Women’s beauty and body image projected in media

Recently, I had the opportunity of watching a documentary film titled Miss Representation. The film’s goal is to encourage young people to think critically about how women are represented in the media. Spliced in were interviews of scholars pointing out the absurdity of these portrayals.

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Vignettes

The psychology of colours

The world is full of colours. Anyone who is not colour blind will see white, red, orange, brown, yellow, gold, turquoise, blue, indigo, black, grey, silver, purple and many of their shades in everything nature has endowed with man. Colours are so much a part of our life that the human body seems to be intimately keyed to colours.

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Thorns on the Side

A tantalising prospect

Do you like to look at the sky at night and wonder how far all those twinkling little stars are? They are indeed hundreds of light years away, although a few are ‘just’ four or five light years away. A light year being the distance that light travels in a year at 300,000 Km per second, even Alpha Centauri, the nearest star, lies at a distance we cannot comprehend.

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