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    In the article “The Globalization of Eating Disorders” Susan Bordo argues that the introduction of western media in foreign countries causes reported cases of eating disorders to skyrocket. According to Bordo: In 1998‚ just three years after the [western television] station began broadcasting‚ 11 percent of girls [in Fiji] reported vomiting to control weight‚ and 62 percent of the girls surveyed reported dieting during the previous months. (19) I agree with Bordo’s argument. Western media that glorifies

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    and publicity have used beauty to trap and hunt consumers. Despite the different perspectives‚ Susan Bordo and John Berger have focused on the concept of how beauty is displayed‚ how we view it‚ and how it is utilized to attract us as consumers‚ and affect our lives. In his book “Ways of Seeing‚” John Berger talks about viewing images‚ viewing the world around us‚ especially the world of classic art. Susan Bordo’s essay “Beauty (Re) discovers the male body” argues about the “powerful taboos” of male

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    Issues of dieting‚ fat‚ and slenderness are hot topics in our culture. Bordo addresses them from a postmodern‚ but historical‚ feminist perspective. In this essay‚ she attempts to explain the appeal of slenderness in our society; and also‚ how the ideology of normal our society holds can be mentally and physically damaging for many people. So‚ what does it mean to be slender? The ideas behind slenderness have changed considerably throughout human existence. The Greeks believed that the regulation

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    mostly be about. According to Susan Bordo’s ’’Beauty (re)discovers the male body’’‚ the ideal male has changed through time. Calvin Klein is in the spotlight for a big part of her essay. Bordo insists‚ that before Klein created advirtisements of attractive men in underwear‚ it was never intended for women to be so highly attracted to sexy men. A hard working‚ family providing man was all that was necessary for women for a very long time. In fact‚ sexy was never a word to describe men with. It would

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    Bordo Summary In “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male Body” Susan Bordo discusses the image of the male body. She starts by talking about how “the naked and near naked female body became an object of mainstream consumption” (168) while the male body has been gone with fashion. She tells about her first time seeing an ad using the male body. It was an underwear ad for Calvin Klein underwear. Bordo explains how this ad was different from other ads in the way the guy posed. In other ads the guys pose would

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    come out strutting down the runway with one of those looks that says you “Feast on me‚ I’m here to be looked at‚ my body is for your eyes.” (Bordo 191) Bordo uses this quote as she describes the young man in the Calvin Klein ad who without being forward about it portrays an image of sexuality. This is contrary to most of the images we usually see and Bordo describes this in an interesting way as she says “His body isn’t a stand-in phallus; rather he has a penis.”

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    Alan WawruckArgument Draft 1FranklinEng 112 D8Sept-20-2010 Art is NeverJust for Art ’s Sake.” I have always felt that there must be an inherent reason or set of reasons behind human action. While there may not be any inherent reasons or value to the components of the universe‚ there is always a motive pushing along every person throughout their daily life. Everything a person does‚ says‚ and believes‚ no matter how inane or senseless it may seem‚ has some sort of reason‚ whether or not that

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    Pictures – English assignment Summary The story “Pictures” is about a girl with a conflicted belief. She is a second-generation immigrant who lives in England with her parents who are poor shop owners. At Christmas time Amina and the rest of her classmates were drawing pictures of Mary and baby Jesus. All of her classmate’s drawings got to hang on the wall except for Amina’s‚ because she had drawn a brown-faced Mary. The teacher told Amina a white lie‚ saying that Amina’s drawing was

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    Essay on; *From Outside in – Barbara Mellix *Communication in a Global Village – Dean Barnlund *Hunger as Ideology – Susan Bordo Dean Barnlund expresses his views on the keys to survival in today’s world psychologically. His work “Communication in a Global Village”‚ discusses the interactions between people who come from dissimilar backgrounds and who have come to accept different norms of how simple acts in one culture posses a different meaning in another. He also discusses a person’s

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    You never see it coming you only see it go It was just a regular day‚ nothing unusual or out of the norm. The only special thing happening today was Ronnie’s birthday. She finally reached her 17th birthday‚ she has been waiting for this day for years. When she was about 10 she told her self that when she is 17 she will be able to do anything she wants‚ she will have a boyfriend and be very popular in high school. Wishing is fun and all but its nothing compared to reality. When the day finally

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