This editing software magically created human beings to appear absolutely perfect. Females should not have to feel that they have to appear perfect because each person has their own individual beauty inside and out. ... To photographers Photoshop is more than just software used for editing photographs, but it is a way to create a new form of art. As well as creating flawless art, Photoshop is less time consuming than creating a flawless photograph without its use. ... Majority of females of all ages are convinced that if they do not look as perfect as the women portrayed in the media then they...

• Word Count: 1587
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

John Berger's "Ways of Seeing," examines the role of the female body in art. ... She is skinny, fit, and has perfect hair and skin. ... The models in the VS Perfect Body advertisement are an example of the 5% of women. ... Advertisements, like the one on the left, set an unrealistic standard for a man's perfect body. ... Berger does an excellent job explaining the role women had in art. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Handsome men, and skinny women with perfect skin are plastered on practically every other page, and sometimes the product that is being sold is barely even visible in the ad. ... Art can be used as a means of advertising also. ... When an artist is composing their work of art their influence is what they are feeling inside. ... Conventional advertising, art, and even the way we advertise ourselves can affect us, and the people in our lives, in whichever way the producer or artist hopes that it will. ...

• Word Count: 1622
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This objectification, which manifests itself in the extraordinary emphasis on a woman's physical attractiveness in American culture, as well as in the almost continuous display of the nude or seminude female body in art, advertising, and the mass media, constitutes an eroticizing of sexual inequality - as opposed to merely a celebrating of female sexuality - because it implicitly imposes a male perspective on the definition of female sexuality. ... The establishing, by men, of a perfect female physical norm, was simply a solution to the women's movement and reproductive freedom. ...

• Word Count: 1525
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Advertising is defined as a paid, mass-mediated attempt to persuade. Advertising can be done for a product, service, idea, person, or an organization. One important factor to keep in mind is that no advertisement contains one single message that all of the members of the audience will interpret ali...

• Word Count: 1931
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As a result, human expression from a specific time period, whether it be art or advertising, usually reflects this common value. ... A perfect illustration of this marketing ploy can be seen in a print advertisement which The Shredded Wheat Company published 1n 1913. ...

• Word Count: 2026
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Every day, many women are attacked with the media's idea of the "perfect " body. ... From "The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and The Concept of Art," "Teenagers are believed to be among the heaviest users of many forms of mass media, particularly, specialized magazines. ...

• Word Count: 2476
• Approx Pages: 10
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate