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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Inner Beauty is the Real Beauty EunSuk Ji (Jenny) from Korea When I was young‚ I read many kinds of books‚ including fairy tales. Most of the books described heroes who were handsome and heroines who were beautiful. So‚ I believed I had to be beautiful if I wanted to become a great person. It was a hard time for me. Whenever I looked at someone who was more beautiful than me‚ I was stressed. As I grew up‚ I began to realize outer beauty was not so important to make someone good. I remember a friend
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Reality TV is the new mantra of television producers and channel executives. It is the means to increase TRP ratings and the end is always to outdo the other channels and the ‘similar-but-tweaked-here-and-there’ shows churned out by the competition. So fierce is the competition in this segment that every channel boasts of at least two to three reality shows. Some of them are inherited legally from abroad‚ (mostly and always from the USA – the Godmother of reality television) or some are cheap copies
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Reality TV Shouldn’t be a Reality By Saydra Schmitz When you turn on a television today‚ reality TV litters the media. This is what our generation idolizes. But is it appropriate? Is this what we should be watching? When I see adults making immature and stupid decisions‚ I can only say‚ “No”. So I purpose that we ban the brain-melting reality TV material. Most reality TV shows‚ like “Jersey Shore”‚ is just a brain-numbing wreck that most children‚ teens‚ and even adults get
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Reality TV Have you seen the popular reality television shows lately? The core of reality TV consists of: Fighting‚ sexuality‚ and an intolerable amount of drinking and drug use. Young viewers who watch reality TV may be assuming that this type of behavior is the ideal lifestyle. Even in the early years of reality TV‚ the main hook to keep viewers interested was to aspire to young women of what reality is. The Miss America pageants made some young women believe in the ideals of beauty and perfection
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The Reality of Freedom or The Reality of Manipulation: Jean-Paul Sartre and Sigmund Freud are two highly influential thinkers of the 20th century whose philosophies overlapped and opposed one another. Sartre was a pioneer and key figure in the school of existentialist philosophy. He argues that all humans are inherently free. Sartre means by this bold claim that we are all free to make our decisions‚ but our actions determine our characters‚ habits‚ and values. There are no universal human
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Remember the Titans‚ directed by Boaz Yakin and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer‚ centers around the American football team of the newly integrated T.C Williams High School in Alexandria (Virginia)‚ in the early 1970s. The Caucasian head coach of the football team (the Titans) is replaced by an African American coach from North Carolina. Tensions arise when players of different races are forced together on the same football team. Many of these tensions however‚ are somewhat eased during the two-week
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Appearance versus Reality In the short story “Elethia”‚ by Alice Walker the concept of majority versus minority and appearance versus reality is discussed. In this story White America attempts to integrate Black America‚ but the African Americans do not wish to be integrated. This short story also toys with the idea that authority figures keep society blind and put them down because they have power. Walker uses the name "Elethia" for both the story’s protagonist as well as the story’s title. Through
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Beauty What is beauty? There are many different thoughts regarding beauty. Eleanor Roosevelt said‚ “No matter how plain a woman may be‚ of truth and honesty are written across her face‚ she will be beautiful” (Confucius‚ Roosevelt‚ and Poe). Edgar Allen Poe‚ regarding beauty stated‚ “There is no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion” (Confucius‚ Roosevelt‚ and Poe). Confucius tells us‚ “Everything has beauty‚ but not everyone sees it” (Confucius‚ Roosevelt‚ and Poe). There
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The images of good shaped models in magazines and media impact on view of beauty that leads people to plastic surgeries. Plastic surgery is a branch of surgery that is a reconstructive plastic surgery which is concerned with improving function (Nordqvist). Plastic surgery has become popular in modern society due to human anxiety about appearance and the demand of beauty and perfection. According to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS)‚ Brazil is the second country has high
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