Essays on Teenage Girls

1. How would you characterize Martha Stewart’s initial public relations response to the charges against her? Martha Stewart’s initial response was inappropriate. She should have shifted from her usual image of being blunt, stern and tight-lipped to a more accommodating. She did not answer the press when asked and instead went online later to issue her response. Her stance conveyed an image of aloofness. It was time to speak but instead she stayed silent. She needed to reassure her supporters and stakeholders that she is fine and they will overcome the problems. 2. What key public relations ...

Nowadays, many people are quite familiar with the “shadow business” that has many as many different directions and one of them is a prostitution. The following regulation must not have any kind of rights to exist in modern society as it yearly brings horrible consequences as sex trafficking, sex exploitation, and child sex trade. Deshpande et al., in his article Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls, illustrates how the illegal business made a fresh start more than one hundred years ago, and how the pimps searched the young girls in order to sell them into sex slavery. These young ...

Adolescent Girls and the Media

Adolescence marks a time of rapid and intense emotional and physical changes, especially for females. There is an increased value placed on peer acceptance and approval, and a heightened attention to external influences and social messages about cultural norms. Body image and related self-concepts emerge as significant factors associated with health and well-being during this developmental phase, as youths begin to focus more on their physical appearance. How adolescents formulate and define their body image ideals and subsequent self-comparisons is strongly influenced by personal, familial, and cultural factors. However, crucial to the formation of teenage girls’ body image ideals ...

Eating disorders, which include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating without purging the food, have become increasingly common with the constant change of unhealthy demands towards female and male bodies popularized through media. While people of both genders and all ages are susceptible to this set of disorders, adolescent girls are considered an especially vulnerable group. According to Goodheart, Clopton., & Robert-McComb (2012), about 14% of adolescent girls have subclinical eating problems, while 30% of teenage girls having anorexia nervosa will continue suffering from this disorder in the course of their entire lives (p. 33). The worst consequence of ...

Currently, in all American states, sexually active teens can access contraceptives even if they do not talk about sex and pregnancy with their parents and even without the consent of the parents. Contraceptives are the devices or drugs that are used to prevent a person from getting a pregnancy that is not planned for. Some contraceptives like condoms even avoid the transmission of STDs and HIV. However, some federal and state lawmakers wish to take away the ability by teenagers to protect themselves and other involved parties like their parents, partners and babies (Eichner & Maxine 87). They would like ...

A) The right to choose what happens to our bodies, the medical treatments we want to opt for and understanding the pros and cons of our decision, is as fundamental a human right as the right to have access to food and water. Informed consent is an integral part of healthcare globally and I believe that the issue of abortion also falls in the same category. If the patient’s or next of kin’s permission is sought before any surgical procedure, there is no logical reason that can justify not extending the same courtesy to women when it ...

Teenage pregnancies are usually unwanted and they are the result of bad sex education. The office of the mayor of New York promotes posters within a campaign that is supposed to prevent such pregnancies from happening and the whole campaign revolves around shaming and blaming. It is not a good decision to become a parent too early in life, while one is still a teenager, but shaming these young people cannot have a good outcome. It is not about blaming, because the issue is related to prevention and fostering a different lifestyle for the young who still need to ...

ARTE 480

Midterm Essay In November 18, 1928, Mickey Mouse was presented to the world by Walt Disney, which eventually ruled the popular culture among the younger sector of the global society. In succeeding decades after its conception, the Walt Disney Company did not only create hundreds of cartoon characters, but also brought to the world a seemingly magical kingdom. The animations, characters, resorts, theme parks, and the merchandise owned by Disney have all became part of the popular culture and had become precious memories of every person’s childhood years. In this respect, this paper will discuss Disney as a ...