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A Modest Proposal on Body Standards

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Herds of panicking teenagers pathetically stare at Instagram and swarm around Twitter. Gawking as their eyeballs follow the fictitious lives of Instagrammers and Youtubers. They zoom in like bees headed for honey on each new tip taken by these media gods as they upload overly photoshopped pictures taken with a million dollar cameras. Our Society's heroes are idolized less for their talents but more for their inhumane ability to receive a body that costs most than the average income of an American. But these heroes have the income to spend extensive amounts of money, cutting away pieces of them that are viewed as undesirable or enhancing their features to further flatter their artificial charm. Millions of talented teens are confined by big noses, huge limbs, and even bigger waists. This forces these adolescents into careers taking out the trash, unclogging toilets or other possibly even more horrifying jobs suited for their repugnant bodies. As I am surrounded by these unfo

The deceleration of a Junior

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Actions of a Sixteen-Year-Old December 1, 2017 The unanimous Declaration of a Junior in high school WHEN in the course of high school events, it becomes necessary for one Sixteen-year-old to break free of the parental bands which have connected her with her family and to assume among the Natural Laws of Adolescence, the separate and equal Station to which the laws of nature and of High School Tradition entitle her, a decent Respect to the Opinions of the Young Woman requires that she should declare the causes which impel her to the Separation. SHE holds these truths to self-evident, that all juniors are created equal, that they are endowed by tradition with certain unalienable rights, that among these are charity week , dances and freedom--That to secure these Right, Requests are made to her parents, deriving their just powers from their belief in allowing her. But when a long list of Errors and Behaviors, pursuing invariably the same allowance, evinces a design to persuade th