ORLAN

Now this image is one of the greatest examples of body image, beauty and identity. I know this looks like a bunch of morons showing off there pecs and other parts, but these guys are my brothers and 4 years before this picture was taken they were completely different. This is my old wrestling team back in high school and in 2009 is when i met my new friends that i ended up calling my brothers in arms in the end. At the first year of wrestling everyone in this picture was Overweight, Underweight, too skinny, weak, full of pride, and undisciplined. 4 years of being on the wrestling team changed all that and we all became better men and woman. (Their was one girl on the team) We became a family that knew better in our daily lives. My professor wrote that Orlan "decided to go under the knife again and again – not because her life was at risk, but because she believed surgically changing her body could be a powerful work of art". My team is the result of art in a different perspective. We have gone through a training program that not only helped changed our bodies but our minds as well. We were all disfigured in our own way and to change that we had to go through a difficult procedure and we gained endurance, strength, honor, speed, flexibility, and brotherhood. ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL IS I GOT TO FIGHT WITH THESE GREAT MEN AND WOMAN.