In sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England women's attractiveness were played by the "practical visibility and erotic half-concealment"(Korhonen 335). Therefore in England in sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries identity of ideal beautiful woman was considered by the dress, gesture and comportment that she was presenting and wearing. ... To posit "the phallic body" as the "true, enduring sex object of Western culture" in place of "any female version of beauty" is to radically alter the paradigms inherited from the eighteenth century. ... With all beauty industries raising ...

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Independence Day is the national holiday of the United States of America commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of the signing the US consisted of 13 colonies under the rule of England's King George III. There was growing unrest in the colonies concerning the taxes that had to be paid to England. This was commonly referred to as "Taxation without Representation" as the colonists did not have any representation in the English Parliament and had no say in what went on. As the unr...

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