Assignment 2 – Speech
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Julie Bos
123830 2ME-2a
Lecturer: Anita Kreugel
Hi I am Julie Bos a 19 year student from the NHTV, I see an average of 400 to 600 adds a day of which 1 out of 11 has a direct message towards beauty not even counting the indirect beauty messages (about face organization, 2013). I admire the women of the ads and video clips as they are always so ideally thin and beautiful, I aspire them. I have spent and spent to become the ideal beauty represented but I could not match the ideal standard. Today I see the beast within the beauty industry.
In our culture and especially throughout the media women and girls are represented in a sexualized manner and in our world today we are surrounded by such …show more content…
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