I have never had an eating disorder. I, like many other females, learn at young age that I am supposed to be beautiful, thin and bubbly. I grew up with a Barbie doll like most girls from ages three to eleven do, an early role model figure that is "unattainable in real life" (qtd. Dittrich about-face.org). If Barbie were a real woman she would have to walk on all fours due to her proportions. Then I grew up into a world filled with super thin men and women. If our society as a whole uses skeletal people to display everything from cars to clothes, the population will believe that being undernourished is what we are supposed to look like. I had never really thought about how these images affected me. But, I am now a five foot, six inch, 135 pound weighing girl who feels completely overweight. Sadly, I too strive for that perfect body.
One out of every four college aged women has an eating disorder. A survey of 232 female undergraduate students at a large Midwestern university in 1994 found that about fifteen percent of the women met criteria for disordered eating---signs of anorexia or bulimia, body dissatisfaction, a drive for thinness, perfectionism and a sense of personal ineffectiveness (Harrison 1994). Their condition could be due to the fact that the women they see in magazines that they are trying to mimic have eating disorders themselves. Models twenty years ago weighed eight percent less than the average woman. Today they weigh twenty-three percent less (qtd. Dittrich, about-face.org). These women are making money from starving themselves. It's simply barbaric. It's funny to me that these are the women we call perfect, when they are actually airbrushed to their untouchable perfection.
"A study, which appeared recently in the Journal of Communication shows that magazine reading and television viewing, especially exposure to thinness-depicting and thinness-promoting media, significantly predict symptoms of women's eating disorders," (Harrison 1994).
From what I can tell, I am a talented musician. ... But given by the reaction of my peers, it would seem that I excel at a much higher rate than they do. ... I hesitate because I know what I play wont please me. ... I like the music we play and enjoy the company of my friends. We will sit down and in between goofing off we crank out a song. ...
We all hate the government, either cause we hate paying taxes or we get to many parking tickets, everybody at one time or another wishes we didn't have government at all. This brings to mind the question why do we have government? And what the world would be like without government, or in a State of Nature as it has come to be called. ... Many have speculated on what it would be like in such a world. ... I myself tend to agree more with Hobbes perspective of the State of Nature, I feel that people are naturally greedy, militias and self serving and without any kind of government to make...
Think about what children are taught to say on Halloween night. ... It is preposterous to think that it is encouraged to teach a child that they can get what they want by blackmailing adults. This fosters the schoolyard bully mentality of "do it, or else!" Under normal circumstances this type of behavior would not be tolerated, but on Halloween we ignore its faults and look the other way. ... Very rarely do children ask for candy using the word "please", the colloquial saying before asking for anything. ...
What Do Women Really Want? ... We all work hard in the jobs that we do in our everyday lives. ... She can't hear what is in your mind. ... If you do not know how to do this, while you are at the library or bookstore, get a book on how to please a woman. ... If this is not happening, and she still does not seem to be the happy woman described above, either you have not followed the steps correctly, or your woman is not please-able, and I wish you luck in finding a new one....
" Decisions do determine destiny.... Brothers and sisters, please remember that we too have our armor. ... " Gaining courage to choose the right is not something you can receive just because we were commanded to do so. ... The bus was filled with boys my age who do not hold similar standards to those of the church. ... To stay on the straight and narrow path is not always the easy thing to do but I promise that we can attain eternal glory if we do. ...
ID Please As an American, the age 18 allows you to vote, join the military, sign legally binding contracts, and even smoke. ... If we were to lower the age, alcohol would become more accepted and people would not feel as if they were doing something special. ... What sense does this make? ... From what I have learned maturity comes with experience. ... From what I have learned maturity comes with experience. ...
Back home, her mother was panicking "OH MY GOD WHERE IS ALEXIS I KNEW I SHOULDN"T HAVE PUNISHED HER BUT IT IS WHAT MOTHERS DO!" ... We had the best time until the party had come to an end. ... Although she had had fun being able to do what she wanted it was becoming boring and the streets were not safe to sleep on. ... Alexis decided she would stay underground for a few days and relax, but back home, her mother did not know what to do. ... The ad read: Alexis darling, please come home, all is forgiven. ...
Please God take me now! ... After spending about three hours at dinner, we decided that it was time to go home and get dressed for our night in the town, and oh what a night it was. ... I was so drunk that all I could do was moan; I could not say a word. ... My friends where so worried about me that they stayed the whole night to make sure that I was ok, if it where not for them I do not know what would have happened to me. I do not drink anymore, and it made me value my friends. ...
So there we were, a nice summer night with nothing to do. Sitting on top of our cars, we tried to think of some ideas for what we could do. ... Cory decided this order to please both Ashley and me. ... "No, here what?" ... I do not exactly know what the cause of the buzzing noise, or the government papers, or the rocking mirror, but I do know that we all witnessed this horror together. ...
