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beauty

survey analysis: part 4

May 12, 2010

Did you miss part 1, part 2 or part 3? When talking about body image nowadays, people assume that the media has something to do with it. I know personally the media had nothing to do with my eating disorder so I thought that I’d try to ask people about their experience with eating disorders [...]

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survey analysis: part 3

May 11, 2010

Miss part 1 or part 2? Along with the media, there are advertisements. I wanted to see what women said about the images they saw to get a better understanding of how they perceived the models. In the survey, there were three advertisements that were shown to the respondents- one ad of 5 plus-sized models, [...]

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survey analysis: part 2

May 10, 2010

Did you miss part one? We talked about viewership of magazines, beauty definition and body image, but now it’s about… … the Media Unfortunately, whether it’s the media’s fault for making women feel not good enough or the reader’s fault for buying the magazine in the first place, 46% of women said that the media [...]

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survey analysis: part 1

May 10, 2010

Ok, here it is! I promised I’d share some of the results I wrote about for the end of my study book so here it is. I think after you read it, you’ll understand why I’m launching the new blog and what it means to me to do so. I’m going to split it into [...]

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the price of beauty: japan

April 23, 2010

Tokyo was the next place Jessica, Ken and Cacee visited to look at their beauty customs. I was interested to see it because my parent’s neighbor’s daughter went there for a while after college and spoke so highly of it that ever since, it’s a place I have on my “travel list.” There’s a lot [...]

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the price of beauty: morocco

April 15, 2010

This week Jessica, CaCee and Ken discovered Morocco with it’s veiled women, mopeds and of course, camels. Their first stop, as always, was to meet their beauty ambassador, Khansa Batma, who’s a famous singer there. Jessica immediately said she felt that she had such confidence and asked her what makes Morcoccan women feel beautiful? She [...]

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