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    A Perspective of Beauty

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    about what defines beauty. The speculations range from how our body looks as a whole to the point that beauty lies within each body part. This idea of beauty is only a small portion of the whole picture in all retrospect. In real essence‚ beauty cannot really be defined with words but rather an array of art which encompasses the truth about beauty. The common misconception with beauty that many individuals either do not understand or choose to ignore completely is that beauty runs skin deep. Much

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    Culture and Perception

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    around the world people are exposed to the world in different ways. What someone in Asia might perceive could be totally different than how someone in America might look at it. Culture plays a major role in how we all look‚ or perceive‚ things. Perception is the how you interpret some information that is given to you. You have two major ways of figuring out how you feel about certain stimuli‚ top-down perceptual processing and bottom-up perceptual processing. The top-down perceptual processing

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    Beauty for Me

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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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    Racialized Beauty

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    first novel‚ The Bluest Eye‚ was published in 1970. “In the novel‚ Morrison challenges Western standards of beauty and demonstrates that the concept of beauty is socially constructed. Morrison also recognises that if whiteness is used as a standard of beauty or anything else‚ then the value of blackness is diminished and this novel works to subvert that tendency.” (Sugiharti‚ “Racialized Beauty: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye”). Her goal in writing the novel was to make a statement about how “something

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    Beauty or Brains?

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    Beauty or brains? A question asked by many but answered by none. Some say beauty is most important and brains aren’t required. I have a different perception. In this world‚ beauty is considered everything and almost nothing can be done without beauty. It will get you a job‚ it will get you roles in movies etc. the media is one major factor that promotes beauty in a negative matter. Have u seen their idea of beauty? People say that beauty on the Face is everything but what they don’t know is what

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    Beauty and the Beast

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    The very popular children’s movie “Beauty and the Beast” was originally a fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont. While the movie holds true to many of the themes displayed in the fairy tale‚ it falls short in other aspects. In the original fairy tale‚ the deal between the merchant and Beast is that one of the merchants daughter die in place of the merchant. However in the Disney movie the deal that takes place between Belle and Beast is only that Belle stays in the castle as his

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    Social Perception

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    CHAPTER 4 – SOCIAL PERCEPTION How do we come to understand other people? Our words tell only one part of the story. For this reason‚ most of the time we don’t satisfy with verbal communication and we try to facilitate our communication by non-verbal things. Nonverbal communication is important part of social perception. The way in which people communicate intentionally or unintentionally without words‚ nonverbal cues‚ signs include Facial expressions‚ tone of voice‚ gestures‚ body

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    Beauty In The 1800s

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    Throughout history and modern times‚ beauty has been valued and pursued. It has long played a significant role in shaping societal norms‚ practices‚ and reflecting cultural values. Standards often seen as eccentric in one part of the world could be the epitome of beauty in another. However‚ no matter the era or location‚ a common trend seen throughout history and even today tends to be pale skin. It shouldn’t be a surprise to many to the extent people would go for beauty and the fulfillment of fitting

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    Perception in the Arts

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    Perception in the Arts The subjectivity of perception makes art what it is. Art is all about perception and individuality‚ since everyone has a different background‚ experience‚ taste‚ and opinion about any artwork. To determine the extent to which perception plays a role in the development‚ and the existence‚ of the arts‚ it is essential to identify the knowledge issues of perception in regards to the area of knowledge. First‚ is perception consistent and definite? Does previous knowledge (prejudice)

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    Popular Perception

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    Climate Change(ing) Popular Perception One of the biggest‚ but most underrated problems we face in our world today is global warming‚ or as some call it‚ “climate change”. Global warming is defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary as “an increase in the earth’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution.” The cause of this warming of the overall atmosphere of earth is anthropogenic‚ or in other words

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