I picked these topic because as a teen I struggled with my weight. Growing up in a Asian American family where all the women are petite I feel the pressure to look that way. The women in my family doesn't exercise still they are able to maintian their bodies; however, for me that's the opposite. I'm taller than almost everyone in my family and I weight more than them, but not like them I exercise daily yet they still called me "fat" and so on. When you look at me I'm not fat, rather I'm average weight. Since everyone in my family is so tiny therefore they percieve the idea that I'm overweight. Going to school I understand that everyone has their own unique body shape, there for someone might seem bigger compare to other, but that person might has let body fat percentage. So just by looking at someone appearance you can't judge if they are over weight or not. Due to the pressure of being thin, I decided to pick this topic for my paper to figure out how the media play a role in these factors.
At the end I just want my readers to understand that this topic is becoming a big issue since there are more cases of eating disorder, but most importantly that almost every women out there have their own insecurities that they can't overcome. However we can make the best of it, don't let that little flaw erase your confident. Don't let the media change our perspective on who we are individual so therefore when we look at the mirror we can admitt that we are truely beautful from inside out.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Entry #8
For the counter argument essay I took the stand that the media can have a positive in society. In this case I focused on the fact there are women out there who view the portray of the media as motivation to stay in shape and be heathy. Therefore they're benefiting from the media rather than view it as harming our psychological thinking causing us to change our oppinion the definition of "beauty". For example there are model and celeberties out there who are being pressure by the media to stay fit to gain more fans in return. They are always to pressure to look good and when they gain weight it becomes this controverssy. However there are a lot of celebreties and model out there who take the postitive turn when it comes to losing weight, they do it by exercise and eat healthy. In return they might influent their fans to eat healthy to gain the dream body they always wanted; instead of other methods like diet suplements, excessive exercise, and beiging after meals.
For my synthesis paper I took the stand that the media harm our society. In addition is altering the younger generation psychological thinking on what they percieve the ideal body figure that define beauty. There are more young girls nowadays at six years old already view that they are fat and start dieting. It seems like as our society is getting more evolve, there are more cases of eating disorder. Media might be ther underlying cause on some of the early case of eating disorder, especially when it comes to the entertainment bussiness; however; for those who suffered from eating period of time the reason might due to their feeling and emotion as a way to hide from the problems they are dealing with in their life.
For my synthesis paper I took the stand that the media harm our society. In addition is altering the younger generation psychological thinking on what they percieve the ideal body figure that define beauty. There are more young girls nowadays at six years old already view that they are fat and start dieting. It seems like as our society is getting more evolve, there are more cases of eating disorder. Media might be ther underlying cause on some of the early case of eating disorder, especially when it comes to the entertainment bussiness; however; for those who suffered from eating period of time the reason might due to their feeling and emotion as a way to hide from the problems they are dealing with in their life.
Entry #7
Survey is useful for:
Prevalence of a particular practice.
Varying points of view.
Preferences.
Beliefs of a particular group related to your topic.
Feelings that emerge from that particular group.
Creating the survey let me know the audiences's perspective on body image. The survey I created focus based on women and girls, I wanted to get their perception on food, exercise, and their bodies over all. I ended up asking question that concerned their body shape, exercise, and how they eat. For example:
What do you consider your body shape is?
Have you ever been on a diet? If yes, what type of diet?
How oftern do you work out each week? And how long?
Do you wish to lose weight?
Do you count calorie?
How sastisfy are you with your body?
These are some of the question I asked to see the important of maintaining their physique and to find out their perspective on their own body. If they want to lose weight or not and how is that connect with the media.
The result I ended up guessing gave me mix signal, it showed that not all women care about their body image as much. Instead some are already happy with their figures, still they exercise and eat healthy to benefit their health rather than to strive for the ideal body.
Prevalence of a particular practice.
Varying points of view.
Preferences.
Beliefs of a particular group related to your topic.
Feelings that emerge from that particular group.
Creating the survey let me know the audiences's perspective on body image. The survey I created focus based on women and girls, I wanted to get their perception on food, exercise, and their bodies over all. I ended up asking question that concerned their body shape, exercise, and how they eat. For example:
What do you consider your body shape is?
Have you ever been on a diet? If yes, what type of diet?
How oftern do you work out each week? And how long?
Do you wish to lose weight?
Do you count calorie?
How sastisfy are you with your body?
These are some of the question I asked to see the important of maintaining their physique and to find out their perspective on their own body. If they want to lose weight or not and how is that connect with the media.
The result I ended up guessing gave me mix signal, it showed that not all women care about their body image as much. Instead some are already happy with their figures, still they exercise and eat healthy to benefit their health rather than to strive for the ideal body.
Entry #6
Key Terms:
Social-Cultural Pressure
Perfectionism
Define
Social-Cultural Pressure: the need to strive for norm due to society expectation.
Perfectionism: refusal to accept any standard short of perfection. [dictionary.com]
I found these terma in the Psychology Journal on Ebcohost.
Media portrayal of the ultra-thin body image as the ideal body image is an example of social-cultural pressure to be thin to feel included in society. As a result women strive to achieve the idea of "perfectionism"; which based on outer appearance. Women go through risky diet and over excersise to achieve this body that we percieved as "beauty". In return it's just a trap for the different type of eating disorder.
If we asked most females nowadays on what is their ideal body type, we will hear a large number of similar answers. Especially in a society like the U.S, women tend to associate thinness as their desire body figure since we equate thinness with beauty. Why is that we must ask? Media constantly reflect images of famous thin portrayed as beautiful protagonist as a result we strive to measure up to the norm without realizing that the media doesn’t defined beauty instead we do. The fact that we are being surrounded by the media constantly as a result the ultra-thin ideal body image is being drilled to our psychological thinking causing us to belief that thinness guide to acceptance among our peer also to the larger society as well.
Entry #5
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-02-25-schiavo-eating-disorder_x.htm
According USA Today at age 26 Terri Schiavo was strikingly beautiful, but she spent her childhood as a chubby girl. She finally lost 65 lbs. in her late teens; however, keeping the weight off was a struggle for her. Years later her heart has stopped, cutting off oxygen to the brain since she had been trying to survive on liquids and was making herself throw up after meals. Her collapse was caused by” potassium imbalance” that brought by an eating disorder. Her husband Fox mentioned that Schiavo was a victim of societal pressure to be thin since she didn't want to go back to her original weight and extreme dieting was the only way she could do this in her mind and be able to eat as much as she did ("Schiavo Case", 2005). Schiavo case demonstrated the role the media can played in term of her death. She struggled to maintain her weight; therefore her only option was to pursue with the idea of extreme dieting. As a result she able to achieved the body she always desire for and also feel socially accepted within society; however, her death was the consequence for her decisions.
What's Eating You? Gaby's treatment
This video shows that an individual can improve from on eating disorder, like Gabby's case. She went through Casa Palmera Treatment Center to work on her emotion, body image issue, and most importantly work on herself. Before Gabby hated herself and used the eating disorder to hide her emotion. She learned to deal with the her eating disorder and share her feeling instead of hiding her problems with her sister that's what caused the eating disorder to emerge. After the treatment she learned to respect herself and became acknowledge the risks that come with berging. In return, she is a more happy Gabby than before.
According USA Today at age 26 Terri Schiavo was strikingly beautiful, but she spent her childhood as a chubby girl. She finally lost 65 lbs. in her late teens; however, keeping the weight off was a struggle for her. Years later her heart has stopped, cutting off oxygen to the brain since she had been trying to survive on liquids and was making herself throw up after meals. Her collapse was caused by” potassium imbalance” that brought by an eating disorder. Her husband Fox mentioned that Schiavo was a victim of societal pressure to be thin since she didn't want to go back to her original weight and extreme dieting was the only way she could do this in her mind and be able to eat as much as she did ("Schiavo Case", 2005). Schiavo case demonstrated the role the media can played in term of her death. She struggled to maintain her weight; therefore her only option was to pursue with the idea of extreme dieting. As a result she able to achieved the body she always desire for and also feel socially accepted within society; however, her death was the consequence for her decisions.
What's Eating You? Gaby's treatment
This video shows that an individual can improve from on eating disorder, like Gabby's case. She went through Casa Palmera Treatment Center to work on her emotion, body image issue, and most importantly work on herself. Before Gabby hated herself and used the eating disorder to hide her emotion. She learned to deal with the her eating disorder and share her feeling instead of hiding her problems with her sister that's what caused the eating disorder to emerge. After the treatment she learned to respect herself and became acknowledge the risks that come with berging. In return, she is a more happy Gabby than before.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Entry #4
Tyra Banks mentioned the different type of eating disorder such as anorexia, bulimia, and chronic exercise. These are eating disorders that are harmful for women to undertake to received their desire body image. As society is getting more evolve we see different more cases of eating disorder occurred. In this video Tyra Banks introduced Cassie who is 5'4'' and weight 85 lbs when the average weight for her is 125 lbs, yet to her that's 85 lbs too much. " I'm too fat to be here" Cassie said. That comment leave the audiences speechless because in reality when we look at her we probably thinking on how thin she is, but when she looked at her own reflection she only see how fat she is. Cassie who is suffered extreme dieting created a rule that it isn't acceptable for her if she consumed more than 15 calories. The psychologist mentioned that her early childhood of being burned can be one of the underlying causes of her eating disorder because eating disorder occurred when we search for the needs to be in control or the need of feeling safe. Therefore Cassie's early childhood trauma of being burn left scars on her body, but what even worst is that it left a memory of the pain that she has to suffered as a young child, therefore controlling her diet is a way for her to protect herself. At the end of the video when Tyra offered treatment to help her battle with her eating disorder; Cassie make a comment that she think she doesn't need it, but there are people out there with worst condition. In her opinion her case isn't as severe compared to others condition and it isn't harming her physical body.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Entry #3
Question that asked your opinion on your physical characteristic such as "do you want to lose weight?". " what are the reason to lose weight? and do you think you're fat? If these questions were being asked among women and young girls who live in a globalization society such as U.S, most of them will have one specific answer. These questions don't give the writer much information to generate his or her ideas on the related topic. Instead question such as "how does the media harm society when it comes to the ideal of beauty?" This question isn't asking our specific opinion when it comes to our body, instead it asking our perception on media influence society when it comes to the ideal body image.
The media can played two role in our society, depend on how society view it. In this case I'm focusing on the media portraying on the ideal body image that as a society we perceived as beauty and what it can leads to. For the women and young girls out there, some might view it as a motivation to workout and become healthier to get the desire body type. However some might take another direction to get the result by starving themselves and excessive exercise. These two ways can either benefit or harm our society. For my paper I'm focusing on the media harm society by playing a role on the different type of eating disorders.
Using a survey is a good source to see if the people are aware that the media played a role on their perception of their own body and see how does it affects them by giving evidence showing that women are insecure about their own body by asking questions such as if they want to lose weight? And if they are happy with their own body? These questions are example to see if as a society most of us are insecure of our own physical characteristics. The result might show that most women and young girls are probably not happy with their body now and what they do to get their desire body.
The media can played two role in our society, depend on how society view it. In this case I'm focusing on the media portraying on the ideal body image that as a society we perceived as beauty and what it can leads to. For the women and young girls out there, some might view it as a motivation to workout and become healthier to get the desire body type. However some might take another direction to get the result by starving themselves and excessive exercise. These two ways can either benefit or harm our society. For my paper I'm focusing on the media harm society by playing a role on the different type of eating disorders.
Using a survey is a good source to see if the people are aware that the media played a role on their perception of their own body and see how does it affects them by giving evidence showing that women are insecure about their own body by asking questions such as if they want to lose weight? And if they are happy with their own body? These questions are example to see if as a society most of us are insecure of our own physical characteristics. The result might show that most women and young girls are probably not happy with their body now and what they do to get their desire body.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Entry #2
Part I
After doing my Counter Argument essay I found out what I needed to focus more within my research. It got me to found the different type of research that focus on the topic that I'm writing. What most important was the Counter Argument got me to take another stand within my paper that challenged the thesis within my overall paper. By doing that I'm able to found the gap with in my research and figured out how I'm able to fix those gap to make the stand I'm trying illustrate stronger.
Before the question that I generated for my over all paper is how does the media changes the definition of "beauty"? and how that harm society? For the counter argument paper I wanted to take a stand on how the media doesn't changed the definition of "beauty, but we did. While doing my research for my counter argument I couldn't the sources I needed to support my claim. Therefore I ended up tweaking the claim I make; instead of focusing on the on media changed the definition of beauty, I want to illustrate how media can be harmful to society by illustrating the ideal body image which caused insecurities among women, which influence the different type of eating disorders.
Part II
One of the article I used came from the Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research. It called "Effects of Fitness advertising on Weight and Body Shape Dissatisfaction, Social Physique Anxiety, and Exercis Motives in a Sample of Healthy-Weight Females" by Catherine Aabiston and Krista Chandler
In the article the author observed the different type of research that link the media with body image. The main focus of the article is linking the media with the ideal body image that women are wishing for. It mentioned how media influenced women motivation to exercise and how they used exercise as a way to maintain their figures rather than other purposes. "Exercise is a common strategy that women use to manage and improve their appearance and weight" (Sabiston, and Chandler 1). I used this article to illustrate how the media can be beneficial to society than harmful. One of the point that keep popping up is the idea of "Cognitive Image" which they explain as the desire body type that influenced by the perception of the media.
After doing my Counter Argument essay I found out what I needed to focus more within my research. It got me to found the different type of research that focus on the topic that I'm writing. What most important was the Counter Argument got me to take another stand within my paper that challenged the thesis within my overall paper. By doing that I'm able to found the gap with in my research and figured out how I'm able to fix those gap to make the stand I'm trying illustrate stronger.
Before the question that I generated for my over all paper is how does the media changes the definition of "beauty"? and how that harm society? For the counter argument paper I wanted to take a stand on how the media doesn't changed the definition of "beauty, but we did. While doing my research for my counter argument I couldn't the sources I needed to support my claim. Therefore I ended up tweaking the claim I make; instead of focusing on the on media changed the definition of beauty, I want to illustrate how media can be harmful to society by illustrating the ideal body image which caused insecurities among women, which influence the different type of eating disorders.
Part II
One of the article I used came from the Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research. It called "Effects of Fitness advertising on Weight and Body Shape Dissatisfaction, Social Physique Anxiety, and Exercis Motives in a Sample of Healthy-Weight Females" by Catherine Aabiston and Krista Chandler
In the article the author observed the different type of research that link the media with body image. The main focus of the article is linking the media with the ideal body image that women are wishing for. It mentioned how media influenced women motivation to exercise and how they used exercise as a way to maintain their figures rather than other purposes. "Exercise is a common strategy that women use to manage and improve their appearance and weight" (Sabiston, and Chandler 1). I used this article to illustrate how the media can be beneficial to society than harmful. One of the point that keep popping up is the idea of "Cognitive Image" which they explain as the desire body type that influenced by the perception of the media.
Entry #1
1. Q-H-Q
The topic Q-H-Q assignment helped me generate ideas and figured out what topic I want to focus on. By starting off asking a question and generate my own hypothesis then writing a free write on my stand on this question. This lead on to other potential questions that got me to focus on one specific topic. The Q-H-Q assignment was a gateway to my research paper on "how the media affect the ideal body image" and that got me to figured out what specific idea I'm trying to convey and what stand I will take in my thesis. I started out asking the question:
How the media affect women definiton on what beauty is?
My hypothesis was: the media change their perspective that they need to look a specific way to feel beautiful and accepting in this society.
My stand on the question:
If you ask any young girls nowadays what do they want to like physically. Most of them will tell you they want to lose weight or I want to look like this famous person. Their answer has to do with how the media portraying what beauty is. For decades being beautiful is to look thin, has a flawless face, and more. With the newer generation, we forget what’s the true meaning of beauty is. Instead we are being blinded with the lies that are being drilled into our mind by this society. From high fashion to celebrities they are representing what girls see in their eyes as beauty. When a celebrity gained weight it is a controversy and our society make a big deal out of it. Like why is that. Its human nature to gain or lose weight, what important is just being healthy in general. The society we live in is putting pressure on us to look a specific way. On and magazines we are seeing ads for diet supplement, meal plan, exercise video, and more. On the other hand there are ads telling us to consume different products into our bodies.
2.Leads & Academic Intro Start
This assignment helped me to write an interesting introduction that helped me catch the readers attention. Usually I had a tough time writing a thesis because I tend to focused on an academic intro instead rather then a story that lead to my topic. There is nothing bad about an academic intro; however, it can bored the readers out. When I wrote this paper I was able to create a character that suffered from an eating disorder due to the pressure in the media.
I started my introduction with a poem that described a model struggle to be thin.
"All she is is just skin and bones. Her body has no curves. Her face is full of makeup. She's wearing Chanel. A model is tall and thin. She thinks she's beautiful and the media agrees, too much starving to be what she could not be."
Then I continued with story of a girl who suffered with an eating disorder without knowing it.
"A teenage girl standing in the bathroom looking at her own reflection and questioned herself why does she look this way. She wore size three jeans and wishing she was a size zero. Looking through the pages of Vogue magazine she envied the models’ bodies; hoping that she will able to have that slim figure one day. After her meals she walked to the bathroom and makes herself throw up. She continued to do this after every meal until she stepped onto the scale and see she dropped five pounds, to her that still isn’t good enough. With not enough nutrition she still continued to exercise, but without the energy she started to weaken. As the week goes by she is much thinner and her complexion is getting worst, but to her that’s the definition of “beauty”. When we look at her, she is incredibly beautiful, but her thinness isn’t. In reality she struggled with bulimia, but she doesn’t agree."
3.Prospectus
This assignment was the beginning to my research paper, it got me to get the whole idea of my paper. I was able to figured out the purpose to my paper and the audience that I'm targeting to. I was able to focused my paper on how the media affect the ideal body image among women. In addition I was able to figured out how I'm going to illustrate my idea through the paper. For example; what kind of research I'm going to use to back up my thesis? Overall this assignment got me started to find the main focus on my paper. The Prospectus got me to focus on the purpose of the paper. Which are these two question:
How the media is the underlying cause of the different type of eating disorders?
How do the media harm our society by portraying the thin-ideal image as "beauty"?
The rest of the prospectus are my plan on doing my research and how I will relate my topic to the readers.
The topic Q-H-Q assignment helped me generate ideas and figured out what topic I want to focus on. By starting off asking a question and generate my own hypothesis then writing a free write on my stand on this question. This lead on to other potential questions that got me to focus on one specific topic. The Q-H-Q assignment was a gateway to my research paper on "how the media affect the ideal body image" and that got me to figured out what specific idea I'm trying to convey and what stand I will take in my thesis. I started out asking the question:
How the media affect women definiton on what beauty is?
My hypothesis was: the media change their perspective that they need to look a specific way to feel beautiful and accepting in this society.
My stand on the question:
If you ask any young girls nowadays what do they want to like physically. Most of them will tell you they want to lose weight or I want to look like this famous person. Their answer has to do with how the media portraying what beauty is. For decades being beautiful is to look thin, has a flawless face, and more. With the newer generation, we forget what’s the true meaning of beauty is. Instead we are being blinded with the lies that are being drilled into our mind by this society. From high fashion to celebrities they are representing what girls see in their eyes as beauty. When a celebrity gained weight it is a controversy and our society make a big deal out of it. Like why is that. Its human nature to gain or lose weight, what important is just being healthy in general. The society we live in is putting pressure on us to look a specific way. On and magazines we are seeing ads for diet supplement, meal plan, exercise video, and more. On the other hand there are ads telling us to consume different products into our bodies.
2.Leads & Academic Intro Start
This assignment helped me to write an interesting introduction that helped me catch the readers attention. Usually I had a tough time writing a thesis because I tend to focused on an academic intro instead rather then a story that lead to my topic. There is nothing bad about an academic intro; however, it can bored the readers out. When I wrote this paper I was able to create a character that suffered from an eating disorder due to the pressure in the media.
I started my introduction with a poem that described a model struggle to be thin.
"All she is is just skin and bones. Her body has no curves. Her face is full of makeup. She's wearing Chanel. A model is tall and thin. She thinks she's beautiful and the media agrees, too much starving to be what she could not be."
Then I continued with story of a girl who suffered with an eating disorder without knowing it.
"A teenage girl standing in the bathroom looking at her own reflection and questioned herself why does she look this way. She wore size three jeans and wishing she was a size zero. Looking through the pages of Vogue magazine she envied the models’ bodies; hoping that she will able to have that slim figure one day. After her meals she walked to the bathroom and makes herself throw up. She continued to do this after every meal until she stepped onto the scale and see she dropped five pounds, to her that still isn’t good enough. With not enough nutrition she still continued to exercise, but without the energy she started to weaken. As the week goes by she is much thinner and her complexion is getting worst, but to her that’s the definition of “beauty”. When we look at her, she is incredibly beautiful, but her thinness isn’t. In reality she struggled with bulimia, but she doesn’t agree."
3.Prospectus
This assignment was the beginning to my research paper, it got me to get the whole idea of my paper. I was able to figured out the purpose to my paper and the audience that I'm targeting to. I was able to focused my paper on how the media affect the ideal body image among women. In addition I was able to figured out how I'm going to illustrate my idea through the paper. For example; what kind of research I'm going to use to back up my thesis? Overall this assignment got me started to find the main focus on my paper. The Prospectus got me to focus on the purpose of the paper. Which are these two question:
How the media is the underlying cause of the different type of eating disorders?
How do the media harm our society by portraying the thin-ideal image as "beauty"?
The rest of the prospectus are my plan on doing my research and how I will relate my topic to the readers.
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