What does magazine covers tell us?
Teen, Seventeen, Glamour, and PopStar are just a few names of the popular magazines. Magazines are everywhere showing celebrities faces plastered all over the cover. Do they really tell the truth? People never really know what goes on in the Los Angeles and Hollywood area. All these magazines broadcast certain lifestyles that people should live or what is in style. Magazines have a huge impact on our teenage society today.
The book “Cut” begins with a girl named Callie. Callie cuts herself and is brought to a rehab center who seeks treatment. Callie does not speak in her group sessions. She abuses herself by cutting her arm with sharp objects or whatever she can find. Callie blames herself for her brothers sickness of asthma. Realizing that Callie, who did not give her brother asthma starts to change her life at rehab. Callie starts to speak in her sessions and try to make her life a better opportunity to live longer.
Personally, I have had a friend who use to starve herself. She thought she had to be like the people she would run around with. She was beautiful in every way. I told her time after time that we needed to get her help. The one day she passed out in front of my own eyes I knew something was very wrong. She ended up going to the hospital getting treatments from the doctors. She read plenty of magazines which broadcasted that diets are good for your body. One broadcast was lose weight in under ten days. Everybody should know that it was a lie. She has changed her life in many ways and looks a lot healthier. People should realize that don’t ever believe what you see.
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Jessica, this is halliek and i just wanted to comment and let you know that i agree with you completly. I dont feel that people should look up to celeberties so much. Because celeberties are not always perfect and they can cause people to do things that should not.
Dove is trying to combat this constant pressure from the media to present unreasonable body images--ones that have often been digitally enhanced. Are you familiar with the Dove campaign for "Real Beauty"? Check out their website: they have online commercials. It's nice to know someone in the corporate world recognizes the poison being aimed at young girls and is willing to step up and do something about it.
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