Ideals

This study aims to examine how undergraduate females are more likely to suffer body dissatisfaction with the potential to develop eating disorders as they consider an ‘ideal’ body shape to be smaller than their own. Due to media and social impacts the “thin-ideal” has contributed to an overall dissatisfaction with the female body, studies have shown that even women who are considered healthy or underweight, perceive themselves as being overweight. A total of 119 female undergraduate students…

Unlike solids and liquids, gases are known to have both variable volume and pressure. The gas laws were formulated in the late 18th century by various scientists to develop a relationship between the volume, pressure, temperature, and the number of moles of a gas.1 This has allowed scientists today to manipulate these variables in controlled lab settings, to utilize these laws in new innovations such as ventilation systems, and to explain observed biological phenomenon like breathing. Boyle’s…

image for the ideal body in today’s world that is harming girls everywhere. With the major advancements being made in technology everyday it is allowing for woman from multiple cultures to show off their bodies to the world. Woman on social media are constantly posting things about how to do makeup, or what you should wear, and how to style your hair properly. This is creating an image for woman about what and how they should look like. When going to a mall it is obvious…

virtuous way of life. After his death, many of his disciples came together to a put together a book of some of their dialogues and his statements called the Analects. Within the text, Confucius continually brings up this ideal person known as the perfect gentleman. This ideal of a gentleman is a very important concept in Confucianism and throughout Chinese history, having both a moral and political philosophical stand. Everything from how the government should be run to how one should act…

Ideals can get in the way of our judgement on reality. It is we put in our minds that satisfies our perception of what is either perfect or most suitable. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby and others are the few to take note of in view of how they live their lives. Fitzgerald displays the pursuit of nonviable ideals concerning individuals of the 1920’s who long to fulfill their unreasonable morals. Often people become so tied up and twisted with their needs they…

Chivalry is defined as the moral code for knights. It states that courage and courtesy are the expected qualities of the ideal knight. Nowadays, our culture does not have knights running around but Emily Esfahani Smith believes it is still relevant. Furthermore, I disagree with her and believe that we have evolved as a society for a reason. Chivalrous acts include a man pulling out the chair for a woman, putting his coat over a puddle, and opening the door. These are the qualities of a true…

institutions were evolving under constitutional government. Edouard as a strong supporter of the Union cause and the head of the French antislavery society was among those saddened by the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. The French considered Lincoln as a living symbol of freedom. The monument carried a deeper meaning to the emancipation of slavery in the United States especially to the African Americans. During the Statue’s dedication, evidence from African-American press at the time…

Self esteem is connected with our principles and our ideals Ideals are deeply held beliefs that guide us towards what is right as against wrong Ideals are subjective, because all people rate life through their own perspectives Every person’s point of view is unique and (omit) there are differing ideals for each of us which guide us uniquely through life. There are ideals that are positive and others mediocre or even negative. There is love, helpfulness as well as hate. There is charity…

Recurrent within many practices, including many religions, ascetic ideals aim to relieve those who adopt them as principle from the futile and unenjoyable undertakings that we, as humans, are accustomed to living. Asceticism is the repression of desires and pleasures in the hopes that there is a greater payoff in teetotalism seeing as it coheres to spirituality or a sense of the divine. According to Nietzsche, worth placed upon art through philosophy, along with alternative yet significant…

It is a common goal for most people to make college more affordable. To achieve this goal, Bernie Sanders has proposed taxing the wealthy “one percent” of people to make more room in the budget for higher education. Although I agree with Sanders’ ideal of accessible college education, I do not think that taxing the one percent…