The Human Body

As of recently, the media has been flooded with positive interpretations of beauty standards all over the world. According to various sources, beauty ideals, in women especially, are socially constructed in order to judge a person’s value based on physical attractiveness; therefore, it is highly encouraged that people pay attention to their looks and take care of themselves, in order for others to create a positive first impression of one’s character. It is no secret that beauty standards vary from one culture to the next and it is difficult to establish a universal principle of what is considered beautiful. Many countries’ ideals contrast one another and, as a result, allow for stereotypes to emerge. This is the case between American

The beauty standard is a culturally constructed notion of physical attractiveness that has become increasingly imperative for women and men. However, this standard has become extremely perilous to men and women’s self-image. Camille Paglia, a highly educated individual who earned her PhD at Yale University and became a highly acclaimed author, explicates this conception in her essay “The Pitfalls of Plastic Surgery”. Paglia suggests that the beauty standard idealizes women to look like “sex symbols with an unattainable grandeur” (776). She continues to claim that it forces her audience of higher class women to pay large sums of money in order to alter their features ultimately conforming to a very “parochial” definition of beauty (776). Although Paglia is a highly credible source, she illogically appeals to the reader’s fears in order to persuade them. Paglia fails to give any credible outside sources which affirms her preposterous beliefs. Contrary to her inconsistencies, Daniel Akst, a social journalist and graduate from New York University provides his audience with reputable sources in order to persuade his audience. Daniel Akst believes that there needs to be a “democratization of physical beauty” in which instead of attempting to alter the beauty standard, we must first change how we view ourselves. Akst provides credible sources to establish his credibility where he observes cases studies and cultural experiments from scientists and organizations including:

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Public image in America is atypical in that it emphasizes standards for how everyone should present themselves to gain social acceptance. Appearance is one aspect where the ideal look for men and women is set to attain an envied social life. In “Body Ritual among the Nacirema,” Horace Miner mentions, “The focus of this activity is the human body, the appearance and health of which loom as a dominant concern in the ethos of the people” which identifies body obsession in America as problematic (503). Continuous concern about one’s appearance is never ending, because it is embedded into cultural practices due to the importance placed on the standards of how to

There is an English saying: you shouldn't prejudge the worth or value of something, by its outward appearance alone. Not only does this go for objects of value, but for people as well. This is a modern theme which can be applied to the 21st century mentality, where mass media and advertisements put focus on ideal beauty. If there were no predetermined ideal models which defined the meaning of “normal”, one would never suffer isolation. Disabilities, unattractiveness, or unusual physical attributes in one’s self are attributes that people look for. Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, puts to focus the importance of appearance through the tale of a creation that was not only unwanted, but never given an opportunity to show his true self. By examining

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In our contemporary Western society, body image has become an obsession. In any advertisement, shop window, magazine, movie, social media, there are strong suggestions on the way we should look to be trendy, cool, and desirable. Without emphasizing the increasing popularity of plastic surgery, the amount of money, time, and effort that people spent on fashion, skin-care creams, makeup, lotions, and hair products, indicate how deeply this culture pursues beauty. At the same time, there is a great deal of data that suggest how body image is experienced negatively by countless men and women.

The anatomy and physiology of the human body is extremely complex in many different aspects. Scientifically, the human body is organized from simple to complex. The organization sequence begins with diminutive cells and finishes with multiplex organ systems. All people are typically organized in the same fashion. However, psychologically all people do not process information the same way. People have a myriad of motives for the actions they take in life. For instance, a person may be motivated or inspired by a situation he or she has been in, and they decide to act upon his or her beliefs. John Grisham, a well-known novelist, was inspired to become a writer by past circumstances he has experienced, the knowledge he obtained by being a lawyer, through the stimulating people he has met throughout his life thus far, and to prove that people can experience a little adventure while reading.

Anatomy and physiology are like two sides of a sheet of paper: they describe the study of different things, but yet they are so closely related. Simply put, anatomy is the study of the structure of body parts, whereas physiology is the study of the functions and relationships of body parts (Tortora & Derrickson, nd, pg. 1). There is a commonly used language of special terms that health-care professionals and scientists use when referring to body functions and their functions (Tortora & Derrickson, nd, pg. 12). For example, the erect position of the body with the face directed forward, the arms at the side, and the palms of the hands facing forward, used as a reference in describing the relation of body parts to one another, would be defined as the Anatomical Position (Tortora & Derrickson, nd, pg. 12).

Beauty sets standards for society through appearance, especially in younger generations due to use of social media and picture editing. “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder” is a saying that has been around for ages (Plato, n.p.). It is an accurate phrase because of contrasting views within particular individuals. Beauty is present in the good deeds of community members as well as the unity exhibited through dreadful events. It is a flower bud breaking through the dirt into the fresh, spring air. To clarify how beauty is viewed, it is often times the exposure of evil accounting for the new appreciation of something beautiful. After recognizing the privileges we acquire, the existence of beauty is revealed and expressed more easily. In current society, appreciating beauty is substantial to

The integumentary system plays an intrinsic role in the function of the human body. The system is made up of the skin and skin derivatives such as hair, nails, glands and receptors and provides the body with a line of defence against foreign, infectious pathogens (Moore et al., 2013). The skin is the most vulnerable organ to injury and disease as it is an external organ and the largest organ of the body, contributing to approximately 15% of the body’s weight (Hackman, 2014). The skin also helps to maintain homeostasis in the body as well as containing the body’s structures, disposing of unwanted body wastes and regulating the body’s temperature (3).

Second Rheya attempts suicide while Chris is sleeping by drinking liquid oxygen, but she regenerates and comes back to “life”. An arrangement of subatomic particles and flesh does not make a human a human, an individual. She is just a cellular imitation of Rheya with some of her memories, based only on what Christ knows. After regenerating, Second Rheya states frantically, “In your memory you get to control everything… even if you remember something wrong, I am predetermined to carry it out. I’m suicidal because that’s how you remember me.” So everything she was before Chris, the true individual of Rheya, is not included in this being. Of the many things Solaris shows us about subjectivity, one is that there is a unique essence in every

Together, we can lower the numbers of people dying from eating disorders and cosmetic surgeries by resisting the beauty ideal. We can choose “to not participate in the beauty rituals, to not support the industries that produce both images and products, and to create other definitions of beauty” (WVFV, pg. 232). The most crucial and easiest solution is to create other definitions of beauty. Ultimately, it is up to the individual to decide what is beautiful. What if someone decided that the only thing that could contribute to one’s beauty is who someone is on the inside? Wouldn’t our world be a completely different place? Instead of

Throughout history, beauty has been seen as a value to humans. Beauty practices start as far back as foot binding and continues up to today with cosmetic surgeries such as liposuction. On every billboard, magazine, and commercial citizens are reminded that they are not as physically attractive as they could be and there is a solutions to their problem. In his analysis of beauty, Kant states that beauty is morality. Despite the fact physical beauty is highly valued in society, it is not the driving factor when it comes to determining morality and making ethical judgments. To support this, I will be introducing Aristotle’s virtue ethics and David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature to demonstrate that beauty is independent of virtue and does

The Earth is surrounded by different kinds of living creatures since thousand years ago from humans up to small tiny bacteria that live inside this planet. But before we go on do you know what is a bacterium or bacteria? So basically Bacterium or bacteria are small tiny living organism that can only be seen using microscope and it won’t be able to show its body if we look at it using our naked eyes. All of the living creatures that are found in earth may have some interactions with other creatures like humans and animals, even interactions between human beings and small tiny bacteria in many different ways. Human beings and small tiny bacteria could have any interaction in many different ways; due to its tiny size the bacteria are able to come inside the human body from holes from your body, wound, through air and water. Human beings has always been terrify since hundreds years ago by Bacteria because it can affect anyone, and when it affects a person it may cause infections, disease, and if fatal it may cause death. As a result thousands of people more than 23 thousand people die each year in the United States of America according to Centres For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC). Living in Indonesia, a country a large country with full of diversities of plants and animals that’s risky of getting harmful diseases like the an outbreak in Brazil called The Zika Virus that’s carried by mosquitoes there’s a 75% chance of people infected by this disease. Before we carry