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The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is often associated with a various number of themes such as racism, social inequality, the importance of family values, and much more. But one of the more hidden messages of the book centers around the idea that there is a coexistence of good and evil. This theme is really brought to life the more the reader is able to understand the book. Through sub themes such as coming of age, perspective, and intense characterization of many important characters the idea of good and evil is really brought to light.

The author of this article begins her analysis of the rise in eating disorders by acknowledging America’s obsession with being the ideal weight. From an extremely young age, American children are being taught that women in movies and on the covers of magazines possess the ideal figure. The author states “Children are being taught…being fat is the worst thing one can be” (Bordo 1). This is disturbing to say the least. There many attributes worse than being overweight: dishonest, cruel, and murderous to name a few. Bordo also uses an example in the first paragraph of her essay that is appalling. Alicia Silverstone, the lead role in Clueless, was completely bombarded with insults about her weight, though she had only gained a few pounds since her starring role. The advertisers did

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Writer, producer, and director, Marti Noxon makes us look at the deep perspective of anorexia in her film “To the Bone.” The film takes place In Los Angeles at Threshold; a group home for people struggling with eating disorders. The group home is running by Dr. William Beckham (actor Keanu Reeves). The film came out on Netflix July 21 of 2017. Noxon goal was to bring awareness of the dangers of eating disorders to teens and young adults. Most of the group in Threshold are anorexic, and they often referred by the nickname ‘rexies.’ Lilly Collins plays the main character, Ellen, a20-year-old ‘rexie.’

“Dying to be Thin,” produced by PBS, is a documentary that examines the troubles that persons who are affected by eating disorders go through and the constant, daily struggles they face with health and body image. The film tells the story of a number of young women who battled mainly anorexia and bulimia and mixes a variety of ages to give a “during” and an “after” perspective. Many of the women in the video were ballet or some similar type of dancer. Dancers, by their own account, are encouraged to be thin. The issue really came to the forefront after a young ballet dancer from Boston died of heart failure at the young age of 22, with an eating disorder deemed to be the cause. The narrator goes on to introduce more young women and detail the potential illnesses that their eating disorders can cause. Chronic low blood pressure, kidney and liver damage, severe early osteoporosis, and heart failure are all common things seem in patients who suffer from eating disorders. Most patients have dangerously low body weights, body fat percentages, and, often, young women will experience amenorrhea, which is the loss of menstruation. All of the people in the video wanted to be better and were seeking a road to recovery. The video showed though, how difficult that can be since the eating disorders can be so wide ranging and have a number of different root causes. Often patients develop eating disorders as something that they have control over, in a world that they feel is out of their

The movie “Dying To Be Thin” follows the lives of multiple different girls who are suffering through an eating disorder. The movie shows how extreme an eating disorder can be and how serious this addiction is. We were also able to see different types of treatments that can be used to help these girls. There are many different types of eating disorders and Dying To Be Thin shows the characteristics of each different disorder.

How does today’s society distinguish good and evil? In the novel Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, characters such as Ender Wiggin and Peter Wiggin face the same question within themselves. Ender is portrayed as a good character by the author while Peter is seen as someone who only brings destruction. Seeing as the reader has Ender’s perspective on most things can help the reader assume that Ender is good and Peter bad. An example of a quarrel in the novel is when Peter chokes Ender.

Star Wars, is a story that shows knowledge, war, and teamwork, but most of all it shows the battle of good vs evil. This is the story of how Luke Skywalker, who was a farmer on the desert planet Tatooine, was brought into a huge journey where he meets people like Han Solo, Obi Wan, and Princess Leia. Through his journey, he joins the rebellion to destroy the evil galactic empire's superweapon, the death star, which can destroy whole planets. By destroying the death star Luke and his new friends save the galaxy. In the movie Star Wars a new hope, the director uses the archetype good vs evil to tell us that we as humans want a form of rulership that is not over controlling so we fight for freedom because we do not want to have to suffer under

Unfortunately, Stacey Jay isn't William Shakespeare and so the story lacks some compared to the play. The idea behind good versus evil and two sides trying to get more leverage over the other, it's amazing, but she just doesn't focus on it enough or explain how it works, so you're left confused and wondering why it's even part of the story to begin with. This among other things such as who is left alive or dead, will Romeo get punished for letting Juliet succeed in her tast, are all unanswered questions that she ends the book without explaining. The most frustrating thing of all though is how little it references back to the original work so unless you know the play, you can easily get lost and confused. Stacey Jay writes about Romeo and

In “Everyman” anonymously written, Everyman represents all humanity or every living person. God see’s that everyman is being ungrateful and he’s not pleased at all. God decides to send Death to visit “Everyman” at their door step. When death is present Everyman is shocked and unready to leave so early. In the mist of dying Everyman searches for family members and fried to accompany his on his Journey to death. In the end he realizes that they won’t go with him. Nothing or no one can.

Throughout the story, the beast represents evil and savagery because the beast make children turn into fear. The beast represents savage in all children’s mind. In fact, there are no beast on the island. The darkness give a very scary feeling to everyone. When Sam and Eric are responsible for the fire on the mountain, they are so scary because they see a beast, Sam describe a beast has “wings”, “eyes”, “teeth”, and “claws” (Golding 100). At the darkness night, children have some imagination about the animal. The beast gives a very scary feeling to children, so they change their imagination and thinking into savagery. If children feel fear which change their mind to choose a bad decision. When they kill Simon, all children copy Jack’s slogan,

It is funny how so many girls and women today are led to believe that the only way to feel attractive and be beautiful is to have their bodies consist of nothing but skin and bones. Women are dieting more today then they have ever been before. They are striving for an unattainable body figure that is portrayed by the media as being the ideal standard for today's women. It gets worse. Not only are women dieting unlike ever before, but they will ruthlessly harm their bodies in order to achieve these inaccessible standards. This ruthless harm that haunts so many women today just so happens to be what we call eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia are the primary diseases that go in the category of eating

Strasburger supports her argument that the media is to blame by using a study that was done in Fiji. A natural field experiment in Fiji revealed that the eating disorder rate increased dramatically after American television shows, which show excessively thin female lead characters, were introduced. There are also now over 100 pro-anorexia Web sites on the Internet that not only encourage disordered eating but also offer specific advice on purging, severely restricting caloric intake, and exercising excessively (Strasburger). Recent studies have shown that adolescent girls describe the “ideal girl” as being 5’7”, 100 pounds, size 5, with long blonde hair and blue eyes (Developmental…Eating Disorders, Section 2, Chapter 10, Pg. 235). Girls related this “ideal girl” look to being

     When I think of anorexia, a few things come to mind. I think of really bad episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 and Baywatch in which females, ususally teenagers, starve themselves and take diet pills. The eating problem is always resolved within the timespan of one 30 minute episode. From the research I've done thus far on anorexia, I now know that this is a very unrealistic representation of what is actually a very serious disease.