Examples Of My Mask

My mask represents the fears that I hide from the world: the fear of losing sight of what's most important to me, the fear of the unknown, and the fear of showing weakness. The blindfold over the eyes of my mask represents my fear of losing sight of what’s important. I never want to stop trying to do the best I can do. What’s most important to me is my family, friends, and my goals. I want to go to college and get a successful job. Another fear that I have is my fear of the unknown. The unknown is represented by the question mark on the blindfold. I hate not knowing what’s out there. This is one of the reasons I don’t like the dark. The final fear that I keep hidden is the fear of showing weakness. The teardrop represents my final fear. When

Masks have held countless uses and meanings throughout history. Masks have been used in plays, like those of Shakespeare, traditional dances, social gatherings, even as a form of casual or corporal punishment. Although masks have several different uses in different cultural situations, the meaning of the masks is generally the same. Masks are used to conceal an appearance and assume the identity of another. Metaphorically, masks can be used to hide feelings, to protect oneself, and to block out the outside world. Many of these examples are shown in Art Speigelman 's Maus.

This proves Gergen’s thesis, “I doubt that people normally develop a coherent sense of identity, and believe that to the extent that they do, they may experience serve emotional distress” (172). By having several masks or selves, is how we are able to adapt to changing society. With these multiple masks we are able to achieve acceptance and know who we are as individuals. Throughout life we must adopt masks when facing different circumstances; it is through these masks that we see how we change as individuals. If we spend our lives trying to stick to one mask, we can find ourselves to feel lost, depressed, or invisible. Change is good; however we must still stay true to ourselves when using masks. They are a part of us as individuals but they are not us.

Gender roles often have disastrous consequences for people who struggle to fill their assigned stereotype. Last Wednesday, Carnegie Mellon had a special showing of a new film, The Mask You Live In, that focuses on how society’s narrow definition of masculinity can cause more harm than good.

Masks were sometimes created for the purpose of being used in a ceremonies by a priest. The mask would be a certain deity and the priest would be dressed in costume to play out that character. By portraying the deity the priest would be

Football is not dangerous because scientist has invented new and softer protection for players. Since 1990 they have improve shape, padding, and outside material to prevent concussions. This has improve because in 1970 they invented the full faces mask that came with polycarbonate material to absorb combat. But in 1960 the shoulder pads were improve with plastic shell and foam to protect chest and shoulders.

Such as, a mask with a human appearance with low eyes represented calmness and patience. Another with small eyes and mouth represented humility and a big budging forehead on the mask represented wisdom. Lastly, a big chin on the mask represented power and strength. There were even female mask that embodied what the villagers believed was beautiful attributes. Each detail of the mask was specifically picked for the type of mask the person was creating.

When given the thought, one makes the comparison that masks are used to describe our

So why do we have these masks? Why does it exist? It’s because of the societal norms and pressure from our peers and the media outlet that makes it feel like a mandatory expectation to be “perfect”. We endlessly live in fear of how others will criticize and depict us that we carelessly allow the media and society take full control over these unrealistic societal guidelines. Although, most of us acknowledge that the ads we see on TV are fake and unrealistic, yet we still blindly abide to this ideology of living because of our anxiety to feel wanted and accepted.

African masks were to establish a different identity for the wearer in order to amuse, teach, or sacrifice.

The Mende people created an art that was unique to them. They used masks to express their culture and the personalities of their group. A special characteristic of the masks is that each mask represents something opposite of each other. With this, the Mende people show the difference between one thing and its opposite. For example, masks that are used might represent light while another represents dark.

Masks are used in society to conceal one’s appearance and also as a means for impersonation. When we encounter someone wearing a mask, we assume they are pretending to be whatever that mask depicts. We are aware that there is a person underneath, but we assume that they bear no resemblance to the mask they wear. If they were, then why would they were a mask in the first place?

We had another fun, and busy day, full of learning and exploration. Tiberius, Sam, Daniel, and Tama rode the bikes. They are getting really good at maneuvering them around the playground. Jacqui and the tamariki weeded the garden and prepared the soil in readiness to plant out. Jania was very interested and determined to make a bear mask so she could go on a bear hunt. With some inspiration from the internet and some teamwork with Johnny she achieved her goal. Lots of friendship building and group learning experiences were also occurring at Jump Start, which was lovely to see. Ka pai every one. You are all wonderful!

Pimples are something that is caused by pores in the face that have become clogged. You can avoid getting pimples by using a regime of medicating, spot-treating, and cleansing. A lot of people choose to use facial masks for pimples, and they have a hard time finding recipes for these facial masks for pimples. So here are some of the most popular recipes for these masks that you can make and use at home to get rid of pimples.

Picking a topic for my mask wasn’t that hard. Whenever there was a class discussion about the mask, it seemed like everyone was going to the idea of a mask depicting the traits and qualities of a character in the story. So with that in mind, I decided to pick something others weren’t going to pick. I’m not saying that I am the only person with a topic other than that. I’m just saying that to my knowledge, everyone I spoke with had that topic or something close to it. Now for my topic, I chose to go with a mask that looked like it would actually be in the story. This stood out to me because while reading the story there was a passage that talked about the mask. I knew after that that I wanted to make my mask with that topic in mind. There was an alternative topic that I wanted to use. Mrs. Enns did