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"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...

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, ...

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...

American Beauty - A Character Analysis

derived from ancient thinkers, as well as the modern conjectures of psychologists and mental health specialists. It is this that m...

A Modern Fairy Tale, Edward Scissorhands

This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...

Changing Meanings - Reconsidering Advertising Texts Regarding Beauty

The writer looks at two advertisements supplied by the student, designed to appeal to men with a dating agency providing contacts ...

Communication by Dove

Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty has been very successful. AS great deal of the success has been the ability of the fir to communi...

"The Tiger's Bride" and "Beauty and the Beast" - A Comparison

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at "The Tiger's Bride" and the classic fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". Thematic diff...

"Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather

This essay offers analysis of "Coming, Aphrodite!" by Willa Cather, focusing on how each of the major characters define and percei...

The Sleeping Beauty as Performed by the Kirov Ballet and its Elements of Art

1999). These opposites represent a binary universe, in which both sides must learn to coexist even if the alliance proves to be a...

The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Obsession with Beauty

body dysmorphic disorder, a psychological condition in which one becomes fixated on the notion that there is some grave flaw in on...

A Narrative Analysis of the American Beauty Film

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

Sexuality and Young Women in Sleeping Beauty by Rosario Ferre and Wild Swans by Alice Munro

her to be a good school girl and she seems just about ready, at the beginning of the story, to break free from this. What happen...

'The Bluest Eye' by Toni Morrison and the Issues of Self Hatred and Beauty

was dictated by the fact that they were not white, and according to Katherine McKittricks literary criticism, they accepted their ...

Beauty and the Beast and Cupid and Psyche Myth Comparisons

"Soul"; Comparing "Tam Lin" To "Cupid and Psyche"). When suitors stopped coming to see Psyche, her family consulted the Or...

'Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self' by Alice Walker

immersed in her appearance. And, then comes the accident that will change her life and her perception of herself. Up until the ...

The Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike

"tumbles" his family into a "financial ruin from which they do not recover for two generations" (Bottum 64). Clarence finds that a...

Concepts of Beauty in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

This 6 page paper discusses the way in which Toni Morrison considers women's self-esteem issues in her novel Song of Solomon. The ...

Dangerous Beauty Film and Roles Based on Gender

In five pages this 1998 movie is considered in a discussion of gender based roles and how sixteenth century Venetians managed to c...

Comparing Four John Keats' Poems as 'A Thing of Beauty'

Agnes). While Keats has been described as one of the most commonly recognized creators of Romanticism, he should also be no...

How American Beauty Serves as American Social Criticism

The ways in which the style and storyline of this film can be regarded as critiquing the superficiality of American culture and so...

Dysfunctional Marriage in American Beauty

joy in my life" (Mendes, 1999, p. PG). II. CONSIDERING SYSTEMS APPROACH What would it take to put Lester and Carolyns marriage b...

'The Sovereign Beauty' by Edmund Spenser

In six pages this explication of Spenser's poem argues that it serves as a celebration of Queen and country in terms of 'virtue' a...

A Speech Inspired by Anna Sewell's Black Beauty

In this paper consisting of three pages an animal fable speech that mirrors the literary style of the novel features similar word ...

Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties and Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil

In five pages this report examines Becker's 1975 novel with Wertmuller's 1976 film in a comparative analysis of the dark humor and...

An Analysis of the Film, American Beauty

troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...

Kawabata's 'Beauty and Sadness' and Pa Chin's 'Family'

strongly influenced by foreign attitudes and ideas, and undergoing some difficulty in reconciling these new cultural parameters wi...

Modern Dysfunctional Culture as Embodied by the Film 'American Beauty'

culture in the discontentment of one mans desire to live more of his life than merely being a cookie cutout of average people. Le...

Scene Analyses from Do the Right Thing, American Beauty, Thelma and Louise, and Taxi Driver

manicured lawns and rose gardens. But for every blooming rose, there is a thorn lurking somewhere, and through the frequent imagi...

Appearances and Looking Beyond Them in Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne Marie LePrince de Beaumont

would stay close to home and her beloved father, reading books and living a simple but personally rewarding life (LePrince de Beau...