Senior Project Online Source Due Wednesday February 1, 2012

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”  Ex: “Twilight: A negative influence on teens or just harmless fun?”	Exploring the role society and the media play in the development of an Eating Disorder and the Media Influence on Eating Disorders
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Ex: POV	Karyn, Leah, Gina, Evelyn, & Melissa
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )  Ex: CBC News	something-fishy
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Ex: CBC	The Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders:
Date Page was Last Revised Ex: 10 September 2010	2007
Date You Read It Ex: 21 January 2012	21 January 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it) Ex: <http://www.cbc.ca/news/pointofview/2010/09/twilight-is-a-negative-influence-on-teens-or-just-harmless-fun.html>	http://www.something-fishy.org/cultural/themedia.php

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): EX: The article cites Maria Nikolajeva, a professor of at Cambridge, as saying that Bella does not "in any way promote independent thinking or personal development" in women, instead portraying a woman "meek and willing to do anything for her vampire boyfriend" (POV).

The article gives a comparison on "With approximately six billion people in the world, and a mere ten million of them suffering with some type of disordered eating (.18% of the overall population -- less than a   of 1%),"().

It shows that "(Current statistics indicated that approximately one in every one hundred teenage girls may develop an Eating Disorder)"().

What these writers have shown is that there are not many people being effected by the media.  Children have been taught by their parents that it is the inside that counts but on the other hand the television programs, "rarely depicts men and women with "average" body-types or crappy clothes, ingraining in the back of all our minds that this is the type of life we want.

Overweight characters are typically portrayed as lazy, the one with no friends, or "the bad guy", while thin women and pumped-up men are the successful, popular, sexy and powerful ones"(). It has come off to children that the fat guy or the kid with ugly clothes are unhappy in life and the children/teens end up wanting to grow up just like the rich skinny people.

Pressures of looking perfect are not only stressed in the media but it is also stressed in the athletic world as well, "Gymnast Christy Henrich died from complications due to her Eating Disorder in 1994, at 22 years of age. Nadia Comaneci, Cathy Rigby and Kathy Johnson have all come forward and admitted to battling with Anorexia and Bulimia," ().

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 

This article does not only talk about how the media causes eating disorders, but many others as well. Television has been an influence on kids with just the little things, for example on shows the people that dress frumpy or are fat or ugly are usually the ones that are unhappy with their lives, while the skinny pretty and well dressed people are happy and satisfied with their lives. Other than television the article talks about how even barbies have affected children because little girls want the body of barbie and the perfect life that they are able to control. Kids are not the only ones wanting to look "flawless", this article also covers that athletes also have gone through the terrors of a eating disorder to have that perfect body.

Credibility of Source: 
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site? 

The purpose of this site to inform readers where the main sources that cause eating disorders. I do not know who funds this site.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 

This site does not have anything to gain for writing this, I am pretty sure that it is merely an informative article. 


Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

I do not detect the cite being bias because they do not pin point a certain reason why people had eating disorders. The first paragraph alone shows that it is not bias because it says " Okay, so we all want to hear how Calvin Klein is the culprit and that the emaciated waif look has caused women to tale-spin into the world of Eating Disorders. While the images of child-like women has obviously contributed to an increased obsession to be thin, and we can't deny the media influence on eating disorders, there's a lot more to it than that "

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

The website does not have any other references to anyone else. It has a few links to different subjects but it is still the same source just different articles. 
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 

I plan to use this source to help me prove my point that the media does affect how a person can feel about themselves and can lead them into eating disorders.