Odyssey of an Elite

BODY IMAGE ISSUES Body Image A person’s perception of the aesthetics or attractiveness of their own body.  Refers to how people see themselves.  The way you think about yourself as a person. Causes of Body Image Issues    Negative Thinking - an individual would feel self-conscious or ashamed, and assume others are much more attractive.    Family and Environment - the teasing and bullying can lead to a person's distortion of body confidence.    Cultural/Societal Expectations - the human society has at all times placed a great value on beauty of the human body, but a person's perception of their own body may not correspond to the society's standards,    Media and Social Media - advertisements and creative texts are displaying "unrealistic images of beauty" to the public.    Fashion Industry - models are often criticized for their "average look", the industry believed that people should be tall, fair, and...

Me and my group mates were given the topic “Child Abuse” and were assigned to search for an article in relations to the topic being given. Here is the article below: Child abuse in Pakistan and the future of our children Have we ever taken a step back and asked why aggression is so rampant on our streets? Alaptagin Khan FEBRUARY 5, 2018 I have to confess I have had to struggle a little bit with myself to write this article. For someone who has devoted a career to studying the consequences of trauma on health in general and mental health in specific, this should have been a run of the mill article for me to describe in elaborate detail the consequences of child abuse not only for the child but for the well-being of the society. However, there was an innate fear, that just like everything else that has been reported so far in the wake of Zainab’s brutal rape and murder, this would become yet another article. One more article that will fall on deaf ears and nothing wil...