The Little Baby Face Foundation: Right Or Wrong?

In this day and age, society has built standards to how citizens should look, talk, wear, behave etc through social media, films, celebrities, friends and family. The youth has now taken place in this and now feel that if they did not meet society's standards, they aren’t beautiful or handsome. Some leaders and motivational speakers are good at telling others to love themselves and to accept how they look. Nevertheless there are still those who need to seek help and those who beat themselves up because of how they are. However is social conformity really the key to happiness? Social conformity is notoriously found in the book Uglies where turning 16 gives you the opportunity to undergo plastic surgery to change your appearance into a “pretty” look. Tally Youngblood is a rare example of a 16 year old girl who hasn’t undergo plastic surgery and was sent to the Smoke, a small town where those who don’t believe in plastic surgery or the society's ambitions go to live like the people of today. However Shay, a friends of Tally’s, is an example of an “ugly” who has a very strong opinion about the surgery, a very negative opinion about it.

Most people in today’s society are not pleased with their image, whether it is physically or how they form their character. In “Enhance Your Body Image” (2015) Rebecca J. Donatelle opens her essay with “When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? If you feel disappointed, frustrated, or even angry like Ali, you’re not alone.” She continues with a study depicting 80 percent of women are dissatisfied with their appearance (p.339). This does not only mean physical appearance; Santiago Quintana in “The Space In-Between” (2015) talks about how he did not belong in his social environment because resulting in him being bullied. A person’s values are molded by cultural influence, friends and family; furthermore, to be appreciative of

Looks can be a very determining factor, and sometimes people's appearances can affect what she or he can or can not do in society and what they do to fit into it. The play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, is a good example of how this idea is put into play. The main character, Cyrano de Bergerac, is portrayed as a hideous person, because of the size of his nose. As someone who does not fit with in society, yet he changes his morals, attitude, and personality to make up for his grotesque appearance. As the play progresses from act to act we the readers realize that Cyrano is this magnificent character. We begin to understand how his ugliness has shaped his life, how the deformity on his face has forced him to learn new skills and to

Everyone is special and unique in their own way. No one can change the way someone looks and acts. So why let the modeling industry change the way someone should look like. People can not let the modeling industry have an affect on them to where they have eating

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley describes how people exclude others due to the way they look. When Victor finished with his experiment and his creature was born, he was unable to accept his creation and “rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep” (Shelley, 105-106). Victor fled the room, unable to say anything. The creature was left to learn how to do everything on his own, because everyone was afraid of him. “I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept,” said the abandoned creature.

Technological advancements are an obvious answer, but then again why do they feel so compelled to change themselves in such a dramatic way? “Back then they had weird ideas about beauty. They didn’t know about biology (West 40).” The way Tally’s generation now perceives themselves is derived from scientific findings about beauty. Speaking from a biological standpoint, there must be triggers of some sort that make the human face seem more pleasing than others. They must have done countless research to find the “perfect face”, and once the idea of perfection was found everyone had to have it. Thus the operation was born.

There is more to a person than just their appearance. Society has made people so focused on judging other people’s look, they forget to focus on the more important aspects of the person. Fukuyama states, “ What the demand for equality of recognition implies is that when we strip all of a person’s contingent and accidental characteristics away, there remains some essential human quality

We are all created differently, we have different hair, eyes, height, weight, body type, etc. so why should who we are match everyone else when nothing else does? As unique human beings we deserve to express ourselves in whichever way we choose. If people are not given the choice to be expressive their health, happiness, and self worth deteriorates. If people were to never step out of social norms society wouldn't change, nothing new would be experienced in the world.

Given that exterior looks tends to be an extension of your personality and who you are, these changes are another form of oppression towards the non-normative members of society who are being pushed to fit the

Everyday there is a baby born into this world. Just like a snowflake, human DNA is always different from other people. There is not one person on this earth that is the same. You might wonder about twins, and if they are the same because they look alike. The answer is no, they are not the same, even twins have their own special DNA that make them, them. This causes everyone come into this world with a different appearance. There is no way possible for anyone to pick the way they look feature wise. They get their genes from their parents and that is what they are stuck with. In the movie Shrek, judging people by their appearances played a big role. The characters of the movie judged others before they could even get to meet them, but in reality, they was not perfect either.

Appearances matter Therstities, in the Illid, was an odd, deformed man that had no control over his mouth. He was accused of being cowardly and was beaten up for stating the facts and rambling on about true and smart ideas. Many other characters, who arm’t as odd looking, did similarly, cowardly things, and didn't get verbally and physically beaten up for it. Which is also extremely relevant to our culture today. This is one case of how appearances effects how you become treated and how this effects that persons personality and development of character.

Some children eventually stop being told they look a certain way, such as; cute, beautiful, darling, or whatever else, and it becomes their eyes, their hair, or their unique, one feature that is the envy of the world. In this it becomes somehow implied that every other feature of theirs not mentioned, were they put up for auction and all bidders present were given the option to either take 'em or leave 'em, there would be a consensus for all of 'em to be left, as if this is something to be ashamed of when it's probably the case for nearly all of us. After all, very few of us would any one person want to look exactly as we do, and if such was the case, it would be exceedingly lucky that this one person would be able to afford each of our features

Humans intentionally modify themselves because they use it as a way to control themselves. As we grow up, we are limited in the ways in which we can control our appearance or our internal biology. Being able to modify ourselves gives us the opportunity to take matters into our own hands and chose what characteristics we would like to have. People like to have a say in the way they live their lives, so it’s only natural that they would also want a say in their appearance or abilities. Intentional modification allows for humans to express themselves in their own way. People use this process as a way to identify better with themselves as well as in their relationships and in the community.

Deep down, media can be very dangerous. The average American has up to 272 un-concious advertisement sightings a day (Henderson, Adams, Miller). Even magazines like Cosmo are advertising cosmetic surgery and other beauty tricks that may have negative effects in later life. But although they may support cosmetic surgeries, most of the images in their magazines or billboards are photoshopped (Dove Evolution). Photoshop is the photo-editing software that can be used to change your looks completely. The images you see in magazines are not always what they seem. Although this can be a dangerous illusion to teens, foundations like Dove are campaigning for women to have confidence in their natural beauty and self esteem. A solution that Dove promotes, is to talk to your kids before the beauty industry does (Beauty Pressure).

Many people today feel insecure about their bodies. They feel that people will judge them more if they have a crooked nose or eyes that are too close to each other. Some get liposuction if they feel too fat or breast implants because they think it will make them more attractive to the opposite sex. These people who do not feel happy about the way their