reading “The Body Electric” was like a continuation of our previous reading‚ which was “A Spirituality of Sexuality”‚ because it also talked about sexuality and how it is perceived in our society. The reading starts with telling us that how we are so ill at ease with our bodies; we are unsatisfied with how our body is‚ and we constantly strive to make it better. This just justifies that our society is obsessed with bodies‚ especially if they are young and beautiful‚ but we do not take our bodies seriously
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1 GESTURE CLUSTERS Like any other language‚ body language consists of words‚ sentences and punctuation. Each gesture is like a single word and a word may have several different meanings. It is only when you put the word into a sentence with other words that you can fully understand its meaning. Gestures come in ‘sentences’ and invariably tell the truth about a person’s feelings or attitudes. The ‘perceptive’ person is one who can read the nonverbal sentences and accurately match them against
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have the other. However‚ this is not the case with body decorations like tattoos and piercings. These body decorations have been around for many centuries; from the ancient Egyptians to the Native Americans‚ they are cultural all around the world. Since this time‚ they have been linked in many situations to similar diseases. If people harm their bodies just to obtain beauty‚ then why would it be a part of their culture? The harmful effects of body decorations only weaken a society; but‚ since it is
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body modification 873 words. "Job Stoppers" People who express themselves with body modification should not be subject to having opportunities taken from them. What is or isn’t on your body doesn’t have anything to do with what someone capable of doing. People who choose to express themselves in the way they best see their body will continue to receive discrimination when trying to get a respectable job. Body modification is as much a choice as religion‚ sexual orientation‚ and race
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Body piercing has increased over long terms of period of time and it becomes one of the trendiest and culture in today’s our life. This has attracted the most people who are interested about body piercing‚ and then they get attention especially from media when famous celebrities come up in advertisement with their body piercings and tattoos. However‚ there are various places that people do the body piercing such as tongues‚ noses‚ navels and even their genital‚ but this occurs lots of arguments that
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Body Language essay by Danielius Orlovas from International Business School International Business English Group 2012 Today we live in a fast-paced world. It is a world of action‚ where body language is way more important than what we say. There is a good saying that actions are louder than words‚ which is proof for scientific research that humans express what they want to say by 7% for Words and 93% for body posture‚ gestures‚ facial
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Body Modification 2 In today’s society‚ people are significantly embracing the style of body modification. It appears that no matter where one is in the world‚ it is impossible to evade the reality of body art; the appearance of tattoos and piercings. It has become a fundamental part of our society. Appearance norms make people look similar and people break the rules and violate appearance expectations. Some of these deviants form deviant communities. These communities are driven by the
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a manifestations of self-expression coinciding with a decline in traditional religious adherence (Mercury‚ 2000). Piercing has almost as long of a history as tattooing. It was practiced by Egyptian pharaohs‚ Mayans‚ and Romans (Armstrong‚ 1996). Body piercing is sometimes studied along with tattooing‚ partly because people with tattoos often have piercings (Buhrich‚ 1983; Frederick &ump; Bradley‚ 2000). For women‚ ear piercing has come to be viewed as a mainstream practice but piercing eyebrows
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Hamili‚ Marjerie BS BIO-2B PHILO102 My Body When I face in front of the mirror‚ I can see a woman with short hair‚ round eyes‚ pale lips‚ and with an average height‚ “that” is my body. When I do things like brushing my teeth‚ eating dinner‚ walking‚ writing homework‚ sitting‚ and etc‚ “which” is what I am‚ I am a human because of what my body can do. But who or what am I? As simply as it sounds‚ it’ll take time to internalize and answer this question. People would start to think from the
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Different Types of Body Modifications and why People do them. Throughout the world people are modifying their bodies. Various cultures have tattoo traditions dating as far back from 3000 BC in Asia‚ Africa and the Middle East. From the article “Pretty like a coloring book” by Vybz Kartel‚ he said “The teardrop [tattoo] on my face is in memory of my close friends who have died”. In ancient and modern history people participated in body modification for physical‚ sexual and cosmetic enhancements
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