Prophecy‚ Free-will‚ and the Real World Considering your ability to think and make decisions for yourself‚ you’d believe you’re in control of your fate‚ right? A popular theme in Greek myths is that of predetermination or prophecy. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ and in Serial‚ people attempt to control their lives while unknowingly conforming to their predetermined fate. Whether or not they were conscious of the acting determinants‚ both situations were actively being pursued. In book 9 of The Odyssey‚
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make-up is not the way to raise a modest child. When beauty pageants first began‚ they were not judging contestants solely on their outward appearances‚ but also on the individual as a person. The beauty pageant winners served as positive role models that showed the younger contestants what being a well-rounded young woman was like. These role-models proved to the younger girls that external beauty was not everything‚ and that internal beauty would benefit them greatly in many aspects of their futures
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five year olds they actually are. In my opinion beauty pageants are harmful to children. Beauty pageants create a negative environment for children putting them under pressure and negative self evaluation. Pageants judge only the external aspects of a child rather than their inner beauty and beauty pageants are very time consuming (getting the perfect costume‚ practicing all day long‚ and having the child’s hair done.) The atmosphere of a beauty pageant can be considered negative. The contestant
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and other negative feelings. Jonas understood the risk but he really liked the feeling. Jonas began to question if the safety of having no feelings was worth the loss of those feelings. The more memories Jonas received‚ the stronger he wanted to be free of all the restraints against feelings. Emotions were a part of Jonas that the knew should not be worth giving up for
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tall‚ fit‚ blonde wearing Guess jeans. Now‚ there are more diverse people that represent the media. We no longer have a one sided view of beauty. Standing next to Candice Swanepoel are models with curves‚ short models‚ and models of color. For example‚ Winnie Harlow is a high fashion model. She is black‚ which is one way in which she breaks the standard beauty stereotype‚ but she also has a condition called Vitiligo. This condition affects one’s skin. It creates patches of skin with the absence of
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One day when I was in the fourth grade‚ we had just finished a free response test on a story we were supposed to read last night. The next day‚ my teacher had completed grading all the test and he had noticed that two of the papers had were the exact same‚ their names were Danny and Ishmael. But Danny was absent today so the teacher called Ishmael to the front of the classroom and asked him if he and Danny cheated off of each other’s test. Ishmael first lied and said‚ “I don’t know how we have the
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American Beauty PREEEEEEEP Themes Happiness Exists as an myth‚ goal (illusion) All the characters want to achieve it They all have different thoughts and beliefs of what happiness is and how to achieve it Lester Burnham Pursues happiness by reaching out to his true desires and ignoring what the society (mostly his wife) has to say In the end he realizes that he found true happiness‚ however he took it to a significant extent‚ by doing drugs‚ smoking pot‚ getting a cheap job‚ seeking a sexual
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commentary By : Maaria Chehab Basking shark by Norman MacCaig is a free verse poem‚ that might have been written to question the ‘evil’ natures of humans‚ using sharks metaphorical renaissance for the idea. The narrator introduces this un-intuitive question in line 13‚ quite bluntly by saying “ So who is the monster? The thought made me grow pale….” MacCaig uses figurative language‚ syntax‚ and diction to create this artwork. The poem starts off in a body of water‚ with the narrator introducing the
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Beauty is combination of qualities‚ such as shape‚ color‚ or form‚ that pleases the aesthetic senses‚ especially the sight. This is how the majority of people define beauty without having an understanding of its different points. We are so closed minded about how we should look and how we should not look that we overlook the big picture. Beauty gives us confidence and should make us feel confident in how we choose to express yourself. There should not be one ideal way we should look‚ but we somehow
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