are seen as the dominant gender within the culture‚ and seem to rule the roost and have a lot of say in daily activities. Furthermore‚ they also wear lip plates ascending in size dependant on their role and how well known they are. For instance‚ the bigger the plate the more well known and affluential they are towards the culture. The girl’s lower lip is cut when she reaches the age 15 or 16‚ and then pierced by her mother or another woman of her settlement and a simple wooden plug is inserted. The
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In the poem‚ “What Lips My Lips Have Kissed and Where and Why?” by Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ indicates that she has become an older woman who can’t remember the loves in her past that have come and gone. Throughout this poem there are hints and reasoning behind my thoughts on why Millay has described herself in this poem. I will go through this poem dissecting short parts of the poem to prove my point. “What lips my lips have kissed‚ and where and why‚ I have forgotten‚ and what arms have lain
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What is lip Gloss? Definition: "Lip Gloss" is a cosmetic substance used for making the lips appears‚ as the name suggests‚ glossy." There are different types of lip glosses‚ some of these are: Basic lip gloss: shine to the lips and nothing more. Coloring lip gloss: shine and add color as well. Glitter lip gloss: glitter is present in the gloss‚ which can also be coloring as well. Flavored lip gloss: they come in all of the above adding a certain flavor associated with the lip gloss.
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describe a problem faced by a character in two short stories‚ Lucky Lips by Paul Jennings and It Used To Be Green Once by Patricia Grace. In Lucky Lips Marcus’s problem is the fact that he has never been kissed by a girl. In It Used To Be Green Once the problem is the car. This essay will describe the problem‚ how they (the characters) tried to solve their problem and the outcome or consequences of their actions. The first story Lucky Lips addresses the problem of Marcus‚ a 16 year old who had never been
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An effective short poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay‚ What Lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why‚ portrays the dissonance between ideal young love and aged heartbreak. Millay starts this theme by looking back on the affairs she has had and realizes she has aged‚ "What lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why‚ I have forgotten " (1-2). Then Millay explains how her past lovers continue to haunt her‚ " but the rain is full of ghosts tonight‚ that tap and sigh upon the glass and listen for
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Olivia Louis Marjorie Downie English 119 4th February 2013 Different types of body modification and why people do them. It is so obvious that we as humans crave to stand out in any instance we can‚ no way are we going to let anyone out shine us. So we modify things about ourselves daily‚ drastic or not to show others that we are different and worth being noticed. Body modification has become a norm of today’s world; reasons for body modification vary from a rite of passage‚ to religious beliefs
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examined patient’s satisfaction with repair of cleft lip and/or palate and their life perceptions. This study found that patients who had cleft lip and/or palate report that their satisfaction with their appearance improves with age. As they got older‚ they appreciated and became more satisfied with their appearance after CL repair. It was also reported that bilateral cleft lip and/or palate have more societal implications than those with unilateral cleft lip and/or palate and even less for those with CL
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Lip-synching Lip-synching has been something that people have done for a long time. They lip-synching when they don’t have good voices. They lip-synching when they are sick and the concert can’t be cancelled. Many people don’t see anything wrong with this because they are still making money. Most of the time the concert goers don’t even know that it is happening. So why the big deal? Should people be allowed to lip-synching their songs? I think that lip-synching during a live concert
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Tattoos and Body Piercing Although a lot of people have tattoos and body piercing‚ there are twice as many who don’t know the history‚ development‚ or the safety and dangers of them. The history of tattoos and body piercing goes deep. Starting around 3150 BC according to (Bianca‚ 2010) “Egyptians enjoyed adorning themselves with body piercing‚ and only the Pharaohs and they royal family were allowed to have certain body piercings that would distinguished them among the commoners”. With that Pharaohs
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Analysis of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed‚ and where‚ and why” In the 1923 sonnet‚ “What lips my lips have kissed‚” Edna St. Vincent Millay speaks about several loves coming to an end and the emotion its gives her while she reminiscences through her past. Two major themes of this sonnet are change and loss. The theme loss is throughout the entire sonnet. Some parts of this sonnet are traditional while other parts are untraditional. This is a modern Italian sonnet. The
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