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about today is “Scars To Your Beautiful” by Alessia [Aless-sia] Cara and hopefully, you will learn something valuable from this presentation. #2 Alessia Cara is a twenty-year-old R&B Canadian singer and songwriter from Brampton, Ontario. She empowers young women and men as well today about self-acceptance and the obstacles that she has experienced in her youth, from the many songs she writes about. Growing up, Alessia enjoyed writing poetry and theater as a child. She began her music career on YouTube at the age of thirteen, by uploading song covers of herself and because of that, she got signed to a record deal. #3 Scars to Your Beautiful is one of Alessia’s many empowering songs from her Know-It-All album, which was released in November of 2015. She received a lot of positive feedback from many around the world. Alessia collaborated with Coleridge Tillman and Pop and Oak to write this song and to produce her Know-It-All Album. #4 The reason behind why Alessia wrote “Scars…

was that these women got prettier. This leads to a lot of these harmful processes being romanticised. After all, if Beyonce does that to look like she does, why shouldn’t I? Susan Bordo discusses this in her piece ____. She relates this type of romanticization back to the late 19th century. Back then, the “medical condition” hysteria, which included symptoms of foggy perception and nervous tremors and faints, became synonymous with femininity as typically only women were diagnosed with it. So…

She had been rather intrigued as to whether or not he was going to loosen the ribbon garter of her stockings. Now she'd have to wait much longer to find out. He wasn't idle, however, and Violet almost giggled at the rigid and jerking movements that Lorelei briefly suffered at the hands of her 'companion' as he no doubt untied her dress for her. No words were exchanged, and Violet fought to submerge a very unwelcome (and inappropriate) feeling of jealousy that he and Lorelei might well get up to…

I find myself at times when I hear the music of some point of disappointment or stress that I had experienced in the past. The song composer was a poet named Katharine Lee Bates. In 1925 she wrote the song based on her inspirations at Pikes Peak. This I relate to relieving stress or disappointment because the tune is for Celebrating for our love of country as well as the dream of patriotism. I can conclude that the song had an impact on my life during the time of stress or discomfort. It…

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say (“F. Scott Fitzgerald”). I am renown around the world for this quote and it is very applicable to my life, because I am a writer. Although lots of my stories were not successful, I had a few hits that made me as famous as I am today. In these few minutes, I will tell you about my early life and where I came from, secondly my life and work in Europe, and lastly, my work in film and end of my time. To…

In “A Beautiful Mind”, John Nash is a brilliant man who had a lot going for him. He created various theories and equations that drove him further into the world of knowledge. However, it seems as if the smarter John got and the better jobs he was offered, the worse his hallucinations got. Hallucinations are triggered from stress; therefore, I feel that because John may have been so stressed about his life, job, education, etc. this caused the hallucinatiions to begin. I feel like John had to be…

Both the film and novel portray the theme of family yet display them differently through their use of dialog and speech. Benigni portrays a deep family connection which contrasts with Fly Away Peter in which Jim and his father experience a tense relationship. In the film, Benigni has used the actor’s speech to portray the close bond the family share. Whilst Guido and Giosue are heading to the concentration camp, Dora explains to the solider “My husband and son are on that train. I want to get on…

points in their life, so too do individuals with a mental illness. A Beautiful Mind is a film that can be seen from multiple perspectives. One of those perspectives is through the lens of neuroethics. Not only does the film portray neurodiversity, it also challenges the audience to think about schizophrenia in the context of consciousness and “the self”. Though schizophrenia has long been characterized as a thought disorder (TD), recent literature is arguing to characterize schizophrenia as a…

Amber Wilkinson Psychology 340 12/7/2016 “A Beautiful Mind” is based on the true story of John Forbes Nash. Nash was a brilliant mathematician who won a Nobel prize for his study of mathematics. In the movie John Forbes Nash; who was portrayed by Russel Crowe, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. At the beginning of the film John Forbes Nash starts his career at Princeton University as a mathematics student where he was well known for his intelligence. Nash is an arrogant, awkward…

Pivotal to a film’s success is in its ability to engage the wider audience into differing perceptions of truly unique experiences. A film has the ability to subject the responder to unconventional mentalities, in the hope of a catalyst in the change of their narrow perceptions on undisclosed experiences. Ron Howard’s 2001 Roman A Clef film A Beautiful Mind, resonates with the viewer as it is a rare opportunity to experience firsthand the psychosis, debilitation and eventual redemption associated…