"I Sing the Body Electric,"" is a poem where Whitman explores the human body in a series of lists. ... A connection between men's and women's bodies, stating that both bodies are sacred, so all bodies in themselves are sacred. ... His attention is addressed to a scene of a male and female slave being put up for auction. ... Whitman believes that no matter the color of the skin on the body, the body is still made of the same pieces that make every other body perfect. ... This ending to the poem can be seen as a sort of climax of the poem as it gives reason for the praise of the body a...

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Having a great body is one of the things that everyone dreams of. Nowadays, body image has become an important part of our life. ... For men, the perfect figure is having a bigger and muscular body, while women want to be slim and tall. ... In these times, magazines, television, newspapers and advertisements are the types of media that can affect their way of thinking because these young males and females are prone to be influenced easily. ... These young males and females are willing to change the size of their body in order to get the idyllic body imag...

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Males and females provide balance in a society that is so dominating when it comes down to the male figure. Normally, society labels males and females as being opposites where as the law tries to provide the same rules to a male as it does to a female. ... Males have a vast advantage compared to women. Males were born to have a stronger physical structure. ... They see themselves having to be a strong body structure and tough on the inside by not showing their emotions. ...

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According to Mosbey's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health Dictionary, Body Composition is defined as the relative proportions of protein, fat, water, and mineral components in the body. It varies as a result of differences in body density and degree of obesity. Basically body composition describes the percentages of fat, bone, and muscle in a persons body. ... Body composition also contributes to a persons overall appearance. A healthy male should have about12 to 18 percent of fat. ...

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Body Modification Body modification and adornment is a universal culture. ... Body adornment and modification is a very broad subject, ranging from ceremonial body paint to amputation of appendages. Body piercing is the subject that is going to be discussed in this paper. ... Pants were cut very closely at the crotch, and would make the male genitalia very pronounced. ... However, as body modification becomes more popular, it becomes contradicting. ...

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Body image involves our perception, imagination, emotions, and physical sensations of and about our bodies. ... A female should look like and have the same dimensions as Barbie, and a male should look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. ... People with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) worry about their appearance. ... Every magazine has the same body image for boys, girls, men and women. ... We must reclaim and redefine our bodies as ours. ...

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I did not choose this body type but it certainly chose me. ... Wether male, female, big, or small chested society shies away from the term "busty.... It even has a coarse connotation which co encodes with the way I was told to view my body. ... This is a body type is widely desired and even prized. ... My body type does not change due to the use of a convenient euphemism, it is what it is. ...

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History of Body Piercings Throughout history people have decorated and altered the appearance of their bodies in many different ways. Body piercing is one of the oldest and most interesting forms of body modification, yet the reasons for piercing the body are as diverse as the cultures they come from. ... Body piercing was often identified with royalty and portrayed courage and virility. ... The oldest mummified body in the world was found frozen in an Austrian Glacier in 1991, tests showed the body to be over 5,000 years old. The body had pierced ears and the holes had been enlarged to...

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Over sexualization of the female body. ... In a study made by PBS it was found that "exposure of body parts is usually coded high for sexualization, but does not always register. ... It may not be something we can change right now but it is something we must try to change because it is awful to set standards on someone's body. ... Women's upper body is of the same anatomy as that of men yet we are censored for having more fatty tissue on our breast. ... And in this case it goes for both instances of female and male rape. ...

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Some of the issues that affect the woman's body and appearance include fashion, breast size, menstruation, body weight, and body complexion. Women develop body projects that help then adopt what they desire in their bodies and lose what they fell is not necessary. ... Fashion industry has idolised certain body types and shapes. ... Girls and women are more dissatisfied with their body weight that their male counterparts. ... Sometimes the body parts that are fixed may fail to heal. ...

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Pictures of muscular macho males and thin beautiful females fill magazines, television and the music business. ... Men are at the gym, striving for that toned body they think is the answer to all their problems. ... Throughout the 70's and 80's body images fell into the "toned look". ... Individuals suffering from Bulimia Nervosa consume large amounts of food and then take measures to rid the body of it. ... They keep trudging on toward that beautiful thin bronzed body that everyone says is the meaning of perfection and happiness. ...

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This can be done in a number of ways, mainly through advertisements in which the male and female body is often used to sell products, some that don't seem entirely relevant to be presented only by people with "beautiful" bodies. In this essay I will be talking about how women's body shapes have been represented through a number of different trends in society over the last few decades and how these changes have brought different ideas about what society perceives to be a perfect body, and how this has had a massive affect on society, especially at a time when new technology allows us ...

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The male fossil showed that the pelvis was big enough to pass a newborn baby of today's size through its canal. ... Both the male and female were about the same height of that of today's people but that they were much heftier. Scientists were able to determine the body weight of a male to be about 210 pounds and the female to weigh about 170 pounds, obviously much heavier than the average man and woman of today. ... From all these fossil findings, anthropologists went back and carefully looked at other fossils that showed some of the same traits in their body size. These were mad...

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In Walt Whitman's case, we now know that Whitman was a homosexual male and his works are evident that he includes this aspect of writing in his works. ... Whitman believed that the body was a beautiful thing, and one should not be ashamed of what they had, and he himself was a large advocate for being naked in public. ... The everyday burden of dressing to Whitman was only a way of covering up our bodies, thus giving someone else the power to say that our natural state of beauty was not one that we should be proud of. ... As Whitman believed there was nothing wrong with nudity and our ...

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Today people can change their clothing, hair, teeth, face, and body. ... This is seen currently with the trend of body piercing, tattoos, branding, and other forms of body adornment. ... Body piercing, tattoos, and other forms of body ornamentation have been used for years among indigenous people globally. ... Body ornamentation provides an attainable alternative to that standard. ... The moko is usually done on the face, but may be applied to other parts of the body. ...

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They are chemicals of artificial testosterone, which is a male hormone. ... Five percent of male and two percent of female high school students are using steroids. So that would be equal to 375 thousand males and 175 thousand females. ... Inside their bodies they are actually ruining themselves. ... For females you could get male patterned baldness, smaller breasts, deeper voices, hairy bodies and menstrual irregularities. ...

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Basketball and Nutrition For an athlete to perform to his or her best ability, the body must be optimally fueled. ... The recommended intake for a basketball player is different for males and females. ... Physical side effects: • Cancer • Liver Damage • Feminizing effects in males (growth of breast tissue) • Male attributes in females (deepening of voice, excessive hair growth) • Enlarged clitoris. ... Anabolic steroids are manufactured or synthesized derivatives of the male hormone, testosterone. ... It is responsible for growth, muscular developmen...

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I think that because their bodies are already starting to change, they will need to know what is happening to them in order to figure out why they feel how they do. If somebody would have told me what was going on the first time I had an erection, maybe I wouldn't have been convinced that my body was about to explode. ... I think that males are much more aware of their penises and what they have the potential to do, as masturbation is seemingly more common and frequent among males. However, I also think that women whose bodies are developing also need to know as much or possibly more t...

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The Body Project: The Media's Loss of Reality When Dealing With Body Image. ... It is their body image. Body image is something that everyone has. ... Both males and females are influenced by body image. ... Where does ones body image come form? ...

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Understanding the body is one of the essential components of sexual development when the children are young. ... Parents should understand that young toddlers love being naked and exploring their bodies. The children would start understanding their gender of male or female at the age of 2 or 3. ... At this early stage, the child will start to associate with certain behaviors referred to as gender roles of being male or female (Zosuls, et al 2011). ... The children get to explore their bodies purposefully during the period (Zosuls, et al 2011). ...

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Some girls feel that the media pressures them to have a perfect body. Advertising images have also been accused of setting unrealistic ideals for males. ... Many males are insecure about their physical appearance as advertising and other media images raise the standard and idealize well built men. ... Advertisers need to understand the consequences to their ads that they are displaying to the teenagers of today, both male and female. ... So think about the millions of teens who are unsatisfied with their body image or wardrobe and help them out. ...

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The United States Navy studied the upper body strength in 38 men and women. ... Overall, the female solider has been 4.7 inches shorter, 33.9 pounds lighter, and she has had 37.8 less lean body mass. Lean body mass has been related to one's physical strength (Catherine L. ... Resentment built up among the male soldiers and ultimately caused the unit's morale to fall apart. ... Women tend to outscore their male counterparts on written tests (Komarow). ...

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A) Introduction Hemophilia is the most common hereditary blood disorder, affecting approximately one in ten thousand people, almost all male. ... Hemophilia is classified as either mild, moderate or severe, depending on the amount of clotting factor a person has in his body. ... A person with severe hemophilia has less than 1% of the normal amount of clotting factor in their body. ... Which is bleeding that starts inside the body for no known reason. ... This makes him male. ...

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They are a threat to the masculinity of the male characters by showing their power, beauty, or cruelty. ... This analysis is going to demonstrate that the threat of the female takes two different forms: the threat of the heroine and the threat of the female body. ... King Solomon's Mines show the characters' journey inside a female body and features a beautiful female character, while the journey in She takes place on the surface of the female body and the main female character is an ugly and malevolent figure. ... They describe the land as if it was a female body. ... Finally, I wi...

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However, first, we must analyze paradoxes; in The Girl Before a Mirror male and female contadictions exist. ... The figure on the right has a male head but a very female lower half while the figure as a whole again has the form of an erect penis, the girl's buttocks doubling as male testicles. ... Picasso appears to be looking for a solution to the male-female conundrum: in order to be attracted to man woman must presumably contain some male element. ... In "The Mirror" Picasso uses these thick, overpowering lines to convey, by contrast with the lightness of the flesh, a female body afla...

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