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  • Dominant Image Of A Perfect Woman
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    Women have always been obsessive to achieve the dominant image of a perfect woman. The characteristics of a dominant image of beauty include small waist, small thigh, big breasts, slim and tall body, etc. I have looked at many magazines to strengthen my understanding of an ideal woman. In most of the pictures that I have seen, there were no images that deviated from the dominant image, which pressure women in society to conform to those images. The numerous readings and films that we examined in...
  • Beauty Myth
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    Both Virginia Woolf, in a speech addressing a graduating all women class, and Naomi Wolf, in her text The Beauty Myth, contemplate feminism from an economic viewpoint. While Woolf believes women need money and a room of their own to have economic independence, Wolf gives credence to the fact that the beauty industry is hindering the independence of women. Through male pomposity, the conventional lives of women, obsession with physical appearance, and the reality that beauty is diverse, both Wool...
  • Idea Of Beauty Vs Success Vs Happiness
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    Why is American Beauty one of my most favorite movies of all time Well, let me count the ways. American Beauty is a story about a middle-class white American family, trying to pursue the American Dream. Their different versions of the American Dream are what pull them apart from reaching it as a family. There are two major themes that really spoke out to me. The first theme deals with the idea of appearances. Carolyn Burnham, played by Annette Bening, was enthralled by the quote stated by her se...
  • Effects Of Unnatural Beauty Images
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    The Changing Concept of Beauty In America, as well as around the world, women and men are bombarded by ever changing images of "beautiful women". In magazines, television shows, music videos, and all other forms of media, the ideal body type is transformed by the media and perpetuated by the consumer. The images have varied throughout the history of media, occasionally reaching physically damaging levels. Images have spanned from the voluptuous bodies in ancient and renaissance art, to antebellu...
  • Prominent Floral Image In The Novel
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    Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cos way, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation. When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known -- a house with a garden where 'the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell. Underneath the tree ferns, tall as forest tree ferns, the light was green. Orchids flourished out of reach or for some reason not to be t...
  • Media's Images Of Beauty
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    "Dying" to be Beautiful Beautiful or else -- a message often presented in society, is often detrimental to the American public. The desire to be beautiful has received more attention by blinding the public with images of the "beautiful people". The extent of the message the media portrays to our society is more harmful than beneficial to the average person. The images depict the common person as unattractive which causes many to alter their figure to attain the media's vision of beauty. Unfortun...
  • Beautiful Madonna
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    Schone Madonna is a German term meaning "Beautiful Madonna". This image possibly originated as a response to new ways to practice religion, and in particular, worship of the Virgin in a more personal manner. Three examples of this representation include the Roudnice Madonna, the Madonna of Krumau, and the Jihlava Pieta. The Roudnice Madonna, a 35 1/2" x 26 1/4" panel constructed in approximately 1400, effectively shows the focus on amore soft and attractive Mary than seen in previous depictions....
  • Their Oranges And The Sweet Nectar
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    When people think of oranges they see beautiful pieces of fruit, sweet and filled to its rind with a gratifying nectar that sprays into your mouth with the first bite. Its distinct and citrus fragrance can be smelled from across the room once its soft rind has been cut. The oranges smell is juicy and sweet, and can be noticed with little effort once the oranges peel has been sliced. In this photo, Have One, the orange in the picture being held has been peeled halfway, spraying its beautiful citr...
  • Nude Women In The Art Pieces
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    Looking at the art of the past, we see many images depicting nude women. From Botticelli's The Birth of Venus to Ingres's Grande Odalisque, many artists like the idea of painting a woman in the nude in an interesting pose. Even modern images in contemporary magazines depict nude images. Yves Saint Laurent's advertisement of their new fragrance Opium depicts a nude woman covering her breast. Her pose is a symbol of the iconography, while beauty serves as the iconology. The understanding of the ic...
  • Definition Of Feminine Beauty In The Renaissance
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    "How has the concept of beauty been defined differently for men and women in portraiture" .".. A thing of beauty is a joy forever: It's loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness... " John Keats What is beauty Seemingly a continually evolving and infinitely elusive ideal - mankind has been obsessed with the concept of beauty throughout the ages. Portraiture, as an essential channel of visual communication, has traditionally been the medium through which definitions of beauty are g...
  • Themes In American Beauty
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    There are many themes in American Beauty, but one of the most important theme, is about appearances versus reality. Many of the characters in American Beauty project a false image of themselves and as a result, are not living a true life. The Burnham's have everything! They have a nice home, good jobs, they have children, and one could even say that they have the "American Dream!" But it's not all as great as it sounds... From the outside they appear like a happy family, but on the inside they a...
  • Restricted Image Of Beauty
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    Language and images are usually a way to express what someone is thinking, however, language and images can often restrict our thinking in various ways. Susan Douglas, in her essay", Narcissism As Liberation", writes about "the great myth? that superficial appearances can be equated with a person's deepest character strengths and weaknesses" (128). The image of what a "beautiful" and what is not is an image that is constantly restricted in our minds. These restrictions come from television, movi...

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