American+idea+of+beauty

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//"   ////We, as consumers, have been brain washed into thinking that a very specific set of standards are necessary for someone to be considered beautiful. They include being young, tall, and thin with perfect hair, creamy flawless skin, big eyes, and pearly white teeth. And that is just the beginning."

"I propose that the rest of us - - white or ethnic - - aren't so different. We're not happy with our looks either. So perhaps the issue isn't just one of color or race, but one of 'beauty.'" -Charlie K   // 



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<span style="color: rgb(237, 7, 7)"><span style="font-size: 140%; color: rgb(3, 3, 3); font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif">  Beauty
**<span style="color: rgb(9, 11, 11)"><span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(3, 3, 3)"><span style="color: rgb(13, 2, 2)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Jason Choi   ** Beauty is the best treasure for one’s eyes. It is a fact that no one can deny. But beauty is not only for the windows to our souls, It can also be a precious for our souls, minds, or both!

The beauty of a painting is not the canvas’ look, Instead, it’s the hard work and time to finish it the painter took. The beauty of a bird is not the way its graceful wings move, But rather the way it nurtures its infants till they become youth. The beauty of a person is not his or her appearance, But instead, one’s kindness and benevolence.

The beauty of the world is not about countries or cities, But actually how the people live in harmony.

Beauty is the best precious for one’s eyes. It is a truth that no one can deny. But beauty is not only a feast for our eyes, It is a basic need for all of our lives!

<span style="color: rgb(16, 0, 255)">//“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart"// -Helen Keller <span style="color: rgb(247, 43, 43)"><span style="color: rgb(16, 0, 255)"> <span style="color: rgb(247, 43, 43)">//"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."// -Sophia Loren

A Girl Like Me
The New Doll Test was performed on a Preschool, African American girl. As she sat in front of a white barbie doll and a black barbie, she was forced to make a decision about which was prettier. When she chose the white doll over the black one, she was asked, why the black doll was uglier. “Because she’s Black,” the little girl answers emphatically.

“And why is this the nice doll?” the voice continues.

“Because she’s White.”

“And can you give me the doll that looks like you?”

The little girl hesitates for a split second before handing over the Black doll that she has just designated as the uglier one.

<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: center; display: block">**<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; text-align: center; display: block">Is There Any Truth in Beauty? ** Is there any truth in Beauty? What of the lies beauty tells thee?

Could my beauty not be as worthy As I make thy Beauty part of me?

Such is Beauty as to make one's sight loud. This beauty that veils our sense in a shroud.

beauty: that which deters seeing the person. Does Beauty not conceal what is and isn't?

Yet merciless time holds beauty as a hostage, Defiles Beauty and scars it with lasting ravage.

Thus the years that pass send Beauty to its resting-place For vain beauty will yield, to woefully fall from grace.

If beauty should ever lament on age's cruelty, Let not Beauty forget how little it has wept for me.

-Ronberge (anno secundo) <span style="font-size: 140%; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif"> The <span style="color: rgb(41, 35, 231)">Bluest Eye ** Click the image to learn more about beauty in America from the __Bluest Eye__

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; color: rgb(14, 18, 225)">"It had occurred to Pecola some time ago that if her eyes, those eyes that held the pictures, and knew the sights-if those eyes of hers were different, that is to say beautiful, she herself would be different" (p. 46).

<span style="color: rgb(19, 151, 241)">"Here was an ugly girl asking for beauty. A little black girl who wanted to rise out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes" (p. 174). ** Reflection The Great American Dream Back to American Race