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    Inner Beauty vs. Physical Beauty “It’s not about what’s on the outside, it’s about what’s on the inside.” This quote is widely known around the world. Inner beauty and physical beauty are two ways to categorize beauty. In addition, each of these categories can be further broken down into subcategories. These different aspects of beauty can be obtained or improved in many ways and are important to different people in varying degrees. There are many different aspects of physical and inner beauty…

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    Attractiveness Definition

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    word "attractive"? I 'm sure your first thought was something physical. Attractiveness in its shallowest form is the physical characteristics one possesses making them "attractive". Attraction is automatically connected to looks because a person’s physical qualities is what is first seen, it 's what reels you into further getting to know a person.Why do we draw the conclusion there? Can personality not affect attraction the same way physical features do? Beastly,a book by Alex Flinn,is the…

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    standards, though varying by culture and time period, are rooted in the same motives and have the same control over females. Women are valued for their looks, for females should strive to achieve and maintain the socially constructed notion of physical attractiveness, or the feminine beauty ideal. Common with the Victorian Era, women are still expected to have feminine traits of larger hips and breasts with a small waist but everything has been slenderized as compared to the past This ideal is…

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    novel shows how her physical and impoverished appearances cause others to call her ugly despite the fact that her beauty is covered up by her rank in the social hierarchy. Later on, however, Cosette’s internal qualities bring about a shift in the story and her hidden beauty is finally visible for others to notice. Victor Hugo, in Les Misérables, describes society’s focus on ideal physical traits which define beauty this time. In addition, Hugo voices his opinions on how physical features do not…

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    qualities such as shape, color, or form, that combined, is a pleasing or enjoyable sight to the naked eye. In this day-and-age, beauty is such a touchy subject, especially in a place of business. There’s an ongoing debate of whether or not a person’s physical beauty has any type of impact on their lives. Although it is obvious how one’s looks may affect their love life, the importance of beauty may play a fairly large role in places one may not assume, such as a place of business. With that…

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    Have you ever thought about the banning of children beauty pageants? If you haven’t, this paper gives examples and reasonings why I think children beauty pageants should be banned. The reasons I think children beauty pageants should be banned are they are overly focused on appearance, parents become too involved, they can be dangerous, they affect the children’s aging, they sexualize children, and the pageants are expecting children to be attractive. I believe that children beauty pageants are…

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    within not from one’s outward appearance. Being beautiful is having the qualities and attributes of being inwardly attractive such as kind, loving, humble, brave, and honest. The term beauty comes from the Anglo-French word beute meaning physical attractiveness, goodness, and courtesy. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines beauty as being only physically attractive. While this aspect of beauty is true, one’s inner beauty is far more important than one’s outer beauty. There are several ways to…

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    Essay On The Halo Effect

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    He made a study where he asked two commanding officers to examine their soldiers in terms of their physical qualities, such as: neatness, energy, and physique. He also had to examine their mental, emotional, and social qualities. Social qualities he was looking for include intellection, leadership, and responsibility. Thorndike found in his results…

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    There is a lot of social and cultural influence with today’s youth. Male or female; as they are being raised the influenced physical appearances of either sex is highly scrutinized and judged upon across the board. More so for women but regardless there is a significant amount of judgement on how someone should or should not look in order to be accepted in this day and age. Just on everyday media you can tell the ideal standard of beauty is plastered everywhere. On every billboard, on every…

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    According to Conlin and Bissel (2014), mass media are considered as the ways to change the women behavior and believe towards the beauty idea when they exposed to image ideal and attractiveness. In the new era of technologies nowadays, mass media and technology becomes important agents of socialization (Schaefer, 2012). This socialization builds up their personality and the perception towards the level of beauty that being generate through…

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