The Value Of Beauty In America

Beauty is hard to define and is said to be in the eye of the beholder, but desire for women to be beautiful and stay beautiful is a goal in our culture today. Though our society and loved ones emphasize that beauty lies within one’s character, our society also contradicts this idea because they tend to focus on physical appearance more. Beauty perception has evolved from embracing natural qualities in earlier decades to promoting superficiality in today’s society due to cultural changes such as the discovery of new beauty products and procedures and depictions made through mass and social media. The evolution of beauty from previous decades is drastic. Tracing back to the 1900’s up until the 1940’s, ideal beauty involved natural qualities

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The draft changes in American Beauty altered a good idea into an amazing original script . The first draft resembled many crime films / shows and had heavy descriptions and unneeded content. Deleting the unneeded content and rearranged scenes pulled it together to tell about the disguised unhappy lives of a family and how their lies and actions all affected one another to the point of Lester's ultimate death. A noteworthy edit from the first and final draft is changing the movies sense from a CSI episode to a peak of masked lives in the neighborhood. The biggest and first obvious change from the first script is the deletion of the first Jail Cell scene.

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The women in the 17th century were incorrectly accustomed to the necessity of becoming a picture perfect person; which is a bad habit that only a handful of people are able to fathom. Perfect is an expectation that you can’t achieve in life until you realize to accept yourself for who you are. The conjecture of beauty and our bodies is set at a level that is insurmountable. To fathom this we can look at today’s society, if we aren’t what society wants we aren’t accepted. Society’s idealistic view on beauty is something we should not tolerate because we should accept people for who they are within themselves. In the dramatic monologues “Barbie Doll,” “Cinderella,” and “Applicant,” they are expected to either be something they aren’t, or desiring someone who isn’t even real.

From as young as the age of two, girls who participate in child beauty pageants are being affected by America’s addiction to beauty. These little girls are expected to wear tight and revealing dresses that are meant to flaunt curves that they have not yet developed. Spray tans, hair extensions, fake nails, fake eyelashes, “sexy” outfits and bathing suits, these are only a few of the things these children are expected to wear. Furthermore, girls in child beauty pageants are often made to wear fake teeth called flippers, because what used to be “innocent and adorable” about the gaps in a child’s teeth from losing them is no longer pretty enough in the eyes of the judge. Unfortunately, as a result, many girls grow up to believe that beauty is

Society is full of ideas pertaining to the definition of beauty and has been controversial for centuries. Beauty is visually pleasing and can satisfy the other senses as well, but it cannot be fully defined through only the senses. It blossoms from the soul; it is an epitome of serene emotion. Beauty is imperative to the mentality our society maintains as if the world would transform to be completely dark without it. The word “Beauty” originates from the Anglo-French term beute meaning “physical attractiveness” and “goodness and courtesy” (dictionary.com, n.p.) Beauty is charming, mesmerizing, graceful, and captivating. Brutality is invaluable because beauty brings peace to the mind.

Beauty standards are portrayed everywhere: on magazines, social media, ads, commercials, and even flaunted among peers. While the ideals are supposed to promote health awareness, fitness motivation, and self love, it unfortunately results in many unfavorable consequences. Women are constantly “penalized for not being beautiful and at the same time are stigmatized, even pathologized, for not feeling beautiful, for having low self-esteem, for engaging in behaviors like dieting and excessive exercising, or for having eating disorders” (Johnston and Taylor 954). Beauty standards are unrealistic and unhealthy to pursue, and misinforms the public on what true beauty is. While not all beauty image ideals promote negative feelings and dissatisfaction, many believe that the negative effects far outweighs any positive effects.

I think that it is all about perception, each culture have their idea of what is beauty, for example in Africa, man are more attracted to woman on the bigger side because they believe they are easier to reproduce. Where in here in america in the media the thin girl are what we think beauty should look like example our

The article “Beauty and the Labor Market” by Daniel S. Hamermesh and Jeff E. Biddle examines the economics of discrimination in the labour market based on looks and the relationship that exists between beauty and labour market earnings. Analyzing, results from several studies, data from various empirical research and surveys; the article identifies the source of earnings differentials related to looks in six distinct and detailed sections.

Beauty standards have been a major issue for many years now and women have been willing to change their bodies over and over to please themselves and others. Beauty standards are often defined in terms of hairstyles, skin color, and body size. The measures involved in having to live up to these standards are often risky in nature. For decades, what is seen as beautiful is centered around a women’s weight and size. Today, that standard is often defined as being thin. Women often resort to drastic means to attain that ideal image. However, achieving these standards can be expensive, can lower self-esteem and can be a threat to a woman’s health and life.

Beauty industry is bad, does not depict real women, and should stop the fake American dream. Man-made Western beauty ideals have spread to the rest of the world through globalization and are now being upheld as models even in places like India and Japan. With the US exporting to every part of the world, there is no wonder as to why American Beauty ideals surpass anyone else.

American Beauty is an iconic, memorable and enduring watch, directed flawlessly by Sam Mendes. The film explores and somewhat criticizes and attacks the cherished societal beliefs and institutions of the ‘American Dream’, depicting the obsessive nature of materialism and illustrating the distortion of appearance versus reality. Many critics have scrutinized and developed further these ideas, of which I have analysed two critical reviews from Brittany Deschler (1999) and David Heuser. The critical analysis of American Beauty from Brittany Deschler explores the empty promises of materialism and Carolyn’s obsession with her image and possessions as well as probing the theme of appearance versus reality and how each character confronts this at

Beauty standards have been socially constructed in diverse and various shapes in every society or culture in the world, and cause people to think they are not beautiful if they do not fit the common standard of beauty that has been set by the society. Most people are pressured into the standard by the social milieu. The people who are different from the socially pursued standard of beauty do not think the standard itself is absurd, but they rather tend to be insecure about their appearance. Once people see the beauty through individual’s perspective, not through the socially constructed standard, they would realize how much they have unconsciously forced each other to be fit in the beauty standard. This is something that I have also experienced. I was not a person who fit in the standard of beauty, and that made me shy and timid. However, once I saw myself through a different perspective of beauty, I could see it as a social problem that unconsciously forces one particular standard of beauty.

"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.