Reflection About Beauty

“You will never look like the girl in the magazine. The girl in the magazine doesn’t even look like the girl in the magazine” Jessimae Peluso. Throughout American history, women have continued to strive for an ideal of beauty. Although the definition of beauty has varied between generations, the pressure and desire to fit the mold of what society deems “beautiful” remains consistent among women from all eras. Unfortunately, this abnormal example seen in magazines, on runways, and in social media platforms is impossible for the majority of the female population to physically reach. Women are always pursuing the perfect look, turning to plastic surgeries transform them into celebrity ideals. People who desire perfect appearance ignore the nature of beauty itself, naturality is a kind of beauty. In recent years, women in America turned to look at models to find the ideal beauty standard and if they don’t meet them they turn to face lifts and plastic surgery to perfect their appearance.

The aim of this essay is to highlight the importance of reflection. Initially by breaking down individual skills including curriculum vitae (CV) writing, book and journal evaluation and self-evaluation through sources such as the initial skills identification tasks and evaluation workbook (InSITE).

In the short story, “Beauty is Truth” written by Anna Guest, is about a girl,Jeanie, her mom and her brother Billy. Billy gets in trouble for gambling and Jeanie’s mom beats Billy for it. At first, Jeanie didn't understand why her mom beat Billy, but when she did, Jeanie understood her English assignment to “‘Write about Beauty and truth. About life,’’’ (309). Which means to write about something real in your life. However, some people might think that their life has too many hardships and challenges, but that's what makes life so beautiful. It's all about how the people would face the challenges and problem-solve. Similarly, Miss Lowry was asking the students to write about their real, at-home and out of school situations. That's what the teacher in the story, Miss Lowy, was asking the children to write about. Comparably, in the outside source, “US Beauty queen Victoria Graham doesn't hide her scars,” written by Victoria St. Martin, describes a life of a US Beauty Queen that embraces her differences. After falling from a gymnastics bar when she was 10, and felt pain in her back, it never went away. And when at the age of 19, Graham was diagnosed as having the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, also known as EDS. In the article, the author says that Graham’s, “ skull was unattached and then reattached to her vertebrae. Her spine is fused, except for one level at the base. Her spinal cord was untethered from her spine twice. I set a birthdays were spent in the hospital. And she got the back scar,” ( Martin 7). Once she understood, in her heart, that she was beautiful, despite the thoughts about having a 25 inch scar down the center of her back, she embraced who she was and believed that she was beautiful. So, Graham decides to let her condition run wild. In the article, the author said what Graham did,

In Walkers story, the young female protagonist was eight years old when she was shot in the eye with a bb gun; from there, her appearance was forever changed. She had always believed beauty was a physical trait that most people were either born with or left without. Being praised throughout her early life for her good looks morphed her into a vein child who looked for happiness through compliments and praise. Furthermore, when her eye is injured, developing a hideously noticeable cataract, her entire perspective on life changes. As she continues to grow, she carries with her unbearable amounts of shame and overwhelming feelings of self-worthlessness; she is faced with both harassment and continuous rejection from those who had once looked at her in adoration. It morphes her outlook on life quite negatively and leaves her questioning if she'll ever be beautiful again. As described in the story, she states, ¨I abuse my eye. I rant and rave at it, in front of the mirror. I plead with it to clear up before morning. I tell it I hate and despise it. I do not pray for sight. I pray for beauty¨ (Walker 371). However, it is not until her later years that her ¨glob¨ is removed from her eye, and her spirits start to heighten. All of the sudden, it seems she is a different girl, the one from before, who has plenty of friends and plenty of opportunities to succeed. The change she experiences goes to prove that beauty is based on the perception of

In the short story, “Beauty is Truth” written by Anna Guest, is about a girl,Jeanie, her mom and her brother Billy. Billy gets in trouble for gambling and Jeanie’s mom beats Billy for it. At first, Jeanie didn't understand why her mom beat Billy, but when she did, Jeanie understood her English assignment,to “‘Write about Beauty and truth. About life,’ (Guest 309). That means to write about something real in your life. However, one might think that their life has too many hardships and challenges, but that's what makes life so beautiful. It's all about how one would face the challenges and problem-solve. That's what the teacher in the story, Miss Lowy, was asking the children to write about. Comparably, in the outside source, “US Beauty queen Victoria Graham doesn't hide her scars,” written by Victoria St. Martin, describes a life of a US Beauty Queen that embraces her differences. After falling from a gymnastics bar when she was 10, and felt pain in her back, it never went away and at the age of 19, Graham was diagnosed as having the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, also known as EDS. In the article, the author says that Graham’s, “ skull was unattached and then reattached to her vertebrae. Her spine is fused, except for one level at the base. Her spinal cord was untethered from her spine twice. I set a birthdays were spent in the hospital. And she got the back scar,” ( Martin 7). Once she understood, in her heart, that she was beautiful, despite the thoughts about having a 25 inch scar down the center of her back, she embraced who she was and believed that she was beautiful. So, Graham decides to let her condition run wild. In the article, the author said what Graham did, “Despite the condition, the resident of Carroll County, Maryland (in the US), was recently crowned Miss Frostburg, the first in

In this report, I am going to describe my own role in helping the team to achieve its goal in relation to the group report and the practical negotiation exercise’s. Also I will provide evidence of my contribution to the cohesiveness of the group and how I facilitated the completion of the group goals.

During the duration of this course and the numerous discussions initiated in lecture, I have been able to utilize the concepts proposed in class to further my intellectual development and thinking. While many concepts have been discussed in class, the topic of secondary witnessing was the one I could relate to the most. Just like Art Spiegelman, I am a second-generation witness to my father's life post-Vietnam war. I am a part of the generation that will continue to transmit my father's war stories to future generations. I am witness to the Vietnam war in terms of how it affected survivors, such as my father, even though I didn't live through that experience myself, tying in the concept of post-memory as well.

Reflection is not only about pondering over past event and related to it emotions, actions, thoughts, or approaches, but also about interpreting everything for the purpose of learning from it and understanding it better. Reflection shall help individuals to challenge themselves, their behaviors, and feelings. The aim is to be more critical about own experiences and own persona, to think about person’s strong and weak sides (Paterson, & Chapman, 2013). To reflect on my feelings, thoughts and work during this module, the Gibbs’s (1998) Reflective cycle helped me a lot. It is made of 6 stages: Description – ‘What happened?’, Feelings – ‘What was I feeling and thinking?’, Evaluation – ‘What was good and bad about the experience?’, Analysis –

Going into this paper I really wasn’t sure what to expect. You do a lot more workshops then any English teachers I’ve had in the past. This also meant that I had to bring in a much rougher draft then I’m used to other people seeing. Letting other people read my paper in a raw unpolished state was a little bit nerve-wracking for me. Though, in the end, I’m really grateful for all the workshops and all the many different types of feedback it enabled me to receive on my paper

A seminar style course aims for an active discussion amongst all of the students and ideally with minor involvement from the professor to keep things moving. As someone who has never participated in this style of class and rarely raises her hand unless participation is included in my grade, this was a struggle. If I can avoid active participation without it hurting my grade, then I’m always going to opt for that because it’s a relief. But this class helped push me towards almost enjoying these discussions. I wish it was more natural and better balanced between the students, but I’m proud that I warmed up to engaging in classroom discussions with the help of seminar. Being able to speak up in an environment where it’s both encouraged and intended to be mutual allowed me to develop more confidence and comfortability in speaking more in my other classes while pushing me to engage further with texts.

When I registered for this course I did not know what to expect from the title of the class – Arts and Sciences in the Workplace. In my opinion, the information and material I obtained within the span of two months was exceptionally helpful. Without hesitation, I recommend this course to anyone who may feel they need to brush up on their professionalism. Individuals who are undecided in which major to select could find this course useful. Overall, the materials I inserted in my portfolio are representations of concepts I felt that would best benefit me in the professional world.

To begin, I found it easy to discuss my race and ethnic background, racial upbringings, and life perceptions in the self-reflection response video because I believe this topic is consistently thrown under the bus due to people feeling reluctant in expressing their personal observations. Throughout my video, I discussed key identifying components such as my background, thoughts and feelings toward terms pertaining to race, early and current childhood experiences, attitude about contemporary racial issues, images of racial groups, personal identity, and social changes. In majority of my responses, I realized that after learning new topics throughout the duration of this course some of those answers were one sided while others were not in agreeance with how I feel today. For example, I made a statement to the following: Data documents that people of color are at a disadvantage in virtually every social indicator. I was asked to explain my reasoning and I stated that I was in agreeance with the statement because people of color need more assistance because they cannot maintain stability as much as someone with higher privilege from another ethnicity. I would like to interject to say that I now disagree with my statement based on personal experiences. Some white people do not report their social class and condition to others and neither do they exploit their downfall on a social platform, hence that statement would not hold as being true. I do believe people of color are

The claimant’s motor movement appears appropriate, congruent with his visual coordination. He appears to exhibit no noticeable physical discomfort during the evaluation. His manual dexterity appears normal and there were no signs of tics or tremors. He appears to display mental fatigue.

What type of feedback did you get, and how did you revise in response? The feedback that I received was to make my sentences clearer, such that my transitions to new sentences were rough. I also was informed that while my information I do present is informative, it was not set up in a clear manner. Potentially confusing readers with the reason for the Center for Urban Waters to be involved in a hatchery because of the location of key facts and information in my abstract. To adjust these two issues, I completed revisions on my precious manner in two distinctive manners. First as suggested, I adjusted my lead of sentences, making clear the reason for the partnership. Additionally, after reading through the documents that were sent to me (The END FOCUS principle & The GIVEN-NEW principle) I tried to increase the level of flow. Notably by changing the positioning of phrases within my sentences. These readings reminded me of the previous readings that I have done to learn about passive voice. It gives light to need for order in a sentence. I went about taking the need for adjustment in my writing by separating my abstract into each of its independent sentences and making adjustments so that the most important/new information was near the end of the sentence. I also took the step as to after separating them out into newly formatted sentences, I made additionally adjustments to their content.

The film A Beautiful Mind is drama, romance, biographical film produced by Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, and Imagine Entertainment. The film, directed by Ron Howard, include memorable names such as, Russel Crowe as John Nash, Jennifer Connelly as Alicia Nash, Ed Harris as Parcher, Paul Bettany as Charles, Christopher Plummer as Dr. Rosen, and Adam Goldberg as Sol. This film gives much of its credit to the novel written by Sylvia Nasar. The book, A Beautiful Mind, is a biography of John Forbes Nash and the book covers Nash’s years in college and his struggle with schizophrenia. For the film, the writing credits go to Akiva Goldsman. Though this film has its flaws, it is still one of the best eye-opening films out there.