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    fairy tales be characters that brave, clumsy, smart, mean, sad, and educated. The two stories “Psyche and Cupid” and “Ashputtle” has a lot in common. “Ashputtle” is a story about a girl with two mean step-sisters. Ashputtle is really another story like Cinderella. In the story “Psyche and cupid”, Psyche is a girl who got punished to be with Cupid, Venus’ son, because Venus was jealous of Psyche beauty. “Psyche and Cupid” is another story for “Beauty and the beast” As, you can see the stories sound very

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    The word Romantic has been used to mean several different things, but in England at the end of 18th century it meant a complete change in style and subject from the poetic practice of the previous 150 years. It was the lavishness of the Elizabethans cannot excel that of this age. The development

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    have to say that society had a little impact on my parents’ beliefs and culture. Growing up society expects girls to wear pink and have dolls and other girly stuff. When I was growing up even though I had dolls and dollhouse my parents still bought me a powered tricycle and car in pink and purple even though based on how society groups girls, so called toys are violent and are meant to be for boys. Marriage for women in an African home was quite different for men, in a Yoruba (my tribe) household

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    Although, beauty is longing for it is not always beneficial to the beholder. For instance, McIntosh explains how “these varieties are only what one would want for everyone in a just society, and others give license to be ignorant, oblivious, arrogant, and destructive” (31). Sadly, I can relate to her feelings many people do not

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    Beauty is something that is found in every society around the world, many societies have different views on what beauty is and where you live in the world also alters what you personally define as beautiful. America is one of the most diverse societies in the world, mostly because of the country being a melting pot filled with so many varied cultures which causes a lot of cultural diffusion. When you have beauty, countless people think of the word perfection which many try to achieve with plastic

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    hair is a symbol of faith. Therefore, it should not be cut. American culture influenced her by being pressured to conform to America's standard of beauty, not assume the role of stereotypes and to gain acceptance to uniformity. Standardized beauty in any culture highly affects an individual's appearance because a country can have different ideals of what is considered beautiful. In the

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    Other Emotions Worthy of Praise: Elevation and Gratitude In Algoe and Haidit’s article titled, Witnessing excellence in action: the ‘other-praising’ emotions of elevation, gratitude, and admiration, the authors began and ended with these two quotes: Despite their potential impact, psychologists now very little about the terrain positive emotions because only one of these emotions has been well-mapped: ‘happiness.’ Elevation, gratitude, and admiration are not just flavors of happiness. They are part

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    Socrates compares ‘beauty’ to other terms which are some-what easier to understand. By doing this Socrates is showing Hippias that he does not seek an example of beauty but the essence of the term. “It is thanks to justice that just people are just?”, by asking this question Socrates is able to show Hippias that there is a difference between something

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    Toni Morrison was born “Chloe Ardelia Wofford” on February 18th, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. Chloe earned her nickname “Toni” in college and took Morrison as her married name. She was born in an predominantly African American town, to a poor family, which was like most of Lorain’s residents. Her parents always emphasized the importance of education. “The world back then didn’t expect much from a little black girl, but my father and mother certainly did.” In 1949 she attended college at the Howard University

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    flat hair, freckles. “Nobody is perfect, you’re perfect the way that you are” people tell me but they lie. If I’m perfect, why do I see so many faults? I do not deny comparing myself to other girls and models. In fact, I do it every day. Desperately strive to conform to a combination of the stick-thin models that the fashion industry flaunts and the curvy, well-endowed women praised by social media. However, beauty reigns over more than fashion and social media; it reigns over nearly every aspect of

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