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Her observation rings true to me because while I do not suffer from depression nor have suicidal thoughts, I can still attest to the fact that as I’ve overused my smartphone

I fell my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. Earrings, too, gold and hanging down to her shoulders. Bracelets dangling and making noise when she moves her arm up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits. (Walker 561)

Harrison Davis Mr. Fanara ACP 23 September 2015 Too “Close to the Bone” Summary Roberta Seid, in her article "Too ‘Close to the Bone’": The Historical Context for Women’s Obsession with Slenderness”, examines the positives and negatives of society outlook on obesity. Seids main argument in this article is that societies current perspective on body types are incorrect. Seid argues that the so called “religious” pursuit of having a slender and thin body is becoming way too extreme. She presents the pros and cons on this thin lifestyle.

Magazines, TV, music, books, and movies help one make decisions and take action whether consciously or subconsciously. This large sphere of influence, however, is not always beneficial for those who suffer victim to these forms of public entertainment. The medias version of beauty, shames those who are considered overweight and scares almost everyone into thinking that being thin is the only way to be pretty. Jolene Hart emphasis how important beauty is in the American culture in her book Eat Pretty: Nutrition for Beauty, Inside and Out: “There’s a multi-billion-dollar industry built on helping us achieve greater physical beauty” (Hart 33). By creating this manipulated and untrue image of beauty, the American culture encourages eating disorders like anorexia (undereating) and sustains obesity (overeating).

Also, it shows courage because there are many side effects for stopping an addiction and it takes courage to stand up to it like she did in the

She becomes obsessed with it; she doesn’t take her eyes away from it and stares at it day and

The message on the bracelet could have a strong meaning for many people wearing it. It might not be personal but in support of a relative or friends. Even the material from a bracelet is made have and argument

The relevance comes from wanting your peers to see you wear that bracelet. Walker emphasizes that what you wear and buy communicates with others. Other businesses picked up on the bracelet trend, and different logos started to appear on the elastic. This

Ever wonder how hard women worked in order to obtain the same rights as men? Can you imagine being a female during the nineteenth century and marching to protest the right to vote? Throughout our history, the ability of women has been questioned. Many individuals view women as inferior to men and feel that women are incapable of fulfilling the roles that were originally designed for men. But, even now in the twenty-first century, women still face prejudice and are seen as simple objects.

Ellen’s change in mood and activity were noticeable by her friends who felt she needed to calm down. These findings lead me to believe that the episodes Ellen reported on are hypomanic episodes (American Psychiatric

For those that wear charm bracelets, the charms will hold important symbolic meanings for them, this indicates that the seemingly trivial aspects of the women’s life hold more importance than what readers may have first recognised – they are keeping her alive. Unfortunately, “one day the charms broke.” This meaning that the protection stopped, the shield was broken. This allowing an “unscheduled car…” that was not part of the woman’s usual routine to come in and take her life. This confirming what the reader would’ve thought by the title, that a literal loss is going to occur at some point in the short

She is so undeniably focused on cooking that she neglects the people that she is cooking for. Mrs. Quayle recognizes that she has an addiction, she just doesn’t see the problem with it or why she was losing people because of it. “[She] did not find out for several years that this was the way she had permanently alienated a close friend.” The first step to addiction recovery is identifying the problem and without that essential step, Mrs. Quayle may never

She one day got a phone call to be a guest on one of her favorite infomercials. Obviously excited, she began to obsess over being on the show in her favorite red dress. She is obsessed with the red dress because it reminds her of good times when her husband was still alive and her son was not addicted to drugs. Unfortunately the dress does not fit anymore and she begins to develop another obsession with her weight; she is then prescribed diet pills from her doctor. Once Sara sees that the pills are working she begins to take more than prescribed to speed the process up.

But by a stroke of bad luck, she loses the necklace actually seems to be a symbol of her life, the fickleness, and immaturity of her character. Her

Dr. Laslow says that by session 7 Sarah’s household obsessions and compulsions were almost completely gone. At this point Sarah was able to keep appliances plugged in and only check locks/appliances a maximum of once. Sarah felt like this was more of a normal routine and no longer felt controlled by her household obsessions and compulsions. 8. As the text mentions, obsessions can take on a variety of different forms.