Essays on Beauty

            W. H. Auden’s poem entitled “As I Walked out One Evening” is an illustration of life, journey, and love. The protagonist of the verse discussed how a life should be taken care of. Based on my own reading, I can say that the persona is a man because the author used dominating and masculine…

Passed down through the generations, from grandparents to children, the bedtime stories of our childhood are filled with the wisdom and divinity that rivals some of the most successful spiritual texts of the present age. Even today, these universal tales continue to mystify children, taking them to a magical world every night, while subtly delivering…

You would like to believe that being pampered, made up and dressed up every day would be the dream of every young girl, but it’s often a nightmare. The child beauty pageant lifestyle is too stressful and negative on oneself. Many of the contestants are pushed to act as young adults rather than the kid…

The Dark Side of Beauty Pageants With their glamour, expensive dresses, jewels and, big fake smiles, beauty pageant contestants are just hiding their true personalities under materialistic things. People may say that beauty pageants aren’t always about looks. The contestants are scored on beauty, personality, evening wear, athletic wear and over all perception of the…

Sex and politics have proved to be two very popular themes that havesurvived throughout centuries of literature, poetry, drama, and mostrecently, cinema. As one of the touchiest subjects to expose to thepublic, the sex theme has proven time and time again to be not only acontroversial tool for artists and authors, but also a topic…

Literary Background: A Hawaiian of Chinese and Korean ancestry, Cathy Song centers her verse on island themes and activities and understated pastoral settings. Her language is Standard English inset with words and phrases from Pacific and Asian sources. She has gained credence for lifting the mundane from homely backgrounds to produce a lyric strangeness offset…

“El camino” is a Spanish novel by Miguel Delibes, featuring Daniel as the main character. Daniel is the son of the town’s cheesemaker and is eleven years old. His friends, Roque (“el Monigo”) and German (“El Tinoso”), play important roles in Daniel’s coming-of-age journey as depicted in the novel. The passage from “Entre ellos tres…

“American Beauty” is a DreamWorks production that was shot in 1999 and released in the United States in 2000. It was the big-screen debut for director Sam Mendes, as well as for writer Alan Ball. The film was produced by Alan Ball, Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, and Stan Wlodkowski. It won five Oscars: Best Actor…

Forbidden love has caught the eye in most movies of our day. For starters, Shrek and Twilight. Shrek is an ugly, lonely and anti-social ogre that finds love with a beautiful princess, Fiona. In Twilight, Edward, a blood sucking Vampire, sees more than just blood in a girl named Bella. Both these movies have the…

True beauty lies within love, confidence and courage. Love is a traditional concept of beauty because it can come in so many different forms. In a photograph of a mother and her child titled Mother’s Unconditional Love photographed by Shwet the beauty of love is shown. Another untraditional concept of beauty is confidence. Being confident…