Popular Culture: The Slender Man

Obesity is only second to tobacco smoking as the most preventable death in the United States today. In order to publicize the obesity epidemic, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock embarks on a thirty day experiment documented in his film, Super Size Me. Nutritionists, healthy eaters, and unhealthy eaters alike are shown the harmful effects of fast food. In order to emphasize the scale of the epidemic and address a large audience, Spurlock appeals to logos through his use of expert testimony, statistics, anticipating counterarguments, and piling.

This essay discusses how social constructions have an effect on obesity and what combination of causes and contributing factors it includes can lead to obesity. `Obesity is the term used to describe someone who is overweight and unhealthy. Obesity shortens life by an average of 10 years. It is very common in the UK and results from a study back in 2014 showed that a whopping 65.3% of men and 58.1% of women are obese here. (UniversityOfBirmingham,2016) Being over weight is generally associated with being lazy and unpleasant. There are a lot of media groups that have influenced our society’s perception on obesity and many factors that lead to the disease. Obesity can be life threatening and can be the start of lethal conditions such as diabetes,

The issue of distorting body image in the media and its effects on people is not a new concept to modern time. There is a long history of body image’s powerful place in society because of people’s impressions of each other based on body image. Research has been done on the effects and outcomes of this issue. Recently, consumers have fought with the media to try and achieve a safer way to spread information and let these media outlets be successful without having severe impacts on adolescents especially, among other age groups. The general ethical principle that the stakeholders use in this fight is similar to utilitarianism, because each stakeholder believes they are bringing the greatest good to the greatest number of people. The stakeholders

As the rising epidemic of obesity has attracted considerable media attention, so has the promotion for maintaining healthy wellbeing. Tom Naughton’s documentary, Fat Head, is a stellar model of this media attention. It examines the exact cause of weight gain, and the reliability of the Government’s nutritional guidelines. The contention of Fat Head is that the U.S Government and Morgan Spurlock (the creator of Super Size Me) present misleading information. However, Naughton’s bias becomes apparent through the careful selection of film techniques, and the silencing of certain characters, who may express opposing viewpoints. The ideal audience of this documentary, parents and concerned parties such as medical professionals, are invited to

The monster that I will be talking about is in the novel called “Twilight”. The novel is also a movie saga and there are four books of them. Twilight's creature is one of the supernatural monsters that has been around for a really long time. The monster and his family

Slender Man Child Crime What happens to kids that commit terrible and violent crimes in the United States? Sometimes kids don’t even get punished even after doing very violent crimes such as murder. Two 13- Year old Wisconsin kids lured their friend deep into a woods and repeatedly stabbed their friend

Another fact about my protagonist it that he is bigger than everybody else. How I know this is because he said that he maybe fatter than the readers and that he is 156 pounds. My opinion is that he shouldn’t worry about what his weigh all he should think about being successful because it seems to me that’s pretty

Yes, he is a monster. No, not the kind that breathes fire and terrorizes villagers. He has his demons, yes, but he is not the person he is thought to be. He is somewhat a town myth, a boogey man or one of the sorts. He does not have the breath of a thousand corpses, although it is told he does. He does not slink in the shadows of the night looking for children to take.

He created a monster story disguised as a detective story, which left the audience in awe at the climax in the story where they discover the truth. The way the author simulated the setting in the novella is very reminiscent of how Palahniuk set up the climax in Fight Club. The audience is given the image of individual who has altered persona.

Slenderman is a fictional character designed by Eric Knudsen in 2009 as a submission into a creepy photo shop competition on an internet forum titled Something Awful. Since, there have been several stories spawned; each telling a dramatically different tale. While he is a fictional character, the implications

After all of the writers that have been presented through the course of the semester, it was nice to see something or rather someone different. It was nice to see something refreshing, something that was not solely just on paper, but on the screen. Slender man, once an internet game sensation now turned into a documentary. Two girls,Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, being up on trial and being tried as adults were charged with intentional first-degree homicide on then friend Payton Leutner. The reason, while can be seen as shocking or cannot be seen as shocking, was due to the fact of the girls want to see the fictional character himself, The Slenderman. Sophie Harris, co-producer on the HBO documentary, Slender man, had taken interest in not

How do the media influence females? Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women, and their bodies, sell everything from food to cars. Women's magazines are full of articles urging women to fit a certain mold. While standing in a grocery store line you can see all different magazines promoting fashion, weight loss, and the latest diet. Although the magazines differ, they all seemingly convey the same idea: if you have the perfect body image you can have it all…the perfect marriage, loving children, great sex, and a rewarding career. The media, whether TV, print, or Internet advertising, seems to play a huge role in influencing women of all ages; from adolescence and teens, to women in their twenties and thirties, as well as

Slender Man, a paranormal meme that was born on the internet in 2009 as a part of a Photoshop creation Mr. Knudsen submitted to an online contest. Known for stalking, abducting and traumatizing people, this chilling meme is finally able to get the Hollywood’s attention. After being a potential character

Mass Media’s Influence on Body Image Over the years a debate over who is to blame over the decline in how girls perceive themselves has arisen. With Photoshop being the societal norm concerning the media, it has become difficult for many to understand where the line between real and near impossible standards lies. Youths see an image edited to “perfection” and strive to reach the standards that they imagine due to the images displayed on magazines, television and social media. From Disney to magazines like Vogue the mass media bombards audiences with fake beauty that they, as normal people, will never be able to achieve. The mass media is responsible for causing the rise in the number of people with a poor body image, eating disorders, and cosmetic surgeries.

Coming into the 21st century, we have come up with a new way to shed light upon one of our scariest nightmares. The new “boogeyman” that has swept across the nation and the world is called, Slenderman. He is an unusually tall and slender man dressed in a nice suit. He doesn’t seem scary at first until you see his, well, lack of a face. Even then, he doesn’t seem that scary until you hear the stories. Slenderman stalks and psychologically torments his victims (who are usually children) for long periods of time until he takes his victim in his long tentacles, which grow from his shoulder blades, and he drags them to another dimension where he consumes them (“Slender Man” The Wiki). These tales are just scary stories to strike a new fear into