Standards of beauty are different in different eras‚ and in Socrates’s time beauty could easily be measured by the standard of the gods‚ stately‚ proportionate sculptures of whom had been adorning the Athenian acropolis since about the time Socrates reached the age of thirty. Good looks and proper bearing were important to a man’s political prospects‚ for beauty and goodness were linked in the popular imagination. The extant sources agree that Socrates was profoundly ugly‚ resembling a satyr more
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS BY TOMORI M. ADIJOLOLA lolatomori@yahoo.com BEING A PAPER PRESENTED AT: THE WORKSHOP ON PROPERTY TAX SYSTEM AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCING ORGANISED BY: MINISTRY OF LOCAL GOVERNMETN AND CHIEFTAINCY MATTERS IN COLLABORATION WITH MESSRS WALE ADENIYI PARTNERSHIP MARCH 2009 LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS 1.0 INTRODUCTION As the biggest economic recession in 70 years continues to undermine
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“L’Oreal and the Globalization of American Beauty” I. Key Problem From the inception of L’Oreal‚ in 1907‚ until the late 70’s the global beauty market was largely fragmented and characterized by the domination of local consumer preferences over the search for global efficiencies. Though consumer product companies had been gradually moving toward beauty products and cosmetics‚ the 80’s marked a monumental industry shift when major conglomerates‚ such as Unilever and P&G‚ began to buy leading
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The play Beauty written by Jane Martin is about jealousy of the two main characters. Carla and Bethany are the complete opposite of each other. Carla is beautiful but has neither brains nor personality. On the other hand‚ Bethany is an accountant with a high income and very successful in writing short stories but is not satisfied with her appearance. Both girls envy one another wanting what each other have‚ Carla wants to be successful and smart and Bethany wishes to be beautiful. Bethany believes
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What do beauty pageants necessarily entail that makes them immoral‚ that makes it seem horrible to the populace? The ideas I seem to find most interesting for me to answer are many which I will list and the reader will read as they are introduced‚ which is to say they will not all be announced in one clump. Now‚ for someone to be an apologist or attacker of this topic‚ a description ought to be provided which I do so here “A child beauty pageant is a beauty contest featuring contestants under 16
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or woman on both young and old alike. The media tells people how to look‚ and act; if a person does not meet these outrageous standards‚ they are considered to be less than perfect. One of the reasons these standards of beauty are impossible to obtain is because the concept of beauty is constantly changing. For women‚ some of the standards have included a curvy figure like Marilyn Monroe‚ an athletic‚ strong body as an ideal body type to have‚ the twiggy model figure and now the ideal is a large butt
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Defining Beauty Many people would agree with this statement ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’. Beauty is subjective to each individual person. You can see beauty in an obvious way‚ like a person’s physical attractiveness‚ you can see beauty within a person; their inner beauty‚ and you can see beauty out in the world like a beautiful painting or mesmerizing sunset. The Merriam- Webster Dictionary defines “beauty” as “the qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses
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solution is to understand the importance of buying locally. In the text “Taking Local On the Road‚” by Camille Kingsolver talks about her personal experience growing up only eating all local foods and the switch that occurs when she reaches college. Like Kingsolver‚ I to find it challenging to always make the best food choices because of college. The difference between being at college and home is easy access to local food and my budget. At home it is so much easier to find a farmers market and shop
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November 2012 "Beauty": The evolution of perception When looking in the past to see how people lived and viewed the world‚ there is one commonality that stands out. A woman’s beauty says a lot on how the culture and the people of that society perceived themselves and others. These past perceptions affect how current society and culture is perceived not only by the individuals of our generation but by our future generations as well. This paper will address how we as society view beauty as it has changed
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Beauty‚ a term once revered in ancient days as the pinnacle of physical attributes embodied in worldly entities‚ has seemingly in this day lost much of its meaning. Phrases like “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” have surprisingly become commonplace‚ and even Christians have begun to subscribe to the notion of aesthetic relativism. Specifically‚ this is the idea that beauty is purely contained within the observer and objects on their own have no aesthetic value in and of themselves. It is
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