that he is intelligent‚ and he knows what he is talking about. Blink tells several stories about first impressions. The first anecdote explains the story of a fake Ancient Greek statue that the Getty museum paid millions of dollars to acquire. The museum carried out a fourteen-month long investigation to prove the statue was not fake. The scientists investigating the statue found the statue was not an imitator‚ so the museum agreed to buy it and put it on display. When art experts saw the statue
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What do beauty pageants necessarily entail that makes them immoral‚ that makes it seem horrible to the populace? The ideas I seem to find most interesting for me to answer are many which I will list and the reader will read as they are introduced‚ which is to say they will not all be announced in one clump. Now‚ for someone to be an apologist or attacker of this topic‚ a description ought to be provided which I do so here “A child beauty pageant is a beauty contest featuring contestants under 16
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something they are achieving something‚ it’s an achievement. But no‚ there is a big difference in winning and achieving. You achieve when you accomplish something successfully‚ by effort and skill. Not when you have paid someone to lose or take steroids or fake a injury. We might play sports for entertainment‚ to stay fit‚ to kill time‚ as an hobby or professionally. Sports is something that could cause conflict between two best friends while playing basketball or bring two enemies together to fight a common
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over 5‚000 child beauty pageants held annually across the United States with girls as young as two-years-old competing in them. Little girls strut across the stage with make-up painted on their tanned faces‚ hair teased into big and luscious curls‚ fake teeth‚ and a raunchy dance to complement it. There’s no doubt that the very young girls do not resemble their age when they are on stage and performing; they’re transformed into “sultry‚ Lolita-like waifs” (Giroux 270). Millions tune in and watch shows
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to where individuals use items to manifest a fake persona‚ and over time these individuals start to believe that this fictitious persona is their identity. This is shown through Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel the Great Gatsby. The way in which Gatsby speaks is false. Gatsby‚ “whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd” (132)‚ spoke in such a matter to win Daisy. Gatsby repeatedly uses the phrase ’old sport’‚ which seems fake and unnatural coming from his lips. He uses
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False lashes‚ spray tans‚ fake hair‚ nails‚ pounds of make-up and flashy costumes are all things you would expect to see on a Barbie doll‚ but strangely enough‚ this is no longer the case. These things are becoming more and more popular in beauty pageants as early as six months old. Some people say child beauty pageants are absolutely great but also many sources that believe as though children are being robbed of their childhood. Beauty pageants are very exploitive because they promote
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In the Great Gatsby‚ social standings are always on the minds of the East and West Eggers. Either thinking about their wealth‚ appearances‚ or where they really stand in the social ladder‚ they are constantly thinking about themselves; and while some despise each other for what they are‚ others only dream about being them-people like Myrtle Wilson. Through Fitzgeralds choice of diction and detail‚ he conveys Myrtle as a low class dreamer‚ only desiring the acceptance from the upscale socialite friends
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world. They cannot believe him because they have never seen anything but the cave. Truman and Plato’s work are similar and they are different in some ways. In the Truman show‚ Truman has a fake life. He was forced to accept the situations in his life‚ no matter the conditions. He has no choice but to accept this fake world because he doesn’t know any better.
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Geoffrey Chaucer had separate attitudes towards Church and Christians. Chaucer seems to have respected Christians. In the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer introduces many characters that are devoted Christians in high and attractive terms. Some of these characters are the Knight‚ the Parson‚ the Clerk and even a little about the Plowman‚ “The Lord his God with whole heart he loved best” (Line 533). Chaucer describes all these devoted Christians at first‚ yet he describes some pilgrims
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