Beauty in Kashmir Essay

Current logic holds that symmetry is beautiful because it suggests a relatively healthy childhood, free from diseases that could take their toll on facial features, causing subtle asymmetry diseases such as chicken pox, mumps, whooping cough or tonsillitis. Facial asymmetry in adolescents is in no way related to early childhood heath. Although asymmetry on a larger scale may be caused by significant injuries, untreated infections and certain rare genetic disorders. Our attraction to symmetry…

Beauty standards are taking over our nation and it is time for us to take notice if we have not already. For example, social media like magazines, television and the internet lead us to think that we need to have a certain type of body. In Patricia McLaughlin's "Venus Envy" and Claire Suddath's "An Open Letter" both authors talk about how beauty standards are taking over the world and how ridiculous they can become. One major beauty standard these days would be the pressure for both men and…

Brooke Viselli ENG 2010 Chris Tysh March 28th 2015 The Beauty of a Lunch Break in New York Frank O’Hara is a famous poet specially known for all of the poems he wrote on his lunch breaks. He has a book titled “Lunch Poems” consisting of his entire lunchtime poem collection. Amongst this collaboration lies a special poem named “The Day Lady Died”. Unlike all of his other poems, this one is about the death of Billie Holiday. This was unusual amidst his collection because the majority of the…

Raphael sat in front of me looking like he had simply stepped off the catwalk. He was pure hotness as always. "Baby, you rock my world! Never have I wanted to be someone's man as I desire to be yours; I'm nothing without you Harriet." I slammed the book shut and pushed it away. I'm not Harriet, I'm Gracie Carteri. I'm seventeen and the most unpopular girl in the world—what could be worse than that. It could be a lot worse. Who am I to complain? I mean, it's not like it bothers me. I have…

What Meets The Eye That cliché line that most of us have herd, “It shouldn’t matter on how someone looks on the outside because beauty is on the inside”, or some version of that, but in our society it’s not true. I always had beliefs that being attractive gets you places and gives you opportunities in life, but I didn’t truly realize this until I read Daniel Akst’s, “What Meets The Eye”. When I think of attractive people, I imagine celebrities, all-star athletes, and leaders or “poster…

give them negative feedback that will agree with their self concept. The attitude of a person changes when they become depressed. So this is all like a chain; Someone develops an obsession about their image due to their low self esteem because of beauty standards, and then they begin to develop depression, which also carries things like a change in attitude and mood. When someone becomes depressed, people sometimes don't notice as much when it's someone shy and introverted but when someone…

“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad”(Lao Tzu, 2). Non-dualism doesn’t really make much sense at first. How can two opposites be interrelated? The word opposite in itself means that the two things are most definitely not related. Beautiful and ugly may not have the same meaning at all, but they can have an effect on each other, and it is the same for good and bad. I compared the relationship…

It is easy to read a book, look at an image, hear a sound, and claim it as beautiful. Unless someone else denies that claim to beautiful, then how is beauty to be analyzed? Can beauty be seen through one person as objective and seen really subjective? What makes something an object of art and how are we to appreciate it? Two of the greatest minds of 5th-4th c. BCE, Plato and Aristotle introduce what essentially is the backbone of how art began to be assessed. Plato was more focused on the…

“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyle and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather it should be that of your inner self”. That verse taken from 1 Peter 3:3-4 simply states that inner beauty surpasses outer beauty. In the society we live in today, it’s difficult to believe that character, mind, and heart is still valued when the only thing that seems to be trending are the Kardashian’s. Difficult indeed, but many cases prove that statement to…

People today often perceive beauty as a superficial idea. As Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines it, “beauty is the quality or qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or mind”. In this case, beauty is only defined by physical appearance and attractiveness; it is something that is appealing to the eye at first glance and calculated by physical means. However, beauty should not only be referred to because of one’s physical appearance, rather, it should also be seen…