression, eating disorders, and a uniform looking county.

I wanted to just give an overview of some of the information that I was going to be talking about. I think that I touched base on everything that I was going to talk about. My thesis was at the end of my introduction paragraph.

Week 11 Number 2

One naysayer that I have thought about that would come up in my paper would be that the media isn’t at fault for the eating disorders. Some would say that not every body image is portrayed in the idea that it is perfect and everyone should be thin in order to be beautiful. I agree with this, that yes not every person that is put in the media is the “perfect” body type, but at the same time I don’t think that the media is putting images out there of girls that are thought of as what the youth want to be. It seems to me that nearly every magazine you flip through shows skinny and happy people. They make it seem that you can only be happy when your skinny which I don’t agree with at all. I think that this doesn’t affect my thesis in a bad way if anything I would say it supports it.

Week 11 Number 1

The ways in which body image is portrayed in the media is one of the major causes of eating disorders among young teems today.

Week 10 Assignment 1

The topic for my second paper that my group members and I have decided on is Alcohol use among teens. The drinking age is the main point of the paper; should it be lowered, or should there even be one at all? The three argumentative sides that we have come up with are how teens really choose to drink in order to rebel. The second point would be that Europe, a country with no legal drinking age, really doesn’t have many issues with drinking. This isn’t a problem for these foreign countries because teens have grown up with alcohol, and are accustomed to it. Our third point would be the naysayer, which is that there is new research proving that it can cause physical damage. For the paper each member of the group is going to take one of the points and write about their point. We are then going to come together as a group and put it together with each others input. Putting the paper all together will avoid my major concern of restating something someone has already said.

Week 10

Since I became a full time college student time management isn’t really an issue that I have faced. I feel as though I often times have too much time on my hands, which is what causes issues. In high school I had so many things going on in my life. My average day would start at 8 and end around 9 or 10. I had to balance school during the day, and then I would have cheer, work, homework, hang out with friends/ boyfriend, and then go to bed. I didn’t really have any time to do much at all. I was so involved in school that I was always there and if I wasn’t I would likely be found at work, which was like my home away from home. I think that high school really taught me how to deal with time management because it was something that just had to be done. One of the biggest issues that I find here is that I have to much time and not enough to do. One of the major reasons I want to go back home next year is to work. I feel like I have to much time on my hands which becomes a handicap for me. I have a tendency to put things off thinking that I can just do it later and then come to find I am running out of time. I end up just writing a paper the night before rather than just doing it in the first place, and getting it out of the way. I think that I am doing ok when it comes to school here and time management. I think that the only problem I have is that I have too much time and not enough to do.

Responce

The article I choose was based on a man from the North end of Tacoma, known as the strong man. “Man killed by stepdad mentally ill, mom says.” This is the title of the article, but I don’t think that this is a good title. From just reading this it makes me think that the father was mentally challenged, and that this son died an innocent man. However this wasn’t the case at all. The man had a history of issues from thinking that he could do almost anything, including moving a truck 25 yards, to beating his own mother. This strong man changed his name numerous times, and had multiple personalities along with each name change. On Sunday, he went over to his mom’s house in North Tacoma, where he had a restraining order. He and his step dad started to get into it, and which led to fighting with his mom. The stepdad and son started to argue which led to the father stabbing the son. The way that the article was written seems a little confusing. At one point he is talking about how the mom says that it is the fathers fault, but then two sentences later the writer is saying that it was the son’s fault. I think that a mothers love will always be there but she knows that her son had problems. I don’t think that the father is going to get charged for anything because the son shouldn’t have been there. Also the son was unwanted in their house and he was hitting his mother. The father was only doing self defense for him and his wife. I think that the article could have been written a little better, because even the title was confusing.
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Week 9

Encyclopedia- Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen. "The Body in the Media."Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media. 1st ed. 2007.
Book- Dittmar, Helga. Consumer culture, identity and well-being : the search for the "good life" and the "body perfect". 1st. New York: Psychology Press, 2008.
Journal- Grabe, Shelly . "The Role of the Media in Body Image Concerns Among Women: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental and Correlational Studies ." Meta Lab 3(2008): 460.
Flim, I could use any film where body image is a major issue.