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    and act like what they wanted to look like and they eventually created their own culture. The fashion that they created was considered edgy for that time period. The style was colorful and baggy. In the book, Fashions of the Decade, they say that Twiggy, Dior, the hippies and the mini, ripped jeans, Lagerfeld, Lauren and Armani are only a few of the fashion trends and designers in the nineteen eighties that were popular (Gelfand 118). Taking a look at a movie that was made in the Eighties, Ferris

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    Body Image Research Paper

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    There is general agreement that pressures on women to have a particular slender, ageless body are more pronounced than pressures on men. Studies that have investigated the portrayal of both genders have found that men and women are portrayed in markedly different ways especially in relation to body weight. Strahan, Wilson, Cressman and Buote (2006:215) found that women are portrayed as abnormally slim in the media, whereas men tend to be portrayed as of standard weight. Linda Smolak (2004:18)

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    1960s Fashion

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    miniskirt as a claim to the right of women to dress however they wanted. If they wanted to show more skin they had the right to do it without anyone judging them for sexism for example. Influential celebrities during this time, like the British model Twiggy and Brigitte Bardot, wore this style, which furthermore influenced the youth population even more. But not only the young elite adapted this style, even indomitable and mature women followed this girlish hip-style. (http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Miniskirt

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    Women 's magazines have been around for a long time dating back to the 1600 's with The Murcury magazine in 1693 covering similar stories to that of today 's women 's magazines like Cosmopolitan or Glamour which consist of fashion, make-up, love and family. However women 's magazines haven 't always been associated with superficial substance, but as provoking and political covering stories of social activism; Glamour being the first women 's magazine to cover a women 's right to abortion. As women

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    Since a long time ago women have been coloring their hair with extracts from plants and minerals. Those natrual plants contained pigments like henna or black walnuts. Archaeologist had found evidence in some places like neanderthals where people used various things to change their hair color like the ancient greeks, Romans and Egypts that used plants and animals. The famous chemist Eugene Schueller in the 1800s found a substance called para-phenylenediamine and discovered a way that it could help

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    Why I Chose this Topic Sparkly tops, cozy pants; we never know where they come from. Maybe a kid made them under horrible conditions, you never know. My mom used to buy a lot of Gap clothes, but during 2005 she stopped. I was little so I didn’t understand, but my oldest sister did. Some rumors were going around that Gap made kids work. They forced them to produce clothing , only gaining one cent per month, they were paid less than adults. Kids were sewing and packaging the clothes. When my sister

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    The Ageing Population

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    and Marks & Spencer have been noted for directly catering to the needs and wants of the 50-plus market. In fact, Marks & Spencer has successfully seen an increase in clothing sales after launching a advertising campaign using sixties fashion icon Twiggy and contemporary model Erin O’Connor. Ford Motor Company has also seen the benefit for catering to the needs of the ageing population by configuring the Ford Focus to help ease the effects that ageing has on the human body while driving.

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    MARKETING ASSIGNMENT Integrated marketing communications is a core strategic activity used to build and sustain profitable relationships with various stakeholders. Customers are a critical target but other audiences such as buyers, designers, retailers, sales assistants, suppliers, etc…. are also important if an organisation is to achieve its sales and marketing objectives. MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS Marketing communications is about the promotion of a company and the product offered to the

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    also a reflection of it. While that is the case, it also seems as if people, particularly young women have attached themselves to the idea that the superstars as shown on television are near perfect. And while the problem with eating disorders, and Twiggy and Calista Flockhart, is a large part of the self-esteem puzzle, other problems emerge. In many ways, women are portrayed not only as sex objects, but as less than competent. Are there misogynist messages in media and how does that affect self-esteem

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    Chapter Thirteen Frantic Flight to Yellow Rock Monday, 4:52 p.m. Jacob charged across the crest, his feet beating divots into the dirt. We chased him, bolting down the far side of the rock face toward the creek, the four of us slipping on crumbling stones until we hit level ground and could climb onto our horses. I was sure Seth’s horse would barrel straight up the ridge, but she veered sharply to the left and galloped off in the opposite direction. Bane had jumped back into his truck and was

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