On a typical Sunday afternoon, the Brandon Mall food court is packed with hungry people and the stores are crowded with customers anxious to spend their hard-earned money. The mall is full of people in all shapes and sizes, young and old, beautiful and ordinary. If you pay close attention, you may see a 300 pound man - his shirt four sizes too small, revealing stretch marks - the scars from too many years of over-eating. ... So many people, each with a different history and story to tell. ... While at the Brandon Mall (or anyplace there's a crowd), people watchers can discover a lot ab...

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Do you think people would even look twice if these models were what we call average or were overweight? ... This is where eating disorders come into play. ... Vivian Meehan, suffer from eating disorders" (Zimmerman 39) . The extremes that people go through to be what the media feels is beautiful goes on and on. If society could recognize beauty in all shapes and forms, more people would lead happier lives. ...

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" - Marilyn Monroe There are some people who believe that the fashion industry has no correlation with the way women perceive them selves (Hooke). ... They're ironically posting faces of destructive people as the epitome of happiness (Renes). The media is indirectly glamorizing eating disorders by using celebrities with eating disorders to advertise for their brands. ... Pro eating disorder terms have also been developed. ... By definition they are people that want to develop an eating disorder as a technique to lose weight. ...

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Many people throughout the world believe that the myths of their cultures blame the first man or woman for the expulsion from paradise and the origin of evil in the world. ... In no way did God command them not to eat from the tree. ... God simply told them not to eat from the tree because "in the day that you eat from the of knowledge of good and evil you shall surely die"(Genesis 2:17). ... Many people believe that when the serpent approached Eve, its goal was to tempt Eve into eating from the tree. ... In Greek mythology, people attribute the presence of evil and suffering in the ...

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If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die." ... This simple switch in the sequence of events puts a different perspective on how people view Eve and the decisions that she made in the garden. ... If Eve is constantly being looked at as the unobedient and ignorant type, there's no wonder why it is such a struggle for women to be viewed as valued and intelligent people in Christianity. ... Throughout this video, Eve is characterized as a ditzy and carefree woman who is coerced into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. ... While the video depicted Adam as being inquisitive and carefu...

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Yet the social fact that to be thin and beautiful means success and happiness is shared by large number of people with power. If people didn't think that then why are we buying and supporting all these products that are advertised. Advertising is the foundation of mass media. 1 in 5 young women today have an eating disorder; this seems to be a pattern within a large group of young girls. ... This is a terrible and harmful message to be sending to young girls, yet this is the message we send and then wonder why they have eating disorders. ... I hope that as time goes on more people will ...

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Men & Women's Idea of the Perfect Date Contrast Paper Point-to-point Dating is a common subject when it comes to people over the age of 15. ... Most dates are fun for both people, but some are just enjoyable for one member of the date and not the other. ... Men love eating a pizza at the house and watching a sporting event on the television. ... Men usually just go back to what they were doing before the date: watching TV, eating a bag of chips, and sleeping. ...

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This thinking that models are the ultimate beauty and that we should all strive to look like them is what can cause eating disorders in teenagers. ... We should have people of every size in fashion magazines, and then maybe girls will learn that everyone is different, and perfection is inevitably unattainable....

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Sadly, as a result, this repeated exposure, the "thin" ideal, can lead many young girls in triggering eating disorders, depression, low self-esteem, stress, and suicide. ... For example, I was in alarmed to learn that "eighty percent of 10-year-old American girls diet; more than five million Americans suffer from eating disorders and ninety percent of those are adolescent and young adult women; the number one magic wish for young girls age 11-17 is to be thinner; and between elementary and high school, the percentage of girls in the U.S. who are "happy with the way I am" drops from 60% to 29%....

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Some consequences include eating disorders,sexual activity,and alcohol abuse. Eating disorders include anorexia, bulimia and binge, which is what over 24 million people suffer through the years. ... Many things can be done to help people with low self esteem especially woman. ... Not only do regular people struggle with body image famous and attractive people does two. ... Even when she wanted to change her roles and become a serious actor, the film industries wouldn't approve of that and kept her playing the "dumb blonde" Attractive people mostly get the benefits less attractiv...

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As one can see, many of the negative ideas commonly held by Westerners in regard to Islam are not typical of the teaching of Mohammed, but rather, practices sustained by people who incorrectly claim Islam as their religion. ... A wife was to eat only after her husband had finished, and she had to eat from his dirty plate. ... They were even forced to live in solitude amongst her family, not allowed to eat with them of even leave her room while others were home. ...

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Whereas my father just wanted to read the newspaper and eat his breakfast before he went to work. His reasoning to this was because at work he interacted with people all day long, he did not want to have a discussion with my mother first thing in the morning. ...

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On Sunday Morning many religious people go to church. Other people just stay at home and watch television. Yet there are another people that are between these two groups. ... She is a woman at her house eating breakfast thinking about how her neighbors are at church and how she isn't. ... To worship people should not have to go anywhere. ...

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Abortion is used as a solution to an intimate situation made between two people. Some people choose this method to solve the solution because they feel it is necassary; some use it as a form of birth control. ... Just because it is in the woman's body, it is still breathing, and eating. ... Were people not taught that "if you do the crime you pay the time"? ... Obviously, people think different from I and may or may not agree. ...

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The uniquely styled short story primarily focuses on a woman living in what seems to be a one-bedroom apartment, jumping from job to job, eating anything she can to survive. ... When Diane explains her gluttonous attraction to Oreo's, it can be analyzed that she lacks general female concern regarding her own vanity as she says "I remember the winter in January I ate nothing but Oreos. if you know what oreos are, they're those chocolate cookies two of them at a time stuck with sugar in the middle and very addictive one of the best ways to get through i found was this of eating Or...

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Yes there may be those he-man women that all they do is live, eat and drink lifting, but they are not a normal, everyday women. ... Many people may have different views on each thing. People may say that women should be allowed to play in any male driven sport or that they should just stick to there own sports. ...

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These organizations and activities made a new look for women and changed people's immediate perception of women's place in society. ... Under the pressure and the negative influence of handful women going on hunger strike while in jails and were forced eating by their captors, President Wilson had to agree with the suffragists because this was the only way to keep up the efficiency of workforce during that important wartime, since women were engaged in a lot of war-related work. ... The role of gender may change all the time due to society needs, so the message would never be outdate...

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Adverting the truth People have said that advertising does not affect them in any way shape or form. ... To me it seems that people put to much emphasis on what everyone else looks like. ... One out of five women have an eating disorder today. ...

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Arthur complained to his lovely wife, Ada, that he is tired of eating poached egg on toast, which caused him have to prepare himself a breakfast everyday from that day on because Ada ignored him. ... Some people may think Ada is a petty woman because of a small incident and ignored her husband for a long time, but Arthur just want to let Ada know that breakfast is very important to him and wanted her to understand him. ...

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Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, was one of the most intelligent and intellectual women of all time. However, she could be noted as being one of the most self-centered women as well. Using her beauty and cleverness to woo Caesar and bare his child in order to regain her thrown, proves how far she and ...

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Her extreme desperation and aggravation is played out in a monologue she delivers during the play: When I gave birth I remember so clearlyshe came out and clambered right onto my breast and tried to eat me, she was so hungry, so hungry it terrified me – her hunger. ... And not hunger for food but wanting to eat other people? ... Though the play is set in the 19th century, when Ruhl wrote the play, she came in with the mindset of a "contemporary woman writing with subsequent knowledge that informed her view of the periodIn some ways, people then were innocent of sexuality compared to...

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Hilda would also lock the bathroom door overnight so that Minnie would not be able to get the cold water she wanted, and when she woke up in the morning, the breakfast meal would not be pleasant to eat. ... It is cheap because the society and people made it such. ... It produces a diversity of groups of people. ... We are people living today. ... In the same way, we are people who needed other people in order to survive. ...

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According to Miriam-Webster Online, a double standard is "a situation in which two people, groups, etc., are treated very differently from each other in a way that is unfair to one of them" (Double Standard). ... This harsh reality that people actually may choose to stay in an abusive relationship is sometimes out of love for the other individual. ... As the story progresses, however, she begins to limit her by telling her things that she cannot do: "don't sing benna in Sunday school; you mustn't speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions; don't eat frui...

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I think people should hold themselves to the same standards as they want the one they marry to hold themselves to. ... You start arguing at little things such as who gets to sleep on what side of the bed, and where we going to go out to eat. ... When people diss her stand up for her. ... Most people of our generation either starts having sex either in high school if not than in college. ...

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As the rate of reported anorexia and bullemia cases increase, it shows more than ever how desperate people are to have the "perfect" body. ... This mis-representation is just one of the reasons that women fear eating; the simple fact that they need to have the body that is shown everyday in the magazines can cause malnutrition. In an age where gym memberships and weight loss drugs are at a peak, it is obvious that people are highly self-conscious about their bodies and their health. This is a positive and healthy hobby, but when it is driven by what people see in the media, it can be dangerous...

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