WEEK 8 ASSIGNMENT

THE MAIN IDEA OF THIS ARTICLE is how the media shows all women should be.

THE TYPES OF INFORMATION TO SUPPORT THE MAIN IDEA is example and comparison. The article shows examples of how women are portrayed in the media and compares smaller sized women to women with more meat on their bones.

RESEARCHERS GENERATED A COMPUTER MODEL OF A WOMAN WITH BARBIE PROPORTIONS to show that is it impossible to be so small and survive. It shows that the smaller the body is, the more your body struggles. Having a small proportion causes your body to not develop properly.

I THINK THAT WOMEN SHOULD BE PORTRAYED AS NATURAL BEAUTY. Editing images of women in magazines and on television fakes the audience. We as the audience believe in what we see on TV more than we want. When we see the beautiful women and compare them to ourselves, it discourage us and make us want to be like what we see. If women were portrayed as natural beauty in the media, then we would realize that they're not exactly perfect as we believe. In some cases, they're just like us. As for the women who are already below average weight and modeling, they too need to step forward and make a change. These models need to realize that their inner beauty is more important than the beauty they work to be.