Scapbook Self-Evaluation #1

My social issue is how the media affects a person's view of how they should look. Perfection is what society craves. If a person can achieve the perfection that the community wants, then they are perfect. The media is the major cause of this idea. It fuels a person's belief that they have to be perfect by portraying one specific way for one to model his or her self. Models, actors, and actresses, all in various ways, alter the people's mind. For women, a size two waist, colored hair, makeup, and the "in" fashion are how they should look. For men, a chiseled chest, gelled hair, and a "'gangsta" persona. For both sexes, the media illustrates that fame, money, and popularity are the way to go; that it is the "in" thing to do in this day and age. People crave fame and money. If changing the way they look gets them what they want, then they will try to do all that they can. I want to show that what the media picture's is not the way to go. There are solutions to this problem. But until, society realizes that what they are doing is wrong, they will keep at it.