The Ugly Duckling

J. (2014). The Ugly Duckling Effect: Examining Fixed versus Malleable Beliefs about Beauty. Social Cognition, 32(5), 466-483. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.aclin.org:2048/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=url,ip,uid&db=pbh&AN=98488577&site=eds-live Burkley (2014) started off by explaining the story of The Ugly Duckling and the message it sends about beauty; ‘beauty is malleable’ and if someone is unattractive…

Because your face is graced with these beauty spots, people will remember you over someone else whose looks are pretty average. As a child, you likely wished you could make your freckles go away, like Jan Brady attempted in the “Not So Ugly Duckling” episode of the Brady Bunch Show. In this episode, Jan wants to get a boys attention and believes her freckles are what’s standing in her way. She attempts to erase them using lemon juice. As a freckled child, she reacted normally. As anyone who…

and the critics who ridiculed his work because of it, and illuminated the face of creativity; forever changing the fairy tale genre. Andersen is world-renowned for his fairy tales. The most famous among his impressive repertoire include “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Princess and the Pea”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, and “The Little Mermaid”, but before them, he wrote plays, poems, novels, travelogues, and autobiographies (Wolkstein, 2005). However, when he first started writing fairy tales, he…

malocclusions in the so-called “ugly duckling” stage (phase of normal occlusion development) and Angle Class II malocclusions. Both questionnaires showed that most students did not have adequate knowledge to determine the optimal stage to begin treatment. Although students were able to identify Class I malocclusion (n=120 or 79.6%) and deviations from normality such as the existence of diastemas (81.7%) and excessive overbite (29.9%), they failed to understand that in the “ugly duckling” stage…

“The Year of the Flood”, written by Margaret Atwood, explores a post apocalyptic world from the perspectives of two girls, Toby and Ren. Their stories reveal their past lives, involvement with cult group called God’s Gardeners, and how the Waterless Flood destroyed the human race. Atwood’s portrayal of the corporations and characters is a commentary on the dangerous connection between manipulation and success modern society. At the beginning of the novel, Toby reveals that her mother died due to…

If you really want to hear about it, you’ll want to know how the old egg got there. I don’t know how it got there and I don’t think anybody ever will. It just showed up. Out of nowhere. Like some magician just plopped it there or something. It wasn’t like the other eggs either, it was big, very big. About 30 times bigger if you ask me. It was a little spotted too. Not like a bold type of spotted though. More muted, a nice kind if spotted. Anyways, it just showed up one day, and what really…

work and positive attitude. Meanwhile, other women who work in Mode tend to be careful about the impressions others have on their physical appearance, thus building their body images according to beauty standards. Though the first three seasons of Ugly Betty prove that women can live without following beauty standards, the makeover of Betty in season 4 undermines the show’s efforts to liberate women from body image stereotypes. The show was broadcasted on ABC from 2006 to 2010. At that time, the…

“Brace face”, “You are ugly”, “Ugly duckling”, “You are fat”, “You are stupid”,” You are too thin”, “Weirdo”. These are just some of the comments that primary or high school learners come across when being bullied. Some of the above mentioned comments are from personal experiences I’ve had growing up. I was between the ages of 11-13 when I was bullied in Primary school. The first reason is, my front teeth used to stick out due to an underdeveloped jaw. Secondly, I had gone back to mainstream…

The piece La Mer by Claude Debussy drew much criticism in its early years. “I see no sea, I hear no sea, I feel no sea,” a Parisian critic remarked following the piece’s deplorable premiere. But over time, La Mer has matured into a classic, hailing today as one of the most famous seascapes ever composed. Inside Dallas’s own Meyerson Center, conductor Pablo Heras-Casado and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra command the group’s powerful volume and musical interpretation toward a phenomenal performance…

Malignant Melanoma Melanoma is caused mainly from the intense exposure of UV radiation from the sun. Melanoma starts in the epidermis and stratum Basale layers. The UV rays will eventually cause the DNA replications which will make the cells replicate very fast making the cancer tumors. When treated early it is most of the time solved and doesn’t come back. When the early melonoma is not treated it will soon turn into malignant melonoma and will spread around the body to many vital organs. If…