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    Definition of Beauty

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    Feeling loved is all we could ever hope for. Two thousand years ago‚ a beautiful woman represented purity‚ while a century ago‚ a beautiful woman was aware of her cultural identity. Recently‚ a woman’s physical characteristics seem to determine her beauty. Society has not always had the same definition for what is considered “beautiful”. We have progressed as human beings and with that our personal beliefs have changed. Someone who is graceful today does not possess the same qualities as someone

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    Beauty Notes

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    Beauty lies in the specific looks of a person‚ rather than the object‚ because different people feel beauty in differnt things. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. The beauty of the world has two edges‚ one of laughter‚ one of anguish‚ cutting the heart asunder. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it

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    Beauty Contest

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    Beauty What is beauty? Beauty can be defined in many ways. For example‚ beauty can be a beautiful or pleasing thing or person. Beauty can be a color‚ shape or collection of things or how that object attracts them. In my opinion‚ beauty comes from within our hearts. In other peoples’ opinion‚ beauty is how a woman looks under all that animals’ carcasses‚ and how her body figure looks beautiful. No matter how beautiful his or her face is with acne‚ they are still not considered beautiful. What

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    Phaedo Beauty

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    students. This Socratic Dialogue is set in Ancient Greece around the time of Socrates’s death or 399 BC. Plato desires to give his students a better understanding of Socrates’s thoughts on beauty. Socrates claims to believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. He simply states that once we define beauty‚ beautiful things will appear beautiful. With this knowledge‚ his students and readers can become more educated on Socrates’s profound teachings. Plato wrote Phaedo as a piece of philosophical

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    Ideals of Beauty

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    This social issue has been present for hundreds of years; the standard belief that one must be ‘pretty’ to be accepted in society. Through the past decades we can see a trend in this. Women are required to have a certain body shape‚ their faces must be a certain way‚ they must weigh this amount only‚ and makeup is the best way to make someone ‘beautiful’. This is an unhealthy obsession created by a society that does not even know what it means to be realistically beautiful. They make up these outrageous

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    True Beauty

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    True Beauty Lonny Is beauty a splendid sunset when a person climbs a long way up a mountain peak and takes the first glimpse? Is beauty that moment when a person puts his toes into the sand‚ his face softly touched by the wind with its little salty flavor and the sun shining above his head? Is beauty a gorgeous girl that passes by‚ causing a man to not move his glued eyes from her back when she is already gone? Is beauty a luxurious sports car that a man fails to move

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    The Definition of Beauty

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    Beauty is defined by a combination of qualities present in a thing or person that pleases the aesthetic senses or brings about deep satisfaction. Many people take that definition to mean that beauty describes a person’s outward appearance. Although a person’s outward appearance can be defined by the term beauty‚ true beauty lies in the way a person acts and thinks rather than the way they look. The term beauty is subjective to each and every person. Today‚ so much emphasis is placed on a person’s

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    Beauty Competitions

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    Beauty Competitions‚ also known as Beauty Contests or Beauty Pageants degrade women to mere objects. Such a competition is the exploitation of women by men and other women. A competition based on skill or ability is all right. However in the case of a beauty competition‚ no skill or ability is involved. Beauty is supposed to be the criteria for such a competition. There is nothing wrong with judging people primarily on their physical prowess. We do this all the time in competitive sport‚ where fitness

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    False of Beauty

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    Lost in Fantasy Magazines‚ movies‚ and commercials are trying to create an image of what beauty is. Beauty‚ being defined‚ means the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. But beauty standards are getting each time higher that even some celebrities can compete. The media portray the standards of beauty as unrealistic. Making us believe that the image of Barbie if he one and when in the real word‚ becoming

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    Concept of Beauty

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    CONCEPT OF BEAUTY Beauty. When you hear or read that word‚ there is something that emerges from our mind. I find myself very much perplexed when I am asked “Kinsa imong pinakagwapahan sa atong classmates?”. I dont think there is no one that is “pinaka” among all the human beings but rather Omni beautiful when it comes to beauty . Everyone is beautiful. Everything is beautiful. But how do we call someone or something beautiful? What makes us think that they are really beautiful? How do people

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