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Image In Society

We are influenced by what is around us. Movies, music, and magazines have brainwashed us into the illusion that beauty is one sided, that it can be defined in only one-way. Beauty has been defined as being tall, skinny with big breast. Dolls have even become a huge impact on our idea of beauty, with their sleek bodies, perfect hairdos and stylish clothes. These dolls have caused children as young as the age of 5 to become aware of a body image. Ruth Handlers the creator of Barbie, one of the world’s most successful and enduring toys on the market since 1959, felt that her long lasting invention was a “project to every girl’s dream of the future”; that Barbie was an inorganic object that little girls could look up to and believe “We can do anything.” There is truth to her statements, over the years Barbie has been depicted as a doctor, an astronaut, a lawyer, a veterinarian, etc. Subliminally, however, the physical image of Barbie is what shows the truth about how our......


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