A Great and Terrible Beauty

He thought. Peyton entered the room to find Alexa lying on a bed, naked, drained from her terrible actions. She was lying on her stomach, face turned to the door. Peyton’s eyes found hers, and he noticed something different now. Peyton hardly recognized the eyes staring back at him; a once delicate beautiful look now appeared as cold and dark as winter. A terrible, angry heartache overwhelmed Peyton, forcing him to escape the scent of betrayal exhausting the room. “Wait Peyton…

Stradella analyzes how Hume's notions of beauty and taste relate, respectively, to the individual and the social. Stradella speaks of the missing dialectical structure of the essay. Hume has an inclusion of realistic methodical examples, using anecdotes related to “voyage of discovery” that make the aesthetic harder to define. Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" is often read as an essay in criticism expounding a causal theory of beauty. "I contemplate the structure, and the sculpture causes…

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a reminder to today’s society that we should not base the idea of beauty by ones superficial appearance and materialistic belongings but by a person’s ability to find light in darkness and choose what is right from wrong, without the opinions of others distracting them. This novel also explores the idea that when a person can make a mistake and learn from it is when they are a truly a beautiful person, it employs that one can be a destructive force to themselves if…

Beauty and the Beast People who read literature have different opinions and perceptions about what the piece of work could be about. There are several different ways to look at a poem or story and think of the endless possibilities of what the message could be or what point the author is trying to get across to the readers. The poems “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” I believe are both coming from a religious standpoint. The author William Blake attempts to show both the beautiful, and dark side of…

explains how miserable she is . Tan, a young Chinese American author relives her encounters as a preteen minority. Tan had issues accepting her heritage in a country where “a slim new American nose” and blonde hair were seen as the ideal images of beauty (Tan 116). At the Christmas dinner, Tan’s mother has invited…

is known for good or great things, many years ago it was quite the opposite meaning, frequently used in a negative connotation.…

Crossing Over to the Dark Side In The Crossing, McCarthy makes clear the main character experiences something which causes a severe and significant impact on him. The main character experiences pain and sorrow through the loss and through the night which seems as though it will never cease. The main character, having a deep connection with the wolf, gains new perspective after losing the creature. The power and mystic sense of nature, along with the endearing love the main character has for the…

1. I've chosen the constellation Sagittarius (“The Archer”), because it's my zodic sign. It's placed between Scorpius and Ophiuchus to the west and Capricornus to the east. It also lies in the direction of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, and being in such a dense part of the sky is packed with many interesting astronomical objects worth observing. 2. The constellation I've chosen, Sagittarius, represents the centaur Chiron. Most centaurs were seen as bestial, after all, they were half…

A Great and Terrible Beauty In this Novel, Gemma Doyle, a proud sixteen year old, must leave her childhood home in India, to go to Spence Academy, a finishing school, just outside of London. After her mother's death, she feels like she is being watched. She soon finds out she has a very frightening destiny, but with the help of a couple of friends,will she choose to face it or not? The Gemma Doyle series is in the fantasy fiction genre. Libba Bray is the author of this spine chilling and…

society’s beauty standards right? That is wrong. We should be promoting beauty on all sizes, colors and races. Models should not have a minimum weight limit because it puts a border line on beauty, lowers self-esteem and even though it helps prevent eating disorders it also supports society’s negative body image views. Everyone has beauty, therefore the number on the scale cannot define an individual. By putting a minimum weight limit on models, you are putting a border line or limit on beauty.…