Reflection Paper On Beauty

Body image is an important concept in many adolescent and young adult minds. To have a positive body image is to know that you are beautiful. To be beautiful is to reach the standards of beauty in society. However, society is constantly changing those standards as time goes by. Many young men and women strive to reach the positive, even if it means their health, money, and mind. They have the media, such as magazines to thank for these wonderful standards.

To begin, the protagonist Clemencia is like a chameleon, who can blend into any social event and with any class of wealth when she says ““I’m amphibious. I’m a person who doesn’t belong to any class. The rich like to have me around because they envy my creativity; they know they can’t buy that. The poor don’t mind if I live in their neighborhood because they know I’m poor like they are, even if my education and the way I dress keeps us worlds apart”(Cisneros 71,72). Clemencia is a woman who knows how to talk and have a good time. By nature she is a very creative being who loves to impress by wearing the best clothes, and show off to anyone to make herself seem better than others. (Cisneros 71). Clemencia is poor and does not have much being that she works for the school system as a translator, and other various positions. But acts rich and very wealthy to all of her friends (Cisneros 72). This connects with the myth of La Malinche, of how the character is a bad woman who sleeps with lots of men.

In the novel, Beauty by Robin Mc Kinley, the family of a wealthy merchant looses their wealth when the shipment boats get lost at sea. There are three daughters named Hope, Grace, and Honour, whom is nicknamed Beauty, and a father. The family is forced to move to the country and start a life more modest than accustomed. After the family adapts to country life, one of the older sisters gets married to an iron worker who used to work at the shipyard owned by the father. They have babies. Life goes on in the country.

As opposed to usually being full of life and only caring about the new trends, Connie now only cares about her becoming “hollow with what had been fear, but what was now just an emptiness” (335). She drastically changed from retaining total control of herself to being forced under the complete control of someone else. Similarly, she lost herself as Arnold continued to prove that he knew more about her than she even knew. Using all of her greatest weaknesses, Arnold finally bends Connie’s will and persuades her to go with him; however, Connie is no longer hopeful or jubilant as she watches “this body and this head of long hair moving out into the sunlight” (336). “For the first time in her life,” Connie is not in control of what she does or what happens to her; therefore, she completely surrenders her careless confidence in

In the second half of the film, Cléo transform herself into subject; she finally takes on the role of looker. Her switch to subject happened on the streets after leaving her place distraught from a song her songwriters made her sing. This lead to her pulling off her wig, wearing a simple black dress, and wandering the city alone finding a new way to engage with the world. This tone down version of herself allows others to actually see her and not the ideal beauty she exhumes and is mostly known for. The moment in the cafe is when she truly begins to see others. She walks in with sunglasses hoping to hide and not be recognized and this time she catches snippets of conversations. There are people talking about the algerian war and others talking about their personal lives, politics, art and so on.The world and others continue about their day and does not seem to notice Cléo. There was a moment in which she put one her most well known song on to play and no one was listening. One customer even discussed how the loud music stopped her from paying attention to the conversation she was having. This lack of attention shifted a redefinition in Cléo and how she sees the world. Her own concerns and problems are diminished, so that she now pays attention to things other than herself and her beauty. At one point she even states, “I always think everyone’s looking at me, but I only look at myself. It wears me out” (Agnès Varda, Cléo from 5 to 7). No longer looking at herself brings a

The subjective element of beauty involves judgment, not opinion. Many people feel beauty is only something seen by the eyes. St. Thomas Aquinas views beauty in both the supernatural and natural orders. Aquinas lists the attributes of beauty to be found in nature. These are; unity, proportion, and clarity. We will see how these attributes of beauty are seen through the eye and felt by the heart.

This essay is for women who believe their thighs are too big, their breasts are too small, their hair is boring, their skin is flawed, their body is shaped funny, or their clothes are outdated. This month's column is for women who believe their life would improve if they could lose 15 pounds; if they could afford contact lenses, that new perfume or anti-cellulite concoction; if they got a nose job, a face lift, a tummy tuck, etc. This month's column is for women who feel shame or unhappiness when they ponder some part (or all) of their body. In other words, this month's column is for 99.9% of the women reading it!

"Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It is about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and most importantly, a beautiful soul." (Unknown) Beauty is not just about being beautiful on the outside it is also on the inside. I feel that people have to be beautiful both on the inside and outside. Beauty is mostly on the inside because they are the people who are nicer and kinder. A person personality can make the person more beautiful because it is the way people act and talk. People are more beautiful on the inside because it is the way people talk and act.

Beauty is something that can be interpreted completely different from person to person. A famous quote that goes along with this perfectly is “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” I think a person’s inner beauty should be taken into account when deciding whether or not a person is beautiful. Wikipedia’s definition of beauty is, “a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction” while Oxford Dictionary states, “beauty is a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially sight.” As you can see, inner beauty could be paired with Wiki’s definition and outer beauty could be paired with Oxfords. Of course, there

Society creates a standard of beauty for women that often changes along with society due to a new perspective on what it means to be beautiful in our culture. These standards for beauty create what our society believes makes a woman desirable, attractive, perfect, and overall beautiful.  Which then enforces unhealthy and unrealistic beauty ideals that negatively affect women's self-image and their body image because society has attributed beauty to self worth. The result is with the ever changing standards of beauty means women use various ways to alter their bodies and appearance by clothing, makeup, hair, dieting, exercising, and even taking extreme measures to perfect their looks through surgery.

With her new image, Cléo eventually begins to challenge her gaze with the gaze of all of the others. When walking down the street, Cléo is not alienated anymore; she is just another person in the crowd on the busy streets of Paris. In the café scene, it is not mirrors that are hanging on the walls anymore but paintings. In this scene, Cléo looks completely lost because she doesn’t have to comfort of looking at her own face in a mirror. She turns on one of her songs on the jukebox and waits to be recognized, waits to attract the gaze of the people in

The definition of beauty is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning, or satisfaction. Beauty has negative and positive influences on mostly people. Beauty is described by the inside and outside of us. Due to beauty, our self-esteem has been hurt dramatically, especially towards girls. Beauty is not always about our outside looks but it’s about our inside personality also.

What is beauty? How do we decide who is attractive and who is not? Society is full of information telling us what is beautiful, but what fact is that information based on? The topic of beauty has been studied, analyzed and controversial for centuries. We all know the feeling you can have when you hear a beautiful song that brings joy to your heart, stand in a field of flowers that excites your eyes, or admire a face that is visually pleasing. As human beings, we are all drawn to beauty, but what is it that makes something beautiful? The controversial issue that surrounds beauty is that some believe that true beauty is defined by someone’s outer appearance, while others believe it is something that is experienced through a person’s

"Does this make me look fat?” Everyone at one time or another has experienced this iconic question in some way. Your best friend may have asked it, as she was getting ready for a date or maybe you muttered these words to yourself as you stared disapprovingly into a mirror; either way, this six-word question alludes to a standard of beauty that everyone strives to meet. A standard of beauty that is almost impossible to meet. The definition of beauty has evolved greatly over the years and it differs from culture to culture. Today, western culture idolizes the woman who is “thin, large breasted, and white (tanned, but not too brown)” (WVFV, pg. 220). This woman is one that millions of women strive to look like in

Beautiful mind was about a man John Nash who developed Schizophrenia over the life span of his adult life. The movie started out about the time John Nash went to college. Nash was a mathematical genius going to school at Princeton University. Nash struggled to contribute to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. During John Nash college experience, he starts to show signs of obsession about his project he is working on. Nash was awkward when it came to time to socialize with his group of friend and women. Nash was very blunt and turned everything into a mathematical equation. While at Princeton after being told his plan for his mathematical equation just was not going to get him a spot. Nash went back to his dorm running his head into the glass. This is when Charles Nash’s roommate intervenes and tries to calm Nash down. Nash then again became obsessive over his project but it ended up working to his advantage and ended up making a mathematical breakthrough in history. Nash ended up graduation Princeton. He gets a job at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a teacher and research position. During His time as a teacher and researcher he has went to the Pentagon and helped the military crack a code. This is where he met “big brother.” Big Brother offered Nash a job to break codes to help find the placement of the lost bomb that the Russians are trying to hide. This is a dangerous job and Nash was the perfect person for the job because he had no family