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Beauty
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White Beauty: The Portrayal of Minorities in Teen Beauty Magazines
… of minorities in the two most popular teen beauty magazines: <em>Seventeen</em> and <em>YM</em>. Nine issues for 2003 constituted the sample frame yielding a total of 620 advertisements containing human models. After setting up a theoretical framework of the new racism and White beauty, this …
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Beauty in decay
… Agricultural complexes offer an aesthetic beauty in the decay of its materials and structures. American interest in agriculture as an investment in domestic self-reliance has waned over time leaving behind gigantic structures that are left to deteriorate without upkeep. The lack of upkeep …
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Beauty in Coleridge
… dissertation reflects upon the significance of beauty in the oeuvre of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. My central thesis is that Coleridgean beauty is a ‘transcendental’. That is to say, beauty is a property of being as such. My entire argument seeks to defend this claim, to unfold its meaning, and to …
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A beauty establishment
Thesis: B. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1938
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Royal Rhinestones: The Beauty Pageant and Female Beauty in American Literature
… employs various competition segments of the beauty pageant to isolate and analyze how beauty affects the lives of heroines of American literature, reflecting how beauty influences the lived experiences of American women. While heroines of novels are often beautiful, little attention has been …
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Consuming Beauty: The Impact of Prescriptive Beauty Literature on College Women, 1940-1950
My thesis looks at prescriptive beauty messages generated during 1940-1950 by using a case study of Margaret Morrison Carnegie College. I look at formal prescriptive beauty messages (advertisements, beauty manuals) and informal beauty messages (college yearbooks, newspapers, and beauty queen …
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Beauty and Ethics: Three Relations
After years of neglect, a renewed interest in beauty developed among many Western art critics, art practitioners and theorists of aesthetics in the 1990s. Beauty had fallen from favour in part because it was deemed politically and morally suspect, both as complicit with the sociopolitical …
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Being Venus: An Alternative Beauty
… Renaissances Golden Age and model of Ideal Beauty, were in fact intersexual (hermaphrodite)? By bestowing on the central character the complex gender duality of intersexuality, many avenues are opened for broader exploration of the mores of this group of teenaged power players in the Medici …
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The beauty of laser lines
… itself. In other words, artists must find the beauty of laser lines. Otherwise, the tool of the work dominates the artist's work itself. In this thesis, I having already chosen the laser as my tool, tried to find the beauty of laser lines by first learning the technical aspects and the …
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Changing the Face of Beauty, Changing the Rules of Marketing: The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty
… 2004, Dove® launched its Campaign for Real Beauty (CFRB) with the aim of establishing a more inclusive definition of beauty worldwide— one that would eradicate the narrow beauty ideals and standards that deliver a corrupt and self-damaging message to females while setting unrealistic …
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Beauty and the treatment of addiction
Drug and alcohol addiction are highly destructive, reaping significant damage on society, on addicts, and on their families and friends. The past century has seen a vast increase in the treatment of addiction, but these methods have failure rates of 50% or greater. This work seeks an alternative …
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The thief and the beauty queen
The Thief and the Beauty Queen is a middle-grade novel told from the perspectives of two eleven-year-olds, Landon and Cora—one known for theft and the other for social media fame—who must collaborate to mend their tarnished reputations. Aimed at readers aged 8-12, the story reflects the modern …
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Appreciating Beauty in the Bottom 80
… of performance. I concluded that appreciating beauty in the gifts and strengths of adolescents who are not top students – the majority - will significantly increase student, parent, and teacher well-being. Moreover, we can enhance adolescent well-being (at all performance levels) by refuting …
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Functional Beauty: The Design of Hospitality
This project explores the use of poured-in-place concrete as a bearing wall structure, in lieu of a column and slab system, in order to permit the formation of multi-story, grand spaces indicative of a luxury hotel. These carved out spaces create a pathway through the building, allowing for the …
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A semiotic analysis of print beauty advertisements
… society. This essay will take into consideration beauty advertisements, and how advertisers try to create this idealized phenomenon of female beauty; most of which comes from Western culture. The analysis will focus on semiotic terms that best describe and are applicable for an advertisement, and …
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