Monday, November 16, 2009

WEEK 8

2. The main idea of the article is how standards of beauty are being imposed on women.

3. 35 percent of children from 6-12 have been on atleast one diet.This means that women and children are impacted by the media . Also In women magazines , 50 percent of adds are weight loss ads, this also has a major impact on women because of media.

4. Researchers generated a computer model of a woman with Barbie-doll proportions because they wanted to show everyone that being that size u can not survive without having many disorders and diseases.this is not natural and is very harmful.

5. I think women should portrayed as they are, unlike all thin in every picture. The true American women should be portrayed in all the pictures. In America how many women are actually that thin and fit. If this nation doesn't have many of those kind of women why have them on the magazines everyone reads