Print and commercial advertising impact young girls self-esteem and body image. (Outline)

(Thesis Draft)  Over the years advertising has severely changed in how women are perceived. In the 50’s women were shown as submissive housewives who stayed at home to cook and clean. In the 80’s women were shown everywhere in bathing suits. At the change of the 21^st century advertising towards women became that of displaying women as sex objects. They are barely clothed (sometimes even naked) with tons of makeup and a size 2 waist. Over the years young girls have become more self-conscious about their body image and suffer from a loss of self-esteem, all contributed to their exposure to this negative advertising of what a girl/women should look like. (Insert image here)

 The changes in advertising over the decades have more negative effects than good.

1.       Explain how advertising has changed over the years. (Use support from articles)

·         50’s, 80’s, 21^st century

2.       Explain how the change in advertising has gone downhill to reflect the image of women.

·         What was different about each few decades.

·         With more use of sex appeal how this has changed the view of women.

In the most recent generation young girls have shown an increased rate in body image issues.

1.       Use support from articles to explain how young girls have more self-esteem issues in recent years.

·         Statistical information

·         Include a brief statement of my own opinion

2.       The use of what is considered “the perfect body” have contributed to most of the effects.

·         Use examples of make-up, weight (must be skinny), lack of clothing.

*Add advertising examples and images

*Insert expert interview here in reference to their opinion on the issues and if they feel it has effected them growing up as well.

Many people and companies have recently tried to stop or educate these negative issues.

1.       Support from interview with actress Jennifer Lawrence.

·         Talks about how she is “fat” for Hollywood but she won’t lose weight just to conform

·         Sends the wrong image to girls

2.       Dove commercial showing how the model has make-up put on and then the image is changed on the computer. *add commercial link

·         Proof of how we are expected to look like something that is virtually impossible because computers edit the images.

(Conclusion) Over the years women’s images in advertising have only gotten worse contributing to a huge problem that is very prominent nowadays. Although this is now an important issue that we should address and fix too many people are willing to ignore it and act as if it’s not a thing. Ask yourself if your own body image and how you perceive yourself has been influenced from the advertising you have been exposed to over the years even as a guy. Would you want your younger siblings or future children to have to go through the same thing?

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North Korea applies strict media censorship to all mass media sources going against their own Constitution.

Imagine living in a world where you have no internet access, only eleven television stations to choose from and you can only read a specific newspaper based on your occupation. This is exactly what life is like living in North Korea which is also called the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea although it is far from democratic with its strict censorship and complete government control. Mass media in its entirety is government controlled allowing no information in or out of the country other than an agreement made with Japan to share a few satellites.

North Korean government has strict censorship on all mass media and deviation from the official government is not tolerated.

Article 53 of the North Korean Constitution allows freedom of speech, press, etc. but, only when that speech is supporting the government or KWP objectives. All citizens are prohibited from listening to foreign broadcasting otherwise, they are severely punished. No external media is allowed free access to North Korea, keeping information both in and out. All of the mass media sources within North Korea are major carriers for information dissemination and political propaganda. Radio and TV’s are first set to a specific government channel and can only receive official programming that can’t receive any other stations unless designated. After buying a radio you have to have it checked and registered with the police. The government is even in control of artistic and academic circles or media.

In the mid 1993’s North Korea had only eleven TV stations, two dozen AM stations, ten FM stations and eight domestic shortwave stations. Out of that small out of radio stations compared to the U.S. thousands North Korea only has two main central stations. Newspapers are only published by two main companies and citizens are provided with a newspaper depending upon their occupation (government, army, teacher, railway worker). From 2004 to 2008 the use of mobile phones was banned in the whole country. Nowadays mobile phones are given 3G speed with no internet access and the government is starting to get strict again about phone policies with the potential to ban them again. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) is responsible for gathering and disseminating news throughout the country.

Restrictions on the internet in North Korea go above and beyond extreme.

The internet in North Korea or rather lack of internet has no broadband network. A fake internet that is government controlled through “mosquito internet” which only allows the bare essentials in and out of the system is called Kwangmyong which some people are allowed to access from home or internet cafes. On this “internet” whenever Kim Jong Un’s name appears it is slightly bigger than the rest of the text in the article, not considerably but enough to notice. 

All computers in North Korea run on an operating system called Red Star that was in part made by the late Kim Jong Il himself and displays the year 101 rather than 2012. The year 101 represents how many years the Jong family has been the leader of North Korea. Within the whole country only elites, some academics and some scientists receive internet access and even fewer (about 13 families that are all related to the Jong’s) receive full unlimited and uncensored access. Journalists in North Korea who write articles for the “internet” have to be especially careful because for something as simple as a typo will have them sent to a revolutionisation camp.

Government censorship and restrictions all tie into how the country is run as a whole.

North Korea is run on a totalitarian, family dictatorship that controls the country and its people in all aspects. All property and things manufactured are owned by the state or cooperative organizations. Personal property only exits for socialist distribution that benefits the state and society expenses. Also stated in their Constitution is that any and all property is guaranteed by law as a right of inheritance. Article 70 of the Constitution states that citizens are assigned to their occupations based on their abilities. 

North Korean economy is one of the poorest and least developed countries despite being so strict. Each citizen is required to belong to at least one political organization. The people also cannot move whenever or to wherever they please but must apply for the right to and be given permission. The same works for weekend vacations and holidays that must go through the police and approved, otherwise you must wait for your vacation quota for the year. All countries relay on a different means of government and rules, while some are obviously more strict than others North Korea has definitely earned its rightful spot as the tenth strictest and second most censored country in the world.