Proposal:
I plan on researching the impact that media has on teenagers and on how they look at themselves and their body images. I mainly want to focus on specific things that media causes teenagers to do to their bodies such as become anorexic, bulimic, or in some instances want plastic surgery. I am interested in media such as magazine covers, TV shows, and how people are portrayed as looking. Especially teenage girls are my main research and how they look at actress’s and see the “perfect body” and feel as though they must look exactly like that.
Thesis:
In our culture today teenagers are inundated by the mass media with pictures, videos, and advertisements of perfect body images and what our society deems attractive. This influx of information can cause the youth of our society to strive for unrealistic body expectations, which can be dangerous when great lengths are taken to achieve them such as, but not limited to, anorexia, bulimia, plastic surgery, and other harmful methods.
Main Points:
· Different types of media
· What does society define as the “perfect body”
· Anorexia
· Bulimia
· Plastic surgery
· The extent that teenagers take to become the “perfect” image
Conclusion:
Over the past couple of years media has really begun put a stressor on the importance of looking good to succeed in life. Magazine covers, images on TV, and even articles you read are all about how to lose weight, how to make your face more beautiful, or how to change your body so that you can become this perfect person. The media does not show the true person and the extent that teenagers now are taking to become this perfect person is a big problem. Media has caused teenagers to strive for unrealistic expectation and can lead to serious issues such a bulimia, anorexia, and even the want of plastic surgery.
Very,interesting. Good start. I just wondering is that going be too much to cover. The eating disorder (anorexia and bulimia) aspect is pretty good, but how will you fit plastic surgery in to it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if your main points are in the order you are going to do your paper, but if so, I think it would be more affected to put "the extent that teenagers take to become the perfect image" up with the eating disorders. I feel like they are almost a subpoint of that topic.
ReplyDeleteFor the media part of the paper, it would be cool in you added exactly how much airbrushing goes into pictures. Like for the images we have to add into our paper, you could use a before retouching and after.
Good topic!
I think you will be able to find a lot of good information on this. It also might be a good idea to talk about how young people start to worry about their weight. Statistics would also be a very powerful thing to include in your paper.
ReplyDeleteGood topic, you might want to narrow your topic down just so that you won't be too broad in your paper. Use lots of examples!
ReplyDeleteYou are going to be able to get a lot of good information on this topic, just make sure you don't have a subject that is too broad. Once again, great topic!
ReplyDeleteReally interesting topic that can have a ton written and researched about it. I like how you're focusing a lot on the media's influence. But yes, make sure your topic is not too broad.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of those topics everyone has heard a little bit about but few people have ever heard a lot on. It will be really nice to get fully fleshed out ideas and connections. You may also want to mention how being so thin only recently became desirable. A poster in the Union said that Marilyn Monroe was apparently a size 10, and she was the icon of sexy.
ReplyDeleteGreat comments.
ReplyDeleteI like that you are only going to analyze the portrayal of teenage females. However, Andrea, choose one show or one magazine or one celebrity or one whatever to discuss in your analysis.
-Candace