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    This can potential harm these women and their self-esteem by trying to look like them at all costs. Take famous actress Megan Fox for example. She isn’t particularly known for being a great actress, but is mostly known for her extremely thin hourglass figure. She gets hired for her looks and not her talent. This is extremely hard to achieve if not a celebrity, but women attempt to look like this anyway to appease the population standards for women’s beauty. Also, many ads in the media focus…

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    Bastion Of Discrimination

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    This essay was written by Deborah L. Rhode, its title is “Why looks are the last bastion of discrimination.” The essay states that there are plenty of cases where people in America are being discriminated against for being unattractive, And that this will be the last thing that people will use to discriminate against others. The essay states multiple examples of this ugly people discrimination. Such as; in 1994, an obese woman in Texas was denied a job as a bus driver when one of the bus…

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    Nicole Jayden would pass the hallways she'd turn some heads indeed. The boys, more exactly, would usually stare longer than they should and they really had a reason to. With those blue eyes which sometimes even shone green, those plump lips and that hourglass shaped body it was a mystery how she didn't attempt to model or at least join the cheerleaders group by now. The brunette was about 5'3 tall, basically, somewhat of an average, she had long dark hair which she usually kept in a high…

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    According to Leah Zajac a thirteen year old from Michigan, the perfect Western body is a woman who has a long torso and legs, is tan, has long hair, a toned stomach, and has an hourglass figure. Young adults throughout America and around the world have the same distorted image causing them to resort to attempt to change their bodies. Through the eyes of social media, an image of the perfect body has developed itself and evolved to the point in which it has affected America’s youth. In recent…

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    It’s your life and it’s now or never. Your life is what you make it and only you can make it what you want. Not one person can change how your life will turn out or be, only you can. The life you are given is your and only yours. So why should you make the best of it? You don’t want to live forever with this life on Earth would you? This journey is only temporary so make it the best. Anything can happen in a blink of an eye and so why not live in the moment. Live every day like it’s your…

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    Tichborne's Elegy – Literature analisys Tichborne's Elegy was supposedly written by himself before his execution, due to his involvement in the consipracy to assissinate Elizabeth I (P. Burns, J. Edge, 43) . In his poem he is using metaphors upon metaphors, together with antithesis to construct a poem that shows his frustration and regret. He uses a plain and simple language. In fact, the whole poem is based entirely on one syllable words. However, his use of one syllable words only add to the…

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    the Barbie does not look plus-size at all and does not portray curvy women properly. The article also states, “... she's curvy, a somewhat dated euphemism for all plus-size women, implying that if you're not thin, then you'd better be a voluptuous hourglass,” (Miller). The author also claims that this is the first step of a long process to make people more body positive…

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    Wizard Of Oz Symbolism

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    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced the American musical fantasy film, The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Victor Fleming directed The Wizard of Oz, and was the first to direct a film with Technicolor using a 3-strip color process. All movies at this time were filmed in black and white, so The Wizard of Oz was a sure crowd pleaser because of its color experience. It was said that the commercial for The Wizard of Oz was shown in black in white, so that moviegoers could experience the first ever color movie with a…

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    The Violin Research Paper

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    Violins are one of the most popular instruments ever. They are an hourglass-shaped string instrument that reaches the highest pitches in a string orchestra. The violin's history goes a long way back through many different types of medieval instruments such as the viol. The viol was a great instrument, but when Andrea Amati greatly improved its design and called it the violin, many forgot about it. Before violins was invented, the viol family developed in Spain (Parker 148). "There were three…

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    People could change no matter who they are. In the novel, The First Stone written by Don Aker, there is a boy who is uncaring towards others, but shows why he deserves a second chance. Throughout the novel Reef, the main character, shows how he changed his personality. He showed that when he got the right treatment, he turned into a different person. He has also changed his actions and who he will become. Reef has changed from someone who does not care about others, to someone who puts others'…

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