Challenges Faced by Young People Today and Media's Influence on Body Image

This article discusses the challenges faced by young people today, including screen time, depression, alcohol and drug abuse, and peer pressure. It also explores how media influences body image and the impact of unrealistic beauty standards. The sources used include journals and opinions from people affected by these issues.

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1. What three major problems do you think young people face in today’s life?
2. How does the media influence what we see when we look up in the mirror?
Analyzing question one
In the society today seventy percent is made up of the youths and the growing people.
These people face a lot of challenges in today’s life such as too much of screen times, depression
and suicide, alcohol and drug abuse and peer pressure. The purpose of investigating these
questions is as when youths grow they tend to be increasingly self-reliant and are probably to
encounter more compound issues and problems (Schwartzman 56). This question is fundamental
to me because as a youth we see how these problems bring a lot of effects to our daily life and as
we discuss them and consider the primary concern we are likely to solve them. This question
affects the youth, parents, teacher and the society at large.
Teenagers addicted on the internet tend to miss essential opportunity for the development
of interpersonal skills as well as building close and firm relationships since they have no time
with others and also this internet have darker sides such as bullying, sexual predators and
pornography sites which youth tend to follow and are not helpful to them. Peer pressure is what
leads to the use of alcohol and drugs and also crimes because youth tend to fit in these groups.
Those that are not accepted tend to be depressed and also leads to suicide acts which will affect
the people who lived with them; they see they are inferior and stupid in all they are doing. The

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crimes will lead to very many effects on the society at large. The sources I would use are
journals talking about these issues that have been published.
Analyzing Question Two
The media is the mirror of the society since it gives information, educate and also
entertains but it influences people today. The purpose of investigating this question is how the
media has changed the perception of how we feel about our bodies when we look in the mirror,
and we are not happy about it (Lewis 54). This question interests me because media images, diet
industries and fashion establish and perpetuates cultural and social definitions of attractiveness
and beauty (Lau et al. 45). This is in the appearance, shape and the size of people’s bodies where
people mostly have negative thoughts.
This question affects all the people and has an influential effect on our self-esteem.
Moreover, body image is recognized as an essential factor in developing disorderly eating for
you to look like someone and also bring about half dressed youthfulness and use of steroids so
that we can look like someone especially to the boys so as to be built which brings nearly
impressive biceps and chiseled (Driskell 67). The sources that I will use to investigate this
question is the media itself and also the people by giving their opinions, and how the press
should change some of the perceptions this is by questioning the motives of these companies and
their adverts, led the press to advertise more diverse people images that will bring about
positivity and realistic in the beauty, health, and self-esteem. People should be their role models
and accept their styles and bodies.

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References
Driskell, David. Creating better cities with children and youth: A manual for participation.
Routledge, 2017.
Lau, Richard R., et al. "Effect of media environment diversity and advertising tone on
information search, selective exposure, and affective polarization." Political Behavior
39.1 (2017): 231-255.
Lewis, Dan A. Fear of crime: Incivility and the production of a social problem. Routledge, 2017.
Schwartzman, Helen B. "Conclusion: The Meeting and the Mirror." Meeting Ethnography:
Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and
Resistance. Vol. 37. Taylor & Francis, 2017.