Beauty

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Madison Wallace

R. Nelson

Eng. 100

9-28-14

Beauty

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford wrote in her book Molly Bawn, "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder." A quote can have a lot of meaning to one person and can mean something different to another person. Beauty! What do we think about when the world beauty is stated? Beauty can mean multiple things to people but beauty is defined as "the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit" (Merriam Webster). What this definition means is each person has different opinions about what beauty is. Everyone classifies something as being beautiful and that just sets the standard for everything else. Today, people can be born with natural beauty but American Society sees and portrays beauty as something other than what is realistic for the average woman or man.

Beauty is not only what is seen on the outside but on the inside as well.

Generally speaking, everyone is born with natural beauty. Most people end up losing their natural beauty and are left to do multiple things to get to the beautiful state. People spend thousands of dollars on makeup alone. However, people spend more than that on plastic surgery. What is natural beauty? Natural beauty is when someone can look beautiful 24/7 without the help of clothing or makeup but most times even these people do some sort of enhancing to themselves. Mostly everyone wants to look beautiful for themselves or to impress someone else. People can always change their current features but natural beauty goes deeper than what the eyes can see.

Certainly there is a set standard for what American people define as beautiful. The American Media states that for a person to be...