Does Technology Improve Our Lives

Let’s take a look at the movie, Mean Girls.

When skinny people judge fat people it is not good because it makes them feel bad about themselves. It seems like if you want society to accept you, you have to have a perfect body shape. If society stops criticizing fat people and start helping and accepting them, they will feel like they are actually accepted

As a result of unrealistic standards, teens start to feel bad about themselves. Most photoshopped images depict people having flawless skin, no fat, straight, white teeth, and amazing hair. “Teen girls tend to feel ugly and bad about themselves when they look at photoshopped women because: 1. They feel that they don’t match up to their beauty and perfection. 2.

Another example of how degrading the beauty standards were can be seen in this quote, “‘she is almost pretty to-day’ were words which caught her ears now and then; and how welcome were the sounds! (Austen 3). By hearing this type of talk every day it can be seen as very degrading and can make women feel very self-consciousness about the way they

The media culture have not been helpful with impacting positive body image, rather, has influenced people’s perception of their bodies negatively. The essay “Enhancing Your Body Image” by Rebecca J. Donatella, made known that there are many factors which influence body image and also, suggested ways on how people can build up positive body image. The media and popular culture is one of the factors that influence body image. The media influence body image negatively because it shows and represents unrealistic and perfect bodies of celebrities, not considering what the average American looks like. Another factor that affect body image is family, community and cultural groups; if the society accept people the way they are, it makes people have positive body image.

In fact, Freymark states in her article “ Let the Girls

In Act II of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde the characters Jack and Algernon, and Gwendolen and Cecily awaken thoughtful laughter. This laughter is thoughtful because it shows two stereotypical reactions, and how ignorant they truly are. In Act II Gwendolen and Cecily are two stereotypes. The first stereotype the perpetuate is the typical bembo.

In the essay “A Woman’s Body: Put Down or Power Source” by Susan Sontag and excerpt from the film “America the Beautiful” directed by Darryl Roberts, it emphasizes the “power of beauty” .Women are fascinated with a beauty that is unreal, made-up, and doesn’t exist. Young adults are unhappy with their bodies because of the unachievable standards of beauty portrayed in social media, several aspects of video and print media. This unhappiness causes young adults to obsess with achieving an unrealistic body image which in turn, causes low self -esteem and excessive dieting which can also lead to eating disorders such as anorexia. Young adults feel rejected because of their looks, provoking dissatisfaction and unhappiness with their appearance.

This creates jealousy and rivalry of power, especially between teenagers, based on the differences in beauty. The judgement of others hence, has a crucial influence on one’s personal opinion; beauty being unchangeable, it is the decisions of each one of us, that are at the center of discriminations and changes in society. Some teenagers are ridiculed if they are not as slim as the ideal female of today. Many are excluded from the fashion trends, and by consequence, are excluded from the group, because they are of larger size. Moreoever, some “trendy” boutiques do not sell clothes bigger than a certain size.

The majority of modern society’s advertising conveys an oppressive message to American women. In advertisement campaigns, women are typically only considered and marketed as beautiful if they fit a very specific mold that society has created. Women who don’t fit this mold of being feminine, thin, and pretty are shamed and encouraged to change. However, it isn’t just the “ugly” women who are shamed in the media. There is a consistent message that runs throughout advertisements that suggests that women are lesser than men, and that they exist solely for the benefit of men.

They no longer have to meet someone in person and spend time with them. They can just find them on Facebook and then start messaging each other but never have to have actual contact with them. Even the way families interact is much different than it used to be. Families no longer sit down at the table and have actual conversations they just sit on their phones and essentially ignore each other.

While I agree with Deresiewicz 's idea that we as a humanity fear and truly don 't understand solitude, I don 't agree with how he presents his argument. He doesn 't have any convincing facts or details as to how social media and technology are truly ruining us. Also I think that when we are constantly on social media, we are truly more alone then ever. We often sit in front of a computer or phone and just wait for someone to reply or post or tweet. Sometimes we are simply reading the news, but most of the time we are by ourselves.

The social media fast we just completed in LA was a very interesting experience for me. As someone who doesn’t have a Twitter account, or spend hours a day on Instagram, I didn’t think that it would have a huge effect on me. When we started the social media fast, I knew that it would be easy for me because I don’t regularly spend time on Instagram or Twitter, so I decided to limit myself even more so I could see a bigger difference. I decided that I wouldn’t use Instagram, GroupMe, or Pinterest, and I also decided to turn off notifications for Snapchat, so I wouldn’t spend all day checking and responding to snapchats. I was surprised at how much it affected me, especially because I was able to get through all 4 days.

A large number of people are on their phones focused on the wrong things that they forget about the important things. For this reason students begin to get lower grades or some adults are focused on their phones and don’t pay attention to their job. To begin, people use their phone way too much and don’t pay attention to the important things. In making this comment Karehka Ramey argues in her article “ Use Of Technology” she states that communication has become so easy now all you need to do is download apps to talk to friends for free.

The Powers of Soma In the book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the people of the world state take Soma to keep them pleased. Soma is a very common drug used by mostly everyone, it relaxes the body and keeps everyone happy. Not only does soma make people happy, but it also keeps everyone in the world state oblivious to what's going on around them due to how powerful the relaxant is. In a similar situation, our society's addicted to using technology to distract from real life.