Jean Nidetch Essays

  • The Weight Watchers Program

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    The Weight Watcher’s program was founded in 1961 by Jean Nidetch, who had struggled with her weight throughout childhood and all of her adult life. She decided one day to try yet another diet ran by the New York City Board of Health in Manhattan close to where she lived. After two months she had lost 20 pounds, but she realized a very important component of the diet was missing, a support group of others to share their daily battles with their weight issues. She began writing down all the things

  • Welcome to the Underground

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    people of all ages, mostly teenagers though. They were dancing, hugging each other and running around zestfully. Most were dressed in Baggy jeans. One girl wearing a see-through plastic skirt with her pink daisy underwear displayed for all to view. Others had on doctor's masks, were carrying glow sticks, and some even had pacifiers in their. I looked at myself, jeans and a T-shirt. "I don't think I'm dressed right." I whispered to my friend, a so-called Rave expert. "Don't worry babe, nobody is going

  • The Sauerkraut Festival

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    As I start walking south down sauerkraut enriched Main Street, I get the overwhelming feeling of claustrophobia. This particular weekend is the weekend for the Sauerkraut Festival. The street, being very crowded, has white tents set up on each side of the road with crafts to be sold. Immediately I see wicker baskets and photos that craftsmen are hoping to sell at the festival. As I continue to walk down the crowded street I catch the aroma of cinnamon. The high school wrestling team, which sells

  • The Power of Perspective

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    been obnoxious, so I held my tongue. I’ve waited tables for many summers, so I was doubly insulted that he referred to my being a waiter in a derogatory manner. Walking away from the store, I thought a lot about what had happened. I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt and I hadn’t shaved in a couple of days, so I looked like your generic college student (Boston is filled with about 100,000). I also only wanted to purchase a bow tie, which leads to two likely conclusions. I either owned my own tuxedo

  • Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser as Responses to Vichy France

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    Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser as Responses to Vichy France The Second World War seems to have had an enormous impact on theorists writing on literary theory. While their arguments are usually confined to a structure that at first blush seems to only apply to theory, a closer examination finds that they contain an inherently political aspect. Driven by the psychological trauma of the war, theorists, particularly French theorists, find themselves questioning the structures that led to

  • Bongo.. Always American Made - Analysis Of Bongo Jeans Ad

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    American Made - Analysis of Bongo Jeans Ad This ad for Bongo jeans is from the April issue of Seventeen magazine. The ad gives no written description of the product. Only symbols and hidden messages are used to draw in the reader and stir up interest in the product. There is an attractive young couple engaged in what appears to be a strip-poker game. The man is obviously losing. He is apparently nude behind a card table, wearing only his shoes, with his jeans draped over him. His briefs

  • Fashion Essay

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    brighter colors. There jeans were available in relaxed fit and even baggy. Hip Hop had now become a large market for young teenagers and people in their early twenties. I went to a private school with a very strict dress code and even there you could tell that the new urban fashion was having an effect on the way some students dressed. They would try to get baggier pants and would wear bright colored shirts with logos on the front. At ballgames they would wear baggy blue jeans and sweatshirts with

  • United States Weirdest Law on Sagging Pants

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    I feel that in today’s society that men are discriminated against for the way they wear their clothes, specifically, their pants. For many guys sagging your pants are a fashion statement, although many people perceive individuals sagging their pants as “bad” individuals. As a kid, I did wear my pants below my butt, but as I grew older, it gradually raised. I am a professional person, but my style and my comfort have my pants lie just below my hips. I wear a belt, but having my pants all the way above

  • The Origins of Jeans

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    probability, no piece of garment has ever seen such days of glory as the blue jeans. Let us look back at the history of this symbol of the Western freedom, the minds behind its birth and spread, and the role it plays in the contemporary world. Even though considered an all-American invention, the origins of jeans can be traced back to the 17th century, when the weavers in the French city of Nimes tried to reproduce jean fabric from the Italian city of Genoa. The failed experiments resulted in the

  • Media; Levi Jeans Campaign

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    body. It illustrated a complete lifestyle to the teenagers world. Admiring the fantasy of idols James Dean and Marlon Brando, all connecting to the Levi guys (jeans) in the adverts, giving the impression of a sensual, healthy radiant aspect, to the gazed audience. Falling for the act, teens still continued to buy the different types of jeans, whilst new ideas were being designed. People realise now it was just a pretence illusion. Although these shams still occur in adverts today. In the advert ‘The

  • Lee Jeans Advertisement

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    gone through heartbreak at least once in her lifetime. Lee Jeans uses heartbreak to convince the audience of this advertisement to buy their jeans. In this Lee Jeans advertisement there are all different claims. The one that stands out the most is the claim of value. The advertisement shows support of this claim through the word usage and the picture representation. Lee Jeans wants to represent the " NEW LOOK FOR LEE" as the women?s jeans. Through the different use of symbols, the advertisement makes

  • Ch 3

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    could see, who was in the room with. One was a male and one a female. The male was tall about 6"1. He had hair black as the midnight sky, on a star and moonless night. His eyes a haunting Icy blue. He had pale skin. He ware a leather jacket and black jeans. His shirt was dark blue. The female was about 5"5,  she ...

  • Friendship: My Importance Of Friendship

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    were asked. I was able to maintain my school life and my home life into two worlds without mixing them up. That day at school seemed like any other day, boring. I remember my friend walking into class with bright red skinny jeans reminding me of the color of a cherry. “Skinny jeans didn 't go anywhere... In fact, they were more popular than ever thanks to a widening range of color options available everywhere from J. Brand to Forever 21”

  • Life in the 2000s

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    of the generations have done drugs, and some are still doing them till this day. The clothing back in the day was different compared to The 2000s. Everybody Use to wear Baggy Pants Even Then Females. Where Now In 2000s everyone were tight skinny jeans even the males. Peop...

  • Gender Stereotypes In Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis

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    that she received from her mom to school. At school she has to wear the whole fundamentalist wardrobe. The teacher told the whole class that, from a dialogue bubble, “I’ve told you a hundred times that it is strictly forbidden to wear jewelry and jeans”. Marji decided not to follow that rule and wear her bracelet to school. The teacher saw and told she didn’t want to see it again. So the next day Marji wore it again. The teacher and her started to argue about it and Marji got really angry and slapped

  • Drinking On The Job Essay

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    gotten the job and couldn't wait to work in a comfortable, laid back work environment, which I had never been accustomed to. At Sweetwater, the servers did not have to wear uniforms like most restaurants. Here, servers were allowed to wear cut-off jeans, shorts, t-shirts, and whatever type of

  • Marketing the Target Audience

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    of claiming to dominate the world of quality jeans. The word “dungaree” means a pair of sturdy, durable, twill-weave of cotton fabric made into jeans. Written on the dungarees (and on the website) are the Lucky Brand slogans “Americas Favorite” and “Wear us, be lucky”. I bought two pair of jeans recently, on the inseam of the zippers is the phrase “Lucky You” and I also found a strip of paper that once again notes that if the customer wears the jeans, he/she will be lucky.

  • Claude McKay & Jean Toomer

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    Claude McKay was born on September 15th 1890, in the West Indian island of Jamaica. He was the youngest of eleven children. At the age of ten, he wrote a rhyme of acrostic for an elementary-school gala. He then changed his style and mixed West Indian folk songs with church hymns. At the age of seventeen he met a gentlemen named Walter Jekyll, who encouraged him to write in his native dialect. Jekyll introduced him to a new world of literature. McKay soon left Jamaica and would never return to his

  • History of Clothing

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    Have you ever stopped and wondered what did people wear back in the day? Or what was the clothing like when the Romans or Greeks where here? The Clothing that we wear today is very different; people didn’t always wear skinny jeans and graphic shirts. I took the time to research what was clothing like before we were born. It was believed that the very first people the Homo sapiens may have been the first people to wear clothing. The first people may have worn leaves or animal skins. Adam and Eve (according

  • John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men

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    and all guy ranch. The first character which has the theme of loneliness wrapped around him is Candy. Candy is an old man who is missing his right hand. According to his description in the play, Candy is "A stoop-shouldered old man, dressing in blue jeans and a denim coat...his right hand is gone at the wrist" (p. 4). His handicap happened on the farm "[Candy] lost [his] hand right here on the ranch. That's why they didn't can [him]." (p. 14). Candy owns a dog. The other men on the ranch cannot stand