...How might a person develop inner beauty? I think this is a great question. We are all familair with the expression that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This expression could not be more true. We live in a society today where people belive physical looks are considered most important. This could not be more untrue. Beauty is not defined by physical appearance, intelligence or status. Inner beauty is more relevant than physical beauty. It is about love compassion and kindness. Inner beauty has a great importance of building your self esteem. Finding your inner beauty should be continuously worked on. It is a life developing process. Finding your inner beauty is about knowing yourself and your own self worth. It is about achieving and recognizing your own good charater qualities. This includes your positive attributes and strengths. Inner beauty is simply about being yourself. Being true to who your are and what you believe. It is showing compassion, kindness and in some instances forgiveness. It is about loving the skin you are in. Not the physical outward appearance. A great way to obtain inner beauty is stayin away from negative people and comments. You should not allow anyway to bring you down. It is about staying positive and living an honest life. By surrounding yourselg with positive people with admirable qualities it will bring out your own unique qualities. Finding your own inner beauty is a process that should be worked on a daily basis....
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...and contrast essay | Inner Beauty vs Outer Beauty There are many definitions of beauty. Ask people what they are and this will be the most common answer “Beauty is something that defines people”. There are two types of beauty, inner beauty and outer beauty. Both of these are very important for you to be you. Outer beauty is when you’re pretty outside, which means you are good looking. It is something that attracts people first, though outer beauty is different for everyone. Everyone has a different standard of outer beauty. Outer beauty changes overtime, maybe you look beautiful when your 20 but you won’t be the same when your 65. Inner beauty can be a person’s traits, personality, or habits. Inner beauty is when someone is kind, selfless, and helpful. People who’ve known someone for a while can truly know about their inner beauty. Unlike outer beauty inner beauty is not changeable, so even though you are in your 20’s or in your 60’s you will still be the same. Outer beauty is important, looks do matter, but that doesn’t mean being born beautiful, it means making yourself look presentable even though you don’t match the “beauty standards”, doesn’t matter if your skin tone is a problem or your figure. The one that counts most is the inner beauty without a person would be no where because outer beauty is just looks and nothing else while inner beauty is personality, intelligence and many more things. Focusing on your inner beauty is better than focusing on...
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...Kimberly Jusso Mrs. Kim Cook 8-13-11 Inner Beauty A few of the many traits that I have are confidence, curiosity, cautiousness, and generosity. I am not only confident because of how I approach a situation, but also how I handle the situation. Curiosity is a trait I possess because I am not afraid to try new things. Whenever something new is thrown my way I don’t knock it till I try it. To me being cautious is my main motto in life. I use it in everyday situations that come my way. Being cautious helps me in every aspect of my life because it helps me think about the consequences that are followed by my actions. Generosity is an act of unselfishness. To be generous you must have the willingness to give or share. Generosity is a trait that I have because I enjoy making other people happy. The traits that I have make me who I am and that alone make me different from everyone else. I am completely different outside of school compared to who I am inside of school. I am the type of people who cares more for other people’s sake then my own. In saying this, sometimes I put other people’s happiness in front of mine. One of my hobbies is reading. When I am reading it is like I am in a completely different world almost as if I am in the main characters shoes living there life and experiencing their journeys. Another hobby that I own would be hanging out with my friends. I enjoy being able to be around people that understand me, and knowing that I don’t have to be anyone...
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...A Matter of Beauty “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.” – Saint Augustine. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines beauty as “the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the sense or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit”. However, what do we as society define beauty as? Doesn’t beauty depend on our own personal opinion? The media has convinced many people in society that beauty is only skin deep, but there is more to the matter. There are two main types of beauty, inner and outer beauty. In my opinion, inner beauty is more important than outer beauty because it is lasting instead of transient. Outer beauty is the easiest kind of beauty a person can notice. When meeting a person we don’t know for the first time, we often find ourselves intrigued at the sight of them. In this case, however, we are only analyzing his/her outer beauty. While physical beauty is alluring and possibly the drive behind why most people choose to interact with each other, many times someone considered “beautiful” can also have a malicious personality. A well known English classic, “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, gives a perfect example of why inner beauty is lasting and outer beauty is transient. The story is about a group of school boys stranded on an uninhabited island. They must create their own “adult free” society. The sophisticated novel reflects the nature of human beings through the boys’ makeshift...
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...Sydney Roberts Mrs. Williams English IV- 1 10 November 2011 Beauty Within Throughout history, emotions, and events have been reflected in the arts. No matter the time period artists have used their works to convey a meaning to the audience. The arts are used to communicate feelings in a way that impacts the viewer. Literature, music, and artwork are all genres that artists use to express their feelings and thoughts. Beauty is often used as a theme in each of these genres. Beauty can be illustrated in many different ways, and not everyone sees beauty the same way. Poets use their works to express a mental state. By using specific literary elements and words the reader can determine what they are feeling. Musicians use musical notes and beats as well as words, which allow them to express themselves. Artists use visual elements to represent a particular theme or emotion. Although all of these genres are different, they each contain a message and a theme. Beauty as a theme can be found in the eighteenth century poem “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron, in the twentieth century song “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” by Prince, and in the fifteenth century painting The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. Lord Byron is famous for his works in literature, especially his poetry. His journey to fame was full of obstacles. “Byron was born in London to a poor but noble family” (“Prepare to Read”). He used his writing as a way to express his feelings. At first his works were not accepted...
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...“Phenomenal Woman” uses various literary effects to express to women that it isn’t genetic beauty which is important; rather, it is inner beauty and confidence which makes a woman beautiful and the poem’s repetition of the phrase “phenomenal woman” creates an effect in the poem which emphasizes what it means to be a woman. The first stanza in “Phenomenal Woman” begins with Angelou expressing the curiosity which “pretty women” (1) have with her “beauty.” Pretty women don’t see physical beauty in her, yet they see another type of beauty portrayed and question her as to what it may be. Angelou tells them, “It’s in the reach of my arms/the span of my hips/the stride of my step/the curl of my lip/I’m a woman/phenomenally/phenomenal woman” (6-12). Through the use of metaphorical phrases, the author is expressing to the women that she has confidence and it is displayed in how she expresses her femininity. For example, in the way she walks and talks. These things make her beautiful, or a phenomenal woman. In the second stanza of the poem, Angelou depicts herself walking into a room full of men, who all bow to her upon her entrance. “I walk into a room/just as cool as you please/and to a man/the fellows stand or/fall down to their knees/then they swarm around me/a hive of honey bees” (14-20). Angelou describes how when she enters a room, she does not have to do much to show her beauty, yet it is expressed in her confidence and her overall...
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...Beauty Overlooked Priscilla Sisneros Central New Mexico Community College Beauty is often associated with wealth, good looks, a nice body or some physical characteristic that is attractive. From the minute you turn on your TV you see into a world that admires fame and wealth. Commercials portray a picture of sexy men and women with big smiles on their faces living it up. Billboards throughout any city I have ever passed through have attractive people on them in hopes that their “beauty” will gain your attention long enough to read what they are selling. Is this the true beauty that brings happiness to people? As a society we have become so superficial that we forget about what really matters, the beauty that people possess on the inside. The story “A very Old Man with Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez depicts a story of a fallen angel that is molting, ugly, burdensome, and considered a circus freak. However, the deeper you read into the story you soon began to realize that this anomaly of nature is there for a reason. He was Pelayo and Elisenda’s child’s guardian angel that they assumed was there to take their child. “Frightened by the nightmare, Pelayo ran to get Elisenda, his wife, who was putting compresses on the sick child.” “He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.” Garcia wrote (2013). However, as you continue to read into the story you see that the angel’s inner beauty...
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...S******* Engl 1201 – 17 Chapter Four Paper October 11, 2013 Beauty Lies Within The Eyes Of The Beholder The year is now 2010 and as we enter this new decade, we encounter so many new trends, fashion and styles. No matter what your budget might be, it seems like everyone has the same goal in mind. They want to be beautiful and look “beautiful.” Grace Suh’s essay, “Eye of the Beholder,” details her struggle as a Korean girl to conform to a Western ideal of beauty. After her makeover, Suh felt negated and also felt like a stranger was staring back at her when she looked at herself in the mirror. Finally, she realizes that she was content with the way she naturally looked, which causes her to leave the makeup behind her on the commuter train. To me, beauty is not only something that pleases the eyes, but also pleases the other senses and the mind. I think true beauty makes you see beyond the lovely sight. It will give you insight or realization of something interesting beyond just the outward appearance. Think about the word beautiful for a moment, when we talk about beauty in people, we often refer to their physical attractiveness. Of course, a beautiful or handsome face is pleasant to look at. But I find that the most memorable "beautiful people" are the ones who have captivating personalities behind the beautiful faces. In my high school graduating class, there were two girls whose beauty just stood out among the rest, Chelsea and Tressa. Both had almost...
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...English 1020 Beauty by Tony Hoagland I found this poem to be both sad and uplifting. It tells the story of two sisters, one the butterfly perfectly shaded, finding all the most perfect flowers; the other one, the voyeur, in the background watching and amazed at the flight of the butterfly. The sister tells the story of how beautiful her sister had been until the medication she was taking caused permanent blue stitches that formed across her cheeks. The beautiful sister knowing that her beauty was gone forever, seemed to let it go like it was a burden to her for the longest time. After all those years of watching her sister nurture her beauty, the narrator knew more than anyone else what those tiny blue stitches would cost her sister. The narrator reflects back to high school years when her sister had perfected the art of being a dumb blond, the way she stood in the breezeway tossing her “bedspring” hair. “Laughing with that canary trill voice,” her specialty. There were hints of jealousy from these statements. She had a football player for a boyfriend, most likely the star of the team. He would do anything she wanted as you could tell from the “pained expression in his eyes.” The beautiful sister didn’t date men; she held “auditions,” looking for the one man who had the attention span that would hold her interests. She looked for ten long years, and still was not married. In these times most women were married younger, but these women didn’t...
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...Harsh Judgements in Society In the article, “More Than A Body? Prove It.” the two authors of the piece were working on getting their PhD’s. Some people may think that will affect the way people view or read the article but knowing that had no affect on me. They used good examples and were direct with getting to the point and purpose. While reading this article it made me more aware that girls and women are really allowing media to influence their lives. I always knew that media had a very big impact on girls at young ages but I was never aware of how much the media in today’s society really has an affect on women of all ages. The purpose of this article was mainly to make everyone aware of the things they learned while working on the campaign. It is so common to have girls feel insecure about the way they look but now a days it is getting to be a little extreme. The media has such an effect on the way girls and women view themselves. The effects that the media has on women today is mainly viewed as negative. One little article can make a woman feel so insecure about themselves. It is really sad to think that so many people are going out and getting all kinds of extreme surgeries just to look the way “they think they should”. No one can ever tell someone how they should or should not look. Everyone is different and each person should be embraced for the way they look. If everyone looked the way magazines say we should then we would live in a world with no diversity. One of the ...
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...Aromatherapy Outer beauty is a key to success and it is accepted today that is ultimate goal for both women and men and as Plato said «beauty is the greatness of truth». As true as this is, it is also true that we have to use products that preserve our skin and outer beauty, but also highlight our inner peace and harmony. The ideal beauty depends on the balance of our inner self, our thoughts and emotions. If somebody is constantly in the flow of life, easy and calmly, then he has understand his uniqueness. Do not fall into the trap of fake products with the toxic ingredients, but look for these which trigger your vitality. Your face or body, and not the one you saw in the TV which is fake and trashy inside. You could find this out only when you embrace yourself with affection and accept your body. You have to be charming and happy against everyday challenges. The skin is the...
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...What is Beauty? As I watched the 2014 American Music Awards on television and thought back on the songs that were brought out this year, I realized that within the songs that the artists would sing about their perception of beauty. Some examples are, “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor, “Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj, “Booty” by Jenifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea and many more. Beauty is a word that we all have heard throughout our lives, but my question is what does the word beauty really mean? Most people believe that beauty has something to do with physical appearance, when really beauty has a lot to do with the inner being of someone. I will discuss the definition of beauty, the social media’s role in the definition of beauty, and inner beauty....
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...the say " Beauty in the eye of the beholder" do you ever wonder what is the definition of beauty? There are many viewpoints to the word beauty. What is your opinion on beauty? My opinion for beauty is a mixture of unique details that combine in to a positive vision or feeling. Beauty is elegance, beauty is style, beauty is grace, and it has a certain pizzazz that always eye catching. What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word beauty? Do you think of something glowing or do you see something florid? Beauty can be an emotion. Even though everyone knows what beauty is, many people struggle to define it and convince others to agree with their views. The idea of beauty is not just a physical appearance of a person or object. It is an understanding that gives some feeling experienced to a person's eyes, ears, intellect, and to their sense. There are many classifications of beauty. Beauty can be classified as style, emotion, and vision. Beauty can also be classified by a person's personality. If beauty is described by a person's personality this would be considered inner beauty. If a person's personality is positive then that would be considered beauty. However, if it is negative then it wouldn’t be beauty at all. Personality is the differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.(Apa) Personality...
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...What is beauty? What does it mean? Well I asked people that question....and do you know what they said? I quote “when you look appealing to other people,” “when other people say you look good.” Do you know what the definition of beauty is in the dictionary? “the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the eye, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.)” I want to emphasize for a moment on the word eye..... E.Y.E. See, what God thinks is beautiful is a whole lot different from what “society” and the “general public” thinks is beautiful. The way I see it the ONLY opinion that even matters is Gods. The beauty he loves, is inner beauty. My mom always told me beauty is as beauty does. See I went through a really hard time all through elementary school and all through middle school. Obviously I am not the skinniest person in the world. I mean come on people lets face it, am I gonna be a skinny super model....no. Do I care....no! But what I did care about is what people thought of me. How people perceived me....when they looked at me did they see just some chubby teen, or do they see a vivacious, hilarious girl with a cool personality? Well, what do you think they thought? They thought the chubby teen......I used to get made fun of so badly in school. People would call me names and laugh at me. I felt extremely insecure ALL the time.............................. The reason I want to stress so hard...
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...Barbie Doll Women have a wrong perspective about beauty. With media and social networking on the rise, the standard of beauty is skewed to what others portray it to be. Women who don’t have supportive people around them to reinforce the true concept of beauty often grow up to be self-destructive and seek validation from all the wrong places. There is too much importance and too much anxiety placed on women to surrender to the image of being or becoming a Barbie doll. In the poem “Barbie Doll,” written by Marge Piercy tells a story of a young girl’s short life. The girl is born and lives a normal life until she is made fun of during puberty which causes her to commit suicide. In this poem we see evidence to this idea in the poet’s use of irony, her attitude on the subjects of both inner and outer beauty, and her attitude on the significance of words interfering with a woman’s self confidence. To begin, the poet’s use of irony is felt most toward the end of the poem. The very thought that people would say a person is pretty only after they are dead and it is too late for them to hear is sad and disturbing. “Doesn’t she look pretty? Everyone said.” In fact, the reason a person looks pretty in their casket is because they are “made-up” to look their best. This is seen more specifically with these lines, “the undertaker’s cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, and dressed in a pink and white night.” We are lead to believe that the entire group of people at the funeral thinks...
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