...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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...The question asks, who is Sally Hemings? The writer answers after reading a plethora of books and articles, historical and controversial, in the following discourse. Sally, “Sarah” Hemings was the slave and mistress to Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States of America. She was the mother of Thomas Jefferson’s six children he fathered with her. Sally Hemings was the young, teen-age girl taken by Thomas Jefferson to be one of the many women that he loved. Jon Kukla’s book, Mr. Jefferson’s Women, chapter 6, (page 115), uses notes from the Richmond Recorder , September 1, 1802, of which James Callender shares stories about Sally Hemings. The Recorder reveals that , “Of all the women in Thomas Jefferson’s life, Sally...
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...Thomas Jefferson was the main author of the Declaration of Independence. He was additionally the third president, therefore, he had a huge influence on America. Jefferson was a governor in Virginia. He believed in independence, but even so, was additionally a slave-owner. [3] Nicholas Wade (1999) gave a frolicsome fact that “Most people at the meeting agreed that DNA data reported last November, along with the available historical evidence, now makes it between probable and almost certain that Jefferson had a hidden family with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves. The DNA data showed that at least one Hemings descendant bore the same Y chromosome as that of the Jefferson family.” After he retired, Jefferson hit the road to his Virginia plant, Monticello, where he later founded the University of Virginia. He is a very special character, but one of his most special works was the Declaration of Independence....
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...Lord Acton stated that “power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. This statement seems to look at every individual into one singular group, that if one has had a negative outcome with obtaining power that they all will. Though there are individuals that have abused their power and corruption was eventually the outcome, not all people will follow in the same footsteps. When reflecting on the statement that Lord Acton made, I do believe that power can lead to corruption, but not necessarily every individual will fall to victim to this. With power comes certain responsibility to lead others on a positive and uplifting path, never giving in to one’s own accord. Especially with “new” power, one can easily lose their morals in the pursuit of more power. This is greed and can lead to thief, lies, and total corruption. I believe that this comes from not only power, but the monetary reward that comes with power. Unfortunately more people than most strive to become the best not for bragging rights or to help others, but for the money flow that will be created from the power they obtain. Ego will also come into play, behaving as though others cannot compare to them, in this they are losing the ability to successfully lead and falling further into the corruption. According to the science and technology psychology, “to call someone “a little Hitler” meant he was a menial functionary who employed what power he had in order to annoy and frustrate others for his own gratification...
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...Fire Evacuation Meeting December 23, 2019 0900hrs – 1130hrs Padre White Lounge Meeting called by: Positive Outlook Company Type of meeting: Planning Planning Facilitator: Tom Jones Note taker: Sally Fairfield Sally Field Timekeeper: Sally Field Attendees: Tom Jones, Fred Nerks, Sally Field, Peter Rabbit, Karen Goat, Peter Hazard Apologies: Nil Minutes of last meeting Sally Field Minutes Agenda item:O901hrs 1. Proposed Planned Evacuation Routine, Companies fire/ evacuation policies. Presenter: Tom Jones Discussion: Welcome by Tom Jones explanation of meeting purpose given Request for all phones to be turned off. Companies fire evacuation procedure need to comply with the companies fire safety policies and government by-laws. Building Plan shown Action items Person responsible Deadline Nil action required Agenda item:0938hrs Role of Fire Brigade in the event of fire or evacuation of building and requirements of this department Presenter: Fred Nerks Discussion: Fire chief would take command on delegating tasks in the event of fire. Fire Brigade free uncluttered access to all parts of building at all times Have access to building plans displaying location of exit doors fire extinguishers etc .A plan of building to be placed clearly in foyer showing locations of fire equipment, exits and evacuation assembly point. Action items Person responsible Deadline Plan of building charting the above needs Tom...
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...Decision Tree Gerber Product Company A. Background of the Company: Gerber was founded in 1927 in Fremont, Michigan by Daniel Frank Gerber, owner of the Fremont Canning Company, which produced canned fruit and vegetables. At the suggestion of a pediatrician, Gerber's wife Dorothy Gerber began making hand-strained food for their seven-month-old daughter, Sally. Recognising a business opportunity, Gerber began making baby food. By 1928 he had developed five products for the market and six months later, Gerber's baby foods were distributed nationwide. The brand eventually became a major company in the baby food industry, offering more than 190 products in 80 countries, with labeling in 16 languages and controls eighty-three percent (83%) of the baby food market in the United States. In 1994 Gerber merged with Sandoz Laboratories. Two years later, Sandoz merged with CIBA-Geigy to form Novartis, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. In 2007 Gerber was sold to Nestle for $5.5 billion. In 1960 Gerber started selling its baby food in glass jars, which often found new life as household storage, especially in home workshops. Soon after, other items such as pacifiers, , baby bottles, and small baby toys were introduced. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerber_Products_Company B. Problem Encountered and Quamet Solution Used or Applied Gerber used decision tree analysis in deciding whether to continue using the plastic known as poly-vinyl...
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...My "Eight Cow" Bracelet "Beauty is only skin deep" was a phrase I heard quite often during my awkward childhood. When I was a baby, I had two chins, Michelin Tire legs, and hair that stuck straight up even though it was easily over two inches long. My mom would often dress me in only a diaper on hot days inspiring my uncle to label me with the name of "Marshmallow Butt." It was a name he was quite fond of calling me, even years later. As I grew, the double chin turned into one and a half, the legs stretched into colonial columns, and the hair eventually lay flat. This all happened just in time for puberty-acne and my first training bra when I was only ten. It was during this transitional point in my life that my father began to teach me a valuable and significant lesson regarding beauty and the power of words. During my childhood, my family indulged in a weekly ritual we called family night. We used this time for various activities. We would hold family councils where we truly believed we had a say in important subjects. We would play games and have lessons such as "being kind to your family" or some other moral issue of the time. Sometimes we would sing songs, hear stories from Dad who could rival Mark Twain any day, or spend an hour to two eating ice cream and playing at the park. I am the second child and oldest daughter in a family of ten children, so these weekly "get-togethers" rarely went without some type of fiasco. These fiascoes varied from kicking at...
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...Beauty Overlooked Priscilla Sisneros Central New Mexico Community College Beauty is often associated with wealth, good looks, a nice body or some physical characteristic that is attractive. From the minute you turn on your TV you see into a world that admires fame and wealth. Commercials portray a picture of sexy men and women with big smiles on their faces living it up. Billboards throughout any city I have ever passed through have attractive people on them in hopes that their “beauty” will gain your attention long enough to read what they are selling. Is this the true beauty that brings happiness to people? As a society we have become so superficial that we forget about what really matters, the beauty that people possess on the inside. The story “A very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicts a story of a fallen angel that is molting, ugly, burdensome, and considered a circus freak. However, the deeper you read into the story you soon began to realize that this anomaly of nature is there for a reason. He was Pelayo and Elisenda’s child’s guardian angel that they assumed was there to take their child. “Frightened by the nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child.” “He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.” Garcia wrote (2013). However, as you continue to read into the story you see that the angel’s inner beauty...
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...A Matter of Beauty “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines beauty as “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the sense or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit”. However, what do we as society define beauty as? Doesn’t beauty depend on our own personal opinion? The media has convinced many people in society that beauty is only skin deep, but there is more to the matter. There are two main types of beauty, inner and outer beauty. In my opinion, inner beauty is more important than outer beauty because it is lasting instead of transient. Outer beauty is the easiest kind of beauty a person can notice. When meeting a person we don’t know for the first time, we often find ourselves intrigued at the sight of them. In this case, however, we are only analyzing his/her outer beauty. While physical beauty is alluring and possibly the drive behind why most people choose to interact with each other, many times someone considered “beautiful” can also have a malicious personality. A well known English classic, “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, gives a perfect example of why inner beauty is lasting and outer beauty is transient. The story is about a group of school boys stranded on an uninhabited island. They must create their own “adult free” society. The sophisticated novel reflects the nature of human beings through the boys’ makeshift...
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...S******* Engl 1201 – 17 Chapter Four Paper October 11, 2013 Beauty Lies Within The Eyes Of The Beholder The year is now 2010 and as we enter this new decade, we encounter so many new trends, fashion and styles. No matter what your budget might be, it seems like everyone has the same goal in mind. They want to be beautiful and look “beautiful.” Grace Suh’s essay, “Eye of the Beholder,” details her struggle as a Korean girl to conform to a Western ideal of beauty. After her makeover, Suh felt negated and also felt like a stranger was staring back at her when she looked at herself in the mirror. Finally, she realizes that she was content with the way she naturally looked, which causes her to leave the makeup behind her on the commuter train. To me, beauty is not only something that pleases the eyes, but also pleases the other senses and the mind. I think true beauty makes you see beyond the lovely sight. It will give you insight or realization of something interesting beyond just the outward appearance. Think about the word beautiful for a moment, when we talk about beauty in people, we often refer to their physical attractiveness. Of course, a beautiful or handsome face is pleasant to look at. But I find that the most memorable "beautiful people" are the ones who have captivating personalities behind the beautiful faces. In my high school graduating class, there were two girls whose beauty just stood out among the rest, Chelsea and Tressa. Both had almost...
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...“Phenomenal Woman” uses various literary effects to express to women that it isn’t genetic beauty which is important; rather, it is inner beauty and confidence which makes a woman beautiful and the poem’s repetition of the phrase “phenomenal woman” creates an effect in the poem which emphasizes what it means to be a woman. The first stanza in “Phenomenal Woman” begins with Angelou expressing the curiosity which “pretty women” (1) have with her “beauty.” Pretty women don’t see physical beauty in her, yet they see another type of beauty portrayed and question her as to what it may be. Angelou tells them, “It’s in the reach of my arms/the span of my hips/the stride of my step/the curl of my lip/I’m a woman/phenomenally/phenomenal woman” (6-12). Through the use of metaphorical phrases, the author is expressing to the women that she has confidence and it is displayed in how she expresses her femininity. For example, in the way she walks and talks. These things make her beautiful, or a phenomenal woman. In the second stanza of the poem, Angelou depicts herself walking into a room full of men, who all bow to her upon her entrance. “I walk into a room/just as cool as you please/and to a man/the fellows stand or/fall down to their knees/then they swarm around me/a hive of honey bees” (14-20). Angelou describes how when she enters a room, she does not have to do much to show her beauty, yet it is expressed in her confidence and her overall...
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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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... what motivates our feelings of affection for someone else. Specifically, it's about finding love in spite of (or maybe even because of) physical flaws. Appearances "Appearances" is a major theme in Sonnet 130, since our speaker spends a lot of the poem talking about what's wrong with his mistress's looks. He does a pretty complete dissection of her face, her body, and her smell. He doesn't say anything at all about her personality, but instead sticks to his laundry list of problems with her appearance. This gives Shakespeare a chance to poke fun at our obsession with looks and to show how ridiculous it is to ask any person to live up to some ideal of perfect beauty. Women and Femininity In Sonnet 130, the theme "Women and Femininity" is connected to the idea of appearances. This poem is all about female beauty and our expectations and stereotypes about the way women ought to look. You know how in magazines women pretty much tend to look the same? They all fit into a very narrow definition of what is beautiful. Essentially, the speaker in this poem is pointing out that love poetry does the same thing. It makes women into goddesses, not real human beings. He insists that his idea of beautiful femininity doesn't depend on fitting an abstract, unrealistic fantasy. Essay on theme of love in Sonnet 130 First of all I will be talking about William Shakespere’s Sonnet 130. Now this poem has a rather odd element to the other poems. Some may say this is romantic but others...
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...Sydney Roberts Mrs. Williams English IV- 1 10 November 2011 Beauty Within Throughout history, emotions, and events have been reflected in the arts. No matter the time period artists have used their works to convey a meaning to the audience. The arts are used to communicate feelings in a way that impacts the viewer. Literature, music, and artwork are all genres that artists use to express their feelings and thoughts. Beauty is often used as a theme in each of these genres. Beauty can be illustrated in many different ways, and not everyone sees beauty the same way. Poets use their works to express a mental state. By using specific literary elements and words the reader can determine what they are feeling. Musicians use musical notes and beats as well as words, which allow them to express themselves. Artists use visual elements to represent a particular theme or emotion. Although all of these genres are different, they each contain a message and a theme. Beauty as a theme can be found in the eighteenth century poem “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron, in the twentieth century song “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” by Prince, and in the fifteenth century painting The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. Lord Byron is famous for his works in literature, especially his poetry. His journey to fame was full of obstacles. “Byron was born in London to a poor but noble family” (“Prepare to Read”). He used his writing as a way to express his feelings. At first his works were not accepted...
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...article in my life. I need to pay attention to understand the writer's idea and try my best to find the main idea, main sentence and supporting sentence. Obviously, there are many misunderstand words, but I learned to catch the information what I understand and guess the main idea. So that this essay influence me to learn new writing skills. For my prompt, I was happy to my instructor to give us a chance to visit historical place. I went to Massachusetts State House in weekend, I learn that if you want to write a good essay, you should open your eyes. That's can help you to accept new ideas and easy to absorb different opinions. At last, the Beauty essay make me learn that everything has different side based on different angles and values. In this essay, I tried to describe my opinion which is the beauty is not mean beautiful. The beauty is produced by cultures, value standards and customs. I am happy to take this course in my second semester, I believed I have new ideas about college writing. I will keep writing,...
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