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The Waxed Generation Summary

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Summary/Response Final Exam: Please place your synthesized Waxed Generation Summary/Response Final Exam in the space below. Highlight your summary topic sentence and response topic sentence. In the article “The Wax Generation” by Michael Koenigs reveals the lengths and beauty standarsds tennegaers go through to be “beatiful”. He begins with a conversation with his friend talking about how he got his chest waxed. His friend said he waxed his chest because “girls prefer guys with smooth, visible abs”.He then proceeds to talk about how today's media glorifies plastic surgery and makeup. Mor than 200,000 tennagers went under cosemtic surgery and breast implants and how plastic surgery is given out as a graduation gift. Along with the fact that more than ever teenagers have eating disorders. He continues to state that teenage boys are starting to feel pressured to come to terms with beauty standards by using steroids and going to the gym an unhealthy amount of time. To end his story he talks about a …show more content…

In the article koenigs states “We have become obsessed with looks and willing to use any available means to improve our appearance.” This suppose the main idea of this article by saying that this generation is very interested in their beauty. Further, he talks about how the media promotes the standards. I have seen this in Iphone apps and commercials on TV along with close friends that are bulimic and anorexic. This makes me wonder why society's beauty standards are so impossible? In the article it shows this “On TV we watch shows glorifying plastic surgery, makeovers, and beauty contests. It is hard to escape to influence of society because there are people surround me that support this lifestyle. So I leave you with this why is this generation obsessed with their image and what they look like on the outside when people really should be look on the

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