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    will someday come back to you like a boomerang. I’m not talking about between choosing‚ which food to eat or which outfit should i wear‚ i’m talking about our behavior or action that we choose to take. This all can lead you to all consequences as body image‚ peer pressure and paranoid disorders. Our environment is an effect in our community! In our life we can change our actions depending on the people around us‚including family or

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    With the tremendous effect the media has on men & women’s body image/self-esteem‚ there are things the media and those being effected can do to limit the impact. The media can change the portrayal of models in magazines‚ television‚ billboards‚ etc. By portraying unrealistic models‚ studies can conclude that it causes a negative effect on men and women leading to eating disorders‚ self-esteem problems‚ and possibly even sometimes more dramatic actions such as suicide (Groesz‚ Levine‚ and Murnen

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    of women who have a normal-body weight have said that they think about their body all the time or almost all the time. There are many people‚ mostly women that struggle with thinking negatively about their body. The problem of negative body image can be solved by teaching people to not idolize celebrities and their bodies‚ stop weighting themselves daily or weekly‚ and realizing that being prejudice to size and shape is a form of discrimination( Body Image). Body image consists of not only how human

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    Gladiatorial Contest in Rome Rome was a warrior state. Since the state was a great fighting state in their time‚ the wars sort of formed the gladiatorial contest in ancient Rome. The Romans were fascinated and pleasured by violence‚ bloodshed‚ and human suffering the gladiatorial games. The gladiatorial contests began at the reign of their first emperor Augustus to pay tribute to their warrior traditions. The Romans built artificial battlefields within amphitheaters in cities and towns

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    A recent problem that I encountered was when I was trying to create an entry for the Get to Know contest‚ which is an annual contest that encourages young people to create original works of art‚ writing‚ photography‚ videography and music inspired by nature. As an artist‚ I was drawn to the art category‚ especially since I was brimming with ideas after a year where I spent much of my time outdoors‚ camping and hiking. The possibilities seemed endless at the time. But as I drew sketch after sketch

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    variable was the types of media images seen by participants. One group viewed media images of “the thin ideal” body type‚ and the other group viewed images of average sized body type. The hypothesis stated that if a woman was exposed to media images of “the thin ideal” body type‚ a negative body image resulted. Of the women tested‚ no significant results were found to support that media images of “the thin ideal” have a negative effect upon body image. Media image and the effect it has on self

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    with self-image all dramatically increase (Harter‚ 1993). There have been many studies that have documented the body dissatisfaction of adolescent girls citing media as a very prominent agent among other factors (Bell & Dittmar‚ 2011; Dohnt & Tiggemann‚ 2006; Lopez-Guimera‚ Levine‚ Sanchez-Carracedo and Fauquet‚ 2010; Tiggemann & Miller‚ 2010; Eyal & Ta’eni-Harari‚ 2013). Tiggemann‚ a prominent author on the subject‚ together with Miller studied how the relation between media and body image in their

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    what they think is the “perfect body.” In society today body image has been negatively portrayed by social media influencing people to develop personal appearance issues resulting in depression‚ body altering operations such as plastic surgery‚ and numerous life threatening eating disorders. ` Mental health conditions are emerging with the expansion and availability of social media. As a result early-onset depression is gradually becoming a greater concern (“Negative Body

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    muscular. Children that play with these dolls are getting unrealistic body images that they want to obtain. In the article “Drugs‚ Sports‚ Body Image and G.I. Joe” written by Natalie Angier‚ she states how these dolls are influencing young people to go to unhealthy extremes to achieve this unrealistic body. Because children play with toys that have unrealistic body images‚ kids go to unhealthy extremes to attain the “perfect” body. One way the childrens toys are effecting kids today is by making the

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    realize there’s an insightful message that suggests anyone can look beautiful in Kenneth Cole. The main rhetorical purpose here appears not to persuade readers to admire fashion‚ but rather reveal to another audience‚ women with disabilities‚ that beauty displayed by different people despite their limitations. Classic fashion advertisements rarely use persons with disabilities as subjects. Kenneth Cole delivers this message through visual signs and persuasive ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos appeals.

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