The Look Essays

  • Looks and Love

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    Looks and Love Before I left home for college, my group of friends and I sat down for one last serious heart-to-heart. Sometime during our conversation, the question of college choice arose. Emotions escalated as we realized how far apart we would be in a short time. "Why did you choose to go to MIT?" they asked, "Why couldn't you just stay home at a state university?" Wanting to lighten the mood, I replied, laughing, "That's an easy one...the guys, of course!" And after the initial uproar of

  • Going for the Look: Is it Worth It?

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    desire employees with “the look”. Companies want people that represent their product or brand. In the article, “Going for the Look, But Risking Discrimination” by Steven Greenhouse, the store Abercrombie and Fitch hire people with a “classic American” look. However, there are many problems that can arise with this. Marshall Cohen, a senior industry analyst, claims that companies are forced to do what is necessary. I disagree with this statement. Companies that hire based on looks are risking more they

  • Looks, Beauty, & Appearance Discrimination in Employment

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    Looks, Beauty, & Appearance Discrimination in Employment Employment discrimination legislation has evolved to include race, disabilities, sexual harassment of either gender, and age. In lieu of this evolution and an increasing trend toward equality for all individuals in the workplace, the time has come for the protective reach of employment discrimination law to cover ugliness. While the proposal may cause titters at first, evidence exists that discrimination based on looks (or physical appearance)

  • Data Mining and Privacy-an ethical look

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    Data Mining and Privacy-an ethical look I. Introduction In 2001, the MIT Technology Review listed data mining as one of the top 10 technologies that will change the world.[i] So, what is data mining? For many people, the simple answer is that data mining is the collecting of people’s information when logged onto the Internet. But Webopedia emphasizes that data mining is not the collection of data itself, but the statistical interpretation of it – allowing people to obtain new information

  • Produce a new look for a website.

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    Produce a new look for a website. 3.1.2 Formal Report =================== The problem that was in need of solving was to produce a new look for wow.com to target the 17 to 25 year olds. The look that the company were trying to aim for was young, energetic, dynamic and flexible. I firstly set out by comparing some current documents such as flyers, letters and invoices. This helped me as I could gather the best parts from these documents and use them to give me ideas to create new ones

  • Essay on Picture of Dorian Gray: Looks Can Kill

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    Looks Can Kill in The Picture of Dorian Gray Have you ever heard the saying, "If looks could kill"? Well, they can. Oscar Wilde reveals how looks can be charming, deceitful and even deadly. In The Picture of Dorian Gray, there are three main characters. Dorian Gray, who is a calm, very attractive young man and adored for his good looks, Basil Hallward who is a painter that idolizes Dorian and Lord Henry Wotton, an older man, who becomes a good friend of Dorian's. As Basil is painting a portrait

  • Many young people, today, are too concerned about the way they look. What are the implications?

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    At the began everyone know the look is most important thing in these nowadays, there are a lot of people who are concerned about the way they look very much. The implications can be very different. There are different factors that can cause this happening. The most dangerous one is for sure social factor. Almost in all level of our life, as in behavior, situations and preferences, also in clothing we fight for individuality, goal to accept others. Whether we like it or not, but whenever choosing

  • Don't Look Back

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    Shot in black-and-white with a hand-held camera, Dont Look Back (1967) has been called a “fly on the wall” perspective on Bob Dylan. It was filmed in 1965 by noted filmmaker D.A. Pennemaker, who later made film documentaries of John Lennon and David Bowie. At one level, the film is meant to give audiences a close-up and personal view of Dylan, just as he’s beginning to gain wider acclaim, on his first tour of the UK. However, this is less a traditional documentary than an “impressionistic film

  • Critical Overview of Play Look Back in Anger

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    Look Back in Anger Critical Overview Look Back in Anger has been recognized as a bombshell that blew up the old British theater. However, when Look Back in Anger opened as the third play in the repertory of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre (a company that had been founded the year before precisely to stimulate new writing that would have contemporary relevance), it was not an immediate success. The critical reaction was mixed, but many of the critics, whether or not they liked

  • Why Is Jimmy Porter Angry in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger?

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    Why Is Jimmy Porter Angry in John Osborne's Look Back in Anger? John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger shows us a turning point in the life of Jimmy Porter, husband to Alison Porter, and friend to Cliff Lewis. Throughout most of the play, Jimmy expresses his frustrations and anger in ways both verbal and physical. Why is he angry, then? There are many reasons for Jimmy's anger, and like most people, he is probably not himself aware of all of the causes of his frustration. Jimmy lives in

  • Health and Fitness Magazines Negatively Impact Male Thinking

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    a sudden you look up and see this drop dead gorgeous girl, whose looking at CDs in the next aisle. You grasp the CD case you were looking at firmly, and use the reflection quickly to make sure none of your pimples are ready to burst, and that your hair is fixed right. You glance down at you pants making sure they are set right on your shoes to make them look as cool as possible. Then you make sure that your shirt is straightened up. You take a breath and look up. She gives looks at you out of

  • Analysis Of Romance By Thomas Hart Benton

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    painting I pictured it taking place during the civil rights era, because of the clothing that the people in this painting are wearing. To me, this painting tells the story of a man and a woman taking a casual walk at the end of a work day. The man looks as if he just got out of work and decided to take off his shoes, roll up his sleeves and the bottom of his jeans, and unbutton the top button of his shirt and take a walk with his wife through the grass to talk

  • Egon Schiele's Self-Portrait

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    Egon Schiele's Self-Portrait When I look at this portrait, the first thing that hits me is the way the artist, Egon Schiele, appears to have made himself look animated, like a cartoon. The way in which his right eye is rounded like a cartoon character and his left eye is squinting and almost shut, adds to the idea of a the portrait being a cartoon. The squinted left eye is as if he is sneaking around and evaluating his surroundings. If you cover the right side of the face (with the widely opened

  • Comparisons of Art

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    because of the way that he is presenting himself and that he is ready to write. The man is sitting on a square piece of stone and it seems as though he is about to jot a few notes down or write a letter. You can see that he is holding something that looks like a writing pad of some sort and you see his writing utensil in his left hand. The actual pose of the man is very stiff, very perfect. The Man is sitting with good posture and he does not let his back slouch one bit. It seems to be an uncomfortable

  • Forbidden Knowledge in Digging for China

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    In Richard Wilbur's poem, "Digging for China", he writes, " 'Far enough down is China,' somebody said. 'Dig deep enough and you might see the sky as clear as at the bottom of a well.'" (Lines 1-3) Wilbur was suggesting to his readers that if one looks at the world in a different way, they could find a totally different place. We can see this concept when we explore Wilbur's poem as a whole piece. He is talking about finding a paradise in one's backyard. He emphasizes a lot about prayer, and looking

  • Gulliver's change throughout Gulliver's Travels

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    England. In addition, he starts to defend England in his talks, which are totally opposite of how he started. In part four we see the most change in Gulliver, he has lost a grip on reality and no longer wants to accept the fact that he is what he is and looks like a Yahoo. In part two and four of Gulliver’s Travels, we see changes within Gulliver. In the second part of the book, Gulliver finds himself living with a group of giants called Brobdingnagians. During his stays with the giants, he is very pleased

  • Intriguing Camera Work in Zeffirelli’s Film, Hamlet

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    work of Zeffirelli in Hamlet emphasizes the surveillance methods and intrigues carried out by the forces of good and of evil. In the opening scene, Elsinore Castle looms over the soldiers and people standing outside. The camera angle forces one to look up at the dark castle; then the camera surveys the people, revealing that the evil from witnhin the castle is not self-contained but looms over and affects everyone in Denmark. Inside the castle during the funeral, Claudius, the man who exemplifies

  • Purloined Letter

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    A Critical Analysis of “The Purloined Letter” by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe’s background influenced him to write the short story “The Purloined Letter”. One important influence on the story is that Poe seem to feel inferior to his class mates while in college, which may have been why he wrote Dupin to be seen as superior to his colleagues. While at the University of Virginia he owed others high amounts of money because of gambling, he would drink excessively to help hide his feelings of inadequacy

  • The Rights of a Political Prisoner versus the Rights of a Terrorist

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    reasons for why political prisoners are categorized as terrorist. Secondly, I will make the objection to the rights. Lastly, I will respond by explaining my position in which I believe that in any case that in any form a political prisoner who looks to takes in any actions of any form to infringe against my right to live life and to enjoy it should be categorized as terrorist. Several reasons come into of why political prisoners are categorized as terrorist. Before the tragic events of September

  • Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five

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    A Look into the Human Mind In his powerful novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut tells of a man named Billy Pilgrim who has become unstuck in time. He walks through a door in 1955 and comes out another in 1941. He crashes in a plane in 1968 and ends up displayed in a zoo on the planet Tralfamadore making love to Earth porno-star, Montana Wildhack. He ends up in the cellar of a slaughterhouse when Dresden is bombed to ashes during World War II; Billy, his fellow Americans, and four guards were