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Kaitlyn Butler

2a Ap-English Lit August 31, 2010

Retouched Photos are not what they appear.

Retouched photos are everywhere, ruining the self-esteem of women and young girls day by day. The media fills people’s minds up with these images of beautiful flaw free women and everybody wants to have their look. What people don’t know is half of that glam is not even real. Those girls are not that flawless on the cover of //Cosmo Girl,// artists are paid millions of dollars to make those ads look great, so that average beautiful people will buy unnecessary things; its called marketing strategy. The magazines are not your friends; to be honest they aren’t even the models’ friends. Models go through some hard times; from starving themselves, to the many costly surgeries. Retouched photos can hurt everyone.

People in the magazines getting retouched photos are bad role models in a sense. New boobs, 200% body, easy imperfections that can easily be improved, is not the message that should be sent to the women of the world. Magazines should be telling women they are beautiful and should embrace their natural grace. Everyday women have a hard enough time dealing with their own insecurities without the media lying with its photos. With all honesty Hollywood stars were not always glitz and glam, before the fame took over they were normal small scale people that had imperfections like the rest of us. Now a multimillion dollar industry puts them through high scale photo shop and then sales them as if you could really see someone like that walking down the local Main St... No! You won’t see people like the models walking down your local streets, but you probably will see plastic surgeon offices filled year round with sad little girls, desperate moms, and wannabe women trying to look like Jennifer Aniston, Halle Berry, and Megan Fox.

Retouched photos are not what they appear literally, so don’t buy into the hype, love yourself for what God made you and never try to change yourself for some bogus standards. Retouched photos are not what they appear.

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Cyber bullying Answers. 1. cyber bullying- is when a minor is humiliated, tormented, threatened, or otherwise taregeted on the internet, interactive digital technologies, and mobile phones.

2. Impersonation- Rachel got mad over the flame war and logged into Sara's Facebook account without Sara knowing, then changed all of her status post. 3. 1. Tell an adult and report the bullying. 2.Save the evidence and do not respond to the bully. 4. 15-25% of students have been bullyed. 5. Never give out passwords to accounts. Do not open e-mails and messages from people you do not know.
 * 1) A flame war broke out between Rachel and Sara, when Rachel texted Sara saying that she was the ugliest girl in the school, and Sara replied back that Rachel was the nastiest girl she ever seen.

6. If someone bullies you, your reaction is usually what the bully wants. Instead of responding you should tell and adult and/or block the bully. 7. Your parents, teachers, and other respected adults, not friends and others.