How Beauty Standards Are Linked to Adolescents’ Body Satisfactions We all buy clothes only because it is fashion, or go on a diet when summer is around the corner so that we can show off our beautiful, thin bodies lying on the beach. At some point, many women spend hundreds of dollars on beauty and make up products to look prettier. And even go through extremely painful and expensive plastic surgeries to change the way their bodies look. Why do we feel like we need to fit in with these beauty standards
that could be since more people feel unpleasant about their natural look, or they have been influenced by social media and the general aesthetic of society, they don’t feel waste to spend a lot of money and blood to get their ideal looks. The original idea of their aesthetic could be different in terms of they grown up in different countries, societies, environments and other factors; however, there are also some philosophical explanations can respond to this phenomena too. From ancient time to
comings that often fall beyond my control. When I look at myself, I see beauty. But the beauty I see does not always agree with the visual experiences of others. As I get older, my flaws are maturing and have started to show signs of age. Extra weight, gray hair and wrinkles are all natural occurrences in the human experience. Despite the naturalness, these same issues are often seen as negative, and I have to deal with it. In today’s pop culture, being flawed is now ‘in’. Musicians from Beyonce to Kendrick
recurring questions pertaining life, death, and love. These recurring and troubling questions, known as universal questions, provoke deep thought and debate amongst cultures. While in today’s society many search for the answers to these questions on their computers, cell phones, or tablets, back in ancient societies, people would search for these answers in poems and literature. In ancient Chinese and Japanese culture, by searching in varying types of literature, one can clearly discover the answer
are of little relevance, as J. Brooks Bouson states: “In Jimmy’s world, the creative arts, no longer valued by the culture, have lost their vitality” (144). Instead, they have been replaced by science and technology as the fields of study of most importance. Since the majority of people living in the compounds are ‘numbers people’ and work for the laboratories in the compounds, Jimmy as a ‘word person’ is isolated and in his own way, special. Accordingly, Danette DiMarco declares that "Jimmy’s humanistic
Regional Languages as a source of National Cohesion Introduction The paramount code of Sufism is, 'Ishq Allah, Ma'bud Allah' (God is love, lover, and beloved). The study emphasizes on national cohesion on the basis of regional languages and the dimension on which this study drives that is regional poetry (Sufism). This study enlightens that national integration can be formulated through regional poetries for the purpose to strengthen the external and internal position of a nation
In a house of five similar looking children, the difference in one child would change my perspective on the world completely. My sister Falesha, the oldest after me, is merely 14 years old. She shares most of the same features as me, acts like me at times, and often wears my clothes, but the fact remains that no matter how homologous we are, Falesha will always feel inferior. Why is it that? Is it because she is younger than me? Is it because I have raised the bar so high that she will never meet
the end of the 19th century to today’s 21st (Guthrie, 2011). Most of the writers in Africa use their works to explore and portray these themes. In Home and Exile, Chinua Achebe defines his writings as part of a “process of re-storing peoples who had been knocked silent by the trauma of all kinds of dispossession” (79). In his essay, “The Novelist as Teacher” (1988), Achebe expresses his purpose as an Igbo writer, which is “to help my society regain
of acceptability for varying views in society despite the growth in means of spreading information to the masses through technical means. It may seem to many that technology and the mindset of people go hand in hand as they advance into the future. But recent and past events prove to the contrary. We are entering an age of technology
something of almost complete difference or fades entirely if given sufficient time. I speak of this in the sense of how the intellectual being develops into a superior understanding of the space that surrounds us. Tradition fades to new tradition. In today’s age, sleek metal giants cladded with tremendous amounts of glass is what this generation knows as common. Eventually this turns into tradition. Daily