Additionally, these individuals have to some degree conformed and adapted to their own group's ideas of "good taste,"" as Kant argued people must do. ... "I should have taken [the coach] at his word and never played the game" (Sabo 428). This quote shows how just because the choice to don football attire with all its associations is socially acceptable and looked highly upon, that doesn't mean it is always the right choice. In his art, Laurent forces us to consider whether the youths' fashion choices are based on short-term efforts to "fit in"" or whether they communicate a deep...

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As well as these skills, a woman must possess a natural grace and flawless manner "to deserve the word" (39). ... While, as it is implied by the opening quote, marriage was considered a goal, or duty of women, the power of manipulation was a tool which women could use to their advantage. ... Despite Charlotte's choice to encourage Collins being a conscious one, it is a choice that she makes only because of the social inequality women faced in this time. ... Mrs Bennet tells her husband that he must "come and make Lizzie marry Mr Collins," threatening Elizabeth's a...

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