COMS 101-008 5 December 2012 My Redemptive Vision Paper Outline Thesis: A social issue that plagues our world today are eating disorders‚ but these can be helped by Christian counselors‚ who fix the problem by letting patients struggling with eating disorders know that they are important to God‚ God values their body‚ and that God cherishes when we recognize our weaknesses and give our burdens to him. I. Define social problem and establish that it exists somewhere in the world A. Eating
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Summary The thin-ideal in advertisements has been a topic of wide debate for decades‚ specifically concerning its ethicality. As seen in various types of media‚ the “thin-ideal” occurs when a very thin model is featured as its lead‚ thus promoting the concept that thin is desirable to be. The thin-ideal has been a controversial topic in advertising and other forms of media due to the potentially harmful effects that it can cause to women who have been exposed to it. Issues such as body dysmorphia
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of loving one’s body and self is much needed in today’s society. Women today are being bombarded with the ideas that they should be perfect. The media plays a major role on how women perceive themselves‚ and these unrealistic views on beauty and thinness are causing self-destructing behaviors that are harmful to all women. The only way to fix this epidemic is to teach women how to have a positive body image and learn to love the body they have. “Phenomenal Woman” is a poem that all women need to
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fluffy brown hair and leaking‚ dead brown eyes. She’s mostly a silent girl‚ but when Sophie talks directly about Elly’s thinness‚ she goes into self-defense. Elly had no control over her words and stumble hesitates over every word that came out from her mouth. It’s painful for Elly to speak clearly and rounded‚ without a slur. She had pale skin tone and shaking hands due to her thinness. She wears
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media has used many of the insinuations which make the viewers badly look to themselves that they suffer from a health problem‚ these insinuations (such as get rid of the fat‚ to get healthy body use what we produce) eventually lead to infection thinness (Levine & Murnen‚ 2009). People who spend most of their time on social media are
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malnutrition. These statistics of reality seem nothing close to glamorous‚ yet countless young girls still seek this similarly underweight body-type. This is just the beginning of messages sent to young women by the media promoting the drive for thinness‚ dieting‚ and beauty. These messages tell “ordinary” girls that they are in need of an adjustment and that the female body is an object to be perfected. Unhealthy body image and habits in adolescents will continue until there are major changes in
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Sexual abuse in patients with Anorexia and Bulimia. An attempt to order from the Modular-transformational approach. The increasing incidence of anorexia / bulimia in the past thirty years and the difficulties for successful treatment are a challenge to the professional community dedicated to their attention. Both psychiatrists and psychoanalysts have redoubled efforts to understanding and intervention in order to give an appropriate response to what is considered an epidemic and a type of pathology
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Tara Anderson Gender and Performance Megan Orcholski November 15‚ 2012 Eating disorders “Approximately 7-10 million women across the country suffer from eating disorders. Most research into these serious disorders has been conducted on females. However‚ as many as a million men may also struggle with the diseases” stated EDAP in 2012. Eating disorders are very serious conditions that cause people distress by obsessing over not gaining weight and intense anxiety about food. Eating disorders
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Worley fails to provide credible evidence supporting her case and indicates discrimination as an excuse for obesity‚ when in reality‚ it is the individuals job to take responsibility for their own body. According to Worley‚ our society believes thinness signals self-discipline and self-respect‚ whereas fatness signals self-contempt and lack of resolve (291). An annual convention held by NAAFA in San Diego for larger Americans to come and experience what it is like to be free of discrimination against
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Anorexia Nervosa is a serious problem in the United States. Teenagers is the most popular age group that gets involved with eating disorders such as Anorexia. The symptoms‚ the statistics‚ and much more explains why this particular disease is harmful. It affects people both physically and psychologically. As a country‚ we need to establish prevention programs that could be used as a resource in both school and public settings. Doing so will help decrease the number of people with anorexia and more
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