Image Reality

                           The author of this article Susan Bordo portrays her feelings about the images we see on television. I agree with the author when she says that people try to look like the people they see on television. It is a fast growing fad that seems to overtake a lot of young men and women, I believe that the empire of images even though it is put off as just pictures plays a big role in what we do in every day life. Although we might not admit that we want to imitate  the stars on television, in a lot of ways we aspire to look and be like them. Almost all teenagers today watch a lot of television and most of their decisions are monitored by actions they seen on television.

                          Eight and nine year old girls who try to be thin and  maintain their body to fit into a size zero dress are harming themselves, eating disorders can cause a lot of problems. I most certainly agree with the author when she says that television stars are always extremely thin and always look much younger than they actually are and emulating them would only mean disaster. Having watched movies on college life like American Pie, I always wondered if college life was actually all fun and games. These movies give you a totally wrong portrayal about college life, even the people in college aren’t like the people you see in the movies. In those movies the actors who are usually way older than their fictional image always look for the super hot girls. By no coincidence the extremely thin and anorexic women are always chosen to play the women that the main actor woos for. Another really good example was the character of Sar Goldfarb who’s life took a U-turn when she started taking the diet pills. She wants to look like the characters on television and thus imagines herself on stage looking thin and beautiful.

                   I feel that the example of Fiji is an extremely good example as it points out that media images actually influence your lifestyle. A small island which had its own identity lost it to the new fads on television. The author also tries  to tells us that media images are taking away our own identity from us, by giving people make-overs on television. The whole concept of looking like television stars is highly apparent as make-overs and face-lifts make you look like Jessica Alba.

                 A lot of people may feel that men don’t get affected by the media images, they don’t realize it but a lot of men are also influence by television too. The actors on television are always well built which makes a lot of men want to take protein enchancing drugs to change their body mass index.  It may not be the body complex that is always influenced. It could also be decisions like when choosing between two people who’s right, if television was the judge then it would be the beautiful one, since the bad guy is always portrayed with an eye patch.

Significant Changes

When I was growing up, I remember having my grandparents around the house living with us. I always had someone taking care of me, I didn’t have to bother about household chores since my grandparents always did it themselves. It was all good until one day my parents decided that we needed to move and that my grandparents would no longer be living with us. It was a big change for me as it meant more freedom, but also a huge responsibility.

At first it was all fun and games as no one was there to monitor my actions. I had the house at my disposal and I could watch television all day long without being nagged to do my homework. I used to call my friends over to play on the Nintendo and it would last just about till the time my parents came home. It also got me more allowance then before since I didn’t have any one around me all the time. This was only temporary, my grades dropped and I realized that I needed to get my act straightened. This really was good for me as I understood how to do things by myself, I became more responsible. I not only had to take care of my grades, but was also in charge of making sure that the house wasn’t in a mess.

This also helped me transition into college life and being more independent. It became easier for me to move into my residence halls where I had keep my room clean, do my laundry, cook some times and be on good terms with your roomate.

Sometimes I hear my friends complain about being thrown into adulthood their freshmen year of college and I think about how much easier it was for me. Being independent at an early age helped to know my strengths and weaknesses. As a result I can handle my own finances and also understand the value of a lot of things.

College is different

My first semester in college made me realize that college was not what I expected it to be, I had been over ambitious and decided to do 18 credits for the semester. I thought college was going to be easy and that was what was made out to me in the first week of school. It was only later that I realized that college was a lot of work and that I could not afford to slack off. I also thought that my first semester in the residence halls would be easy since I would have many friends and also a lot of freedom. I thought that college was going to be great with no one to monitor your actions and you would have complete control of doing what you want.Although this was not the way it was, it was difficult and awkward having a roommate for the first time in my life. I had to get used to the fact that I clean my room up since my roommate would not do it and I also did not have the privacy I needed. The first few weeks were disappointing as all my hopes of how college was going to be were put down. Luckily as the semester progressed things got better and I know like the way college is.

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