Mind Diminishing :: essays research papers

Mind Diminishing      Reality TV seems to have taken over television in the States today. Shows such as The Real World, Elimidate, American Idol, and Extreme perplexover ar just a few of these mankind TV shows that are being watched in our living rooms today. While legion(predicate) of these shows display the reality of day-to-day life of certain people, various reality television shows effect American rules of order as many drive idealistic to the people on the shows. Shows such as, The range and Extreme Make over are shows that completely remake and rebuild ones satellite image. Episode after episode women change their weight, nose, rima oriss, etc. by moldable surgery hoping to become beautiful. Unfortunately, The Swan and Extreme Make Over make transform the meaning of beauty on the show and spellbind many into believing that beauty comes in a certain rule and form of skinny and thin. Skinny and thin may seem to be reality on television, where in actuality the average American woman is virtually a size 8 and is going to grow as obesity has spread throughout the U.S. The Swan and Extreme Make Over are shows that are far from reality and diminish the minds of young women in America as they brainwash these teens to completely change whom they are just to be accepted and acknowledged in a society based on timbers and outer beauty.      The Swan and Extreme Make Over are standardised reality TV shows that turn the ugly" into "beautiful" through plastic surgery. Both reality television shows begin with women who have self-issues on how they look as well as issues with their self-confidence. The people in these shows have no physical features wrong with them what so ever, they unfortunately are just not content with themselves. They begin on these shows hoping to change one or devil body parts, yet, undergo whole head to toe transformations. From liposuction, tummy tucks, lip and breast enhancem ent, the women end up looking completely different. The participants on The Swan and Extreme Make Over are mainly women who do not fit societys norm of what we call beautiful, as society has a certain form of beauty. Beauty is tall, skinny, and long legged. Women appear on The Swan and Extreme Make Over hoping to completely change their outer looks as well as gain self-confidence and self worthy within themselves. While the makeovers only change their outer looks, they cannot change incomprehensible feelings that are really going on in ones head.