Suzan R. Hofstede Publications

  Recently, one of the main problems of teenagers is “feeling insecure about the way they look”. Actually, this can be considered as a mental health problem. This feeling may lead to “anorexia nervosa”, which is an illness that a person does not eat anything, or “blumia nervosa”, which is an illness that people binge eat and then vomit what they have eaten. Especially during the pandemic, the number of teenagers that feel insecure about their body has increased. In my opinion the main reasons of this parabolic increase are social media, supermodels and advertisement for beauty and health products. The pictures and videos that are posted on social media platforms really affect the teenagers dreadfully. People do not post anything on Instagram without editing their pictures. They elongate their legs and add abs. as there is an “idealized body image” on social media, teenagers try to reach that body by dieting and doing sports. As they cannot achieve a body like that they might ...

    Recently, I have read an article in which the author claimed that natural sciences are not as beneficial as social sciences in the 21 st century. I strongly believe that he is right. The 21 st century is a new era. In the past centuries, the humanity discovered many things about science. However, most of the time the scientists have a hard time with ethical and economical issues. During the 20 th century, cloning was found. The humanity has the power of making copies of themselves or other species. Although the scientists seem powerful due to their discovery, the actual power is within the social sciences. Those scientists definitely need powerful lawyers, economists with inquiring minds and open-minded people who are dealing with ethics and philosophy. I have always believed in social sciences have the power. You may ask why I am writing this and why I claim that social sciences have much more benefits than natural sciences, do not you? However, you might not s...