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    Pérez English 1010-047 M. Harding Burgoyne April, 2nd, 2015 Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography Beauty Pageants Does competing in beauty pageants have negative effects on child’s development? Some people think that beauty pageants are very prejudicial for kids, but many others believe that they are beneficial in many aspects. The reason why I wanted to write and search about beauty pageants for kids and young adults is because last week I watched a reality-show on the TV about this topic

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    Beauty is an image desired by all which leads to a constant trend of individuals wanting to improve their appearance for others to envy.  As the youth especially strives for beauty they forget themselves and become someone they are not, losing their true beauty. The idea of beauty is constantly changing within every society, making those who want beauty potentially at risk of self harm or hatred. Celebrities have challenged the term over decades, leaving our average day civilians questioning what

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    What is beauty? Some may say beauty is only seen from within, and is in the form of natural beauty. Others may say that beauty is a person with a face full of makeup with designer clothes, and a wallet full of money. While others may say that beauty is about the attitude. Beauty is a very versatile and debatable word, because of the unlimited definitions. The first definition of beauty in the Webster’s dictionary states, “beauty is the qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses

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    Jane Martin Beauty Essay

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    I wanted to be Beautiful but I Didn’t Want to be you In Jane Martin’s play, “Beauty”, Martin uses characterization and dissimilarities to reveal real life challenges. The common idea that people only see the bad side of their lives and the good side of others is demonstrated throughout Martin’s play. “Beauty” is a play centered on two friends; Carla, who Bethany views as being the epitome of beautiful, and Bethany who Carla sees as the epitome of intelligent. Both Carla and Bethany do not accept

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    Paper Assignment 2 Prompt 1 When it comes to the subject of love and desire, it would seem that The Symposium and The Bhagavad Gita disagree as to whether those qualities are beneficial to achieving spirituality or detrimental. In the Symposium, Plato states that desire is part of the pathway to achieving spirituality. By contrast, the unnamed author of the Bhagavad Gita seems to state that desire is an obstacle in the pathway to achieving divinity. Their perspectives can seen through their texts

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    What does art mean to me? By definition art is described as “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.” To me, art can be much more than what’s set in the lines of that definition. Art is the very thing that keeps humanity going. Without art, without human expression, the world would be such a boring place. A quote by Elbert Hubbard

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    Success is the beauty of having dreams and running tars them. When you are successful in something, it’s because you have worked extremely to say that not only are you proud of how far you've come, but you also enjoyed the ride along the way. My dream is to become a beauty artist in cosmetology. Eight years ago on a February tenth, I had a surgery. I remember going two weeks before to the doctor when the doctor diagnosed that I had hip dysplasia. “Is an abnormal formation of the hip socket that

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    Beauty standards have been socially constructed in diverse and various shapes in every society or culture in the world, and cause people to think they are not beautiful if they do not fit the common standard of beauty that has been set by the society. Most people are pressured into the standard by the social milieu. The people who are different from the socially pursued standard of beauty do not think the standard itself is absurd, but they rather tend to be insecure about their appearance. Once

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    us the wrong perception just to what the definition of beauty is. Much of our culture portrays beauty in the sense of fantasy lifestyles that most people will realistically never be able to achieve. Given today’s different platforms of media, it is not uncommon for one to find beauty in an attractive women’s latest Instragram post. Likewise, one could think of beauty when it comes to the scenery of their favorite vacation destination. According to Aristotle, beauty exists when" all parts work together

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    he was captivated by the beauty and luminosity of a stack of mackerels. Throughout the essay he describes the process that he goes through in order to write a poem that he demonstrates at the end. As Doty describes his process it becomes clear the display of fish mean so much more and that even Doty doesn’t know what they mean at first. I am fascinated that Doty has no idea what his poem means at first. It seems that he is trying to solve a puzzle and he doesn’t know what the outcome will be. He also

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