1. UNDER PRESSURE SHANNON ASHBOCKER SUE BRIGGS ENGLISH 2010 APRIL 11, 2011

2. FLAWLESS RIGHT?

3. NOT Advertisement ads can change a lot of things before actually putting a picture up for the advertisement. They can spend half a day preparing a woman for her shoot and then change the pictures using a computer program. Making the skin clearer Changing the shape of face Making hair look fuller Etc.

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5. WHAT IS THE MEDIA DOING TO US? They are making us believe in perfection. They only want us to buy more things! They are making us believe that we are ugly and the only way to be pretty is to buy their product.

6. INFLUENCES The main media includes: TV Magazines Both of these things have advertisements and tell stories about people who live perfect lives. The media is almost showing us how to live a “perfect” life.

7. TV INFLUENCE The Average American watches 153 hours of TV in one month. Average time kids spend watching TV per day = 4 hours 66% of children (ages 10 to 16) surveyed say that their peers are influenced by TV shows

8. AFFECTING OUR MINDS? If we are watching TV so much, it must be affecting us somehow. Whether the advertisements make us want to buy something or the shows on television make us want to be like the characters.

9. EXAMPLE On last weeks episode of Desperate Housewives one of the main characters influenced her husband to get away from his friends company for another better paying job. She eventually even lied to him to try to make him go for the better job.

10. MAGAZINE INFLUENCES We may not necessarily buy a magazine every day, but every time we go to the grocery store we do see the front covers of those magazines. Sometimes they even tempt us to want to read more with their intriguing headlines.

11. MAGAZINES Seventeen magazine Popular teenage magazine supposedly for girls ages 13-21 More like girls ages 11-16

12. SEVENTEEN Advertisements, new trends, hair ideas, make-up ideas, ways to get boyfriends, etc. Problems? Trends change with every magazine Always advertising a new product to use Help reader get a boyfriend and break up with a boyfriend on the next page Have an exercise section, but the girl doing the exercises does not look like she has been doing those exercises.

13. US MAGAZINE Magazine that talks about celebrities. Mainly talks about their drama Usually has at least one touching story

14. BAD INFLUENCE The other day I was reading through this magazine when they had a section about plastic surgeries. It talked about which ones you should get and which ones you shouldn’t get… It included eyes, nose, lips, and your butt.

15. WHAT DO WE DO? I’m not saying don’t watch TV or read a magazine. Just don’t buy into the scam of buying everything that is advertised! Is someone is having troubles, let them know that they beautiful and there is nothing wrong with them! http://www.dove.us/#/features/videos/default.aspx[cp- documentid=7049578http://www.dove.us/#/features/videos/default.aspx[cp- documentid=7049578]

16. SOURCES http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/facts/mediafacts.asp http://www.epinions.com/review/mags-Seventeen/mags- review-57B2-99E5C8-38BF6017-prod5 http://www.dove.us/#/features/videos/videogallery.aspx