ANALYSIS
Form
The form I have chosen to use in order to depict my satirical piece about teenage pregnancy is that of a Teen Vogue magazine. I chose this form due to the fact that it is a well-known magazine for teenagers. I also chose this due to the fact that Teen Vogue and many other women’s magazines comprise of stereotypical, unrealistic, naïve and irrational content aimed towards female that can be, in a sense, highly demeaning.
Context
There are two contexts within my satirical piece. The first is in relation to the increasing occurrence of teenage pregnancy in Australia. The second is in relation to the constant horrid behaviour certain women have that jeopardise the baby’s health at birth which could lead to premature birth. This
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This is why I used realistic problems in today’s society and criticised it with futile tips in order to get the point across in a humorous manner.
I also attempt to highlight the immaturity and completely atrocious demeanour of the current society’s teenagers that believe that smoking, drinking and drug taking is completely normal while pregnant. As well as highlighting the actions of teens it also highlights the amount of self-respect they have for themselves which is quite low.
Audience
The target audience for this satirical Teen Vogue guide is mainly towards teenagers of today’s society that read Teen Vogue often, although it is also aimed towards teens that may simply glimpse through it. This article is not only for teens but it is partially aimed towards parents as well in order to perhaps warn them of the current attitude of today’s teen society around their children. This guide also may target pregnant women in general in order for them to assess the way they are treating their
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I did this to highlight the inconceivable and preposterous attitudes teenagers currently have when they are pregnant. I chose Teen Vogues style to demean them, as magazines such as this basically tell teenagers how to act and show guides of how to do things such as “Guide to talk to your crush” therefore I used “Guide to taking care of yourself as a preggo teen”. This was done to completely ridicule the pregnant teen and also to ridicule a magazine that basically attempts to dictate how a “typical” teenager should be.
I believe that my satirical piece is primarily Horatian as it continuously ridicules the way pregnant teenagers handle themselves during their pregnancy. It always states all the completely ridiculous activities that are done by a vast majority of pregnant teenagers nowadays that will affect the pregnancy in a harsh manner. It also pokes at the way Teen Vogue use their element of persuasiveness to encourage teens to follow their “guides”. In retrospect, the piece is also quite Juvenalian as it highlights the seriousness of mistreating a pregnancy in a comedic and sarcastic
Women’s Body Image (www.wellesley.edu/Health/BodyImage) helped demonstrates the young influence of magazines. Those days when girls strive to be something they weren’t, were probably the most crucial days in body imaging. They succumbed into the pressure of looking how everyone else wants them to look. Such teeny bopper magazines sell to many young girls the idea of beauty. Teen Magazine is the princess of that royal court. In every young woman, or man’s mind, there is this longing to be desired. To be desired, you must be attractive. To be attractive, you have to look like that girl on page seventy-one in the latest Teen Magazine (Women’s Body Image).
In the motion picture The Pregnancy Pact a group of high school girls, no older than sixteen, make a pact to become pregnant. Their goal, instead of graduating together, was to have only girls and raise them together. Throughout the movie the girls make references to the pregnant Jamie-Lynn Spears and the movie Juno stating that being fifteen or sixteen and pregnant was the most glamorous thing that could happen to them and not one thing would top being pregnant. This didn't end that way though. Instead the girls realized that having a child so young is not a walk in the park. The media’s perception of teenage pregnancy has changed over time from being a social taboo to a glamorous after school activity. This change
Although teen pregnancy has often been associated with issues of principles and authority, for many teens it is full of hard decisions and change. A pregnant teen not only has
A student her age gossips, “Her family won’t make a big deal out of this because they’re used to teen moms.” This only encouraged her to keep going with the project she was doing. The reason why she kept going is because she wanted to prove people wrong. Gaby wanted to show people that someone who becomes pregnant as teen could still live a normal life and achieve great things. Although people are bringing Rodriguez down, she wants change what people think about teen pregnancy. Gaby wants people to know that it does not ruin someone’s life. In fact, it might make someone’s life better because you now know what it feels like to be
Over the last few decades the rates in teen pregnancy have been a debate; did they rise over the past few years or did they actually decline? Contrary to some doctors and politicians the numbers associated with teen pregnancy have decline over the last couple of years. Although there are still people out there who believe this to be an issue it’s made more of an issue than it actually is. The ads and commercials are set out to scare teen-agers into believing that were at an all time high for this issue, but realistically its actually the exact opposite. Teen pregnancy rates haven’t dropped on there over the course of the years. There are a few major factors that have contributed a great deal to this change. Those changes include but are not limited to: more resources being available to these teenagers to prevent themselves from becoming pregnant, society is more open to talking about this issue as well as the religion and culture change aspect of families today. Despite the beliefs of others, teen pregnancy rates are at an all time low for the first time in decades.
Teenage girls are at an impressionable time in their lives. Mass Media is a key idea in one of the factors of socialization that become important to teenagers. Teenagers look to the media for a sense of entertainment. Whether it is movies, magazines, or even some aspects of social media, teenagers get a lot of influence from the media’s message. The problem with this is the media has a specific way of doing things and can be negative to a susceptible teenage girl. Media’s way of portraying a woman can be skewed and unrealistic way from what reality is. Teenage girls then have a desire for this look or way. In this essay the three ways I will describe as to why the media can negatively affect a teenage girls body image is by showing
Rhetorical analyses of “ What’s a girl to read?” In her article “What’s A Girl To Read? “ Liza Featherstone takes up the subject of teen magazines. She does a humorous but thorough critique on the newest teen magazines that have been published and later on attempts to introduce magazines that she believes are better suited for teenage girls.
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, 86 percent of mothers who give birth out-of-wedlock are teenagers. MTV’s show “16 & Pregnant,” which has only been on air since June 2009, is already reflecting the rapid boom in teenage pregnancy across various cities in America. Since the early eighties MTV has been considered somewhat of a cultural phenomenon for American adolescents and its depiction of gender has a strong impact that continues to this day (Holtzman 2000). Created by Morgan J. Freeman (director of teen shows Dawson’s Creek and Laguna Beach), the show “16 & Pregnant” has been said to be guilty of exacerbating, normalizing and even glorifying teen pregnancy. Perhaps, it’s just reflecting a current social dilemma
There is a negative stigma invoked with the image of a young teenager who is pregnant.
Many further studies into the phenomenon of teenage pregnancy and parenthood, such as Moffitt’s 2002 “Teen-aged mothers in contemporary Britain” conclude that “young mothers encountered more socio-economic deprivation, had significantly less human and social capital, and experienced more mental health difficulties. Their partners were less reliable and supportive, both economically and emotionally, and were more antisocial and abusive” (Moffitt, 2002). This perpetuates the idea that having children does not alleviate poverty or the conditions of it in any way, and in fact shifts the responsibility on to the individual by implying that these women don’t have the motivation to aspire towards more, and delay pregnancy for that reason. What studies such as this one does is that it ignores the idea that pregnancy can actually be used effectively
A topic in American society that has proved to be an ongoing, and growing issue is that none other than teen pregnancy. In recent years, teen pregnancy rates have been increasing, which ultimately led to the topics increase of public and media attention. In American society teen pregnancy is often associated with negligence, as well as being irresponsible. In American society sex education for children is underdeveloped and instead society tends to use fear and shame to highlight/combat the dangers of unsafe or underage sex. American society uses fear to instill the idea that if you become pregnant as a teenager you are a burden to society. Along with fear society loves to shame its young women who have unfortunately stumbled upon the
Embarrassment is typically one of the first sentiments that a teenager undergoes when she is pregnant. Such an individual is probable to acknowledge her condition and consider that it would be pointless for her to
Teen pregnancy is a large concern throughout the world. This is especially true in the United States (US). In the U.S. teenage pregnancy affects 750,000 girls annually. (Silvers, 2014) According to Kate Blackman, 1 in 4 teens get pregnant before the age of twenty and 1 in 5 teen moms will have a second child by the age of twenty. (2015) Social media shows many aspects about teenage pregnancy and parenthood. Because of this many young adults get to see the reality behind this subject. Even though on the surface of a magazine cover or on the internet it may seem like teenage pregnancy is glamorized in social media, this is not the case. There are many ways that the media truly shows the struggles of being a teen mother. Since magazines are meant to entertain they will not show this but almost all other social media areas will. This helps make a statement about it. Social media helps to deglamorize and prevent teenage pregnancy.
The information gathered from this source is definitely devoted to the topic of teenage pregnancy because it is a helpful guide to those handling unplanned pregnancies. The author’s aim in this book is to educate teenagers who are pregnant this clearly identifies the audience the author is targeting has an aim to educate. The context in this book also goes beyond just explaining how to deal with pregnancy at a young age but also ways to prevent it. It’s as if the author is speaking to the audience reading this book rather than outlining the negatives of this social issue or making it an argument. From this book it doesn’t state that what is included has to be what a teenage pregnant mother should do, it shouldn’t influence a young mother to change her mind about how she should deal with her pregnancy but helps with her current situation and from reading this source she can determine what is best for her to do, from the choices of keeping the pregnancy or terminating the book is split into sections to offer advice for both factors and ways to undertake that step.
An author of the book Teen pregnancy said in one of his quotes that “Teenage years are already feel as you're being judged by everyone, add a big belly and it all gets worse.’’ It was the first day of our last year of high school. Everyone had these mixed feelings about the first day. Students were excited, nervous, lost in thoughts, and what not. I was standing near my locker, texting my best friend . Suddenly the front gate opened and the girl named Alice entered and what I saw totally blew off my mind. The most quiet and shy girl of the high school was three months pregnant and she was walking through the halls with this huge belly, with scared and kind of embarrassed look on her face. On the top of that, It didn’t take more than five minutes for the news to be all over the school. I personally had varied and diversified feelings towards her, I was shocked, feeling sorry, but still appreciated her decision of coming back to school despite of fact that she was pregnant. Unfortunately, I don’t think everyone else had same thoughts about her, because honestly people are full of judgements especially at high schools! As it is rightly said that, new life brings the new memories and beginnings to the lives of those involved with the child itself, and although there has never been a sight more joyous and exciting than when a mother holds her own child for the very first time,but we can’t neglect that there is still a proper time and state for pregnancies to happen. The