Desire For Beauty Research Articles

The Great Society subway: a history of the Washington Metro

This book describes how drivers in the nation’s capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don’t bet on it unless you’re in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 1-6-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, this book tells the story of the Great Society Subway from its earliest rumblings to the present. Unlike the pre-World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the Nation’s Capital take a different path? What where the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research, as well as oral history, the book argues that the Metro can only be understood in the political context from it which it was born; the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world’s richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters but, in the worlds of Lyndon Johnson, to create “a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for the community.” The book scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promise and limits of rail transit in American cities.

Abnormalities of the ear lobe

The ear lobe is obvious for all to see. The practice nurse may often be asked for advice about a particular lesion and is in a position to notice and comment on any unmentioned changes. Many lesions of the ear may be associated with years of exposure to the sun or created by desire for beauty and adornment. For others, more serious underlying problems may need to be considered, such as deafness in the presence of what might appear to be minor abnormalities of the earlobe.

Phytoöstrogene als Antiaging-Mittel

It is a well-known fact that the desire for beauty has always occupied mankind. According to the ideal of beauty, the most different methods for improvement of the appearance were carried out. The increasing portion of elderly people of the population with consecutive intrinsic and extrinsic skin aging gives this situation a special dynamics. Next to the beauty ideal preventive and curative measures during these life decades receive a prerogative meaning. The numerous positive effects of estrogen therapy in women are well-known, whereby there is more and more evidence that anti-aging effects occur through estrogen intake. Phytoestrogens derive from plants and have an estrogen-like effectiveness. Lately, creams containing phytoestrogens with the isoflavonoid compounds genistein and daidzein have been used for wrinkle-reduction. In this overview the actual knowledge regarding phytoestrogens is presented.

Die ambivalente aard van skoonheid en begeerte in die Ou Testament

Psalm 45:12 and Proverbs 5:25 are identified as the only two places in the Old Testament where the Hebrew word יפה for beauty is the subject of the two verbs אוה and הפד found in the Tenth Commandment (Deut. 5:21) for covet/crave.' desire. An exegetical comparison between the two text verses shows an attitude towards the desire for beauty which proves to be ethical ambivalent. According to this exegesis the social religious context determines the positive or negative experience or consequences of beauty and desire. This ambivalence introduces another perspective on the Tenth Commandment, as this view cancels any rigid interpretation of coveting: because the integrity of the covenant relationship between God and his people sanctions the acceptability or not of the use of beauty, or the desire of it.

The Problem of the Noble and the Practicality of Platonic Political Philosophy

A crucial dimension of Platonic political philosophy is investigation of eros for to kalon, desire for beauty or nobility that is at core of heroic and political virtue. Socrates' turn to investigation of the human things is due in part to his discovery that his ostensibly apolitical eros for beauty of ideas is based on problematic opinions about noble virtue, justice, and gods. His inquiry into these matters is practical for Socrates as it teaches him how to live and is useful for politics insofar as it helps us scrutinize political opinions and gives us a model of deliberation that is helpful for politics.

Artists and Daughters in Louisa May Alcott's Diana and Persis

The line of duty which dictated Louisa's life was rigid and unswerving, a rod of iron which she inherited from her stern father. In Amos Bronson Alcott's philosophy, the body must be subjected to the spirit, emotion to thought. The line of duty represents this subjection. The line of beauty, on the other hand, as Ticknor's vocabulary suggests, represents the body and its desires. It is soft, sinuous, and phallo-eccentric. If, according to Bronson Alcott, the spirit is transcendent and the body immanent, and thus the line of duty is perpendicular to the line of beauty, for Louisa and May this relation was reversed. In the pursuit of her chosen line, May figuratively rode on the back of her dutiful older sister. Louisa supported the entire family, and May in particular, through writing, sewing, and housework. The repression of her own desire for beauty and pleasure turned her into a beast of burden.