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    Bimbos go bonkers Recently‚ there has been an insane rally against child beauty pageants. Personally‚ I am concerned about the way these beauty pageants portray women and young girls. This has come in response to news that an American company has decided to bring its pageant to Australia for the first time. Child welfare authorities in the United States are investigating a mother who appeared on national television injecting her eight-year-old daughter with the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox. ’’It’s

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    Physical Beauty vs. Inner Beauty Physical Beauty vs. Inner Beauty There are many definitions for “beauty” but each individual changes throughout life based on what they perceive. The two major types of beauty are physical (or outer) and Inner beauty. Based on the facts and research on these two topics; I would like to show the similarities and differences in the way individuals may perceive one other. What is the first thing that catches your eye‚ from the opposite sex? The first thing I see

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    Rhetorical Analysis of the song “Beauty for brokenness” by Graham Kendrick The song that I chose for rhetorical analysis is Beauty for brokenness by Graham Kendrick. This song was written in 1993 for the 25th anniversary of the charity Tear Fund. It was influenced by a visit that Kendrick had made to India in 1992 and his perception of the contrast between Indian poverty and Western affluence. It was included in his CD album Spark to a Flame (1993)‚ and has since been included in a number of mainstream

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    Physical beauty to inner beauty. Beauty only exists in perception‚ but not too many people are aware of that and judge a lot of people through the way they look and personality. I believe physical beauty can only get you so far in life‚ while others are so caught up in their looks and the way society views them. Inner beauty in my perception is sublime and I wish more people would look more into their peers personalities then what they wear or if they’re in today’s trends. Everything is an art

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    first novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ was published in 1970. “In the novel‚ Morrison challenges Western standards of beauty and demonstrates that the concept of beauty is socially constructed. Morrison also recognises that if whiteness is used as a standard of beauty or anything else‚ then the value of blackness is diminished and this novel works to subvert that tendency.” (Sugiharti‚ “Racialized Beauty: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”). Her goal in writing the novel was to make a statement about how “something

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    intrigued humankind. In particular‚ two American texts have captured the essence of it ‚ The Great Gatsby by F.S. Fitzgerald and the 1999 movie American Beauty directed by Sam Mendes. Both texts closely explore the responsibility of an individuals relationship with his or her society for the sacrifices the individual makes; from the disillusionment of the American Dream to how the characters are affected or destroyed by it. In the world of Jay Gatsby and Lester Burnham‚ ideals and values are defined by

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    Should child beauty pageants be banned in the United States? What better “sport” for girls who are afraid to break a nail than Beauty Pageants? According to the “Journal of the American Academy of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry” in 2006‚ 40% of children who took part in beauty pageants have psychologic problems while the remaining 60% agree that they are unhappy during the pageant itself. With this statistic in mind do you believe that Child Beauty Pageants should be outlawed in the United

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    Beauty and Beast: The women as the true Beast of the classic fairytale” Beauty is a very controversial topic in our world‚ since not everyone thinks of it in the same terms. Here‚ I will discuss how beauty is‚ in actuality‚ the true beast of this classic story. If we think about the word “beast” we might also find unaccountable opinions about the topic. Although there are different concepts of what a ‘beauty’ is and what a ‘beast’ is‚ we will look at the different variations of this fairy tale

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    Pied Beauty

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    of the Seven Sleepers and Paul the Apostle’s description of divine‚ agapic love - two concepts with which‚ as a practising Catholic‚ Donne would have been familiar. Donne’s cartographic references in the third stanza have been the subject of much analysis‚ although academics have differed in their interpretation of their meaning and what the lines reference. Robert L. Sharp argues that these references can be logically interpreted as yet another reference to love; the maps Donne with which would have

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