The poem opens with an offering: “Glory be to God for dappled things.” In the next five lines‚ Hopkins elaborates with examples of what things he means to include under this rubric of “dappled.” He includes the mottled white and blue colors of the sky‚ the “brinded” (brindled or streaked) hide of a cow‚ and the patches of contrasting color on a trout. The chestnuts offer a slightly more complex image: When they fall they open to reveal the meaty interior normally concealed by the hard shell; they
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Home Reading Report Name: Reil Duhaylungsod Yr/Section: III-St.Claire of Assisi The Haunted School R.L. Stine I. Setting a. Time The time settings were two. The one is late 1940s and the one is at the present which is in the late 2000s. b. Place It was mainly in school‚ the “Bell Valley Middle School” there was two sides of the school the old one or the abandoned and the one is the newly constructed one. The old one is somewhat like mysterious because there was a classroom where the
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of Beauty Contest on Modern Society Who would not want to be beautiful‚ talented‚ hard-working‚ and community-service oriented? Who would not want to go to college on scholarships? A beauty contest is a competition in which the entrants are judged as to physical beauty and sometimes personality and talent‚ with the winners being awarded titles or prizes. There are many types of beauty contest. The two main types are natural and glitz. Natural pageants focus on the contestant’s natural beauty while
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Internal and external beauty are both very important in our society. To be beautiful internally means to have a kind heart and be understanding. To be beautiful externally means to be beautiful on the outside such as having a nice figure and an attractive smile. Internal beauty is important because beyond looks‚ it is your personality that is noticed. External beauty is important because it is your attractive figure that brings notice to someone’s great personality or external beauty. To me‚ internal
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privileges of beauty are immense” said Cocteau. To be sure‚ beauty is a form of power. And deservedly so. What is Lamentable is that it is the only form of power that most women are encouraged to seek. This power is always conceived in relation to men; is not the power to do but the power to attract. ….or renounced with out social censure.” - here she states that beauty is a power that us women or men have naturally‚ we have the power to attract what we want and don’t want. “For the Greeks‚ beauty was
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To what extent does culture influence ones perception of human beauty How certain can we be of that which we claim to “beauty”? How can we be absolutely certain that what we say beauty is valid and justified‚ not just assumed to be beauty? No one’s idea of beauty is ever identical to that of the person standing next to them. People all come from different backgrounds and cultural traditions. Their concepts of what is considered to be attractive can vary drastically. What people consider to
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Beauty Beauty is one of the most prevalent themes in the world. But what is beauty exactly? According to the Oxford Dictionary beauty is A combination of qualities‚ such as shape‚ color‚ or form‚ that pleases the aesthetic senses‚ especially the sight. Based on the definition‚ one would assume that beauty is only on outward appearance but that statement is false. Beauty is not only appearance but it is also what people cannot see. Beauty is about being beautiful on the inside not just the outside
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“Beauty and folly are old companions‚” Benjamin Franklin. In life with beauty there is folly: a lack of good sense. When you so idolize a superficial thing such as beauty it does not come with good sense. There are no ways to demonstrate the good that has come with idolizing beauty. In recent trends it does show that as society progresses the more humans idolize the concept of “beauty.” Beauty has reached such detrimental standards that few can achieve them. In turn‚ the standards of beauty are corrupted
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The Beauty Myth and Media’s Distortion of Beauty October 30‚ 2012 Semester Project Socy-2112 Shante White‚ Taylor Sharpless‚ Caleb McCora swhite47@uncc.edu‚ tsharple@uncc.edu‚ cmccora@uncc.edu What is the first thing that comes to mind when you see a well-dressed young woman on the street‚ at work or in class? Most people’s reaction would be that the young lady looks beautiful. However‚ everyone has a different perception of beauty‚ especially the media. The media’s distorted view of beauty
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Beauty When a woman with a more appealing appearance crosses someone’s path‚ the most commonly used term to describe her is beautiful. Beauty‚ in fact‚ is a term that most will use to represent the most appealing aspects of a person’s outward appearance. While Merriam -Webster dictionary defines beauty as “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit”‚ I believe there is more to beauty than Merriam-Webster’s
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