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What makes a person beautiful?

What is the genuine definition of beauty? Throughout history, history has always told what was
the standards of beauty. When we look on social media, in our environment and what was
informed to as young children about beauty. We began to have different emotion on what is
beauty.

The history of beauty started in the 15th century BC. In Athens, Greece, they did not
have no definition of beauty. Greek philosophers were normally the initial ones to be asked what
makes a woman beautiful. A philosopher name Plato said that if a symmetry and harmony they
were classified to be beautiful. In the Ancient Egyptians, they would principally concentrate on
the appearance of a person. When they would see someone with pale or smooth skin, they seen
that as beauty to them. In the Victorian era, they would focus on the extent of a woman. If the
woman was curvy was classified as beautiful. Amid the, twentieth century having pale skin was
still consider as a sign of beauty. All through history, the definition of beauty would always
dependably change.

Individuals in the society tend to tune into different opinions on beauty. When people
state their opinion on beauty. People think that they are right. Once the person has believed them,
they may feel as if they are not beautiful in themselves. Other people opinion can influence to
make a person have low self-esteem. For instance, when someone calls someone ugly it can
influence the induvial to consider less of themselves because they are

Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is with a rather interesting statement that Nature,
Emerson's first essay, opens. In the introduction, Emerson asserts that " we have no questions to
ask which are unanswerable. " Then, if we take wonder to mean a perpetual questioning of the
world and our place in it, this statement either denies the existence of wonder or redefines the
notion. Nature, therefore might become a new narrative of wonder with its own form and own
complexities. The use of the word are. Therefore, Hume later states “thus, through the principles
of taste be universal, and, nearly, if not entirely the same in all men; yet few are qualified to give
judgment on any work of art, or establish their own sentiment as the standard of beauty,” (Hume
109). If the critic allows bias to enter his or her consciousness while providing judgment, that
individual is not qualified for the task. When critics use their personal feelings to discern one
work of art from another, a standard of taste

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