...General Psychology 10/23/13 Embracing Natural Beauty Eating disorders has been a part of society for a great deal of time. Eating is a part of society because we eat when we are hungry, we eat when we see others eat, and we eat and share food to show we care. There are many contributors that lead to eating disorders. The media is one but, whether there are televisions, radios, or magazines some people will still find ways to consider themselves being not beautiful enough. People cannot handle the pressure of certain circumstances in life especially those from childhood, so they find other addictive ways to deal with the pressure. Even in adulthood factors such as abusive marriages and careers can cause eating disorders. People who suffer from eating disorders are no different from people who suffer from drug, alcohol or sex addictions. Not all people who are anorexic or bulimic have had traumatic experiences in their youth, but at some point in life situations became too stressful, whether it is a career, an event such as divorce or bullying from love ones or associates. People find unhappiness within themselves when they are repeatedly told they have physical flaws. Everyday both boys and girls suffering from eating disorders are slowly killing themselves because they are constantly told you are ugly, you are weird, or fat, too thin too tall; the list could on. This type of slow suicide is the last resort of escaping the reality that, people...
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...Kenetta Cannon General Psychology Mr. T. Rykala 10/23/13 Embracing Natural Beauty Eating disorders has been a part of society for a great deal of time. Eating is a part of society because we eat when we are hungry, we eat when we see others eat, and we eat and share food to show we care. There are many contributors that lead to eating disorders. The media is one but, whether there are televisions, radios, or magazines some people will still find ways to consider themselves being not beautiful enough. People cannot handle the pressure of certain circumstances in life especially those from childhood, so they find other addictive ways to deal with the pressure. Even in adulthood factors such as abusive marriages and careers can cause eating disorders. People who suffer from eating disorders are no different from people who suffer from drug, alcohol or sex addictions. Not all people who are anorexic or bulimic have had traumatic experiences in their youth, but at some point in life situations became too stressful, whether it is a career, an event such as divorce or bullying from love ones or associates. People find unhappiness within themselves when they are repeatedly told they have physical flaws. Everyday both boys and girls suffering from eating disorders are slowly killing themselves because they are constantly told you are ugly, you are weird, or fat, too thin too tall; the list could on. This type of slow suicide is the last resort of escaping...
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...Kenetta Cannon General Psychology Mr. T. Rykala 10/23/13 Embracing Natural Beauty Eating disorders has been a part of society for a great deal of time. Eating is a part of society because we eat when we are hungry, we eat when we see others eat, and we eat and share food to show we care. There are many contributors that lead to eating disorders. The media is one but, whether there are televisions, radios, or magazines some people will still find ways to consider themselves being not beautiful enough. People cannot handle the pressure of certain circumstances in life especially those from childhood, so they find other addictive ways to deal with the pressure. Even in adulthood factors such as abusive marriages and careers can cause eating disorders. People who suffer from eating disorders are no different from people who suffer from drug, alcohol or sex addictions. Not all people who are anorexic or bulimic have had traumatic experiences in their youth, but at some point in life situations became too stressful, whether it is a career, an event such as divorce or bullying from love ones or associates. People find unhappiness within themselves when they are repeatedly told they have physical flaws. Everyday both boys and girls suffering from eating disorders are slowly killing themselves because they are constantly told you are ugly, you are weird, or fat, too thin too tall; the list could on. This type of slow suicide is the last resort of escaping...
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...The Beauty and Majesty of the Natural World and Spirituality Alexandra Batchelor Keiser University Abstract Whenever there is a tragic event, a needless death, we become bombarded by various religious officials preaching to us. Telling us how we need God in our lives so we have a better respect for our fellow man, woman or child. And while there are environmental activists screaming at their top of their lungs at people; their voices do not invoke change. What they do cause is for people to changes the channel or walk past them at a faster pace. However, if nature was revered for its gifts like God through scripture and praise the reaction of people would be different. There could be a unified voice telling others of nature’s beauty. How people should have a better respect for the land, oceans and animals within it. Perhaps that is what people need, to have a spiritual connection to teach them to appreciate the beauty around them and without this connection to a greater power people don’t see the beauty surrounding them. The Beauty and Majesty of the Natural World and Spirituality Through praise people are supposed to gain understanding. This is how other religions promote God and the messages he has sent down through the ages. It is the claim of spiritual leaders that through their guidance we will have a better understanding of faith. All a person has to do is spend some time in the local church of any denomination sit down listen to the reverend, preacher, minister...
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...JoAnn Ross Mr. Shaw Sociology 11 March 2014 The Origin of the Beauty Myth The origin of the beauty myth is an age old question. Some have said that it was around the 1830’s that this myth came to fruition. Some will argue that it has been around since the beginning of time. The beauty myth as we know is predicate around several sociological behaviors; work, culture, and religion to name a few. The main reason as we will see is that the beauty myth is not about how a woman looks, but man’ institution and power. So if the beauty myth is not based on evolution, sex, gender, aesthetics or God on what is it based? It claims to be about intimacy and sex and life a celebration of women. It is actually composed of emotion distance, politics, finance and sexual repression. The beauty myth tells a story: The quality called “beauty” objectively and universally exists. Women must want to embody it and men must want to possess women who embody it. This embodiment is an imperative for women and not for men, which situation is necessary and natural because it is biological, sexual, and evolutionary: Strong men battle for beautiful women, and beautiful women are more reproductively successful. Women’s beauty must correlate to their fertility, and since this system is based on sexual selection, it is inevitable and Changeless. None of this is true. “Beauty” is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West...
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...English 1020 Beauty by Tony Hoagland I found this poem to be both sad and uplifting. It tells the story of two sisters, one the butterfly perfectly shaded, finding all the most perfect flowers; the other one, the voyeur, in the background watching and amazed at the flight of the butterfly. The sister tells the story of how beautiful her sister had been until the medication she was taking caused permanent blue stitches that formed across her cheeks. The beautiful sister knowing that her beauty was gone forever, seemed to let it go like it was a burden to her for the longest time. After all those years of watching her sister nurture her beauty, the narrator knew more than anyone else what those tiny blue stitches would cost her sister. The narrator reflects back to high school years when her sister had perfected the art of being a dumb blond, the way she stood in the breezeway tossing her “bedspring” hair. “Laughing with that canary trill voice,” her specialty. There were hints of jealousy from these statements. She had a football player for a boyfriend, most likely the star of the team. He would do anything she wanted as you could tell from the “pained expression in his eyes.” The beautiful sister didn’t date men; she held “auditions,” looking for the one man who had the attention span that would hold her interests. She looked for ten long years, and still was not married. In these times most women were married younger, but these women didn’t...
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...The standards of beauty incessantly change decade after decade. Today, society portrays beauty as having flawless skin, long hair and exquisite tans. Women try to mirror this “ideal” image of beauty by using tanning beds, hair extensions and pounds of expensive makeup. However, in the Elizabethan era, being beautiful was declared as having distinct pale skin, bright eyes, colorful lips and cheeks and hair in a mesmeric up do. Having a colorless tint of the skin was said to show nobility and power. The more pale a person’s skin was, the more accepted they were in the Elizabethan society. Women often functioned behind the scenes of their husbands. They were urged to be obedient and virginal. Women were often accessories to the men in every aspect...
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...the say " Beauty in the eye of the beholder" do you ever wonder what is the definition of beauty? There are many viewpoints to the word beauty. What is your opinion on beauty? My opinion for beauty is a mixture of unique details that combine in to a positive vision or feeling. Beauty is elegance, beauty is style, beauty is grace, and it has a certain pizzazz that always eye catching. What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word beauty? Do you think of something glowing or do you see something florid? Beauty can be an emotion. Even though everyone knows what beauty is, many people struggle to define it and convince others to agree with their views. The idea of beauty is not just a physical appearance of a person or object. It is an understanding that gives some feeling experienced to a person's eyes, ears, intellect, and to their sense. There are many classifications of beauty. Beauty can be classified as style, emotion, and vision. Beauty can also be classified by a person's personality. If beauty is described by a person's personality this would be considered inner beauty. If a person's personality is positive then that would be considered beauty. However, if it is negative then it wouldn’t be beauty at all. Personality is the differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.(Apa) Personality...
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...MEDIA INFLUENCES ON EATING DISORDER ABSTRACT: The media as well as the eating disorders are commonly at odds because much frequently than never, we view various photographs of anorexic masses that are somehow galmourised as well as depicted the ideal beauty. The question now arises that whether does the media have an influence over eating disorders? What is it the most about the media is that it makes female fatally overwhelmed to the unrealistic and serious pressure towards slenderness? The affect of the media on the development of the eating disorders like Anorexia, Bulimia or Compulsive Overeating can’t be disproved.Since from the very early age the people are pelted with the images along with the messages that reinforce the idea to be pleased and successful that the individual must be lean. Now, as seen in daily day to day life that it is notified as a message that fat is bad, whether it is a television, a magazine, or a newspaper, or listening to the radio, or whether shopping in the mall. The most fearsome part is that the destructive message it conveys is somehow reaching towards children. Adolescents sometimes really feel like fatally blemished if their hips, weight etc. doesn’t match up I comparison to those of famous models and actors. Today even the children of the elementary school aged are also obsessed in respect to their weight. Even if the contention is also made that the media’s depiction of women is just only a mirror of the society and not as an...
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...How do religious/social norms impact the definition of beauty? The common saying that, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” may hold steadfast to those who believe in a lie, as stated on in Katz example of the blind date. Today people may say they believe that saying; in actuality, physical appearance effects beauty’s perception. Religious norms cause people to perceive another’s opinion of beauty as altered because their definition of beauty is different. Religious norms effect the definition of beauty as a means of changing the perceptions in the mind of the people. People participate in different religious practices in different religions: Muslim women wear draping clothes to cover up and some Chinese women have their feet bound. Religious practices cause some people following that religion to have a different mentality of beauty. The meaning of beauty is also altered in different societies due to a distorted belief of beauty. In Saudi Arabia, women must wear full clothing because their laws forbid women to show skin. A woman clothed in all black may be perceived as containing some beauty to the men in Muslim countries; however, women and men in America perceive beauty in a woman as wearing tight, small clothes. Social norms distract other attributes in a person because of all the media. Magazines, movies, and advertisement all have a typical person they portray as beautiful. These people are supposed to be emulated by the mass in America by conforming to skinny bodies...
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...of human behaviour is, in part, determined or constrained by people’s concerns with others’ impressions and evaluations of them. ’I’m too short’’. ‘’I’m too tall’’. ‘’I would be happier if I were skinnier, fatter, had bigger muscles, smaller ears, had straight hair, curly hair’’. Do any of these statements ring a bell? Are you used to demoralizing yourself? If so, you are not alone. As a teenager, our body changes dramatically, so does our physical image. These changes are hard to believe, seeing yourself transform into an adolescent. We sometimes have trouble adjusting to these changes, which can damage our confidence as well as affect our self esteem. The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. -Virginia Woolf Youth is beauty, money is beauty,...
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...mistress physically beautiful, the speaker portrays his mistress in a more realistic way, with characteristics that are believable. The poet uses a specific style, a descriptive comparison method, to communicate his message. This sonnet rhymes ababcdcdefefgg, which shows that it is a typical English sonnet as described by Vale (2010, p.84). With this form, the speaker was able to describe his mistress in a seemingly negative way. He describes her as not as beautiful as the objects that a woman’s beauty is traditionally compared to, but as the opposite. With this form, simple diction and poetic syntax, the poet creates a serious mood in the poem which perfectly communicates his message. The poet uses a descriptive comparison style to communicate his message. He picked descriptions that usually are used to compare certain features of a woman’s beauty, and then contradicts them with this mistress’ features. He chooses specific features that, perhaps, he believes they best show a woman’s beauty. These are: the eyes, lips, breasts, hair, cheeks, breath and voice. This has begun right at the beginning, in the title of the poem, “My Mistress’ Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun.” This suggests that the speaker does not see her mistress’ eyes as beaming and glowing, in other words, as beautiful or as a source of light as the sun. Her lips are not so beautifully red; perhaps the speaker implies that they are not decorated with make-ups as he says that “Coral is far more red than her lips’ red”...
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...attractive TVC with new concept & technology should be introduced which can make inspirational image of the brand in women’s mind. Ads should carry the brand image as source of women’s hope, self confidence & courage to change their own destiny .TVC should be broadcasted specially during the commercial break of women’s popular program such as popular daily soap, beauty & glamour show, cooking show etc. A renowned model should be contracted as a brand ambassador who matches the new image of brand. Tibet Snow can be sponsor of any popular radio show and organizing shows such as successful & courageous women story show, beauty tips show etc. Print ads should be given on popular newspaper & magazines at regular basis. Colorful & attractive outdoor ads tool such as billboard, Nieon sign, Buntings, Over head, Unipool etc should be placed whole the country, especially on the busiest & commercial area. Stall of KCCL should be placed in fair specially trade fair & organizing innovative events such as skin test, bundle offer etc to grab the attention of customer. They can sponsor film, teleflim, drama. Tibet Snow can also arrange beauty contest to motivate young women where the winner of the context will get a chance to do an ads of Tibet Snow with brand ambassador. To increase the usage of existing customer it can introduce loyalty card as a new...
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...just what you look like; true beauty lies in the way people act and think, rather than the way they look. True beauty cannot only be found in people, but also in places. Beauty is a very broad term. People as well as places can be beautiful. Everyone is unique in his or her own way, and I for one believe that that is simply beautiful. Beauty is defined by a combination of qualities present in a person that pleases aesthetic senses or brings about deep satisfaction. True beauty is an amazing characteristic to have. Unfortunately, the definition of true beauty can sometimes be shaken and distorted by society. Society often deems celebrities as perfect and beautiful. Society’s expectations of beauty are all wrong. In society’s eyes, you are only beautiful if you have an amazing body and your hair and makeup always look perfect, but they have it all wrong. Beauty does not have to mean the outside appearance. True beauty is what is on the inside. For instance, someone who is genuine, friendly, and giving can be very beautiful even if she or he does not have the perfect body. Appearance is only part of the definition of beauty. For example, Taylor Swift is an all around beautiful celebrity. On the other hand, Kim Kardashian does not really fit the beautiful term. This is because Taylor is beautiful on the inside and outside while Kim Kardashian was only made famous because of her appearance and wrong doings, not her talents or personality. Beauty is a very broad term. Many people...
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...Alicia A. Smith October 29, 2014 Eng.4705/Essay #2 Beauty Complex The word beauty has many negative connotations for African American women. Over the years African American women have been subjected, misrepresented and also dehumanized by the exemplification of beauty and identity. This pattern of internalizing the perception of beauty to coincide with European standards have caused many African American women in the process to alter their physical appearances and personify a culture that has disregarded the uniqueness of being “ black and beautiful”. The cultural aesthetics of being “black and beautiful” has been distorted in literature, movies and television shows to appease an acceptable standard of beauty that in reality is unrealistic....
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