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    Beauty and the Beast

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    characters‚ the story of Beauty and the Beast can be read as being from the eyes of the Beauty. “Cupid and Psyche‚” written in C.E. 150 by Apuleius‚ Psyche played the role of Beauty‚ who wins back Cupid’s love by overcoming many obstacles which was given by Venus and become immortal. Different versions of the story appeared since Apuleius’ time. The eighteenth century governess and author‚ Marie Leprince de Beaumont‚ rewrote a lengthy seventeenth century version of Beauty and the beast. In this story

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    Beauty Pageants

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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 Contest

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    Beauty What is beauty? Beauty can be defined in many ways. For example‚ beauty can be a beautiful or pleasing thing or person. Beauty can be a color‚ shape or collection of things or how that object attracts them. In my opinion‚ beauty comes from within our hearts. In other peoples’ opinion‚ beauty is how a woman looks under all that animals’ carcasses‚ and how her body figure looks beautiful. No matter how beautiful his or her face is with acne‚ they are still not considered beautiful. What

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    Pied Beauty

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    Hopkins’ sonnets typically shift from a personal‚ often sensual experience rooted in the physical world to moral‚ philosophical and theological reflections. Discuss this movement in relation to Pied Beauty. Pied Beauty has one simple meaning: to convey the Jesuit motto "Ad maiorem Dei gloriam." Throughout the poem‚ Gerard Manley Hopkins makes shifts from theological reflections to descriptions of physical experiences. The poem‚ like a psalm‚ gives us a confident description of nature as the work

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    Alice Walker Beauty

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    This story is the biography of Alice Walker called “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”. In this story‚ she is expected to be a pretty little girl who’s life depends on her beauty‚ so much so that when she is shot in the eye‚ her school work is heavily affected. She is treated differently than her brothers‚ who are given more freedom and bully her. I know that in my personal life I have been shunned for not being masculine enough. Societies today see femininity as a female trait. When she

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    Inner vs Outer Beauty

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    Beauty 1 Inner Beauty vs. Outer Beauty Beauty 2 Inner Beauty vs. Outer Beauty What is beauty? Beauty is defined as the qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to ones senses. But to us‚ beauty is a personal phenomenon. While we instinctively know what appeals to our sense of beauty‚ defining what determines attractiveness is not always easy. After all‚ whether someone is beautiful is a matter of opinion right? So‚ is it the

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    Beauty Pageants

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    Did beauty pageants go a bit too far? According to Oxford‚ beauty pageants are public entertainment contests of a procession of people in elaborate‚ colorful costumes‚ or an outdoor performance of a historical scene; however‚ child beauty pageants according to Wikipedia child beauty pageants are beauty contests that feature contestants up to 18 years of age; however‚ Competition categories may include interviews‚ talents‚ swim wear‚ casual wear‚ western wear‚ theme wear‚ etc. Contingent on the type

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    Inner Beauty vs. Outer Beauty Brandi Harbin English Composition 121 Instructor: Amy Morris October 31‚ 2011 Physical beauty is outside for everyone to see. Physical beauty is usually the way men guage whether to talk to a woman. People can get a second opinion on how a person looks. It is most peoples’opinion that Inner beauty is the most important beauty a person can have. In order to know inner beauty‚ we must know the person. Some of the greatest views of inner beauty are loyalty

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    outside just to be a "good" person? Why can’t people be beautiful physically as well as inner beauty? People underestimate the things the naked eye sees. People often look at peoples appearances and don’t really search for who they are. Instead‚ they look at what is presented despite whether they what to know who the person truly is. What does physical beauty mean to you? Thanks to society‚ physical beauty is often looked at as being perfect and without flaws which can be very deceiving. Society also

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    November 29‚ 2012 Beauty is what society likes to set‚ so everyone could have something to compare to each other. Given time‚ money and pain‚ what we call beauty‚ could be defined by cosmetics and surgeries. Females often worry more about beauty. Beauty is both a physical and mental kind of subject. Beauty can be defined differently through different people and culture. It is perceived as important as we grow up‚ influenced by the medias. Because of this‚ girls grow up thinking of beauty in the most distorted

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