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    Trying To Be Perfect

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    Is There Too Much Pressure on Girls Trying to Be Perfect? America is filled with many beautiful women‚ different races‚ different cultures‚ different backgrounds. Being beautiful comes with a lot of things‚ in my opinion anyone created by God is beautiful but‚ being “beautiful” in this society land’s most women jobs‚ such as modeling‚ and acting roles. Most women these days are determined to look like celebrities they see on TV or social media. In “This Thing We Call Life” women often become

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    Impossibly Perfect

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    Kimberly Diaz English 101 Professor Edwards 12 March 2013 Impossibly Perfect As victims of media and advertisements‚ women and men struggle to accept their bodies in American society. Although men an women are not portrayed in the same manner‚ both sexes seem to be affected psychologically‚ leading them to push their body limits while not caring about the side effects. With woman being portrayed as having value only for their appearance and seen as sex objects while men are portrayed as strong

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    Perfect Dress

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    3 October 2011 Marisa de los Santos Perfect Dress Page 504 * Looking at a student’s journal‚ maybe written in blue ink or is a blue journal‚ they see that the writing is written in ink but is erasable because they see smudges. * The student thinks they are not beautiful and hopes that beauty is just going to come to her over night. * It’s strange how badly we want things to just come to us‚ when we know that things do not just come‚ we have to work at it. * We all want to be like

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    The "Perfect" Life

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    Perfect” Life The way people envision the “perfect” life has changed over time with new advances in technology to improve health for longer life and more acceptances on social issues such as homosexuality‚ race‚ and sex to name a few. Even with these changes‚ the basics of the “perfect” life people strive for has not changed. The big picture is still to find someone to share your life with‚ have a career you enjoy‚ and live in a place where people have a similar mentality. But how many people

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    problems‚ mental disorders‚ and a lot more genetic diseases would cease to exist. The perfect world isn’t that far away. <br> <br>So what could possibly go wrong in a perfect world made up of genetically enhanced organisms? Critics fear that disease-producing organisms used in food products might develop worldwide epidemics. The catholic church says that human cloning is morally wrong. Others don’t want a perfect world. They argue that the ill-bred humans will take away our right to suffer. According

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    Future Perfect

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    <center><a href="http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/">Sam Vaknin’s Psychology‚ Philosophy‚ Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites</a></center> <br> <br>Many futurologists - professional (Toffler) and less so (Naisbitt) - tried their hand at predicting the future. They proved quite successful at predicting major trends but not as lucky in delineating their details. This is because‚ inevitably‚ every futurologist has to resort to crude tools such as extrapolation. The modern day versions of biblical

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    The Pressure to Be Perfect

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    The Bell Jar and Black Swan: The Pressure to be Perfect In a society where competition among others and influences from the media are becoming increasingly prevalent by the decade‚ it is easy for one to feel the extreme pressure to be perfect. Many individuals face the internal conflict of feeling that they are not adequate enough for various personal or societal standards‚ often leading to unhealthy insecurities‚ mental and emotional instabilities‚ and identity crises. Firstly‚ society’s reminders

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    Perfect storm

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    Book ’The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea’ SUMMARY: Author Sebastian Junger Country United States Language English Subject Andrea Gail‚ 1991 Perfect Storm‚ shipwrecks Genre Creative nonfiction Publisher W. W. Norton & Company Publication date May 17‚ 1997 Media type dvd and cd Pages xii‚ 227 ISBN ISBN 0-393-04016-X OCLC Number 35397863 Dewey Decimal 974.4/5 LC Classification QC945 .J66 1997 The Perfect Storm is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian

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    America has a very unhealthy obsession with beauty. While growing up‚ the Disney channel had shows where the cast was around late teens and early twenties. Now‚ the channel seems to be overflowing with twelve year olds who are all dolled up. Beauty these days is all about appearing young. Companies sell anti-aging creams and lotions‚ plastic surgery such as face lifts are used to counteract aging. There’s a pressure on celebrities to stay skinny and look young even as they inch their way into their

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    The Perfect Storm

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    The Perfect Storm The night slowly filling with mist as the thunder clouds came together. Every afternoon in summer‚ Jenny‚ Oscar‚ Charlotte and Ginny love to sit on the porch watching the sprinkle of rain falling from above. But this was not just a normal summer storm; it was the perfect storm that would shock all who lived in Alice Springs. The scraps of the tree branches hitting the tin roof as the wind swooped in. In the distance‚ the roll of clouds could be seen as they filled the sky above;

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