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A Woman’s Beauty

unattractive, but a woman must never be unattractive. As such beauty is sought out, or desired by, all women to some degree becaus...

Gwendolyn Brooks/Old Black Woman, Homeless & Indistinct

as if she did not exist. They tune her out, just as they do other unsightly aspects of urban living. No one sees the cigarette but...

Rome & Greece: Good, Dutiful Citizens Versus Athletic Ability, Philosophical Issues And Physical Beauty

fully clothed to completely nude was a symbol in and of itself: Aphrodite had begun a journey exemplifying female physical beauty,...

Pieta by Michelangelo (Reaction Paper)

into the marble but his arms resemble someone who is of significant strength. For a thin man, the sculpture depicts a very muscula...

The Subjects of Virtue and Beauty

2003). Restating that: sentiment is beauty and virtue; and if the sentiment we feel when we see beauty is instinctive approval, ...

Comparison of the Philosophical Concepts of Plato and Martin Heidegger

can one know what is beautiful or what is ugly? There must be some sort of shared experience. Plato uses a cave allegory--somethi...

2 Innovative and Traditional Ballets

culture (Lee 214). While Petipas technical vocabulary of movement had made great and creative strikes, "great elegance and dignit...

Aristotle and Aquinas on Beauty

He created man and should do whatever it takes to support his development and sustenance. To that end, he saw it necessary to main...

'The Eye of the Beholder' and Crime

is any action that is against the laws of the land, and as such needs to be a social construct as it is the laws that are develope...

Cosmetic Surgery for Men

accessory that can make a man appear to be more "attractive powerful and masculine" (Fraser 77). Considering this new focus on co...

Beauty Concepts of Aristotle and Plato

that is permanent and immutable. It is this world that is more real; the world of change is merely an imperfect image of this worl...

Book Report on Ann Sewell's Black Beauty

with any other horse, indicating he is a horse that is used to being treated nicely. Throughout the book Black Beauty is essenti...

Mann's Death in Venice

of Venice? Mann wastes little time in linking Aschenbachs desire for beauty, played out mostly in elaborate fantasies, with the r...

"The Bluest Eye" and Standards of Beauty

animal kingdom besides humans. Nevertheless, these standards can become a problem when they become conflated with racial character...

Analysis of Excerpt from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

be that" (Bloom 17). The Bluest Eye fulfills this need, as it describes life from Pecola perspective, which includes how Pecola, a...

The Concept of Beauty in the Spirituality of the Augustinians

for creation and of the vivid ideals of the heavenly world (Burrus, Jordan & MacKendrick 91). Beauty is reflected in the creation...

The American ideal of Beauty

wonders now what prompted him to be so superficial, stupid and shallow. Therefore, this wide-ranging documentary is his quest to f...

Overview of Washington State's City of Seattle

than make up for its seemingly endless days of damp, gray mistiness. Style Surrounded by Green Seattle can easily be associated w...

'Claudette Colvin Goes to Work' by Rita Dove

Her 1999 volume of poetry, "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" exemplifies the ways in which Dove captures a moment, sees it for what it ...

How Harmony and Beauty appears in Taoism and works by Wordsworth

How do the subjects of harmony and beauty enter Taoism and the works of Wordsworth? The writer notes that Wordsworth was not a Tao...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

Aesthetic Judgment as Interpreted by Immanuel Kant

to what is art often comes up. Can the medium, or materials used-be it urine or elephant dung which modern artists have been known...

Magazine Pictures Compared

In five pages two different photographs featured in a fashion and beauty magazine for women are compared in terms of association, ...

Beauty and Love According to Socrates as Represented in Symposium by Plato

In four pages this paper examines how beauty and love were conceptualized by Socrates as portrayed in Symposium by Plato through i...

Fairytale Modernization

In ten pages this paper examines the modernizing of Charles Perrault's fairytale classics including Little Red Riding Hood, Sleepi...

Analysis of The Knidian Aphrodite

In five pages this paper examines a woman's beauty in this analysis of the Knidian Aphrodite. Seven sources are cited in the bibl...

The Myth of the American Family as Discredited in Death of a Salesman and An American Beauty

play, if we only look at the man, Willy Loman, and examine him from his perspective, concerning his hopes and desires for himself ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins and William Wordsworth on Nature

In 5 pages this paper discusses how Wordsworth and Hopkins perceived nature as God-like and powerful in beauty with a consideratio...

Social Discrimination in Hardy and Dickens

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens both deal in major part with discrimination. T...

Greek Sculpture Development

Major Periods in Greek...