Alice Walker's Beauty: When The Other Dancer Is The Self

Today’s society is about who’s on top and being better than everyone else. Everyone is always trying to be better for the sake of popularity. Children are growing up thinking that being normal is bad and that is unacceptable. Teenagers are committing suicide daily because of bullying about being who they are. Celebrities are trying to promote themselves by posting “false” pictures of them being “happy.” Perfection is not a real thing, if you are happy with your life, that 's perfect enough.

Low self-esteem is not necessarily some innate quality present in all girls, as it really only exists because that same girl is forced to grow up in a world where she is constantly told how imperfect and inferior she is compared to other women. Therefore, when a man is making direct eye contact and gesturing towards her, with the promise of some romantic escape, why wouldn’t she fawn all over him? Why wouldn’t she break her piggy bank, just so she can finally feel loved and accepted for that “one thing” that makes her special? The blame should not be placed upon the record companies, but rather those in society who allow this to happen. Love should not be some emotion that boy bands, or any male musician for that matter, exploit for their own monetary benefit.

Recently, there has been controversy over a certain topic. Are kids deluded narcissists, too coddled, and spoiled? Kids in this generation have awards handed to them like candy, believe that their online appearance is a true reflection of themselves, and are taught from an early age that “life is fair”. This is a problem because our generation is not learning how to deal with real life problems on their own, is relying on social media for their self-esteem, and is completely spoiled and ungrateful. First and foremost, kids are being coddled to the point where it could actually cause harm to their futures.

You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly’” (Westerfeld 83). As Shay said, what Tally thinks real life is like, and how things go, it really is not right because she has not experienced the real world that they are living in yet. This proves it’s set in a dystopian because, in a perfect world, all people are treated the same for how they look and aren’t required to get surgery to make them look “pretty”. There probably aren’t very many people wanting to live the world of the Uglies which goes to show how horrific it truly is. Since Uglies has such a different and dystopian society they really have no similarities other than that they both have plastic surgery.

Its sad because once you get two now me I am not what you first met me as.But no one would care about that because they still have that perfect image of the perfect girl that they want every girl to live up to but there is no way that we can because it is not how we see ourselves. How I see myself is athletic kinda nerdy and very very shy there is really no other way I see myself but I am glad that I don 't see myself as other people see me it is hard to stick to the way I see myself because people try so hard to change me.But I do it because I now it is what I have to do.People see me as shy nerdy and a goody goody but I don 't mind that because I know they are not all true. What I learned about myself from this project is I am judged by things I do not by how I act.What I also learned is that even tho it may seem Like I don 't judge people I do tho and there is no way to change that.What I learned from about other people is that they will judge no matter what you look like or whether or not you are friends with them or not they will still judge you.And I also learned is that everyone judges and there is no way to change that.the world is a place where we judge and there is nothing we can do

You generalize being different, you may be different in a positive or negative way, it’s just the negative way, which she describes as “deadly”, some people choose to be different and succeed in life for example make friends or finding a good job just because your personality is different, celebrities prove that as most of them are classified as weird however millions of people follow them. You speak from your own experience, she cannot do that as she is only explaining the stories of a minority of people out of 7

In reality, child actors are not as cheerful as in the movies and child dancers are not as graceful as we see them in the TV. There are many reasons that child performers should be ban. Being a performer limits a child’s formal education, makes the child physically vulnerable and putting the child at the risk

Hence, only after contemplation and delicate weighing of a celebrity’s deeds, both in and off the spotlight, can we make a conclusion whether the particular celebrity is a good or a bad influence. The issue is that most people are impersonating bad celebrities that they think are "good." Kids should be allowed from a young age to participate in choosing their own clothing, hairstyle, and bedroom decor. These habits will help him in choosing his role models. As clearly mentioned above not all celebrities want to become who they are, it rather happens fortunately or unfortunately.

There is no purpose of making a child do things that does not suit his or her age just to fit some rules. Children’s beauty pageants organizers may think that the little children are innocent from those thoughts adult has, however there was a girl who dressed as the Julia Roberts Pretty Woman character where she thought that she was just playing dress-up, but many adults found the whole act to be improper for a 3-year-old. If an adult sees a child doing improper things that might change the way a person thinks of a child, for example there are many mentally ill people who love children in a wrong way and by showing off the children people makes it easier to those people to do the dirty thoughts they have. I can add here more To conclude, children’s beauty pageants take a way what a grown up values the most, their childhood. We hear many grown-ups saying that they want to go back little, because they didn’t have any responsibilities back then, they were happy playing around in the dirt doing absolutely nothing , but what about those who participated?

Judging other cultures to one’s own culture is something that is very common in the world because everyone will not understand how other people do things because of how weird it is to them and how they do those things their way. This is and explain of Ethnocentrism, which is a reflection other cultures with one’s own culture; many people will compare their cultures to other cultures based on the values, standards, and norms of those cultures. In every culture, the living style is a lot different from the next; many people do things in different ways, for example, the way parents in The United States show the discipline to their children is not the same way parents in China punishes their children. Both cultures might compare each other’s way of punishment and may think that the other culture is weird. However, that is what Ethnocentrism is mainly about one culture comparing and contrasting with other cultures.