Perfection

The idea of perfection is a problem in society. Rooted in the human thought since the beginning of time, perfection has been a constant thought in the mind. When did this idea embed itself in your brain? At the beginning of your life. Ever since birth, when your mom sang you lullabies to sleep, or when you got your first barbie doll or toy soldier for Christmas. Children are taught from the moment they are born to strive for perfection. They are raised envying those who they think are perfect, and looking down on those they think are not. They place themselves on a society-created scale of perfection, and live based on where they think they are compared to everyone else. What encourages this idea in a child’s mind of perfection? Toys. Songs. Books. Movies. Anything that tries to portray an image of what someone should look…

Perfection. It's what I’ve been striving for my whole life. I was a normal teenager, or so I thought. When I began high school I suddenly had different values of what was important, and what was not. I thought I was just being a normal teenage girl, but I soon realized my own mind was pressuring me to become something I was not. Perfect. I then realized that maybe I’m not so normal. I believe that perfection isn’t what you should be striving for. Most people look at a magazine, a movie, or a…

take over God in nature. The idea of perfection is embedded deep within the corporation’s mind. Overtime, the word perfection has been distorted. The perfection that human seeks has changed into a point where we, are God. The mere idea of becoming a God, ourselves has caused the idea of perfection to always bear a consequence. The post-apocalyptic world of Oryx and Crake is the result of a corporation striving for perfection. Atwood argues that…

The idea of perfection is within itself, not perfect. People have their own idea of perfection that is impossible to occur. Take media for example; the media has distorted our minds into thinking we have to look, dress, and act a certain way to be perfect. If not, those people are looked down upon for not doing so. I, myself, am a victim of feeling the need to be perfect, and I remember feeling contrite about myself when I didn’t look, have, or act the way media wanted me to. I was out of the…

Dylan Nicol Prompt 4 Impossible Perfection Emerson wrote, “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow”. Emerson is correct in saying this because doing the same thing will create the same results, there is always room for improvement and one needs to try new things to succeed. To start off, if one continues to do the same thing, he will never see anything except the same results. If a designer creates a product that fails to…

“The Birth-Mark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story that carries an important moral. In the story, Aylmer sets out to achieve perfection. He does not consider the consequences of his actions due to the fact that he is too overtaken by reaching ultimate, physical perfection. He is obsessed with his wife’s external appearance to the extent that a small birthmark, considered beautiful by many, deeply bothers him. He wishes to remove it because he believes that it spoils her otherwise perfect…

because the world tried to achieve perfection. Perfection sounds to most people like the greatest thing in the world. But is it really? Currently, there is a big debate about whether or not people should strive for perfection. Some people think that seeking perfection is a great idea. However, pursuing perfection would not be a good idea for the world because it takes away all of the good things in life and it can cause more conflict. First of all, perfection would take away all of the good…

Perfection is impossible to achieve. Throughout history, many people tried to create a perfect society. Though it has never worked, people are still trying to get as close to utopia as possible. America is a country that has gone through various improvements by all sorts of leaders. They all had a plan to improve the society. President Lyndon Johnson was one of these leaders. In his 1964 "Great Society" speech, Lyndon B. Johnson proposes his plan for a successful and great America. President…

The ad we chose to bust comes from Victoria’s Secret, a company that is known for their marketing strategy of using attractive female models and calling them angels to sell their product. The females they chose to represent their brand are never anything less than tall, skinny, physically fit, able-bodied, young, and flirtatious with big breast and white or at the very least light-skinned. Accompanied by the message of perfect body, this ad communicates the message of what a person is expected…

end of Meditation Three Descartes has established the reliability of his clear and distinct criterion of knowledge, which has lead him to conclude that he exists as an essentially thinking thing and that, from the idea he has of an infinite and perfect being, God necessarily exists. Descartes also eliminates the worry from Meditation One about being systematically deceived, as such deceit would be indicative of some failing or deficiency rather than the exercise of some power. The idea of God…