Pretty+Little+Monsters

‍Name: Remy Fairchild

‍‍‍‍‍Outline:

 * l. Introduction-**
 * The desire for beauty is making women, men and children go to an extent that may be unhealthy. The obsession with beauty is completely and utterly harmul. It is not only harmful physically, but mentally as well.
 * II. Body Paragraph #1 -**
 * America runs on appearance. "Classical Western philosophers has regarded beauty as one of the three fundamental concepts of human understanding: truth (and falsehood), good(and evil), and Beauty(and ugliness)." (Lorand)
 * Seventeen Magazine is influencing girls the wrong way. "Flip through any magazine for teenage girls, and the message is hard to miss: Beauty equals long legs, perfect hair, and, above all, the half-starved look of someone who subsists solely on bean sprouts." (Goode)
 * Students with acne are more likely to be bullied than a student with clear skin. "...research suggests that mental health troubles may stem from having bad skin in the first place." (Shah)
 * III. Body Paragraph #2 -**
 * Young people are dieting. "... relationship between reading women's beauty and fashion magazines and the use of pathogenic dieting methods, diet pills, skipping two meals a day, intentional vomiting, and restricting calories to 1,200 or less a day." (Brown)
 * Many are becoming anorexic. "Disordered eating includes unhealthy and extreme weight-control behaviors, such as fasting or skipping meals and binge eating." (Brown)
 * 1,000 males and over 1,200 females are forcing themselves to throw up and take dieting pills to become thin. "Researchers anaylzed data from 1,030 males and 1,257 females who were followed for 10 years beginning in either early adolescence (about 13 years old) or middle adolscence (about 16 years old). About half of the teen girls and about one fourth of the teen boys reported dieting..." (Brown)


 * IV. Body Paragraph #3 -**
 * Billboards, magazines, and commercials are bad influences for a woman's self- esteem. "Psychologists have long argued that these relentless images encourage excessive dieting and poor body image in teenage girls." (Goode)
 * Women don't realise these models they see are fake. "Other people who work in fields such as acting, modeling, the media, or politics, find that personal attractiveness is crucial to a successful job performance." (Lerner)
 * Women turn to surgery to fix and insecurities. This is a costly and risky way to do it. "Some people have unrealistic expectations of cosmetic surgery and think the surgery will solve all of their problems." (Lerner)


 * **V. Conclusion -**
 * The reason for all of this crazy dieting, beauty enhancements and insecurities are from the media and how they percieve the meaning of beauty. The race to be beautiful will never end. It can only get worse. Especially as the generations go on. The only way to help this problem is to spread the word that you are beautiful. No matter what you look like, you are gorgeous. Because beauty isn't on your face, it is all in your heart.

Rough Draft:
The desire for beauty is making women, men and children go to an extent that may be unhealthy. Americans are getting to the point were the need for beauty is taking lives and becoming a major health hazard. The obsession with beauty is not only harming people physically, but mentally as well. They don't understand the meaning of true beauty. Beauty is only in the eye of the beholder.

America runs on appearance. "Classical Western philosophers has regarded beauty as one of the three fundamental concepts of human understanding: truth (and falsehood), good(and evil), and Beauty(and ugliness)." (Lorand) Why is it that a student with acne has more suicidal thoughts than a student with clear skin? Why is it that an attractive person is more likely to get a job than someone a little less charming? Why is it that the school bully picks on the wimpy and pimply nerd and not the quarterback of the football team? Not only humans do this, so do animals. A cheetah in the wild wouldn't go after the most agile and sturdy zebra in a herd. The cheetah would go for the sluggish and lackadaisical one that is standing all alone. The want to have beautiful things isn't an abnormal trait. Everyone has the ambition.

"Flip through any magazine for teenage girls, and the message is hard to miss: Beauty equals long legs, perfect hair, and, above all, the half-starved look of someone who subsists solely on bean sprouts." (Goode) The message these pictures in magazines are sending young girls are unhealthy. Studies show the cause of young girls using dieting pills, skipping meals, intentionally vomiting, and restricting calories to 1,200 or less a day are because of the horrid message fashion and beauty magazines are giving them. This can cause extreme illness or maybe even death. "Disordered eating includes unhealthy and extreme weight-control behaviors, such as fasting or skipping meals and binge eating." (Brown) Nearly 1,000 males and over 1,200 females are forcing themselves to throw up and take dieting pills to become thin. "Researchers anaylzed data from 1,030 males and 1,257 females who were followed for 10 years beginning in either early adolescence (about 13 years old) or middle adolscence (about 16 years old). About half of the teen girls and about one fourth of the teen boys reported dieting..." (Brown) All of this because of a simple beauty magazine, sending the wrong idea.

Billboards, magazines, and commercials are bad influences for a woman's self- esteem. "Psychologists have long argued that these relentless images encourage excessive dieting and poor body image in teenage girls." (Goode) What they don't know is what those women truly look like without the butt-load of makeup and professional editing and photoshopping. Women don't realise these models they see are fake. "Other people who work in fields such as acting, modeling, the media, or politics, find that personal attractiveness is crucial to a successful job performance." (Lerner) These women envy the models. They want to look just like them. To do this, they go to the only alternative they can find... plastic surgery. This is a costly and risky way to do it. "Some people have unrealistic expectations of cosmetic surgery and think the surgery will solve all of their problems." (Lerner) This may make them feel better about themselves, but deep down inside, they are never truly satisfied.

The reason for all of this crazy dieting, beauty enhancements and insecurities are from the media and how they percieve the meaning of beauty. The race to be beautiful will never end. It can only get worse. Especially as the generations go on. The only way to help this problem is to spread the word that you are beautiful. No matter what you look like, you are gorgeous. Because beauty isn't on your face, it is all in your heart and what you choose to do with it.