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    The Changing Concept of Beauty In America‚ as well as around the world‚ women and men are bombarded by ever changing images of "beautiful women." In magazines‚ television shows‚ music videos‚ and all other forms of media‚ the ideal body type is transformed by the media and perpetuated by the consumer. The images have varied throughout the history of media‚ occasionally reaching physically damaging levels. Images have spanned from the voluptuous bodies in ancient and renaissance art‚ to antebellum

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    Beauty Standards at the Age of Innocence Beauty standards set by society for black women fuels into their insecurities and drives them towards self-hatred. From the start‚ Pecola’s community‚ classmates‚ teachers and parent’s drill into her head that she is unattractive. Pecola Breedlove comes to admit she is ugly as she starts obsessing over the idea of having the bluest eyes to make her attractive. Pecola full-heartedly believes that blue eyes are a necessity for beauty and if she were to by some

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    These cultures can influence what ones day to day worries are; one of them is being part of a society’s definition of beauty. Some of these cultures are American‚ European‚ and Hispanic to name a few. These cultures have influence that way people live‚ act‚ and think. Often people find themselves picking up beauty tips form magazines sold at local drug stores. Advertisements of these beauty tips are spread out through ones everyday lives. But are these beauty tips a positive implementation to one’s

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    beautiful. Society has the concept of beauty all wrong. Rosen‚ Christine‚ a senior editor at the New Atlantis magazine: “Beauty is what we are granted‚ through no effort of our own‚ at birth. “. Therefore beauty shouldn’t be about looks but that’s what society has made it up to be about. Today “What’s natural is declared a flaw when it’s airbrushed out of photos‚ where a woman’s waistline is tweaked before her picture is approved for print” (Spenceley). Today’s standards have made it to be where fake is

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    Looks don’t matter‚ it’s personality that counts; we hear sayings like this one almost every day. Yet we live in a society which seems to contradict this very idea. People say that looks don’t matter‚ then why does the media use airbrushing to hide any flaws a person has? If this really is the case‚ why are there so many young women harming themselves because they feel unhappy with the way they look? It is because our media and society promotes a certain body image which is considered to be ‘perfect’

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    it takes to perfect herself. In “The ugly truth about beauty”‚ Dave Barry points out that most women tend to obsess over their physical appearance. He also states that most men don’t notice when a woman has put countless hours into getting ready for the evening. I do agree that some women will do extreme things for the perfect body‚ but disagree when he says men don’t appreciate the countless hours a woman takes to get ready. The other day while I was watching television‚ I couldn’t help but

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    One defining feature of Baroque era music was its connection to and expression of worship themes. Because many well-known composers during this time worked for the Church‚ sacred music was often written for specific religious occasions. A cultural value held by many composers during this time was to write to honor God. During the Baroque period‚ many composers developed more elaborate musical embellishments. Changes were made in musical notation and advancements in instrumental playing techniques

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    One of the most important characteristics of the Baroque era is the major breakthroughs in the sciences and mathematics. This inevitably happened with humans trusting and expanding the power of reason. The major breakthroughs during this time led to what is known as the Scientific Revolution that changed people’s minds about the universe. One of the fundamental principles during this era was the Empirical Method‚ also known as inductive reasoning/method. Francis Bacon described this method as one

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    Comparing the Classical and Baroque Eras of Music From the 1600’s through the 1900’s‚ two distinct forms of musical composition and periods came into play that would change the way the world looked at musical performance in all its revelations. Baroque music displayed music that expressed drama‚ expression of self and talent in retrospect to the way church felt had previously felt about in the medieval era of thinking. The form of Classical era music that began to engulf much of western Europe gave

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    Out of all the artists of the Baroque era Rembrandt is by far the easiest to recognize. Understandably he is known for his countess paintings and etchings. A large part of his works consisted of biblical characters and sense which indicates that he was a Christian and that his faith influenced his work. However‚ what truly motivated him and why he painted and etched is still not known. Despite many claims that he visited many countries throughout Europe it is most likely that he stayed in his own

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