![]() ![]() Diets, exercise crazes, and the media's portrayal of the 'ideal body' has been a major contributor to women and young girls, as well as men, believing their natural body shape is not acceptable. How did a time once filled with nothing but joy turn into this doom of "will my body be good enough"? America has grown increasingly more hostile towards body image over the past 50 years. Over the past several weeks, I've gotten many nervous "7 weeks until bikini time," "4 weeks until bikini season," "2 weeks until I have to be in a bikini," "I'm not going to the beach or any pool parties this summer" texts from several different friends. Main stream media has begun to include all body types in modeling and advertisement campaigns, but yet there's a sense of not feeling good enough still lingering in the air. Summer is the warmest and most fun season, but it can also easily be the most stressful season for anyone who suffers from body image issues. Whenever I give a tour of my town I never leave out the village or the colleges because they’re such a huge part of what makes my town so special. In fact, Claremont is known as a college town because of how college centered it is (so much so we actually named a lot of our streets after famous colleges). They all have their own personalities despite not having any distinct borders separating them. They’re all very distinguished, both in their reputation as educational institutions and their campus. They’re known as the Five-C’s (The Five Claremont Colleges): Pomona, McKenna, Scripps, Pitzer, and Harvey Mudd. What also contributes heavily to the grandeur of the city is the fact that it’s the home of five very prestigious colleges. You’ll rarely find the restaurants and shopping attractions anywhere else. It has a village that’s filled with unique, privately managed businesses that further add to the uniqueness of the overall city. Nevertheless its beauties are unbound by the restrictions of descriptive words as they do it no justice. ![]() Therefore, even if the fear does not deviate from the path of normality, it does deviate from a healthy path and should thus be defeated.Ĭlaremont is about an hour or so away from L.A. However, there is room to say based on the term "pathological" that the fear is unhealthy for an individual to have, whether it is normal or not. ![]() Every human being has been on a different journey, so "normal" is not a term that can be placed on someone's journey and not another's. But who defines "normal" anyway? In the majority of cases, fears can be traced back to an experience in one's life that has led them to cling to fear as a sort of comfort and escape. Individuals are often kept from facing their fears because they feel abnormal and are paralyzed from moving forward. The individual can then choose to reason and write out why it is illogical to have that fear. It is possible, in any situation or fear, to identify the underlying problem or misconception. This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA).Ones with these types of fears must understand the benefit of overcoming their anxiety and diving in to the root and core issue of their fears. In the lower right corner is a hand print that Dalí insisted was left by his own hand. Swarming around the large face are biting serpents. In their mouths and eyes are more identical faces in a process implied to be infinite. In its mouth and eye sockets are identical faces. ![]() The face is withered like that of a corpse and wears an expression of misery. The painting depicts a disembodied face hovering against a barren desert landscape. This work was painted between the end of the Spanish Civil War and beginning of the Second World War. He sometimes believed his artistic vision to be premonitions of war. The trauma and the view of war had often served as inspiration for Dalí’s work. It was painted during a brief period when the artist lived in California. The Face of War (The Visage of War in Spanish La Cara de la Guerra) (1940) is a painting by the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. ![]()
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