Essays Tagged: "unattainable"

Gender Issues in Advertisements

resses these issues in a slide show containing advertisements of women in which the body images are unattainable. The male ideal is imposed upon women through advertisements. Women traditionally take ... y have 15% of the national average body weight distribution, therefore making the ideal essentially unattainable. In their frustration, women turn to the product, in this instance milk, for a way to c ...

(4 pages) 269 0 4.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Report about the hero in American movies

needs to have problems and prove that he doesn't belong up on a pedestal where his image is totally unattainable, third he needs to travel one of the paths of a hero according to Seger. Bruce Willis p ...

(2 pages) 97 0 3.4 Oct/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Beauty and women...in society..the beauty myth

words they reached their goals as women. We as a society are disregarding the fact that distorted, unattainable sexist mass images are a product of the constant exploitation of women's bodies as well ...

(4 pages) 572 9 4.5 Mar/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Eastern Desires (An essay on 'The Great Gatsby' by Fitzgerald)

east because somethingthey desired was in the east; unfortunatly in the end those'somethings' were unattainable....I decided to go east and learn thebond business. Everybody I knew wasin the bond bus ...

(3 pages) 34 0 3.0 May/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Financial Transaction Tax

cies, such as target zones and the creation of a supranational institution, are eitherunfeasible or unattainable.INSTABILITY IN FINANCIAL MARKETSIn this section I examine four interpretations of how f ...

(13 pages) 172 0 3.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Cryogenics and the future

st temperature dealt with in cryogenics is 100 (C (-148 (F) and the lowest temperature used, is the unattainable temperature -273.15 (C (-459.67 (F). Also, when speaking of cryogenics, the terms Celsi ...

(6 pages) 77 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

"Cosmopolitan Race Analysis". The essay explores racial representation in Cosmopolitan Magazine, and how limited it is.

d. This magazine gives young women a standard of beauty to strive for, although it is realistically unattainable. Therefore, it was chosen as the site of study due to it's popularity and provision of ...

(4 pages) 63 0 4.7 Jan/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

"The Sun Also Rise"s and "Winter Dreams".

ion of every eligible man on the east coast. What is it about these people that make them crave the unattainable? What is it about Dexter and Jake that leave them at the mercy of women who could not b ... for having been injured during the war. This anger and resentment is the reason they yearn for the unattainable; they want compensation for their losses in the past.While the men do have many similar ...

(6 pages) 71 2 4.3 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

Analysis of the poem "There is a Garden in her face" by Thomas Campion.

's affection is idolized beyond reality and is placed so high upon a pedestal that she is virtually unattainable. He speaks of her as if she is a goddess, and that no woman can match her beauty. He co ...

(2 pages) 25500 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"Araby" is about a young boy and his first experience with love.

a young boy who is attracted to his friend's older sister. The girl, who is probably much older, is unattainable. The boy experiences the feelings of love for the first time. The boy, who is raised in ...

(1 pages) 91 3 3.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

About Cetral Asian Politics

of the main aspects of Cultural Revolution was - adopting a new alphabet. "Old Arabic alphabet was unattainable and hard to learn for many people." Comparing to Arabic alphabet, Latin was more access ...

(5 pages) 46 0 3.4 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

GI Joe and Barbie: Bad for self-esteem?

agonist of the program has nothing to do with the enemies of America. The Barbie doll has a perfect unattainable body, and when little girls see this body they believe that they will or should look th ...

(2 pages) 38 1 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

This essay is a definition of the word perfection

Why does everyone strive for perfection when it is unattainable? It is unattainable because nothing in reality can ever be "perfect." However, we find ...

(2 pages) 71 0 2.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Romance and Satire in the Tales of Chaucer

e lover risks death to win favor with his lady, and for many years they pine away hopelessly for an unattainable woman. "The fairness of the lady that I see roaming the garden yonder to and fro is all ...

(3 pages) 40 0 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Art in Advertisements

y have 15% of the national average body weight distribution, therefore making the ideal essentially unattainable. In their frustration, women turn to the product, in this instance milk, for a way to c ...

(3 pages) 65 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Works of Art

Andrew Jackson: Brief reporn on Andrew Jackson (elected in 1828 and 1832)

ttable as a politician and as anindividual. His back-country upbringing brought him grit and staminaunattainable to many upper-class Easterners. Known as the "Old Hero," hismilitary victories brought ...

(4 pages) 61 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

T.S. Eliot: The Evolution of a Modernist

tian, were not the "civilized" people. Instead, they saw them as greedy hypocrites who made freedom unattainable. The modernists thought that the truly civilized people were the people who Victorians ...

(5 pages) 162 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Conscience

h it lived.Most parents allow a certain amount of rebellion. They realise that the perfect child is unattainable, and they also may notice that the very rebellions which they try to suppress in their ...

(18 pages) 159 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Internalisation of power- an essay on cultural ideals of femininity, internalisation of gender power relations and the effect this has on woman's sense of self.

Women have traditionally been assigned fanciful qualities that, whilst desirable in any person, are unattainable. In order to assess the impact of the beauty industry on woman's experience in the worl ...

(8 pages) 223 2 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Analyzation of Ogden Nash Poem, "Kindly Unhitch That Star, Buddy"

attained, in other words people's long and arduous journey through life is pointless and success is unattainable. Nash uses diction effectively in kindly unhitch that star to show how peoples q ...

(4 pages) 69 1 4.3 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry