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Media, Marketing, and Advertising in Society
10th graders in Mr. Garfield’s class spend some time reflecting on the way advertising affects people in society, especially women. They also watched some interesting videos from the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty (here and here).
Here are some of the students’ insightful reflections:
How many times have you done something that might make you thinner? Have you ever stopped eating despite you’re starving?
Nowadays there are pictures of female bodies in the TV, magazines, internet, social networks, almost everywhere, which sell different products. The actresses are becoming younger, taller, and thinner. Why are standards of beauty being imposed on women? Because the majority of women magazines have at least one article promoting weight loss, diet, excercise or cosmetic surgery in it’s cover, and this is all based in the economy. This articles just promote more insecurities about your bodies and encourage girls like you to loose weight, even if you don’t need to. This in linked to unhealthy eating habits, depression and loss of self-esteem. Stop comparing yourself with the rest of women!! You will never look like the girl in the magazine. The girl in the magazine doesn’t even look like the girl in the magazine.
-Bárbara Allué, Camila Fuchs, Francisca Marcos, and Magdalena Peñaloza
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Women’s Soccer
By Catalina Polanco (9th grade)
Why is there such a difference between women’s and men’s soccer?
It´s a fact that man have more physical aptitudes to play this sport, but women should not be discriminated just for being who we are. Currently in United States soccer it´s not played by most of the men, they prefer other sports like basketball or baseball, girls are the ones who practice more.
In Chile´s schools there are not many opportunities to play but there are other places when you can play it even professional, but those that do it are seen as unfeminine women so most of them are actually ashamed of it.
McDonald’s Run 2014
By Nicole Bravo (9th grade)
This Saturday 26 of October in the city of Santiago, the biggest race for women returns, sponsored by the most famous restaurant of fast food, McDonald’s. This run will be performed in the Bicentennial Park at 9 o’clock. The money will be recolated for the fight of breast cáncer.
In the 2013 this event met many women of all ages. In this time expected to raise money and help for this good cause.
We will be waiting for you!!