...Clearly everyone has a different idea of “physical attraction” because everyone comes from different backgrounds and different cultures with different normative attractions. I imagine that if I did this study with many other males and many other females, I would get a wider variety of answers as to what they believe is “physically attractive” to another person. Gay and lesbian couples find different things appealing than do heterosexual couples. The man that Cindy describes as being attractive to another man could be seen as the “trouble-maker” or “bad boy”. Cindy described men liking large hands able to work, and also “toned muscles” and an “angled jaw structure”. All of these attributes could also be seen as being part of the “bad boy” look with the guy being unattainable or misunderstood, which makes them more attractive to some people. James, a heterosexual male, described men finding different things attractive that played into a completely different set of characteristics based upon stereotypes. When describing the perfect man, physically, James consistently said things such as “Can’t you just write ‘George Clooney,’ ‘Brad Pit,’ or ‘Ryan Reynolds’” because to other men, that is seen as the ideal body type and what everyone is attracted to. When Kathy described a man other men were attracted to, it described a typically athletic man, much like the ones we see at the Olympics. The man she pictured would be an Olympian: tall, toned muscles that steamed from working out and...
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...Title: Physical Appearances in America Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Physical appearances entail the outward look of a person mainly consisting of weight, acme, and skin tone. Statistics in America show that out of the $150 to $250 billion dollars purchasing power enjoyed by the youth annually, so called generation y, a third of this amount goes to improving physical appearances. This paper explores and takes a stand on the fact that the American society surely does place too much emphasis on physical appearances. Physical appearances are a vital part of a person’s personality. Although this is true, in recent years Americans have become an obsessed people with the way they look. Consequently, large sums of money are splashed on superficial items such as cosmetics, weight loss programs and unique designer wear. This can be partly blamed on the rigorous advertising undertaken by various companies, to entice customers. This has led a large number of innocent Americans to fall victim to the pressures of fashionability, thinness, beauty and handsomeness. Roughly, 300 advertisements were run in 2001, on digital media, on weight loss in America alone. Since the year 2000, over $35 billion has since been used on weight loss programs annually which include books, videos, drugs...
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...formed by recruiters during job interviews. These revelations further trigger a number of questions in mind such as, how dress is used by humans to shape their behavior with others on a daily basis. How the dress one wears changes with a change in social positions, a fashion model might be a mother and the style she adopts in these two areas of her life, (at work and at home) may be different. This article tries to answer these questions. In 1992 Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins and Joanne Eicher noted two basic reasons behind wearing a dress. They said that a dress acted as a body modifier which acts as an interface between the body and the social and the environmental changes in the surroundings. Examples of using dress for the purposes of physical protection include wearing gloves to protect hands from the cold, applying lotion to protect skin from the damaging effects of the sun, or wearing polish to prevent finger nails from chipping and pealing. Dress can also protect the wearer from psychological harm as individuals may wear charms, amulets, or other lucky dress items to ward off evil spirits or to bring about good fortune. According to Roach-Higgins and Eicher, the second function of the dress is a means of communication. To do this, people assign meanings that are learned over a...
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...allow me to scrutinize the similarities assigned to the ‘pink’ customs fitted to Disney princesses, and any other differences that could break the code followed through years on the films – hence an investigation in the representation of conventional Disney princesses. Disney films have allowed children to compose a preconceived idea of women or female roles in the films or even in life altogether, as helpless, and in need of an external party (usually male – or the Prince Charming) to come in and switch their lives into the better. These stereotypical roles assigned to the princesses are usually coloured with the hue of certain behaviours, physical appearances and characteristic traits, which I will be looking into radically through the essay. For example, one factor that is most recurrent in Disney films is the value of physical appearance over wit or intellect. Secondly, the defenselessness and...
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...Anastasia Kazantzis Tuesday, February 16, 2016 ENG4U1 Thexton Analysis of Mirror The poem “Mirror” written by Sylvia Plath identifies the woman’s physical complexities of her beauty that becomes transparent within the mirror. The woman in the poem is getting older, and while she is aging, the mirror goes on watching the process. In the poem, the woman is realizing that she is getting older and that she is losing her natural beauty. The woman is a narcissus because she believes that speaking to the mirror would reveal the truth. The woman has discovered that her physical appearance is changing and she cannot come to face the terms due to the fact that her reflection is aging. The woman’s reflection is observed in the mirror where communication commences between the mirror and the woman. The mirror is candid towards the woman, who is oblivious to the truth about her beauty. Sylvia Plath uses personification to display the human attributes such as truthfulness. “I have no preconceptions. I am not cruel, only truthful” (Plath l 4). The quotation illustrates that the mirror is speaking to the woman and the woman does not have any preconceptions. It displays that the mirror is an inanimate object. The mirror demonstrates truthfulness, not cruelty. The mirror speaks the truth whether it is good or bad, because the mirror does not lie. Visual imagery is portrayed in the poem because it displays an insight of what the woman sees in the mirror. “Now I am a lake. A woman bends...
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...Evaluation and Judgment • What are the different ways in which we evaluate people? We evaluate other people by their physical appearance, career, culture, possessions, or even family history. When first meeting someone we tend to evaluate them by physical appearance we see their hair color, body type, clothing style, facial features, and body gestures. We tend to categorize people by physical appearance even before knowing what type of person they really are this is known as first impression. If a person has tattoos and piercing, many may evaluate that person as a drug user or in a gang. We may evaluate others by their career choice, people will tend to feel lawyers are all greedy liars and doctors are all very intelligent. People who move into a new neighborhood may evaluate their neighbors by the size of their home or the kind of car they drive. People also tend to evaluate people based on where they live or how they grew up. If hearing a certain family name, and that family has a reputation for alcoholism, people will evaluate that all family members drink heavily. Many aspects in life can affect the way people evaluate others. • How do these factors play a role in our expectations of other people? People tend to expect certain behaviors from others based on first impressions or evaluations. We use these expectations to communicate with others. If we see a person as attractive, intelligent, rich we may expect their behaviors and intentions as good and want to form a relationship...
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...Williams presents Blanche as very fragile, both mentally and physically. Her fragility steadily progresses throughout the play and Williams makes it clear that she is a character that is easily broken through many different aspects of the play. Williams’ use of stage directions, her appearance, speech, actions and interactions with other characters shows her to be quite an unstable character. Her physical appearance at the beginning of the play alone portrays her fragility by the way that she is compared to a moth. It is ironic that Williams likens her to a moth because they are typically attracted to light whereas Blanche’s “delicate beauty must avoid a strong light.” However this links with the idea that Blanche is fragile because she can’t help but be attracted to things that will harm her. Williams’ use of stage directions shows that Blanche is fragile by her constant nervous gestures and how she is easily scared or startled by small things. This can be seen where “She catches her breath with a startled gesture” after hearing a cat screeching and also by how she constantly “touches her forehead shakily” or touches her handkerchief to it. These actions show that she is nervous and constantly on edge, suggesting that she is afraid of something. This has a big effect on her mental state, which gradually breaks down as the play progresses. By the end of the play her nervous gestures seem to be more desperate, which can be seen where she “tries to break past the matron”. She...
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...knowledge. A man is different from a beast only for his brain that makes him learn to differentiate between good and evil. Physical beauty is an added quality. Life is enlightened for brains and not for beauty. A beautiful appearance with dull brains is of no use. On the other hand, a bugle appearance having a powerful brain can produce something for human welfare. So, brains have got prominence over beauty. Beauty and brains are two vital factors foe humans. Someone would prefer having beautiful and good looking appearance and feel they are very lucky. On the other hand, someone would prefer having brains. I would prefer having brains than beauty. Beauty is a comparative idea. Someone may be exceptionally beautiful wouldn’t last for life-time. One’s physical beauty can easily be abated. So the stability of physical attraction is not getting guarantee for life-time. If a beautiful women or a handsome man loses physical attraction, she or he would fail getting response from other people. It is sometimes said that brain or talent is god-gifted thing. If it is such a thing, it requires nourishment properly. If one’s brain is not is not used, he or she is surely to be a worthless creature. Through use or practice of brain a man can do lot for himself, for his society, for his country and even for the world. A man who can do a lot for himself, for have physical beauty necessarily. A man of brains can easily win the heart of common people through his invaluable services to the mankind...
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...English Draft In current times, appearances can mean the difference between acceptance and denial. The song ‘Mrs. Potato Head’ by upcoming singer Melanie Martinez expertly portrays the pressure placed on people in modern society to conform to impossible standards of beauty. Melanie Martinez is a 20 year old singer and songwriter who uses emotive language to convey meaning through her songs, generally associated with a certain topic. The topic of the chosen song is currently of importance due to the large role appearance has today. The title of the song refers to a renowned child’s toy with exchangeable parts, as the intention is to resemble body modification procedures, such as plastic surgery. The language harshly reminds listeners of the importance set by others to be attractive. This is especially evident from the lyric, ‘No one will love you if you're unattractive,’ which implies that appearances are of high importance in modern views, and that other aspects are irrelevant if the person in question is not ‘pretty enough.’ ‘Mrs. Potato Head’ also reveals that relationships built on appearance are fragile, as portrayed with the lyric directed to the husband in this scenario, ‘Do you swear you'll stay forever, Even if her face don't stay together.’ This also links with the impermanence of beauty, and reveals that even plastic surgery does not last....
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...Inner Beauty and Physical Beauty Beauty is defined as the qualities of a person that delight and please the minds of other people. The two major beauties are inner beauty and physical beauty. Inner beauty consists of the qualities that one cannot see but can still sense. Physical beauty consists of the qualities that one can see, and is often inherited from a parent or ancestor. These two beauties often have an impact on personal success and happiness. Inner beauty is based on the personality, attitude, traits, and the way people represents themselves to the world. Inner beauty is decorous and constantly makes other people happy. Physical beauty is an individual’s outer appearance such as body type, hair, eye color, face features, skin type, etc. This is the beauty in which other people see first. People often mistakenly label the physical beauty as inner beauty. Another difference between inner beauty and physical beauty is how that beauty is achieved. Inner beauty relates to how people behave. It can be changed through actions, manners and behaviors. Physical beauty is largely inherited from parents. But physical beauty can also be changed with cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery. People often choose such interventions to make a more acceptable image. The importance of the two beauties is the quality. Many people feel inner beauty is more important and pure than physical beauty. It does not lie and involves the heart, mind and soul. Inner beauty...
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...This is just a test 1. Product design form is the exterior physical appearance of a product and its packaging design 2. The importance of product design impressions is that seeing a product gives the first impression of that product. Products that are more attractive to people will most likely have good sales even over high costs. Consumer’s preferences are performance, design, and then cost. * Product form is a way to gain consumer notice by being more attractive than your competitors * Product form communicates information to consumers by generating initial impressions * Product form affects the quality of our lives by providing sensory pleasure and simulation, whereas unattractive design will give us distaste * Product form can have a long lasting effects on consumers by reminiscing 3. Product design form Elements A. Style – B. High Prototypicality – C. Low Prototypicality – D. Fashion of the day or bygone era – E. Ornamentation – F. Craftsmanship – G. Ergonomics – involves the matching of a product to the target user’s capabilities to maximize safety, efficiency of use, and comfort. Ergonomic demands often have direct influence on form, affecting characteristics such as weight, texture and shape. Example is a glass bottle with ridges showing where to place your fingers. H. Conformance – meets some specified standard that has been developed for efficiency I. Reflectiveness – 4. Conclusion...
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...Sydney Sullivan AP English Language and Composition Mr. Lane 5.8.11 Independent Reading Essay – First Draft The Beautiful People Section I: What is more cliché than the statement, “[i]t hurts to be beautiful” (Rhode, The Beauty Bias)? However, I find it more truthful to say, “[i]t hurts not to be beautiful” (Rhode, The Beauty Bias). Our society places a high level of importance on appearance and if you are unfortunate enough to not fit the mold then that becomes a problem. Men and women are forced to meet a set of standards that society will view as acceptable. However, women are more often discriminated against for their looks and are held to higher standards than men. It is as if the media industry and our culture “will never be satisfied and will always expect more” (Smithy). Our country, with the exception of “only one state and six cities or counties,” has no laws or policies forbidding discrimination based on appearance (Rhode, The Beauty Bias). This is ridiculous seeing as how I believe that the beauty bias is becoming one of the most common forms of discrimination today. Our society has become that of a clown. Our painted faces, hiding our true selves, are turning our world into a show. Who can put on the best performance and allow others to laugh at those who have been sprayed in the face with the unkind prejudices from the flower called society? Deborah L. Rhode clearly depicts the issue of the beauty bias in our society through many examples and...
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...Alghazali, 1 Sally Alghazali Professor Josh Hall English 109 23 February 2015 How Good Do I Have to Look? How many times people looked in the mirror and wanted to change the way they look? Many people are not satisfied with how they look and want to change their appearance constantly. The reason behind this unsatisfied feeling is because of our society’s obsession with physical appearance. From a very young age, people are being forced to look in a certain way, and to be judged according certain standards in order to be defined beautiful. The obsession of beauty has brought a huge transformation in people’s perspective about their appearance, and made people become more concern about their outer beauty than anything else. During history the standards of beauty had changed significantly and people have altered the concept of “beautiful”. The word beautiful does not hold one concept anymore. The definition of beauty is changing according to what the society preserve as beautiful and attractive. People have hopped from one side of spectrum to another in terms of beauty. For instant, in ancient Egypt, Cleopatra was considered as amazingly beautiful queen, but with today’s standards she would be known as unattractive women for her large nose. Women in the 1900 used to look curvy in order for them to be defined “beautiful”. However today, the idol look for women’s body is to be very thin and tall – Model fashionable body-. The standards of these traits have changed...
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...something to do with physical appearance, when really beauty has a lot to do with the inner being of someone. I will discuss the definition of beauty, the social media’s role in the definition of beauty, and inner beauty....
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...The Unity of Appearance The novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse exemplifies the idea behind appearance. The novel is able – through dialogue, events, and descriptions – to show how appearance does not exemplify the world as a whole, yet how appearance does not symbolize nothing, but instead how appearance matters in the sense that it changes and tells a story. Appearance matters in a way that all objects of the world portray their story through their appearance. Appearance allows someone or something to see nooks and crannies within objects in order to see that objects past, present and future. For example how the scratches on rocks show weathering while wrinkles on a human show stress. Take that even further and see how deep those scratches are or wrinkles are, what other features can you see, and a story begins to build right in front of you just from appearance. Within the novel we can see this idea of appearance through Siddhartha’s journey to become enlightened. His own appearance changes as he transitions from studious, to gluttonous and to enlightened. With the passage of time appearance evolves and fits the character of the thing it inhabits. Around Siddhartha others also are under the influence of the ideas surrounding appearance. Appearance though different between objects we call the same, as no two rocks are identical, they continue to portray the same image. Parallel to the idea of enlightenment there are multiple paths to the end journey. Appearance allows for these...
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