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    Posing Beauty

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    I visited the museum to see the “Posing Beauty” exhibit on Thursday October 3‚ 2013 and Tuesday October 8‚ 2013. The atmosphere of the museum was tranquil‚ and allowed for a freethinking and free-flowing environment to create ideas for the argumentative essay. The title of the artwork I chose is Venus‚ which is a self-portrait taken in 1994. I was immediately attracted to the piece of artwork because of the position of her body and her nakedness jump out of the portrait. It is not often that curvaceous

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    The Definition of Beauty

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    Beauty is defined by a combination of qualities present in a thing or person that pleases the aesthetic senses or brings about deep satisfaction. Many people take that definition to mean that beauty describes a person’s outward appearance. Although a person’s outward appearance can be defined by the term beauty‚ true beauty lies in the way a person acts and thinks rather than the way they look. The term beauty is subjective to each and every person. Today‚ so much emphasis is placed on a person’s

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    Reality Shows

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    Reality shows‚ why do we like them so much? I started thinking about this question‚ and then I though about how many I actually had watched. Reality shows has become a big trend in our society today. People can become famous for almost anything‚ and a lot of people seem to think that being in a reality show is the biggest thing that can happen in life. I think all of us have though about being famous at some point in our life. How nice it would feel to be that athlete‚ singer or actor that everyone

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    our overall outward appearances‚ the world would be a place that emphasizes morals‚ justice and intelligence rather than bravado‚ cuteness‚ and sexual attraction. For if there were no predetermined ideal models defining the beautiful possibilities of the human body’s variation‚ one would never suffer isolation due to one’s disability‚ unattractiveness‚ or unusual physical attribute. Mary Shelley’s novel‚ Frankenstein‚ sheds light on the eternal illusory and importance of appearance through the tale

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    hire based on skill‚ others on looks. Companies shouldn’t hire based on looks because they may face discrimination laws and less attractive workers may have a better work ethic then attractive employees. If companies hire employees based on their appearance they may face discrimination laws. For example‚ “ ‘If you’re hiring by looks‚ them you can run into problems of race discrimination‚ national origin discrimination‚ gender discrimination‚ age discrimination and even disability discrimination’‚”(9)

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    The Price of Beauty

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    The Price of Beauty In today’s society it is believed that being of a certain color‚ a certain weight‚ and having specific characteristics is what makes someone beautiful. The movie “Little Miss Sunshine” directed by: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris‚ is about a young girl named Olive who dreams of being in beauty pageants. In the first scenes of the movie it shows Olive mimicking the winner of the Miss America pageant in ah and amazement. Olive is invited to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant

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    Idea of Beauty

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    “It is foolish to wish for beauty. Some people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated‚ and the heart well disposed‚ no one ever cares for the exterior.” -ANNE BRONTE‚ Agnes Grey My idea of beauty is that everyone is beautiful regardless of who they are and how they look like. You are only beautiful

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    often based on some combination of inner beauty‚ which includes psychological factors such as personality‚ intelligence‚ grace‚ politeness‚ charisma‚ integrity‚ congruence and elegance‚ and outer beauty (i.e. physical attractiveness) which includes physical attributes which are valued on aesthetic basis. Standards of beauty have changed over time‚ based on changing cultural values. Historically‚ paintings show a wide range of different standards for beauty. However‚ humans who are relatively young

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    Athenian Beauty

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    · For the Greeks‚ beauty was a virtue: A kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call—lamely‚ enviously—whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person’s “inside” and “outside‚” they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent‚ so brave‚ so honorable‚ so seductive—and so ugly. One of

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    ENGLISH ESSAY The combination of a dire lack of empathetic human interaction‚ excessive emphasis on physical appearance and the hypocritical nature of the adults makes the world Holden Caulfield lives in a bleak moral climate that destroys the soul in pieces. And if he were alive today‚ Holden would despise the current society because of it’s superficiality and obsession with technology. From the beginning of the story‚ Holden Caulfield’s interactions with the people around him reflect the obliviousness

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