Does the Media Influence the Development of Eating Disorders in adolescents?
- Date: May 09, 2003
- Level: High School, 11th grade
- Grade: A
- Length: 6 pages (1608 words)
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world girls, buff men, female adolescents, images, eating disorder, exact line, ...female population, airbrushed, dramatic increase, acheive, eating disorders, old girl, overweight, smiles, actresses, happiness, constantly, faces, cosmopolitan, bombarded
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"I'm So Fat!." This exact line (and lines similar to it) are spoken daily by millions of girls throughout the Western World. Girls that are not even overweight in the slightest have been under a huge misapprehension because they believe this line to be true and as a result, there has been a dramatic increase in development of eating disorders in the female population in the United States and Canada.
Imagine being a fifteen-year-old girl, flipping through the pages of Cosmopolitan and being constantly bombarded with airbrushed images of size 0 models and actresses with huge, bleached smiles on their faces surrounded by gorgeous, buff men. After viewing the images its not that hard to believe that the only way to ...
... cultures find it extremely strange how women of the Western world want to acquire an elusive, eternally youthful body. In some cultures, wisdom is acquired with age and therefore, so is beauty.
Even some musicians in today's society are famous only because of their image and not based on talent. It used to be that music was a way to expressive onself creatibely, looks did not matter but now looks are a highly important factor to the music business. One must have a certain 'look' in order to be considered for a record deal, thus becoming successful.
Overall, as girls enter adolescence they struggle for an identity that separates them from their families and feel a need
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