Reaserch Memo #2

Kerri Ann Czerkawskyj

11/29/11

English 2

Ms. Mckoy

Research memo #2

            For my research memo 2 I looked on ebsco host for my articles. I found very good reliable sources to help support my evidence. My first article talks about how the show Toddlers & Tiaras. It is saying that this is causing younger children to have eating disorders. My second article is talking about the effect media has on a women’s body image, and it also goes into details about bulimia.

            Article one is called “Toddlers &Tiaras TOO MUCH TOO SOON? (Cover story)”

In this article it talks about how people that have their children on the show and trying to sexualize their children by dressing them up in risqué outfits, fake teeth, spray tans, wigs, extensions French manicures and, fake eyelashes. According to doctors children in these pageants feel they are not beautiful without these things, which can lead to eating disorders and increase in wanting plastic surgery. This also talks about the cost of the pageants these girls are in. This puts stress on the parents and the children. I feel this article really shows how little things like fake hair can soon turn into fake teeth and fake cleavage. It really is good because it informs people how serious this issue can get.

            Article two is called “LOSING Bodies”. In this article it talks about how the media affects are lives every day from what we eat to what are house looks like. The media affect millions of people worldwide. Women in different countries have problems with their body images, so they get plastic surgery or other procedures to fix things they do not like. In 1995, a television channel started broadcasting in Fiji. It showed imported U.S. shows, such as Friends. By 1998, a mere three years later, 11.9 percent of Fijian adolescent girls were over the toilet bowl with bulimia, where previously none existed. This really shocked me I knew media had an effect on people but not this extreme.

In research memo three I want to find many different sources to help show my point of how mad media affects body image. I know this is a problem in today’s society but I do not think is really looked at, because other problems are going on. I feel if people knew how serious this is there would be more help available and less cases of it.