Beauty contest

To know Beauty, first one must see beauty in someone’s body and fall in love with that. Once in such company, the person can begin to give birth to fine ideas and conversation and continue up the erotic ladder (Plato, 211c). One must then fall in love with physical beauty in general, realizing that all the world’s beautiful bodies are really one and the same. He will now regard physical beauty as truly unimportant. (Plato, 210b). After the beauty of law and custom comes the transition from the…

Many people define beauty as the way someone looks or how much they weigh or if they have a certain skin type. Beauty is defined as a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially sight. But beauty is so much more than someone’s appearance. Beauty standards have changed significantly in the years. Beauty use to be modesty, light makeup, and being simple. But now beauty is all about having a nice body, having clear skin, or having…

By definition of middle schoolers, to be beautiful means that someone is physically attractive and enticing, but it also means that a person is content with who they are. For the past one hundred years, beauty trends and icons have changed drastically through each decade. Whether it was Hollywood’s Golden Age or the Roaring 20s, something new was thought of as beautiful at the height of each and every decade. In some decades it was desirable to have an hourglass figure, while in other decades it…

My Not So Regular Friday They always say Friday the thirteenth brings you bad luck, but my horror story begins with Friday the fourteenth. After school on a regular Friday I made a quick stop at my dad’s house to drop off his stuff from my fundraiser. But only for all his friends to tell me he had just went out for a ride. He took his friend’s motorcycle out to see what was wrong with it. He was always the one someone would go to if they had bike trouble. I didn’t feel like waiting for him…

Lost in Paradise It was green and bright, the sunlight beating down from a clear sky. There was a lake not too far from where I laid stretched out on the grass, filled with silver fish and water so clear you could see the bottom. A tree, large and old and spindly, stood just off to my left, its branches waving with the breeze. Like an ancient guardian, its shadow protected me from the glare of the sun. “It’s beautiful, isn’t it?” I tipped my head to the side, peering at the girl sitting…

The Disney princess franchise, created by Andy Mooney, has been watched and adored by families around the world for decades, but in the rise of modern day feminism and the eradication of gender roles Disney’s interpretation of women is starting to raise a few eyebrows. It has become evident that girls are starting to act more mature at a much younger age which leads to them being sexualized. Considering young girls obsession with Disney princesses many parents are left wondering if the Disney…

When analyzing The Little Mermaid, Giroux holds Ariel under scrutiny with her relationship with the men in her life and how her perfect body might lead little girls to idealize unhealthy body standards for themselves. Giroux describes Ariel as “modeled after a slightly anorexic Barbie Doll,” due to her slim figure, large breasts, and wide eyes, all which seems like too much for a sixteen year old. The two main male relationships that Ariel has are between her father, King Triton, and her love…

In competing for president of _______, a popularity contest, Rachel tries to sabotage Sydney to make her look bad. Rachel isn’t the only one to partake in a beauty competition, the wicked queens in “Little Snow White,” “Shirayuki Hime: How the “Angel Doll” Is Turned into a Fool,” as well as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs also have similar actions. An overpowering…

Navene and Tiana regain access to the human condition because of Tiana's new status as a princess, and the couple lives happily ever after. Similarly, in Madame de Beaumont's “Beauty and the Beast,” the Beast is transformed back into his human form because Beauty “preferred virtues to look[s] and intelligence, and so [Beauty] deserves to see those qualities united in a single person,” (42) not in in an animal or beast. When the Pig King's parents discover his transformation into a human, they…

Many grew up with the Disney movies, their catchy songs and fantasises about a special prince or princess. In the article, “The portrayal of older characters in Disney animated film,”, the authors stated, “Disney films are passed along from parent to child, which introduces each new generation new values, beliefs, and attitudes…” (Robinson, Tom 206). While Disney movies brought positive messages for children to learn; it also portrayed negative effects in the society. Disney films supported…