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    Hello I am Chase Thompson and this is a little bit of my life story. In this essay I’m going to explain and talk a little bit about myself. I am originally from Greenville Mo. I am 16 going on to 17 in October. I used to live on a 100 acre farm and work with cattle and chickens. When I was 5-6 years old I met my step brother. Not blood related but someone I grew up with. We acted like we were brother and even my family accepted him. His father I also took me in as his own son. He helped me

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    attention‚ and he realizes that it is frequently becoming more hideous. Dorian hates the man he has become‚ but continues to blame others for his wrong doings. In Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray he suggests that perfection is an unattainable ideal.

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    Perfection has no relevance to America. Modern day America has so many problems that people don’t even know where to start. I will be telling you about the government lies‚ obesity‚ and death by crimes. After reading this paper you should understand that we do not live in the dream land foreigners believe America is. In my opinion the government should be trusted by its people. A third of American believe that September 11th was a conspiracy. Fifty-four percent are angry at the government because

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    sacrifices were made to God for a covering of sin. God accepted these sacrifices for a season‚ but knew that a perfect sacrifice was the only avenue to the eradication of sin. And‚ in His perfect timing‚ God demonstrated for the world the personage of perfection. God‚ the Creator‚ gifted His creation with His Son. “In this the love of God was manifested toward us‚ that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world‚ that we might live through Him. In this is love‚ not that we loved God‚ but that He

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    Can some man arrive at moral perfection in this life‚ or is it impossible? Benjamin Franklin was an extremely brilliant and talented individual. He constantly sought ways to improve himself. After he read "The Spectator" he put in a very dedicated effort to imitate their style of writing because he loved how precise the authors wrote out their thoughts. Franklin was also a relatively religious man or at least believed enough to try to be a morally righteous man so that he would avoid his way

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    The Birthmark on Mortal Perfection Hawthorne writes about a subject that is still very prominent now. He examines the obsession with human perfection. The story tells of a very successful scientist and philosopher‚ Aylmer‚ and his very beautiful wife Georgiana. Aylmer is obsessed with perfection‚ as are most scientists. He makes sure he experiments with all possible options to conclude the best results for a perfect solution. Now Aylmer is very much in love with his wife Georgiana‚ and she with

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    The American Obsession with Bodily Perfection America is a growing and changing nation‚ but one characteristic has outlasted the years. The obsession for a socially-accepted body‚ whether it be wearing a corset‚ being big and voluptuous or‚ for men‚ being muscular and lean‚ has always existed. The culprit‚ a negative body image‚ now haunts approximately eight million people across the United States and is beginning to seep into more American minds as the “Perfect” disease spreads (Davis 8). In

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    Macleod’s characterization of Archibald in “The Tuning of Perfection” is of a man whose life is sustained by personal hard work and the memories of the times gone by with his wife and even before then- of a faltering culture. His character represents an individual in a world where the construction and maintenance of a social and cultural identity is becoming a perplexing but confronting actuality. Archibald is aware and possibly slightly perturbed about the new world that is emerging and is an example

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    The video that I watched was called Beyond Perfection: Female Body Dimorphic Disorder. The video featured a woman named Jennifer who strives to be perfect in her looks. It takes her about 3 hours to get ready in the morning because she never fully loves how she looks with or without make-up. So far‚ Jennifer has had a nose job and a procedure to slightly sand down the top layer of her skin. Though she has had these procedures‚ she feels like she looks disfigured. Jennifer claims that if she were

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    The theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” is that striving for perfection is foolish. Every day we see the good things that have to do with having the so called perfect body‚ personality‚ or even having perfect skin‚ like Georgiana. First off‚ Georgiana would never have seen the “imperfection” of her birthmark had it not been for other people tearing her down about it‚ and second off‚ perfection itself is relative. Just like the saying “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” And in Aylmer’s

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