Some girls feel that the media pressures them to have a perfect body. Advertising images have also been accused of setting unrealistic ideals for males. ... Many males are insecure about their physical appearance as advertising and other media images raise the standard and idealize well built men. ... Advertisers need to understand the consequences to their ads that they are displaying to the teenagers of today, both male and female. ... So think about the millions of teens who are unsatisfied with their body image or wardrobe and help them out. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

John Berger's "Ways of Seeing," examines the role of the female body in art. ... Their bodies become the product. ... She is submissive, and this shows the spectator (most likely a male) that women are meant to submit to him. More often than not, women are the models for male products. ... Their bodies are used to sell a product. ...

• Word Count: 1423
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Everyday when you turn on the television or read a magazine, you see pictures of males and/or females. ... The emphasis is often especially on the dehumanization and stereotyping of women via their physical body and class status. ... Through these images, we develop a sense of how males and females are supposed to behave. ... Some activities that help distinguish what males and females should do are as 3 follows: men are to work for family income, complete yard work, and weight lifting. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Society's stereotypes are for male and females about the way they look, act, and the roles they play. In society males are supposed to look a certain way. ... Most males in magazines are physically fit. Theses males sometimes advertise drinking and smoking. ... The story says,"When I was a boy, the men I knew labored with their bodies...

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• Grade Level: High School

Women, as well as men, are so convinced that the female body is supposed to be flawless. ... This is reflected well in an insert from an article written by Margaret Atwood called The Female Body. ... This is obviously true, because society does not have the desire to see the male body. ... Generally one could assume that no female body is perfect. ... The male perversions could also be linked to the increase in surgical "enhancements" which I discussed earlier. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The targeted audience for this magazine are in the age group between 18-25; mostly young urban males; directed towards people who have a desire to fit in, or to do what everyone else is doing, the magazine lures them with the luxuries of the hip-hop lifestyle. ... Its intention is to arouse the male, hence, the name "eye candy", but it's sending the wrong message because it's selling "sex"; but more importantly, it label women as these sexual beings or objects, and the consequences are usually seen by the disrespect shown towards women in the media, like the music videos. The so-cal...

• Word Count: 1286
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• Grade Level: High School

Sex ads are defined as any type of advertising that shows pictures of partial nudity with wording that relates to the body in a sexual way, usually portraying women. ... Women in society start believing this and it results in a lower self-esteem and it could eventually lead to male domination. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

There is a reason that they put that girl in that ad because the advertisers know that the majority of people reading the magazine is male. ... The girl that they used in this particular ad had somewhat of a perfect body. ... But I do see a reason why they would have it in a sports magazine because a portion of it's readers are males that don't workout. ...

• Word Count: 1937
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

With Bova's role in the recent movie "Under the Tuscan Sun" as Diane Lane's love interest, Gap assumes that the audience has either heard of him or is attracted to his strong, healthy body. ... The commercial's appeal to men tries to convince them to buy the jeans for themselves, but the appeal to women places thoughts to either convince their male friend/boyfriend to buy the jeans or to go out and buy the jeans as a gift. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Thesis Statement: In the Philippine newspaper industry, it is the elite class that ultimately has power over the media. INTRODUCTION There is a notion that the Philippine press is one of the freest in Asia. On the other hand, it is common knowledge that the Philippine media is commercial...

• Word Count: 3628
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School