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    Beauty and the Media

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    fifty years. Now it has developed into the only real place that American’s look for their sense of the ideal image for a male/female. Fifty years ago‚ the ideal woman was slightly plump‚ big-breasted‚ and rosy. In fact‚ "the dominant ideal of female beauty was exemplified by Marilyn Monroe- hardly your androgynous‚ athletic‚ adolescent type. At the peak of her popularity‚ Monroe was often described as ‘femininity incarnate’‚ ‘femaleness embodied’" (Susan Bordo 127). Marilyn Monroe was the 1950’s ideal

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    Natural Beauty

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    they truly are from inside. The song “Natural Beauty” from Immortal Technique is a song that gives a message to all the people out there who feel insecure about themselves. It shows that you just need to be yourself and everything will go smooth‚ because if you don’t find yourself beautiful‚ then it would give you a harder time to socialize with friends and you would have the feeling of being uncomfterable. A literary device that the song “Natural Beauty” has is metaphor‚ for the fact that all the

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    Zandra Azariah Cunningham is C&O and founder of Zandra beauty a natural beauty & bath product company. Zandra was 9 years old when she joined the kids biz small business development center program at buffalo state college in Buffalo. This program helped Azariah a lot in learning essential business skills; such as business development‚ marketing‚ finances etc. She started her business with the name of “Azariah’s innocence with the help of her parents. In 2010‚ she started selling her products

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    Inner Beauty

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    Aquinas College Outward beauty is transient‚ but inner beauty is lasting She’s beautiful because she has long curly hair and light skinned. He’s handsome because he’s tall and has an athletic body. On the other hand a woman is far from gorgeous because of her curvaceous body and dark skin. Or a man is hideous with his four eyes and red hair. We all face a time in our lives where we are judged by our hair color‚ skin color‚ or our body size which all make up our outer beauty. Today we live in a condemnatory

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    The Importance of Beauty

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    The Importance of Beauty The first thing most people notice about someone is how physically attractive they are; yet we are told every day that looks do not matter. Our world is filled with hypocrisy when talking about the notion of beauty. Many quotes and inspirational messages line our halls and are often the background of choice on teenage girl’s cellphones. We are taught that “Beauty is only skin deep” from a young age‚ but if this really is the truth why do girls starve themselves to be skinny

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    Changes in Beauty

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    redefined the definition of physical beauty‚ particularly for women.  The digital media’s main focus for women is external beauty. The fashion‚ cosmetics‚ diet‚ and plastic surgery industries have thrived by using the digital media as a pathway to foster preoccupations with physical appearance in young women. New definitions of human physical beauty have been constructed in terms of outward appearance and sexual attractiveness that are much different from the past. In Beauty In History‚ Arthur Marwick describes

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    Beauty and the Beast

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    Elayne A. Saltzberg and Joan C. Chrisler Beauty Is the Beast: Psychological Effects of the Pursuit of the Perfect Female Body Women: A Feminist Perspective edited by Jo Freeman. Fifth Edition. Mountain View‚ CA: Mayfield Publishing Company‚ 1995. 306-315. Elayne Saltzberg (Daniels) was a postdoctoral clinical psychology fellow at Yale University School of Medicine. Her major interests include body image and eating disorders. She is an eating disorder specialist with a practice in Massachusetts

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    The Beauty Myth

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    By: Kelly Winch The Beauty Myth‚ published by Doubleday in New York City‚ hit the shelves in 1992. Naomi Wolf wrote this 348-page book. Wolf attended Yale University and New College‚ Oxford University‚ where she was a Rhodes Scholar. Her essays have been printed in many well-known magazines and newspapers‚ including Esquire and the New York Times. The Beauty Myth was Wolf’s first book. She has also written two other books‚ Fire With Fire and Promiscuities. Wolf is a recognized feminist. She has

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    Posing Beauty

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    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 black women are photographed

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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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