Seventeen, in my collection of them I get each month that sits on my floor. On the cover of the Seventeen Magazine is a picture of the most popular boys in teen music right now. She will learn from the cover of this magazine what is new this month and what things is a priority in our world. She will learn that media is all about image and how to find a perfect match! It won't take her long to learn how things go on planet Earth. The majority of the articles are about appearance, beauty, style, and how to get a beach body for summer. Mary will soon learn that if she wants to fit in she will want to follow these things in these magazines. My advice to you, Mary is to bring your own self here and don't let the Media control you! They are dressed the best of the best ever, with new fashioned clothes and the most expensive ones out there as well. Fashion is very hard to find in stores around you. They try to tell you to buy the best ones out of the magazine and if you get the clothes you will be looking fly! Mary will learn that the Media will try to control her but she shouldn't let them. I guarantee that American's don't look the way they do in the magazines. Everything about them is changed to look the best for the world. Mary will see a totally different selection of people at just a local mall! She will see nothing like she does in this magazine, people don't care what they look like and she will wonder why people in the magazine look so "fake". American's desire the way they look and they have to look their best for the public. Nobody in the Magazine is themselves because everything is edited to look to best that it can! Mary may try to fit in by buying some of these products at first but in the end she will miss the way things used to be at her planet and will bring that fashion, style and culture over here. This magazine is meant to be more feminine than masculine. They may put a picture of boys on the cover like they did this time to get the girl's eyes a little quicker than normal. All their products they are trying to sell are for girls/women and I don't see anything in there for boys/men. To make America happy it doesn't take much, just put some cute products in there, and make the people look perfect is the only way. People see the products on the "perfect" people and think it will be a perfect look for them as well. That is how they get their product bought by advertising it the wrong way. I think she learned a lot just from this magazine but since she is knew to planet earth. She may look at some different types of magazine or listen to the TV or anything else that is impacted by the media to get a different perspective as well. She may get scared by some things but I think she will like it here or she may even go home because it is so different from where her home planet is.
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