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    Group 1 Plastic Surgery I. Introduction Plastic Surgery, or Cosmetic Surgery, is surgery that is unnecessary from a medical perspective, but is carried out to improve appearance. Cosmetic surgery is initiated by an individual who wants to change the physical appearance of a feature. Although in many cases their physical appearance is normal, they may wish to change the size of their breasts or the shape of their nose. An individual may also use cosmetic surgery to change disfigured body parts

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    Prompt 1 In the media sphere, there exist producers and their audience. Producers are responsible for encoding meaning through a set of codes embedded in a media text, and the audience is then responsible for decoding these codes and turning otherwise unnatural correspondences between colors, images, and sounds into something meaningful and comprehensible (Hall 130-131). Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model is essential in understanding the reasons why sometimes, media texts are embraced by an

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    Beauty Vs Body Image

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    The result of society 's beauty standard is health and mental issues such as eating disorders, depression, suicide, and more. We constantly speak of peace as a society and accepting the differences in others but how can we accept others when we can’t accept ourselves for having

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    Ad Hominem Ad Hominem comes from latin and means ‘against the man’, is a common fallacy that it is used to attack the person rather than their argument. It is a lazy and easy way to put down your opponent with poor reasoning and bad logic. It plays with people’s emotion. The attack can be true, but has no relevance to the claims of the argument and can bias the audience. Ad Hominem fallacies are often used in politics, media and court. One famous Ad Hominem fallacy was when President Clinton’s infidelity

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    through the cultivation of the mind and the soul. Mencius lived during the time of the Zhou Dynasty in ancient China. Point 2: Mencius wrote “Bull Mountain” as an allegory of the innate goodness of human beings to regain a respect for nature and the beauty that it represents in the cultivation of self: “Mencius sketches an example in his elegant allegory of Bull Mountain” (Brannigan 184). This allegorical reading provides a story-telling format, which is meant to lure the reader into the deeper mysteries

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    The Forest Unseen shows how nature has a beauty on a much smaller scale than what is seen on the larger spectrum of life. Haskell studied a square meter in the forest for an entire year to examine the smallest of details to show how when the large scale is studied there are many things happening in the small scale. The Forest Unseen allows readers to see how much beauty there is beyond what meets the eye. He consistently supports his main themes throughout the book by citing specific examples. Haskell’s

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    American Beauty. American Beauty is a 1999 film that provides a look into the lives of a modern married couple that is dealing with issues within their relationship. As the story progresses, it is easily identifiable that the roles of the husband and wife are not what the viewers would expect. On the other hand, the homosexual couple presented throughout the movie seems to be the normal pair. Furthermore, society’s definition of beauty and contentment is questioned. Throughout American Beauty, the homosexual

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    When addressing the origins of life, an unwavering dedication to the theories behind creationism & evolutionary and abiogenesis theories makes itself present. It is in this realm of debate, Darwin challenges the dogmatic approach to understanding made by religious doctrine with science and evolutionary precedent. The ongoing debate between evolutionary and abiogenesis biologists and religious leaders is the ultimate contest between science & pseudoscience. Evolutionary biology bases its claims behind

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    In “Epistle to Augusta” and “She Walks in Beauty” written by Lord Byron, the use of figurative language like imagery is seen in both poems as a way to draw our attention away from the inappropriate misconduct, and instead makes it relatable. Byron uses natural images in his poems to captivate the readers in order to create a distraction. Although Byron has created a way for the readers to sympathize with him, he is making light of the situation by not acknowledging that he is desiring to be in a

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    tried to teach us how to perceive the world in a new way. She wants the audience and herself to see more than what meets the eye, she shows us how by letting us relieve her childhood memories and by scientifically proving the existence of “disguised” beauty.

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