Running head: MEDIA INFLUENCE ON CHLDREN EATING DISORDERS Media Influence on Children Eating Disorders Media Influence on Children: Body Image and Eating Disorders Media is many things; media is education, knowledge, news, culture, corruption. This has been used as a form of pursing or influencing young children into believing that what they see is real. Commercials are used to tell children what to buy or what is “in”. There are several messages that that the media sends out to young children, some of them beneficial and some fraudulent. Women in particular have been portrayed to be flawless and tremendously thin, and if you are not then you must become flawless and thin.
Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, Today, I would like to discuss the concept of media violence and its futuristic, damaging effects on children and adolescents in general. Media violence, in my opinion, has a negative influence on the generations after forth, changing their personalities and their brain development and eventually bringing those negative qualities within them to the real world. Raise your hand if you had ever watched a movie that contains some form of violent means. Well, according to National TV Study, approximately 40% of the television shows portray the attractive protagonists performing aggressive actions. 75% of the “brutal” scenes depict the characters revealing no signs of remorse, consequence, or criticism.
Not only do the competitions cost a large amount of money but they also cost the children their confidence and other emotional issues. Competitions claim to boost self esteem and encourage self confidence but they do the opposite if you are not the winner. The pressure of winning put on them by their parents causes more stress than normal children would have to handle. An article in Current Events titled “Kids on the Catwalk?” states, “Some psychologists say pageants for kids are inappropriate. ‘Pageants force children to focus too much on themselves,’
A great deal of the American public became extremely paranoid, and the general atmosphere of the era was nihilistic due to fear of Communist infiltration. McCarthy successfully exploited the relevant situation in order to rise in power; he became considerably popular in the media and gained a reputation as a fear monger. Therefore, when television reporter Edward R. Murrow of See It Now gradually exposed McCarthy for his unethical use of the media, he was commonly viewed as the only one brave enough to speak out against him. The plan worked, but at a great cost. McCarthy eventually lost much of his power, but due to financial troubles with NBC, See It Now was discontinued.
This increasing trend of cosmetic surgeries in America attribute to media and famous public figures who promote cosmetic surgery as corrective surgery. Teenagers believe that their appearance has to be flawless, similar with celebrities as a result about 326,000 teenagers had plastic surgery in 2004. The author suggests that it’s the parent’s responsibility to teach their children about the damages of cosmetic surgery, also parents should not support their children by paying the bills for unnecessary plastic surgery. Teenagers are not well informed about the damages of cosmetic surgeries consequently they put their lives are at high risk. Teenagers only focus on the cosmetic aspect of the procedures they desire, and forget that it is actually a surgery.
For starters, she alleged on a visit to a downtown fashion school Friday, Garcetti hid his Beverly Hills oil drilling investment, took campaign money from a felon and did the bidding of the powerful Department of Water and Power union at City Hall in a way that she never would, despite his accusations to the contrary. Now they are in a race to win and pointing fingers of ethics towards each other. While they are wasting tax payers money on their campaigns but they have all this negative publicity in the news. Greuel claims that Garcetti had DWP union paid to get her elected. Would a proper community want somebody like this as their mayor?
The author of this context has used different techniques to suck the audience into believing about this newspaper article. He uses ways of scaring the readers by telling them the truth about what is happening in the very place they live at. He tells the readers that their very teenaged children may be a part of organised crime by buying drugs and getting into a lot of debt to very dangerous people. They may start at about 100$ for a ‘point of methamphetamine’ and then get addicted to the drugs and end up getting into very huge debts. He also states that you may get a knock at 2am at your door with a thug demanding money, and the only way to pay them without getting killed is to sell businesses to pay back the mounting debt that their children have gotten into.
An extract from the Newson report says: ‘The principle that what is experienced... will have some effect on some people is an established one, and is the reason why the media find it worthwhile to spend millions of pounds on advertising.’ This claims a response to the murder of James Bulger by two 10 year old boys (where they watched Chucky: Play time and were influenced by what they saw). This quote suggests that advertising giants believe that the audience react to what they see in the media, which means that they cannot miss the opportunity to use it to their advantage. They believe that the audience cannot think for themselves and will copy anything that they see on TV, in print products or even in games. Although many people believe that audiences are easily manipulated; the evidence to prove it to be correct is inconclusive. People have not found a clear and positive correlation between the media (the cause) and the action (the effect).
In “Generation Y-Not? Today’s Teen Work Ethic Are Hazy” Adam Stone states that shocking statistics reveal that teens feel comfortable about lying and cheating to get ahead. Statistics twenty four percent thought that cheating on a test is acceptable on some level. Also thirty eight percent of those surveyed say it is sometimes necessary to plagiarize, lie, or even go to the extreme of physical violence to get ahead. Theft in the workplace will erode profits.
Is it the only method of discipline that works? Now what a lot of parents don’t know is that, not only does smacking have short term mental and physical effects, it also has long term psychological effects which is why I believe smacking should be banned. Research shows that smacking undermines children’s confidence, weakens their emotional relationships and encourages the use of violence to solve any conflict with people around them. Psychologists say that alcoholism, depression, masochistic fantasies and suicidal thoughts arise from being smacking during childhood. Let’s just stop for a minute and think about this, how on earth can we expect children to play with other children without hitting each other, if we as