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Question 1
Theme #1: The Still Photograph Constructs Meaning

Women and Magazines
Some women feel that beauty and fashion magazines are the devil. They fill peoples minds with a false reality. Though they claim to be helping women by being what Blyth refers to as "aspirational dream books", they do quite the opposite (301). This essay will discuss the false ideals that magazine ads create and women's need to pursue them. The creators of the ads use the ideals that Western society has create as a whole. The ads work in two ways. They either create a fear in the consumers' minds and make them believe they can only find salvation in their products, or they make the product, and/or the model using the product, seem desirable. The desires that are associated to the product are not inherent, yet they become assumed in our society.

It can be very detrimental for a woman, or teenager, to look through the pages of a beauty magazine. Readers can't help but compare themselves to the......

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