Inner Beauty Essay

In the short essay, “Beauty: Dancer is the Self”, Walker recounts the story of how her impressions and beliefs of herself and the world were changed after her right eye was shot. The injury healed as a milky cataract, forever clouding vision from her eye. Walker immediately…

Meanings of Beauty If someone was to walk around the streets of their hometown and ask each person they came in contact with to describe their definition of the word ‘beauty’, each answer would most likely be different. Why is this? In today’s world, our population is consumed with the obsession of being perfect; having perfect hair, perfect skin, a perfect body, a perfect smile… every detail must be perfect. So it really is not unusual that everyone’s take on beauty is contrasting because…

The definition of beauty is: a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight. Society has taught us that beauty can be portrayed through a magazine’s idea of perfection, but in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story, The Scarlet Letter, he introduces a character who quickly contrasts to our modern day definition of beauty. Hester Prynne, the main character of The Scarlet Letter, portrays her beauty not through her outward appearance, but a…

Obsessed Over ‘Perfect’ Bodies Today’s society is obsessed over girls with the ‘perfect’ body. This constantly forces girls at a young age to be pressured to have the perfect body, when in reality that is impossible. Society sets up expectations for girls to try and be more like the image of a tall, model-thin girl with perfect hair and flawless skin. These images are stamped and burned into young girls minds and cause them to be motivated to become something they are not, which can lead to…

appeal to our needs, which is our needs to be accepted. This desire to conform “influence our idea about ourselves” (Lessing 1) that people loses a sense of their inner self based on these insecurities. The false concept of ideal beauty of body image is displayed in the media pressures young woman and men to accept this particular idea of beauty. While there have been attempts to fit in, it is clear that the pressure to conform…

who has a beautiful soul. Juli, a character in the novel “Flipped” by Wendelin van Draanen, she isn’t brilliant and rich, but she has a beautiful soul. Through Juli’s bravery, determination and care, she becomes special in the novel and has an inner beauty. Juli is a brave girl. She is totally different from other girls, she always do something that others won’t do. Although climbing the tree is dangerous, she still climb it. When Bryce’s kite was stuck on the tree, Juli rescued it quickly.…

dreary at times, is an important one. It is a wake up call to present and future graduates. It is a call to rise above expectations set by the culture. Worship what matters. Instead of worshiping money, show generosity. Instead of physical beauty, recognize inner beauty. Finally, instead of power, show humility. True worship belongs to God and Him alone. Pursue Him and Capital-T Truth is…

Beauty is an incredible topic to discuss. Partially, because every single individual has their own uniquely different opinion of what is beautiful, but also because there is nothing in this world that permanently describes what is to be considered beautiful and what is not. Beauty is a matter of opinion. What one person finds beautiful may not be something that another person finds beautiful, and this is amazing. This sense of individuality is what allows our world to be beautifully diverse. We…

MOVIE CHOSEN: American Beauty American Beauty, a movie directed by Sam Mendes is a movie about taking a break from our ordinary day to day lives and becoming aware of the beauty around us while redefining what ‘beauty’ means to different people. It presents a satirical critique on the images of ‘beauty’ and ‘success’ portrayed by media and society which we internalize and strive to achieve leading to feelings of insecurity and confusion. By following a postmodernist approach, the director…

Many cultures have their own definition and beliefs of beauty. For some individuals, it comes from the inside, and for others, it is the physical appearance. Most people, however, judge others based on the looks and physical appearances rather than personality. That is why many prefer to be clean and well groomed in order to feel beautiful. I arrived to this conclusion while observing my mother’s salon. She takes pride in doing her job diligently and in her own style, which is why she owns a…