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How Beauty Pageants are Related to the Image of Women

This essay that contains no outside sources examines the beauty pageant and its meaning in the world today. The idea that they dem...

Beauty Pageants

contributing to the betterment of the world in which she lives. For example, "Miss National Pre-Teen" was created in 1980 a...

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 ...

'Sleeping Beauty' Fairytale and Psychoanalysis

reach the real world, they are rudely awakened to the fact that life is nothing like it had been portrayed in the well-worn fairy ...

Dhammapada's Social Lessons

In nine pages this paper examines women's role as conceptualized by Dhammapada in a consideration of the Buddha's 'five beauties' ...

Young Women and Advertising

titled "The body impolitic: fashion and its critics sell the same stereotypes" and is written by John Leland (1996). In this artic...

Beauty and Body Image

coffee break, and theyll jog around the block" (Jordan). Fat people, on the other hand, are far more real and "Fat people...will l...

Why Children's Beauty Pageants are Unhealthy

goes with the contests, another criticism is that it is fodder for pedophiles. Pedophiles are sexually aroused by children. With s...

Lisa See's "Snow Flower And The Secret Fan" - Foot Binding And Tradition

Chinese culture recognized womens inherent value. This is not to say, however, that women - even at their most esteemed positions...

Television and Beautiful Women

Many have noticed the influx of gorgeous women on television. This paper contemplates the arrival of beautiful women on television...

Political Practices, Women's Suffrage and Changes in California

5 pages and 8 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the political environment of California in the early 20th century ...

The Physical Realm According to Rene Descartes

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

Body Image and Bulimia

why women would eat mass amounts of food, and then regurgitate, has to do with poor self-esteem, and a poor view of their bodies. ...

Generation Me and Community College Catalogs

This 4 page paper gives an overview of images on a community college catalog and how it relates to members of Generation Me. This ...

Eating Disorders, Body Dissatisfaction and the Media

attempting to do now is to determine what "diverse factors" make these people susceptible to the impact of the media images, while...

Representations of Black Women in Media

black women and women of color. There is a saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," which attests to the epistemologi...

United Kingdom Women's Magazines

of Womans Own has a woman on the front who is not runway model glamorous, but neither is she overweight or flawed in any way. The ...

Analyzing How Sandro Botticelli Transformed the Beauty of His Idealism into a Reality Dark and Somber

deserve to become the focus of a truly disinterested affection" (Kuspit The Psychoanalytic Construction of Beauty). This eloquent...

Sexual Images of Women in the Media

to satisfy the demand of their target market. Each of these magazines will appeal to a different sections of the female populati...

Women of Color and Print Media

and Cosmopolitan. While both magazines market their product to a primarily female audience, it can readily be argued that Black B...

Homeless Women's Plights and Tell Them Who I Am by Elliot Liebow

In five pages homeless women and their plights are examined within the context of the sensitive portrayal offered in Elliot Liebow...

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 Cultural Messages of "Beauty and the Beast"

to "active" and "aggressive" pursuits. This is not the model we find in Beauty and the beast. In the fairy tale itself (this expl...

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...

Maya Angelou/Phenomenal Woman

half=way through the stanza, Angelou prefaces giving her reaction with the line "I say," which is followed by her lyrical descript...

"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...

Contemporary Families in Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace and Stephanie Coontz's The Way We Really Are

"The Woman Who Walked Into Walls" by Roddy Doyle. The Complexity of Families Today In Coontzs book many different families ar...

Nursing Image

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

A Personal Informational Self Analysis

each of the six areas of life: family and home; spiritual and ethical; social and cultural; financial and career; physical and hea...

Sandra Brown's Mirror Image

the daughter who has lost a mother and does not know it: "She was growing too attached to the child and wanted desperately to help...