UNIT 5
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL
(Writing Cause and Effect Essay)
The Face of Beauty
Diane Ackerman
Summary:-
This
essay tells about the role and important of beauty that how more beautiful and
handsome people do better in personal, academic, cultural and other aspects of
life. Philosopher Aristotle pointed out that beauty is far greater than
skin beauty. Attractive people do better in school, get higher score in
achievement tests and get more love and supports of others. There is less
chance to get punishment in school but there is greater chance to be successful
and rewarded.
In
the fairy tales, heroes and heroines are presented as handsome and beautiful
people and witch and other wicked people are shown as ugly ones. This makes
readers to evaluate them as good and bad impression. Again, handsome or
beautiful people have to stay in prison less than ugly ones and get shorter
sentence. The study of 1968 has proved that the people (group) who were given
cosmetic surgery were hardly to return back to prison than other.
This
is the age of glamour and beauty. In the offices or institutions more beautiful
or handsome figures are selected from similar CV quality. Not only this even
parent like to spend more time and offer much love, dedication, and affection
to cute children than ugly ones. There is good care, attention, encouragement,
praises to beautiful figures (persons) from adults and grown of people. Again,
a man’s personality becomes better and more intelligent when he is with more
beautiful girl has got marriage with such cute figures. Other people evaluate
as a successful person with cheerful and beautiful life partner. Helen,
Cleopatra are some counted most beautiful women of the world’s history who
have not only become the matter of pray and satisfaction but also have become a
violent power and cause of destruction.
Another
study of 17,000 men shows that the height people with at least six feet tall
did much better, earned much more money, promoted faster and became more
successful than the shorter ones. So, there is miracle in beauty of human being
that becomes a real tool of getting love, affection, support and care or
punishment and hatred all together.
a) When you were a child, you were a
little overweight. One day at school, you were teased and called fat by some of
your classmates. If you could go back in time, what would you say to the
children who teased you? What would you do about their behavior yourself?
There are different types of people
physically, mentally or other ways. No two persons can be the exact same in all
cases. If I were teased a lot being 'fat' by my school friends and I could go
back to that state now, I would say and respond different ways to them. My
present dealing with them would be totally different from what I did in past.
At first, I would take whatever
remarks or comments they made about me positively. I would try to be perfect in
my study, thinking and other aspects. Sometimes I would be separate from those
who over teased me. But always escaping from the problem couldn't be possible.
If I was called Oh fatty! Oh Buffalo, I would just take as normal way.
If I was in my private dealing with other people, I would show little bit angry
gesture to such teasers. Making comment over my body structure would be normal
in my thinking because I would focus more to study. I would not pay such
serious care to my bodily comments. When I got such comment, I would tell them
"What could you get in making such gentle comment? Anyway you are handsome/
beautiful too much. I am not greedy over that".
No doubt, I would never be such
violent over the teasing of my classmate. I would rather try myself best to be
the best in the study, extracurricular activities, and friendship thinking that
my fatness was nothing. Moreover, I would have contact with all teachers too
close that I would hardly get and negative remarks from those students in front
of teachers in my real school days I used to be violent and fought with many
regarding my body structure. Actually, if I got chance to go back in that state
I would behave in such positive and loving any that would discourage then to
tease me anymore. I have known that positive thinking and positive taking of
any problems can be easy journey of life. I would think that
"fatness" wouldn't be big problem because there could be thousands of
positive aspects in my life.
b) You suspect that your teenaged
daughter (or sister) has the beginning of an eating disorder. You know there is
lot of pressure at her high school to be very thin. How would you deal with the
situation?
I have to apply more creative and
constructive strategy to solve/curb this problem of my sister. My teenaged sister
has eating disorder that doesn't like to have regular food and does not care
much to have junk foods. Again, there is great pressure from her high school to
be very thin is totally wrong. To be very thin or fat shouldn't our body
structure anyway. This does not mean that we must be over slim by any cost.
I would like to have creative discussion
with my sister. I should say her "you are becoming thinner and thinner day
by day. If you are going to be so, some physical weakness may occur with
you." I tell this to her in polite and convincing way. If she is doing
(becoming) so due to great pressure from school, I go to school and talk with
school authority about what is the significance of using such system. I will
tell them that I am educated, careful, and capable to handle my sister's
physical condition.
When I suggest to my sister I should
encourage her to read the books that contain healthy habits, good health and
healthy life. I should motivate her to do such activities that she will be much
careful about how to maintain good health. If problem is unsolved, I should
bring her to nice check up to forcefully.
c) Is there a universal idea of beauty? What does a physically attractive
woman look like? What does a handsome man look like?
"Beauty lies in the eyes of Beholder" is a universal statement that tries
to give the definition: positive outlook finds rose into stone while negative
view finds stone into rose. This means, there is no such hard and fast model of
beauty or beautiful as such but it is the observation or perception of others.
Again, this matter of beauty or ugly is the matter of cultures and religious
viewpoints. Individual experience and tastes are the main ways of evaluating
beauty. Someone beautiful thing or person can't be beautiful because it is a
relative not absolute one.
In normal thinking a woman with big
eyes, tall body, long thick hair, shinning skin, long limbs, etc. is considered
to be the beautiful woman. In different societies such women are selected. Such
characteristics can be the measuring rod to beauty. In the same way the beauty
of male is also determined by some characteristics. If the body structure is fitted
with more muscle, thick eyebrows, narrow hip, broad shoulders, height, etc. he
is called an attractive or handsome man. As males evaluate females as beautiful
on the basis of some characteristics so do females to males on the basis of
some characteristics. But the cultural
thinking and concept for beautiful and handsome are different for country to
country. Along with beauty we can find more compassion, affection, tenderness,
politeness, loving attitude, etc. are found in females. Males are normally
brave, bold, angry little bit violent type.
On the basis of above presented
description, we can identify and categorize to the males and females as an
attractive men and beautiful women. Their some general characteristics become
the identity tools for their beautifulness and handsomeness.
d) What remedies are there in our society for people who are considered
or who consider themselves unattractive?
There are, generally, two types of
our looks to people either attractive or beautiful etc. or unattractive or ugly
etc. In this 21st modern and fashionable world skin deep beauty has
become a demand of everybody. The primary attraction goes to quantity not the
quality persons. While talking about unattractive, there comes internal or
external unattractiveness of a person.
To make person externally attractive
from the unattractive state we can adopt number of medicinal and others
remedies. We can follow various kinds of
cosmetics, skin care, facials, face wash, plastic surgery, use of number of
creams like fair and handsome, fair and teen, fair an lovely, Saka, etc. Again
regular yoga and other exercise along with nutritious balance diet may bring
positive impact in our beauty. No doubt, being attractive and beautiful is not
the matter of loss rather a number of profits will be on the queue in this
glamorous world. To maintain physical fitness is one of the challenging as well
as inevitable demands of present world people.
On the other hand to be attractive
and beautiful is not only the matter of skin-deep beauty. Lack of self-stem and
self-respect in term of qualities and positive aspects of person can be next
cause of being unattractive one. We should maintain the self-worth personality
so that we can be happy, satisfied and cheerful in our life. What others think
about you should be taken, as a minor thing rather what we think ourselves
about us is very important aspect. Lack of compliments from others sometimes
becomes minor rather the main aspect is how you put/ stand yourself and think
about you, your selfconfidence satisfaction independence, positive outlook and
habit of “finding beauty within” can be some of the remedies of
unattractive people. After all we have to say “beauty lies in the eyes of
beholder” is key to maintain ourselves.
Thus, we have to change our outlook
to ourselves and to others and try to find out a number of items from the mine
within. This thinking or looking perspective is required very much at present.
A dark and unattractive lady becomes attractive angel to a handsome fair guy
and unattractive man can be fitted partner to the most beautiful categorized
woman from the formula of internal beauty and matter of self-satisfaction.
e) What do you think could be done to
change the way prospective employers and others in society treat people who are
not very attractive?
Great Nepali literary figure Parijat
said “Man to be happy is like a room without curtain”. The curtain less
room seems unattractive so people are hardly satisfied what they have. No
doubt, in this commercial and glamorous world skin-deep beauty becomes for time
being dominant thing. Various private institutions employees are rejected being
unattractive and selected being attractive without quality.
There is predominant thinking in our
society to the skin-deep beauty as the first privatized things. But it should
be abolished and can be done gradually. If someone is attractive and with
quality, she becomes more qualified naturally. If one is physically ugly enough
but she has cultivated self-confidence, quality, caliber, etc. she also can be
beautiful and selective candidate. Again we should change our negative outlook
to ugly figure. All passerby’s see a blooming rose but no one cares about
tattered one behind the bush. It is human selfish and shortsighted nature.
We should change our outlook that there is ample capacity to do carious works
in so-called unattractive people. We also should think that skin unattractive
people. We also should think that skin beauty is elusive and may deceive you as
well.
No doubt, no one can be evergreen in
beauty and attraction. By the passage of time and growing up age one becomes
ugly and non-attractive who was once called the most attractive person. We
should have positive outlook equally to all beautiful (attractive) and
non-attractive people. Sometimes, wearing nice dresses, taking care of beauty,
regular checkup regular exercises, balance diet, regular keen attention to
sound health can be some of the remedies to overcome this problem. Last but not
the least we can say that beauty is, eventually, a matter of looking depends on
the eyes of beholder.
f) Write a five-paragraph essay in
which you discusses the caused and effects of discrimination based on the way
people look, and the effects of this discriminations on the individual and on
society as a whole.
OR
Write a five-paragraph essay about
the cause and effects of discrimination against handicapped people, women or
older people
A Block Diagram of a Five-paragraph
Causes and Effects Essay:
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Introduction
Approach
Support
Thesis
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Body part-2
Topic
sentence
Support
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Body part-1
Topic
sentence
Support
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Body part-3
Topic
sentence
Support
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Conclusion
Restatement
of Thesis
Summary
of main ideas
Opinion
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Structure
1. Introductory paragraph:
Show that a problem is there.
Or
Point out common belief of people you will disprove in
your essay.
2. Body paragraphs:
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Causes
Causes
Effects
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Causes
/ Effects
Causes/
Effects
Cause
/Effects
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Causes
Effects
Effects
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3. Conclusion:
Write about what is the result of
studies/ examples/ explanation presented above/ solutions/ remedies.
Discrimination against Handicapped people
Losing a leg, a hand or eyesight or a
voice or any part of body is not losing whole life. Our social structure and
concept towards disable (handicapped) people is totally negative. People can be
handicapped mentally or physically that should be treated well instead.
Normally, such disable people are neglected, disqualified, ridiculed, not given
love and support by so-called unhandicapped people. There is a compulsion of
changing this negative attitude towards disabled people because the effect will
be in individuals, in the families, in communities and ultimately in the
country and the world.
Biologically, a person may have
disability in hearing (deafness) disability in speaking having no eyesight,
having no legs or hands or having no clear voice or having babbling voice, etc.
are some types of disabled handicapped people. When the society, government, unhandicapped
people, etc. have negative attitudes and behavior to them they are
discriminated a lot. A deaf person is not selected in speaking and listening
programs. Having no limb(s) may create problem in getting works done daily and
any job as well. More problematically, the complete blind has such plight in
daily activities in roaming here and there and engaging is service, we so
called unhandicapped people always look them down and feel superior to
ourselves. For this we should give equal priority to handicapped and
non-handicapped people equally and start to behave positively and in supportive
way.
Any type of discrimination against
handicapped people is too much sensitive thing because the negative effect of
individual affects the whole nation. A blind can’t cross the road go toilet and
other walking activates properly where he needs help. Having no any part of
body (leg or hand) can’t work well as having all part of body. Physically
handicapped persons have mental creative and constructive caliber that should
be promoted. But, when the handicapped people are rejected, dominated,
discriminated and badly treated they lose their confidence. They also have
desires, hopes, aims or mission, in life, if we support, love and encourage
them, they can meet their goals and become successful; if not, they are killing
their zeal. Their enthusiasm, interest and light of hope will slowly dim.
These discriminate scenes to
handicapped starts from home, spreads to school community and all arena of our
life. Disable people can’t get proper respects, care from teachers and students
at school, no good attitude and supports in community. We can see a number of
successful handicapped people in the world. We should encourage them to be some
familiar and successful person in the life. Great literary figure John
Milton was blind; Helen Killer was blind and deaf at 2 years old.
American scientist Thomas Edison was deaf and so many others are there.
We should always encourage these handicapped people but not to be discouraged
in any cost to make them successful.
All are human beings with equal zeal.
Hopes, desires, mission and life. Some people, lacking some aspects of life,
are not losing whole life. Handicapped people are also equal are not
unhandicapped who can do a lot. First and for most thing is to change the
others’ attitudes to handicapped people. This color of discrimination should
be rob out right from today if we want to promote their life is particular
and develop the nation is general.
g) Many have claimed that the fashion,
cosmetics and advertising industries are promoting an impossible standard of
beauty on that very few people can meet. What are some possible reasons for
their promotion of an unrealistic standard of beauty? What are the effects on
people and society?
The standard or the concept of beauty
has been changing by the passage of time. Our parents and grandparents concept
and view to beauty is totally different from ours. Media has been corporative
and handling this whim of beauty in various ways. Unlike in past, there should
be slim body silky hair, white-seated teeth, clear face, height body for some
demanded aspects to a beautiful woman. Similarly, media focus on tall, height,
well-built body structure with muscle and thick eyebrow and clean face for some
requirement to be a handsome man.
Media industries and various
costementics industries are keenly dedicated to create and impossible standard
of beauty. There is one to one relation between fashion industries and media
industries. In Hollywood, Bollywood and Hollywood everywhere there is very much
deep impact of fashion and glamorous beauty. Now the natural skin beauty and
body state is totally rejected. We hardly find the people who are totally stuck
o natural beauty. More or less people are lured by fashion and glamorous
beauty. Now the natural skin beauty and body state is totally rejected. We
hardly find the people who are totally stuck o natural beauty. More or less
people are lured by fashion concept of beauty.
The cosmetics industries, fashion,
advertisement industries have been presenting the concept or figures of beauty
that is not real for almost all. Very few people meet that type of beauty. What
is pretended as so called “beauty’ ‘perfection’, ‘model of beauty’ which
is more unreal, and less real one? Large percentages of people aren’t addressed
by them. This measurement of beauty and presentation of beauty by
above-mentioned agencies is totally narrow. Glamorous world has affected the
entire world. There is must tension not having white straight teeth, no clear
face, long hair, etc. the industrial advertisements are appealing people to be
bear and to be attached with them one way or the other.
The fashion cosmetics and advertising
industries have direct impact on people and society in various ways. Now direct
impact on people and society in various ways. Now people have concept that
beauty is not that thing we naturally, have got we have to buy a number
accessories and tools to make ourselves beautiful or handsome. Most
importantly, the psychology of people has been modified by these areas, a lot,
there is such preconception that ‘perfect’ person can never become
without using various cosmetic products. This means there is direct negative
effect on the people and standard of society regarding this concept of
‘beauty’. Our social structure, relation of people within society and our
day-to-day life is directly affected by cosmetic things and advertising
industries. They are more negative and pervasive impacts whereas les degree of
positive and construction one.
h) Recently, a well-known female
opera singer was fired from a production because the opera company said that
she was too fat to fit into her costume. Some years ago a broadcast new
reporter was fired for not being sufficiently attractive. Do employers have the
right to demand that their employees fit a stereotyped notion of attractiveness
if the employees are, in all other aspects, good at their jobs? Is it different
for different occupation? If so, give examples.
There is no any human being who does
not like a blooming rose but prefers a stone. Beauty is inspiring thing to all.
“Beautiful is good” “Attractive is selected” etc. statements are
accepted by all people. This is the world whatever is important is beauty. In
various job institutions employers are discriminated while selecting them and
discriminated while behaving with them and paying to them.
Whatever the case is and whatever
types\ of employment institutions and employers are, there is no legal right to
discriminate the employees on the basis of beauty. There should not be a
stereotyped (fixed) notion or attractiveness in selecting employees, if the
persons are perfect, at home and confident regarding the work. This is ever
happening phenomena but it shouldn’t be and it is illegal. In hiring staffs or
candidates ‘beauty’ or ‘attractiveness’ become the key factor though
quality and caliber of person is very low.
No doubt, there are ample of sector
where the clear picture of discrimination and kick out to the employees can be
seen. If physically fitted he is selected if he is unfitted, ugly and less
attractive he is kicked out from the job is an authoritarian attitude of
employers. In the shows modeling and entertaining areas the beautiful or
attractive figures are highly demanded. Again, in job interview, practical
education, singing dancing, judgment there is thick color of discrimination of
beauty. Airlines, hotels, mostly in restaurants there is necessarily beautiful
and attractive people are selected. Not question of selecting attractive people
but question is why to kick out to one who is perfect, well and smart at work
despite of his/ her beauty. Sometimes quality should be treated more to beauty.
Since business (all types of
employment) is public area, beauty is major factor. We can’t deny the go of the
world that beauty attract to all. The demand of time, costumers and places we
can’t go against it but it is totally illegal to throw away the employee who
was fitted and perfect beforehand but too fat too how. But this treatment is
different is different sectors not the same
i) Since the use of student
evaluation as a valid measure of teaching quality. If students do indeed
discriminated based on attractiveness should school eliminate teaching
evaluation, or at least, give them les importance?
The best solution of this problem is
strongly following the second solution “giving them less importance’, ‘do
not discriminate on the basis of beauty’. Education is such an institution
by which all types of problems are solved. It is the best profession of the
world. But we can see some less qualified and less known people undermine the
supreme value of education. Actually, no any institution can have as much
significance that of education. Evaluation is one interrelated aspect of
finding teaching quality.
Like other walks of life there is
question of effect of beauty in practical teaching evaluation of students or
not. If the teaching quality is evaluated on the basis of beauty and
attractiveness, it is too bad. Some cases can be so in our day-to-day life. But
this process is not good and respected method of evaluating quality teaching or
education of a person. We educated. People should not be lured by beauty as
other sectors employers do we do have ethics of education morality, discipline
and idealistic attitude of life. Though some people evaluate educated life in
comparison with money and wealth, it is too bad. Education is separate
discipline.
To wipe out the confusions and
problems of discrimination in measure of teaching quality, there should not be
any bad attitude in education. Educated people should fallow the morality and
truth so that they should not give focus to quantity rather to quality. Except
some rare case there is no and shouldn’t be discrimination in measuring the
totality teaching on the basis of beauty. Whatever is happening so far, we
should adopt second option strongly. We should give beauty and attractiveness
less focus. The main focus should be given to talent, capacity, quality and
performance, etc.
j) Write a letter to the editor of
Rising Nepal about now public streets roads in Kathmandu are being used for
draining sewage. Suggest solutions for controlling the problem.
24th
August, 2009
Kirtipur,
Kathmandu
The Editor,
The Rising Nepal,
Kathmandu
Subject: About the misuse of roads in Kathmandu
Dear Sir,
I am writing this letter to express my dissatisfaction
regarding the misuse of public streets in the city of Kathmandu. I would like
to inform the concerned authority about the serious condition and problems
caused by the pollution by using you media.
The streets in Kathmandu are being used for draining
sewage. This problem can even be seen in the major areas of the city and most
of the populated cities. This problem is making the city of Kathmandu
increasingly polluted. People not only have to resist the bad smell corning
form sewage but also have risk of catching many kinds of communicable diseases.
We can see piles of waste sewage stored on the open roads, nooks and corners.
In many paces the sewage from the drainage line is openly flowing on to the
main roads. This season and the surrounding. Through your daily newspaper “The
Rising Nepal” I would like to draw the attention the local government towards
this problem and its adverse effects. I would also like to point out some
solutions to this problem. The old drainage pipes should be replaced by the
leak proof pipes, the local authority should check the pipelines time to time.
The drainage pipes should be managed properly and should be put away from
public places. Similarly, the waste management by the city should be made more
efficient. The sewage should be property disposed.
I hope that you will publish this
article on your upcoming publication of your newspaper concerned on the general
public of Kathmandu stressing about this problem and its solutions.
Yours
truly,
Babina
Present of
Kirtipur ,
Youth club
Grammar section
1. Euphemism:
Euphemism is a style of telling
something harsh or rough in polite way. The truth is hidden is such statements.
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Big-boned
Compact
Diminutive
Dowdy
Full-figured
Homely
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Plump
Senior
Slight of build
Stout
Unremarkable
Veteran
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Husky
Mature
Not terribly
Attractive of a certain age
Past his/ her
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Short
Compact
Diminutive
Slight of bull
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Ugly
Dowdy
Homely
Not terrible attractive
Plain,
unremarkable
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Old
Of a certain age
Senior
Veteran
Past his/ her
Prime-mature
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Fat
Big-boned
Full-figured
Husky
Plump
Stout
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2. (I)
use of direct research
Quote the
researcher who performed the study: Dr. Smith said, “We found that attractive
people receive better treatment then unattractive people.”
Synonyms for
said: commented, stated, added, reported emphasized, and stressed.
(II)
Describe what the Researcher Did:
Dr. Smith
surveyed 100 people and found 90% were dissatisfied with their appearance.
Dr. Smith
discovered that almost no one was satisfied with his/ her appearance.
(III) Use
an Expression of Attribution:
According to
Dr. Smith, attractive people fared far better in studies than unattractive
people.
(IV) Use
the Passive Voice:
Studies have
found that people who were frequently teased between the ages of 8 and 16
developed negative body images.
Alternative
Phrases:
Research has
shown……………….
Research
suggests……………
Findings
demonstrate……………………
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