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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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    Psychosomatic Research 53 (2002) 1037 – 1041 Preconscious processing of body image cues Impact on body percept and concept Glenn Wallera‚*‚ Juliette Barnesb a Department of Psychiatry‚ St. George’s Hospital Medical School‚ University of London‚ Cranmer Terrace‚ London SW17 0RE‚ UK b Department of Psychology‚ Royal Holloway‚ University of London‚ London‚ UK Abstract Objective: There is considerable evidence that body image is an elastic construct‚ which can be influenced by environmental and

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    has a certain image and a multifaceted structure. First studies on country image in the literature belong to the 1930s and 1940s (Katz and Braly‚ 1933; Klingberg‚ 1941). On those years‚ several researches were done on impacts of social psychological processes‚ economic‚ cultural and political events on country image. But in these years‚ national perceptions and prototypes are of particular importance (Katz and Braly‚ 1933; 1943; Klinberg‚1941). Nagashima (1970) considers country image a prototypes

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    American Beauty

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    The Color Red "The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul." George Sand hit the nail right on the head when he said this in 1872. Appearance versus reality has been a central theme in many American creative works including the film American Beauty. American Beauty is a film that delves into your typical‚ middle-class suburban American home and slowly uncovers all of the abnormalities that lie within. The family

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    Beauty For Me Beauty. We’ve heard that word repeatedly through our lives but what does it really mean? Majority of people find beauty to be something dealing with physical attributes‚ when in fact it can also deal with the inner self as well. What one person might find to beautiful maybe completely different from what another person finds beautiful. We then must wonder how an individual came about to defining what is beautiful according to them. Now we can’t simply say that beauty is the eye of

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    beautiful? Today our society has turned beauty into something that is unrealistic. Many are familiar with features that classify a woman as beautiful such as having a pretty face‚ flawless skin‚ skinny figure and sparkling eyes. However‚ each of us has our own perception of beauty. Everyone has different tastes. We have certain features that we like and dislike‚ which makes it difficult to define what beauty truly is. If we cannot agree on what traits define beauty‚ then how can a woman discover their

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    hair was like that but I don’t have good hair‚” “She has white people hair that’s why her hair so long‚” or even “That’s probably not even her real hair.” This is where African American girls and women fall victim to the ignorance of their natural beauty. This girl was me. I had long hair my entire life hair the length of what people pay hundreds of dollars to get in a weave. Although I have what is considered in today’s world as “good hair‚” I at one point decided to go the route to get a relaxer

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    Child beauty pageants are known all around the world. They are advertised through magazines and reality shows. The young girls are marked up to be someone they are not. They resemble Barbie dolls with the fake lashes‚ fake boobs‚ fake nails‚ the pounds of makeup‚ spray tans‚ hoops‚ fake hair extensions‚ flashy and not age appropriate costumes. I am personally not a fan of the child beauty pageants for several reasons. I feel as though the children are being robbed of their childhood. The young girls

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    Standards of Beauty: A Look at How Conformity Establishes Identity How do you define beauty? Is it something that is acquired? Or is it a privilege that is bestowed on certain individuals? The society within The Bluest Eye‚ by Toni Morrison‚ establishes a certain standard to which its members must conform to. This conformity is also present in Dick Hebdige’s Subculture: The Meaning of Style. His novel serves as a reflection of today’s society with the presence of mass media and their guidelines

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    True Beauty Lonny Is beauty a splendid sunset when a person climbs a long way up a mountain peak and takes the first glimpse? Is beauty that moment when a person puts his toes into the sand‚ his face softly touched by the wind with its little salty flavor and the sun shining above his head? Is beauty a gorgeous girl that passes by‚ causing a man to not move his glued eyes from her back when she is already gone? Is beauty a luxurious sports car that a man fails to move

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