Burning Your Body to be Accepted

People all around the whole go to extreme measures to be accepted by others. Often times these measures involve harmful things to the body. Someting that people do to be accepted and some people consider it beautiful is human branding
Human branding is a process is which someone marks there skin with a symbol or ornamental pattern. This mark is burned into the skin of the person. This burn is meant to leave a permanent scare. Human branding is performed with either cold or hot ironvere social pressure.

Gangs and other groups of people use branding as a initiation process. People will go to great extremes to be accepted in groups and to feel loved by others. A lot of times they feel that they must perform these harmful procedures to be accepted and wanted. Often times this human branding is seen when males bond. Fraternities will sometimes have human branding. Some people consider human branding as mutalating your body while others see it as body decoration and view it as beautiful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branding_persons

Different Cultures Idea of Beauty

What do people consider beautiful? Is a women pretty if she is tall or short? Fat or skinny? Brunette or a blonde? Blue eyed or brown eyed? These are questions that girls all around the world are asking. No matter where we live or what we do people want to be beautiful. Beauty can mean many things to many different people. Some people consider beauty as being wanted or desired sexually by the opposite sex.

 People think different things make someone “beautiful.” The majority of American men think a women is beautiful if she is tan or has a “glow,” and if she has a large chest.  Westerners also view woman who are tall and slender to be beautiful.

Indian men and Chinese men view women with white features to be beautiful. One study across 37 cultures showed men desire, on average, a woman 2.5 years younger than themselves for a wife, with men in Nigeria and Zambia at the far extreme, desiring their wives to be 6.5 to 7.5 years younger.

Most cultures considered the eyes a very enchanting feature, but the people from Asia are the ones who pay the most attention to the eyes. They help exaggerate the eyes by using eyeliners and black mascara, these help complement the Oriental and Asian skin tones. Another thing that is considered very beautiful in Asian culture is the women’s skin tone. Skin tone is a very big factor in determining beauty in the Asian culture. They prefer lighter skin color. They wear lighter makeup to help make a washed out effect which enhances the eyes and the cheekbones. 

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/courses/beauty/web5/mjain.html

http://www.marketresearchworld.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1885&Itemid=77

Do Beautiful People Make More Money?

Do beautiful people make more money? Studies show that people who are normal or just plain looking earn 5-10 percent less than the more “beautiful” people. More attractive students get more attention from their teachers and patients that are better looking have a greater chance of recieving better treatment then normal looking patients.

 There was a survey at London Guildhall University. 11,000 33-year-olds found that normal looking/ugly men earned 15 percent less than the more “attractive” ones. They also surveyed the women and found that the average, not so beautiful women earned 11 percent less then the more “beautiful” ones.

A study was recently done at the University of Florida and North Carolina about size. Apparently people who are tall get larger paychecks than shorter people. Every inch taller they got about 789 dollars more a year. It seems that most human will respond more favorably to beautiful people.

In 1981 and in 1988 economists did a study on women considered obese in terms of their body mass index. This study showed that the women who were obese earned about 17 percent less than the women with the normal body mass index. These statistics are shocking. Our world today is more concerned with beauty than actual ability to perform a job.

 

http://www.careerbuilder.com/Article/CB-312-The-Workplace-Do-Pretty-People-Earn-More/?

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http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/news/funny/beautiful_money/

Insight into Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer is a  Milwaukee serial killer who  murdered boys of Asian and African descent. His murders were gruesome and involved torture, forced sex with dead or alive captive, dismemberment, and cannibalism.

He was arrested first when caught fondling a young 13 year old boy in Milwaukee and was sentenced to one year in a work release camp. After serving ten months, he was released on probation for his good behavior and that is when his killing spree began.  His first murder was at the age of 18, shortly after being released and his first victim was a 19 year old hitchhiker.

There was a much talked about story about a 14-year-old boy who almost escaped Dahmer in 1991. He wandered into the streets without clothes. Police believed Dahmer’s story that the boy was 19 years old and was his partner, and took the boy to Dahmer’s house. In spite of noticing a weird smell there, they left without investigating. Soon after, the boy was killed and Dahmer kept his skull as a souvenir.

Was there something in Dahmers past that made him “crazy?”…Dahmer was the son of a chemist and as a child had a fascination for dissecting dead animals and by the time he was a teenager, was an alcoholic. He dropped out of college and his father forced him to enlist in the Army. But after just two years, he was discharged because of his heavy drinking. Since he did not want to face his father, he moved in with his grandmother and lived with her for six years. His grandmother asked him to move out when he was arrested for exposing himself in public.

Dahmer was finally caught by the police when a would-be victim escaped and alerted them. He was held responsible for fifteen murders and sentenced to fifteen life terms. Dahmer then expressed remorse and wished death upon himself. He was beaten to death by a fellow inmate and died of severe head trauma. Did Dahmer deserve this kind of death, or should he have had to suffer more? I believe he got off easy.

After Dahmer was arrested his home was searched. The things that were found inside the home was astonishing. There were bodies stored in acid filled containers, dismembered body parts found scattered around the house, and wallets and his victims personal belongings. Dahmer’s residence was torn down and now the area is a vacant lot. The money from Dahmer’s estate was split up among the families of the victims.