Correction of the 1st exam

The Struggle for Beauty

Nowadays beauty and how you can achieve it is an often discussed topic. Especially because of the rising number of people who want to change or achieve beauty by dieting, wearing the latest fashion or getting plastic or cosmetic surgery, I want to write about the pros and cons and my own attitude to the topic.

There are many people who think in a good way of the struggle for beauty.
Everybody looks different. Some are more beautiful, others are less. So there are many people who don’t feel comfortable or don’t have much self-confidence especially after an accident or because of an inborn disease like a cleft lip. Fortunately nowadays there are many ways to achieve the ideal of beauty even for those people and so they are able to live a normal life after plastic surgery and become more self-confident, but there are also several other ways to feel beautiful and not like an outsider. Even the latest fashion or a diet can change your self-esteem so you don’t have to get surgery to look beautiful.

On the other hand to become more self-confident because of plastic surgery, diets… many people often take a chance of terrible pain and risks. One big venture is that many girls who are still growing want to undergo surgery to look better and more beautiful, but when they grow the scars can cause terrible pain. Another risk is that there are way too many plastic surgeons who often do a botched job. But not only plastic or cosmetic surgeries are dangerous, also many women become anorexic because of the ideal of beauty that is shown in the media.

In my opinion the struggle for beauty isn’t necessary because I oppose to change my body just to fit the ideal of beauty. I’d say it is important how your character is and not your looks, but because of the struggle the real beauty is gone nowadays.

To conclude, on the one hand it’s good to change your body to have a normal life, but on the other it’s bad if you just do it to fit the ideal of beauty or society. Maybe the ideal of beauty should be changed by society because to change a society doesn’t have as many risks as the struggle for beauty. It just would make all the people feel better and they would have more self-esteem. So they would all be really beautiful because real beauty comes from within.

Letter of complaint

Ruth Cupcake
201 Kings Road Arches
Brighton BN1
Great Britain

4th December 2008

RTL Television GmbH
Bachweg. 10a
50858 Köln

Dear Anke Schäferkordt,

Complaint about women in RTL adverts

Since some weeks I am noticing a negative trend of showing a wrong ideal of women in your commercials which is the reason for my letter. I think that you show women in your adverts whereby the audience becomes a wrong ideal of women.

Because of my job there isn’t much time left for watching TV, but when I turn it on I notice that your channel has many adverts in which the wrong kind of women are presented. Those women who are allowed to appear in your commercials look like the often discussed models in the fashion industry. They all are young, often look anorexic, and their look is perfect, even if they are cleaning a house in the adverts. In my opinion the society is influenced by such commercials and that’s one reason why especially men, but also women, think that a woman should look anorexic and should wear high-heels while doing the laundry.

Therefore I hope that these commercials, which are very sexist, are banned because that could be a way to put the ideal of women in perspective. The real woman or housewife should be shown.

Sincerely yours,
R. Cupcake