Ideals

problem at large. In the article, “Rethinking Weight”, senior writer Amanda Spake directs attention to the barriers our society has built for obesity treatment. Through this attention, it becomes evident these barriers have developed from changing ideals in our society. Roberta Seid, a lecturer at the University of Southern California, argues in “Too “Close to the Bone”: The Historical Context…

dialogue of Socrates, in which he seeks to uncover truths about what constitutes justice in an ideal society. In this version of an ideal society, Socrates decides there must be a censorship of anything deemed inappropriate or unwholesome. Although it is superficially reasonable to protect the populace from unseemly content in religious myths, literature, and music, it is impossible to create an ideal society based on ignorance. The most prominent of Socrates’ censorships was his…

100° Fahrenheit. By doing this I will find out in which environment gases expand and contract the most in. The questions I researched were, how does temperature affect gas molecules, how does kinetic energy affect temperature change, and what is the Ideal Gas Law? Matter comes in four different forms, called states: solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas. In this particular experiment the form I will be using is gas. Gas takes the shape of the container that it is inside of. It expands as the…

perception of attractiveness varied over time and culture. In the American culture women are valued as beautiful by external beauty and not by the saying “it is what is on the inside that makes you beautiful”. American culture views beauty as the white ideal which is lighter colored skin, straight hair, lighter makeup, colored contacts is viewed as beautiful. As a culture it is the white or light skin women who are viewed as attractive, while the dark skinned women are seen as scary or…

A Utopia is "an imagined place of ideal living conditions," or in other words, the perfect society. Thomas More wrote about the ideal society in his book Utopia in 1516. A Utopia can consist of an ideal qualities, such as nice weather or a specific type of government or economic system. In my ideal society, the citizens would be hardworking and intelligent, there would be little violence, and no one would have to worry about basic necessities. If everyone put all their effort into their work,…

united America, slaves’ desire for a better life, resistance and rebellion, westward expansion and external pressures. The long-term North/South conflict resulting in the Civil War was arguably the most significant factor in abolition. Humanitarian ideals, associated with improving the welfare of other human beings played a less central but vital role in motivating emancipation movements. No particular factor can be directly…

effects of this overexposure is the “pervasive transmission of societal beauty ideals” (para.2). It is important to keep in mind that this is not unique to one age group or gender, however, multiple studies illustrate the significant detrimental effects on female adolescents (Hayes and Tantleff-Dunn 2010; McCabe and Ricciardelli 2005) This is backed up by Sanders (2009), who argues that the sociocultural norms for ideal appearances…

At first, it seems that Arimah prioritizes the practical over the ideal baby, but when taking a closer look, readers can see that this may not be the case. The ideal is prioritized over the practical when Ogechi makes her mud baby, even though it is apparent she will love it less, when she gives up her emotions to raise the child, and when she tries to prove to her mother that she can raise an ideal baby. If Ogechi had made her ideal baby instead of the most sensible one, she would’ve loved it…

parties, the Internal Affairs Department, and the Sheriff’s Department. Considering the ideal of honesty, Hand was not being truthful to others as she choose to deceive Internal Affairs of their suspensions by deleting the files. Further, Hand appears to have violated the ideal of prudence; she acted impulsively and with her emotions, thereby, not thoroughly thinking through the consequences. Hand also violated the ideal of fairness, as Hand did not act partiality and without bias. Hand…

‘needs’. This photo in particular communicates that a woman’s body parts, physical appearance and sexual function determine worth. This photograph pulls into the idea of objectifying and sexualizing women, as well as the idea of living up to beauty ideals. The photographs are worldwide advertisements, shared on a global scale. This means that anyone could potentially have access or exposure to these images. In a time where the Internet and digital devices consume society like never before, a…