Essays on Style Page 86

How Instagram is pushing plastic surgery on young women In today’s society, Instagram has taken a massive role in deciding what it means to be beautiful. The idea of having an hourglass body shape with a narrow waist, a wide bust, and broad hips is the image that has been popularized by certain celebrities and…

Nicholas Carr is a columnist for the guardian and the industry standard. He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth and an M.A. from Harvard. Carr is the famous author who is responsible for the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” In the article Carr uses description, narration, explanation, and cause/effect modes to notify his readers about…

The short story “Clothes” is written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in 1995. Clothes is about a young Indian woman called Sumita, and she is having an arranged marriage. The story takes place in Calcutta, India, where Sumita lives with her family and her two friends, Deepali and Rhada, before she gets married. Her father has…

Nowadays in every country we see McDonalds. The domination of fast food restaurants has introduced the ideology of “McDonaldization”. Companies are using the concept of “McDonaldization” to achieve success in the business world. By implementing the concept of “McDonaldization,” it has changed the world we see today. The society has become a consumer society, where…

McDonaldization is the term created by George Ritzer to describe the homogenous sociological event that is happening within our society. It is the process in which a task is broken down into several simpler; the subsequent tasks are then rationalized to find the single most proficient method for completing each task, or rationalization. Within these…

The title of the text is called “Color-coded surgery” and this article/presentation was presented in 2011 at a Ted Talk. Dr. Quyen Nguyen is an Otolaryngologist who experts surgery. She “is a board-certified head and neck surgeon who specializes in neurotology, or the management of diseases of the inner ear, temporal bone, and skull base,…

TOM is a for-profit company, based in Playa Del Rey, California. Founded in 2006 by Blake Mycoskie, the company designs and sells shoes, along with other apparel. Mycoskie runs a system where for every pair of shoes sold, another pair are given to someone in need. This is a major part of their mission, as…

While dress codes are made to make students feel more comfortable in their learning environment, it silently targets and distresses girls. Making them feel uncomfortable and objectified. A topic overlook by many has impacted schools worldwide. “Why are we teaching guys that it’s okay to blame girls for their lack of self control (HUFFPOST)” In…

How is everybody doing, or should I say how are your shoes doing. I want to discuss how important wearing the right type of shoes for your feet is important. Although the word ‘shoes’ does not seem all that important, just like we see the sky every day and think nothing of it. Aching Feet…

In Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, Carr decides to challenge technology, more specifically, the Internet and attempts to raise concerns about its effects on society and how people think. At the beginning of the essay, Carr describes how he feels as if someone was changing his brain. He claims he thinks differently from…