Crystal Nichols
English 100 rough draft
Judgement on appearance has become very normal in the world. Even though both men and women are judged by appearance it has weighed more on the female group, causing many of us to become self conscious of ourselves leading us to do what we feel is wanted of us. Women have allowed the media and social groups pressure them into becoming the person that they believe is fit and have ignored the aspects that are unseen creating someone the world around us wants and not what we actually want. Making us uncomfortable in our own body’s.
Most women will spend a lot of time in front of a mirror putting on their makeup to cover a pimple or a blemish, to accent their eyes or to even completely alter their looks. Even though they have just spent a nice portion of the morning plastering chemicals on their face and in their hair they will stand their and criticized themselves to boost confidence, acting as if they have a split personality of one person criticizing and the other complimenting them. Seems how so much time is wrapped up in doing their hair and makeup breakfast and another meal are skipped in fear of gaining a pound or two. Figure means appearance and if they are not representing a nice figure their appearance is ignored, even if it means to starve, purge or even take supplements to stay that way they do. Grance Franke-Ruta said “American women today are victims of a more insidious idea,an idea that underlies the American obsession with self-esteem: the tyrannical ideal of “natural beauty” “our society is to complex indeed,all societies involve such a thick layering of culture over our mallable essence that it is virtually impossible to say what we might be like in a natural state” Ruta stated in her essay on natural beauty.
The Essay on Gullivers Travels And Appearance
Jonathan Swift satirizes the nature of human beings by making the role of physical appearance important. Jonathan Swift ridicules human nature by making an example of Lemuel Gulliver as a Big, small, and out of the ordinary person throughout Gullivers Travels. In Book I, Lemuel Gulliver ends up on the island of Lilliputia. There, he meets a population of small persons, where he is a giant amongst ...
The media has played large rolls into the self consciousness of women by all the super models and celebrities used for make up and clothing advertisements, with all the weight loss commercials and all the hottest celebrities talking about weight loss and how they did it. Every time we flip on the T.V it’s faithful we will see about the new eyeliner that Drew Barrymore is advertising or the shiny lip stick that lasts all night that Byonce is advertising, not to mention the commercials for women attire or Victoria secrets trying to get us to buy the product. So we do , but for some reason that eyeliner don’t make my eyes stick out and the lipstick is not as shiny on me and of course that new Victoria Secret outfit looks horrible on me. I love that commercial with the play boy Bunnie Holly Madison walking into a store to exchange pants for smaller ones cause she lost weight using the diet pill NV. Niranjana Iyer stated “the body i had considered normal was now reveled to be anything but” after she entered America. “One celebrity glossy recently estimated that in a single year actress Jeniffer Aniston spends close to the average women’s annual salary on trainers and other aspects of high level workouts, former tween queen Britany Spears told Operah Winfrey that she used to do between 500 and 1000 crunches a day to perfect her on display abs”
Between all the dieting and pounds of chemicals on our faces and in our hair, no body can actually see who we really are. Personal identity such as personality or intellect are disguised by our looks. We all have masked ourselves and have became or are still trying to become the ideal image that we think the world around us wants by what they have displayed instead of listening to ourselves and becoming who we want. We tend to ignore the fact that some of these ideal images we see are just that “ideal” or fictional and we will never achieve this unrealistic goal we all try to set.
The Term Paper on The American Diet
"You are what you eat", goes a famous saying. And if that is truly the case, then a lot of Americans would appear to be unhealthy, chemically treated, commercially raised slabs of animal flesh. And while that is not a particularly pleasant thought, it is nonetheless a description of the typical American omnivore who survives on the consumption of Big Macs and steak fajitas. But there are ...
The world around us is a vicious cycle of fitting in and rejection. Millions of women and teens struggle to be excepted for themselves but it is not often that this will happen. When we get rejected for being ourselves we change to become what is wanted of us by the influences around us. Some teens who attempt to be themselves get bullied and torment as if they are some sort of prop for a comedy show so they commit suicide to escape the rejection. The U.S has become so engaged in the judgement of how others look that it is first nature to most of us, we never considered background life history may be the reason someones appearance is not except able.”The Girl you just called fat? She is overdosing on diet pills.The Boy you just tripped? He is abused enough at home.That guy you just made fun of for crying? His mother is dying.Are you are against bullying?” We see this more and more often and we are all apart of this rather we know this or not. When we judge a person by their appearance and choose not to take the time to see past that, we are doing exactly what we are trying to prevent, bulling,discrimination,prejudice and the list may go one. Just because we are not physically harming someone does not mean we are not harming them. I know how it feels to the outsider the one who is judged for my appearance and it does hurt, but i had my reasons to why and no one cared to even take the time to acknowledge me until I changed my appearance.