False Media Images Negative grip on Society

Media have been made accessible to people in every aspect of their daily lives. However, when abused, the power of media can harm the general population. Biased media tend to make people strive to be someone else's idea of perfect while subconsciously ignoring their own goals. The majority of media today often present the perfect body to the public, hoping that consumers will strive to achieve fitness using a certain product or idea.

Compared to the new ads of today, the advertisement contains a picture of a man before he started using the specific supplement and after he use the supplement for a certain amount of weeks.  From what is shown, the usage of the supplement helped the person to achieve a better, more defined, ideal body that is desired for today.  What is interesting about all these advertisements is that the developer assumes that the photo of the muscle man use is how everyone should strive to become.  The advertisement also tries to emphasize the time taken to achieve the physique pictured. Also, with all warning labels, in this advertisement, the warnings are so conveniently placed on the bottom of the page in little print. 

Along with emotional conflicts, those influenced by the media have encountered physical problems, including bulimia, anorexia, and the employment of harmful dietary plans. Those consumers given a false impression about a product through various forms of media are the ones who suffer most from our society's portrayal of the perfect body. After being influenced by a television commercial or a magazine, certain people in this world will purchase an item hoping that the same success shown in the medium will be had by them as well. Every day, ugly people wear sensual cologne. Mentally, some may feel an improvement but in reality nothing has changed.  The mental effects of the mass media's portrayal of the perfect body can cause people to resort to unhealthy methods of losing weight to attain that athletic look that so many desire. Bulimia is a food disorder caused by mental insecurities.

Doctors recommend that bulimic people see a psychiatrist because the illness's symptoms, including compulsive exercise and throwing up, can cause one's body to become short on electrolytes, which is extremely unhealthy. Anorexia is a similar condition in which one loses exorbitant amounts of weight often by eating very little and vomiting the amount of food that is actually consumed.

The bottom line is that people should make up their minds that they will not be negatively influenced by the media. In doing this, the public can view media for what it truly is a means of conveying information or supplying entertainment. Good common sense should tell a woman that the overly attractive person in an advertisement is a model and should be admired for her beauty, all women are not required to look like her to be attractive. The process of differentiating fact from fiction in advertising can not be described on paper. It can only happen in people's minds, one at a time. The media's negative grip on society can be greatly decreased if people remember just one thing what is on television is only an advertisement.

Survey Questions

1)      1) Consumers could find the truth more easily if media offered products advertised by normal people without all the extra glamour involving in it. Do you agree/disagree with this statement and why?

2)      2) People continue to spend their money trying to achieve this unattainable look they constantly see in media advertising. Why is that in your opinion?

3)        3)  Magazines and the mass media advertising in modern era do create false perceptions among people.

A)     Yes

B)      No

4)      Have you been attracted to any False Media Images?  What was it and why?

5)      It has become obvious now that the media advertises and promotes a very unhealthy trend of extreme dieting and other bad eating habits and how in your own opinion this phenomenon can be reduce or better stopped?

My reflection towards my speech

Like everyone I was nervous as it was my first persuasive speech IL be doing, On for a first time speaker I did pretty well but i was kind of very rude towards my audience which I think should not be practiced next time around because I don't want to make them having a negative impression towards me.

After seeing Caryn showing some evidence of pictures for her speech it made me think I should have done that as well since my speech was involving advertisement. I personally I have not created much awareness but rather entertain the crowds much more.  I should have tried to find some cases to support my claim and I made a school boy error when admitting "I forget something" because it is advised that speakers should not do that cause the audience doesn't know that you forget anything in the first place.

I lost 1.5 marks on grooming which I think is a waste because it was easy marks, so I guess i need to be more presentable next time around. From what I can see there is a major different in me as a speaker, im becoming more and more confident as days goes on and i know what the crowds wants and I think i can deliver it to them but saying that there is a lot of room improve. Best speech ever that i made not sure but it wont be the last ...  ^^
 

Kathir's Best Moment

The topic was Best Moment but it turned out two be a emotional day overall in the class and Kathir choose a particular day that he had with his grandfather. On a personal note it was very inspiring one where the part Kathir had to go for a tournament in Johor and his "Old Man" told him 

don't play for the school, play for me and you

Few people will get inspired by this kind of words and it did certainly fueled him to do great stuff in life. Kathir like Ms Cheryl said has an awesome tone of voice for a speech, some call it mono tone which attract listeners to what is he presenting but at the same time his body movement and hand gestures where they are kind of distracting, well that is my opinion. Other then that the languages and the quality of delivery was very good but like Ms was stressing the whole period of the class he needs to narrow down to the topic as soon as possible cause time is very short.    No hard feeling Bro ^^

Amelia'sTransitional Speech

2nd speech of Amelia of a mixture of bad luck n something to do about  life, 1st she got 5 pictures in one card which was hard enough nad to pick once out of them and talk something about it is kind of unfair on a 1st time speaker but i personally feel she gained valuable experince as in to always be prepared for anything in presentation skill class.

The nervous factor started to creap as she started to say the same thing twice and her eye contact was all over the place rather then making the audience focused on her, she was kind of expecting when the time will finish. Her body movement as if was so scared but some of the stuff she said should be taken into consideration such as

"cycle of life n people die everyday, live life to the fullest and do what they should do cause life is short you only live once"

she has point there which shows that she can deliver just with more effort need to be put in and i still stand by my 1st comment that she can be a good speaker. ^^

Comment About Amelia *Nothing Personal* ^^

Before starting off my critic, I would like to take this opportunity to make a brief explanation about COM2115 is where I learn my presentation skill which is lectured by Ms. Cheryl who is a well know ed lecturer in INTI. It was a great pleasure being reunited with her after being teached by her for Law and Research paper. In the 1st week itself for presentation class we were made to make a brief speech regarding something significant part of us or relating to us.14 people which included me made the speech and were told to choose a person upon doing the speech and criticize them, the person that I choose is Amelia who in my opinion has a potential to be a good speaker but started off her 1st presentation by saying that she had nothing to say, which indicates she was not prepared when called upon or in this case spontaneous speech.

Putting the nervous factor beside she did made to come up with a significant part of her which was the necklace but she was very casual upon giving the presentation, it can be seen that she was pretty nervous like everyone else as well. Her standing position showed that she was relaxed and was more like having a casual talk with friends. By the ending off the speech im pretty sure that all of us came to know that she is a very sentimental person, overall all of us who made the speech had mistake's all over the place in my opinion and this where Ms.Cheryl will guide to improve us and make us a good speaker if possible in the future.