The Beauty Myth

What Meets The Eye That cliché line that most of us have herd, “It shouldn’t matter on how someone looks on the outside because beauty is on the inside”, or some version of that, but in our society it’s not true. I always had beliefs that being attractive gets you places and gives you opportunities in life, but I didn’t truly realize this until I read Daniel Akst’s, “What Meets The Eye”. When I think of attractive people, I imagine celebrities, all-star athletes, and leaders or “poster…

give them negative feedback that will agree with their self concept. The attitude of a person changes when they become depressed. So this is all like a chain; Someone develops an obsession about their image due to their low self esteem because of beauty standards, and then they begin to develop depression, which also carries things like a change in attitude and mood. When someone becomes depressed, people sometimes don't notice as much when it's someone shy and introverted but when someone…

“When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad”(Lao Tzu, 2). Non-dualism doesn’t really make much sense at first. How can two opposites be interrelated? The word opposite in itself means that the two things are most definitely not related. Beautiful and ugly may not have the same meaning at all, but they can have an effect on each other, and it is the same for good and bad. I compared the relationship…

It is easy to read a book, look at an image, hear a sound, and claim it as beautiful. Unless someone else denies that claim to beautiful, then how is beauty to be analyzed? Can beauty be seen through one person as objective and seen really subjective? What makes something an object of art and how are we to appreciate it? Two of the greatest minds of 5th-4th c. BCE, Plato and Aristotle introduce what essentially is the backbone of how art began to be assessed. Plato was more focused on the…

“Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyle and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather it should be that of your inner self”. That verse taken from 1 Peter 3:3-4 simply states that inner beauty surpasses outer beauty. In the society we live in today, it’s difficult to believe that character, mind, and heart is still valued when the only thing that seems to be trending are the Kardashian’s. Difficult indeed, but many cases prove that statement to…

People today often perceive beauty as a superficial idea. As Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines it, “beauty is the quality or qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or mind”. In this case, beauty is only defined by physical appearance and attractiveness; it is something that is appealing to the eye at first glance and calculated by physical means. However, beauty should not only be referred to because of one’s physical appearance, rather, it should also be seen…

Beauty is highly subjective. What might seem magnificent to one's eye, may be unpleasing to a different individual. How one sees himself/herself is a key factor to how they live their life in many cases. This theme shows through in many stories throughout chapter 5 in Legacies by Jan Zlotnik Schmidt and Lynne Crockett, including “The Beauty Treatment” by Stacey Richter and “The Story of My Body” by Judith Ortiz Cofer. Both stories are based on adolescent girls and their appearances. “The…

for an interview. In reality, it is all about conquering the impression of others by gaining their friendly confident which overall shaped by the personal choice that is based on the identity. The experiences of Queen Latifah has showed that true beauty comes from making good personal choices. Indeed, Firoozeh Dumas has also sent us the message across of her own personal story of overcoming tough times while making choices that shaped her identity. Queen Latifah has published her story “Who You…

Beauty is not measurable, profitable, nor tradable, because not everyone’s idea of beauty is the same. Yet, above all else, beauty is what people seek the most. Everyone wants to be beautiful, but beauty to some people is intangible. So how does one know if they have it? Is it just a feeling? Everyone has their own definition of beauty, and there are many degrees of each definition. There is a very popular saying that goes, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. Since everyone has their own…

A creation myth is the philosophical and theological elaboration of the primal myth of creation within a religious community. The term creation refers to the beginning of things, whether by the will and act of a transcendent being, by emanation from some ultimate source, or in any other way (Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d.). Creation myths are archetypal because of the similarities and characteristics that they display when referencing the creation of the earth. They are allegorical because they…