revealing bikinis are on TV‚ shirtless men displaying six packs are on billboards‚ and couples in intimate poses take up glossy two-page spaces in magazines. This is by no means unintentional. Media moguls make calculated moves when inserting touches of sensuality and eroticism into their publications‚ for reasons wrapped into one simple yet popular phrase: sex sells. This idea then can reflect the opposite way in the eyes of their viewers‚ making them believe that if they buy‚ then they too will be more
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I remember waking up in the morning to the smell of cigarettes. After getting dressed‚ I would walk to the kitchen to eat breakfast and always found my uncle perched out of the window smoking a “Marlboro Red” cigarette. As we walked to school‚ my younger brother would often mention to me how neat it would be to smoke a cigarette‚ “too bad we’re not older” he would always add. As I walked into class and sat down I would always imagine myself as an adult smoking “Marlboro Red” in a shiny red convertible
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The meaning of Beauty and The Color Purple "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful‚ we must carry it with us or we find it not" -Ralph Waldo Emerson As stated by Emerson‚ beauty cannot be found unless carried within one ’s self first. In the novel by Alice Walker‚ "The Color Purple"‚ Celie finds out that beauty is not real unless it is first found within‚ so that that beauty felt can reflect for others to see. [Celie went through
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The Madwoman in the Attic: Angel or Monster? In “Jane Eyre‚” the character of Bertha Mason serves as an ominous representation of uncontrollable passion and madness. Her dark sensuality and violent nature contrast sharply with Jane’s calm morality‚ and it is no surprise that Bertha’s presence at Thornfield is a key factor in transforming Mr. Rochester into a stereotypical Byronic hero. Moreover‚ Bertha’s marriage to Mr. Rochester serves as the primary conflict of the novel‚ and it is only after
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traditions that have been arisen in India that includes Buddhism‚ Jainism‚ and Sikhism‚ because there has been an extensive cross-pollination among them (pg. 71). Hinduism has spiritual expressions that range from extreme asceticism to an extreme sensuality that come from the heights of personal devotion to a deity to the heights of an abstract philosophy (pg.71)‚ from both the metaphysical proclamations of the oneness behind the material world to the worship of images that represent a multiplicity
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The Sympathetic Presentation of Meursault in The Stranger The Stranger is a novel to be felt rather than understood. Camus strings a complex web of emotions well beneath the reader’s consciousness: through the display of a seemingly simple series of events‚ the author is able to soak the reader with heavy feelings of uneasiness and estrangement. Because of this‚ the unsuspecting reader comes to have some sympathy for an otherwise unrelatable character‚ the “cold-blooded killer” Meursault. Through
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standing up in the picture wearing a white dress. The whiteness of her dress brings much attention to her body. That is the brightest color used in the entire painting. During the Neoclassical time period‚ artists at first sought to replace the sensuality of the Rocco Style with a style that was logical‚ solemn in tone‚ and moralizing in character. When revolutionary movements established republics in France and America‚ the new governments adopted neoclassicism as their official art style. Neoclassical
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keep Jackson at home and away from his girlfriend; however‚ Jackson is beginning to refuse his mother’s requests. Furthermore‚ Jenna has become more outgoing then she use to be and is now attracting the attention of boys. Lynn envies her daughter’s sensuality because as a teenager Lynn was socially withdrawn and insecure; however‚ Lynn is also in awe with Jenna’s confidence and ability to interact with others. Thus‚ perhaps Lynn has this conflict between admiring and envying her daughter. Lynn has tried
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because they have pushed other away completely. This push for sensual completeness starts at birth‚ with our need to be held by our mothers‚ such a need that should never be denied to any living soul. But religion has its own way of putting stop to sensuality. It creates guilt in the minds of young children to prevent them from ever touching another human being‚ to be completely devoid of the sensual touch of another. This theme holds true in James Joyce’s “A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man”.
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Love’s ladder’s God It was their final conversation. She would soon die‚ although neither of them knew it at the time. St. Augustine and his mother waited for a ship that would take her across the sea‚ to Africa‚ where she had raised him. She had always prayed he would become a Catholic; now‚ after many years‚ he was one. “There we talked together‚” he writes in his Confessions‚ “she and I alone in deep joy.” This common joy stemmed from their shared company‚ but also their shared belief in God:
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