Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

from the fiery furnaces. Many studies have been done on the dangers of tanning beds, and almost everyone is aware that the Center for Disease Control has linked them to skin cancers including melanoma (which is the deadliest type), basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma (Indoor Tanning). But the problems aren’t just skin-deep, there is one particular organ in our bodies that tanning beds wreak havoc on, and it is much less talked about and less publicized by mainstream media: the…

However, with progressions in skin-care, you can chip in in the way aging affects your skin and perhaps even get back to the way you appeared not so long ago. Thermage is a confirmed, exceptional radiofrequency treatment that can help improve the appearance of drooping or slack skin, giving you a glibber, smoother and younger look and feel. It works in just one treatment with petite downtime and delivers…

Beautiful Shades of Brown Defining beauty to the point that black individuals feel as though they cannot be born beautiful, worthy, and smart inadvertently breeds a community that passes judgments and spews hatred within the culture itself. The black community harbors its own form of discrimination on the basis of color, social class, and gender. Positive characterizes and traits are accredited to those with lighter skin while those who possess darker complexions are repeatedly placed into…

was almost on a level with mine! what a great nose! and what a mouth! and what large prominent teeth! ” (49; ch.4). This is a story about the struggles of Jane Eyre, in a biography called Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Appearances and names are only skin deep, but in Jane Eyre it symbolizes the quality of the people from Jane’s perspective. The description of the man is an allusion to Little Red Riding Hood describing the wolf. The man is being described in a negative connotation to let the…

Experience is the only source of wisdom and understanding; without experience, it is simply postulated and hypothetical. While knowledge is possible without experience, one will never know how to accurately apply it without the understanding gained from experience. This was the thought process of John Howard Griffin and Grace Halsell as they both chose to role play a black individual. The new lives each lived taught invaluable lessons which they passed on in their books, Black Like Me and Soul…

Homer’s Odyssey outlines a hero’s journey back home from battles and encounters with troublesome Gods and powerful monsters. Throughout the poem, Homer indicates concepts of masculinity through not only the male characters, but the female characters as well. Masculinity is presented as strong and honorable, yet possibly unintelligent. The ideal man is one who is fit to fight as a soldier; therefore, intelligence is not necessary as long as a man can properly wield a weapon. The women in the…

1 The Cosmetic Industry 1.1 Cosmetic product consumption Human beings are naturally very conscious about their health and beauty. Though the intensity of this varies depending on the countries, gender, culture etc. And for majority the term ‘ beauty ‘ means to have a healthy skin and hair. So even before the discovery of the newly made chemical formulas people have found different ways to exist beautiful. And today the magnitude if this consciousness have increased tremendously, and as a…

Furthermore, an effect of race is the desire to be accepted by the dominant culture. In Hyppolite’s story, the word “Dyaspora” is used to describe scattered people living in two worlds, their place of origin and their adopted land. Though there is great beauty in people from all across the world sharing the same roots and homelands, there is also a bulging flaw of the displacement and re-placement of peoples as seen in the forming of cultural diasporas. To illustrate, once one is removed from…

in a world influenced by whitewashed movie and books, ever since we were young we were taught that a reliable image of a manager or a doctor is a Caucasian lady smiling. We were taught that being skinny like Fashion TV models is the definition of beauty, we were taught through the media that Africa is nothing but poor, hunger and drought, that Black people are nothing but savage… The white-supremists have done a very good job in putting a little chip in our brain to operate us, to make us…

excited. She's a real beauty, and her voice is so smooth and her skin is just flawless. I think I found my new Idol. My dad turns to me this is Mrs. Sharell. I've heard alot about you. I said. You're really pretty. Thank you. You took a really long time to get here so I ordered my food and dad ordered his, but we told them that you were on your way so it's okay. So do you have any children? No. Oh I have an older brother but he has his own dad. I'm my dads one and only princess, isn't that…