Lizzie Velasquez: The World's Ugliest Woman

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss (...) These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen” (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross). Compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern make mankind beautiful, but it also makes it defenseless . When one has concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others, he takes sacrifices, risks, and lives with uncertainty. When man is compassionate, he lives a vulnerable life. Love and compassion bring out the beauty in mankind, but they can also bring out its weaknesses. Because of man’s compassion, he

In the essay “Why Looks Are the Last Bastion of Discrimination” by Deborah L. Rhode, she portrays the stereotypes hardships which are faced by certain people. She wants the audience to know how the stereotypes can cause suffering. The way certain people appear can cause people to have certain view point towards them due to their look. Discrimination is generated in people’s minds due to the physical appearance of a person. She wants the people to know that discriminating others because of their race, religion, color, and gender should be stopped. She gives an example in her essay about an obese lady, where the lady is called she not fit for job and

She had a healthy body, she was intelligent. She had an “abundant sexual drive and possessed strong arms and back,” (2, 8-9). She was herself blind to her own positive qualities as she was too busy trying to please others with her looks, “she went to and fro apologizing,” (2, 10). She apologized to everyone for her imperfections. The imagery of, “Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs” (2, 11), portrays the indifference society felt towards her. She wanted to be appreciated, but she was only seen her for her looks and not her inner self. She had learned from the time she was a child her imperfections made her not good enough or socially

On a hot July day in 1965, Gertrude Baniszewski was living on the edge. A once beautiful woman, she was worn out from parenthood and poverty. With practically no income, she had to raise seven children by ironing and

In a way, she changed herself, her personality, to fit a certain mold society deemed as normal. The image, and her friends impression, drove her actions and decisions which caused her to rebel. “What do they think of me?”,these were the thoughts that drove her to commit to her decisions, so it was really dependent on who she looked up to for guidance. Other people heavily influence how a teen makes their

Which allows the audience to understand and feel the way she is

The Lizzie Borden, axe-murderer, is one of the most shocking murders in American History. In Fall River, Massachusetts on July 19, 1860 Lizzie Borden was born. Andrew Borden and Sarah Borden were the parents of Lizzie, but three years after Sarah died Andrew remarried to Abby Durfee Gray. (Taylor) Lizzie has an older sister named Emma that took the role of her Mother after Sarah died. Abby and the Borden sisters never had a close relationship. Emma and Lizzie ended up calling Abby “Mrs. Borden” and they always thought that Abby was after the enormous amount of money that Mr. Borden had. The Borden sisters lived with their father and stepmother into their adulthood. Both daughters helped manage the rental properties that Mr. Andrew owned because they thought Abby was only using Andrew for his money. Lizzie and Abby’s relationship was

This is seen when she started swimming and “a feeling of exultation overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been given her to control the working of her body and her soul. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before” (pg. 31) It can be seen how she’s not content with following everyone else, and instead has to break free from the pack and do her own thing. But, this comes back to bite her as she’s not strong enough to maintain this rebellion forever. She eventually becomes depressed and bipolar. She talks about how some days “she was very happy without knowing why. She was happy to be alive and breathing . . . she liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places” but “there were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why—when it did not seem worth while . . . to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation” (pg. 64). It is seen how some days she is super happy because she is free from everything, but then it shown how she is sad and depressed because of the terrible situations she put herself into. All of these things add up and she runs out of ways to avoid the problems in her life so she just ends up killing

A serial killer is a person who kills two or more people within two separate events or a different period of time. Lizzie Andrew Borden is one of the many famous serial killers that America has known. She is acquitted for the 1892 murders by an axe.

Connie’s habit of constantly looking to make sure she still looks good is a huge piece of proff that connie is insecure. Connie describes her beauty as “everything”. This shows that Connie would feel like she was nothing if it were not for her beauty. She would essentially feel worthless without it. Being insecure makes a person very susceptible to the will of others.

Bonnie commented on her growth experience, “How much of that comes from genetics and God’s gifts, versus environment, I don’t know. But whether it was developed or whether it was innate, if conflict came at me, my tendency would be to fight back” (B. Yost, personal communication, July 19, 2016). She conveys a sense of confidence in herself without shame or doubt, guilt, or feelings of inferiority.

Often in today’s society people become “invisible” due to their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or social class. They are often shunned away or discriminated against because of these factors. The spirit of this book is defined by the will to overcome personal tragedy and social injustices.

What society thinks about yourself becomes important when you feel that people treat you in a different way. It is not about what you do, it is about how society judge you. In the article, “Beast of Burden” by Sunaura Taylor we have a story of a disable person who narrates how was her life since her childhood until now. On the other hand, there is another article, “The Arab Woman And I” by Mona Fayad which tells us about a lady who had to experience the opinions of others, society suppose her to be someone even when she does not want. The authors include examples, personal experience and rhetorical strategies to give us a better understanding. This text provides information of how is that society is the one who had been involved with the fears of people as time goes by.

She wasn’t ever afraid of what other people thought of her, one of her most admirable traits. She simply does what she believes is best for her and truly brings the most meaning to what it means to live one’s life to the fullest.