What Makes Up Our Appearance?

What really determines something to be beautiful. In Lucy Grealy’s narrative, “Mirrors”, she describes her journey of finding her own idea of beauty. As a child she had cancer in her face so she had surgery to remove but it caused her face to be deformed. Consequently, she was bullied because of the way she looked, which caused her self esteem to lower immensely. As a result, she had undergone many surgeries and even went as far as to travel to another country to try and fix her face. Therefore, as she gets older she not only alters herself physically but mentally. She finally realizes that how people see us should not influence how we view ourselves not only physically but mentally as well. So she decides to never look at a mirror because she feels she does not have to to know what she looks like anymore. She finally accepted the way she looks and started focussing on her personal well being and recognizes that's what is actually important. Society has a critical impact on the way we see ourselves because of the way social media shows us that we should look a certain way, people telling us we should look a certain way, your negative thoughts about how you look, and how society determines your value based on looks.

Everyday people stare at billboards, magazine covers, movies, television, or pictures on the Internet of someone or something that they classify as beautiful. Some things people glance over and other things fascinate them. For example, when Farrah Fawcett’s famous picture of her in her red bathing suit came out; many teenage boys hung that picture in their bedrooms. Their idea of Farrah’s beauty was based strictly her outward appearance.

The central message of this work is that society is obsessed with appearances. The point the author is trying to make is beauty should not be the most important trait of a person. In today’s society everything is based on looks, people are more concerned about a person’s outward appearance. People strive to

There is a phrase,” Don’t judge a book by its cover”, that has been taught over and over. It conveys that individuals should not pass judgment on others based on their looks but rather to look past their external appearance. The sad truth is that everyone does judge books by their covers; it is the first thing a person does. To put it another way, appearances influence how one is perceived and there are countless ways to prove this. One example would be in the book Lord of The Flies by William Golding. The author uses Piggy’s character and symbolism to demonstrate how his appearance impacts how his intelligence is perceived.

There is more to a person than just their appearance. Society has made people so focused on judging other people’s look, they forget to focus on the more important aspects of the person. Fukuyama states, “ What the demand for equality of recognition implies is that when we strip all of a person’s contingent and accidental characteristics away, there remains some essential human quality

An appearance is what most of the world looks at to determine a person’s lifestyle. Have you ever been judged when no one knows the true story? Where they right? When people are judged without good reason, it can affect their self confidence. Most of the people judged by characteristics instead of character. Our status, more times than not, is defined by what we look like, how we dress,and where we’re from.

In Lucy Grealy’s narrative Mirror, Lucy tells us a distraught story which makes everyone know about how body images ruin one’s life. In her childhood, Lucy experienced a painful surgery that cut half of her jaw, leaving her struggling to fix her face for the rest of her life. In addition to physical sufferings, she also tolerated the unfriendly and vicious sights and languages from strangers, catching her in endlessly depressed emotions. In fact, body images do mean a lot, because most people in the world focus on their faces and worship beauty. However, perfectness doesn’t exist, and no matter how much effort and money we spend on dressing, we can always find the flaws on our faces and shapes. Physical appearance can make us feel happy, but it also creates upset and troublesome feelings. In order to not let the body images dominate our minds, we have to accept the truth that we are all imperfect and learn to focus on the strength we have. Only when we accept the flaws, can we find the beauty of ourselves.

Spoken wisely by Plato, ¨Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder¨ (Goodreads). In Alice Walker's short story ¨Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self,¨ the reader follows a young girl as she struggles to find the meaning of true beauty. As a child, she was always extremely full of herself, begging for attention and, most times, achieving her position in the spotlight. However, when she turns eight, an incident occurs that leaves her questioning if she'll ever be beautiful again. Much like this young girl, I experienced a similar situation that had me questioning my own worth in a world of beautifully powerful people. What such a self-analyzing question can bring to light is the controversy over whether beauty is in relation to appearance or in relation to a person as a whole.

The saying, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” was first heard in the third century by the Greeks. Meaning that the view on one’s perception of beauty could be another one’s ugly, the standards of what is beautiful and what is not could differ from person to person. The media, which consists of highly edited images of men and women, sets unnatural standards for what is considered beautiful and what is ugly. Often illustrating standards impossible to reach, magazines teach boys and girls that if you are not a certain size in clothes, a certain height, or a certain weight, you are ugly. In the media, they never report the beauty of someone based off of their personality; however, there are always stories about models losing weight, or how great a celebrity looks after plastic surgery. Ultimately, the perception on what is ugly and what is beautiful is highly influenced by the

I am African American female that took my kids in a Mexican candy store.My niece loves mexican candy. She likes it because it is hot and tasty. My niece mom introduced her to it. Her mom likes it too. Her mom has a lot of hispanics friends from her job, and one of them introduce her to the candy, Also, the store we went to had a resturant hook to it. As people came into the store, and some went into the restaurant, they looked at us funny. Some looked at us like why are you all in here. I did not like it because they could not understand what I was asking about, but I finally help the cashier understand what I was talking about even though she did not speak any English. Later, my nine year old daughter wanted some ice cream, so she open the ice cream box like kids do it most stores that read Ice cream, and it was not ice cream. The ice cream box had vegetables in it not ice cream. My daughter begin to question why did they have vegetables in the ice cream box instead of candy. The people looked at her funny for the way she was looking, so i hurried up, and I got her out of there.

“A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...” (Brand 97). Regardless of a beautiful person’s actual ability, they are generally considered to be more able in almost every aspect than less attractive people. According to Benjamin Karney, professor of social psychology and co-director of the Relationship Institute at UCLA, people often treat others differently based on their perceived attractiveness (Soderburg 1). In this case, an ugly person can be defined as one who does not possess the general physical characteristics that most people would associate with beauty. Ugly people get the short-end-of-the-stick when it comes to both their looks and how well they are treated by strangers. Whether it be on purpose or inadvertently, beautiful people are almost always

For example, you see a woman with a Gucci handbag, you subliminally judge her and assume that she is of higher social status. Now when it comes to distinguishing people’s qualities and attributes strictly from their physical appearance, this is a more complicated task. This is one of the reasons why gender plays a huge role in this research study; attractiveness can differ between male and female. That is why during our study participants must be shown male and female pictures, just to see how participants perceptions will change depending on the gender they are

In today’s society, many people feel the pressure in surpassing their physical appearance. Women feel their hair, makeup, and clothes need to look flawless in order to be around others. Whether they are not comfortable with their appearance without makeup, or they feel with makeup members of the opposite sex will take notice, physical appearance is important to people. Often times, men focus on a woman’s physical features rather than her true beauty on the inside. Many individuals in today’s world need to re-evaluate their outlook on beauty. True beauty lives within the way a person acts and feels.

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

Millions of years ago, humans and animals were extremely similar in their appearance. We shared many characteristics but the one that stood out the most was our abundance of hair. However, as time went on, humans evolved in their physical appearance and we started to lose most of the hair on our bodies. We are now bare and naked compared to how we were, especially compared to animals.