Integrate the passages and the quotations provided below, using appropriate signal phrases, transitions, and in-text citation, and deleting elements of the passages or quotations as needed. Then, cross check your answers. There may be more than one correct answer for each question.
This activity contains 5 questions
Passage: Some might argue that traditional good looks is not an indication of a person’s real attractiveness.
Quotation: “The philosophical dimension of beauty does not depend on the limits of the physical world; true beauty far exceeds our earthly bounds.”
Source: McMichaels, Roger. A Deeper Look at Beauty. New York: Graymark. 1995. The quoted material is taken from page 22.
Answer
While, traditionally, a person’s physical attractiveness is used to evaluate their beauty, the philosophical approach to beauty asserts that it extends beyond a person’s good looks. According to McMichaels (1995), “true beauty far exceeds our earthly bounds” (p. 22).
Passage: By examining beauty on a merely superficial level, some would argue that we miss out on the larger questions in life.
Quotation: “We must consider the intersection between perception and expectation: can what is there possibly be understood by what we see?”
Source: McMichaels, Roger. A Deeper Look at Beauty. New York: Graymark. 1995. The quoted material is taken from page 96.
Answer
McMichaels (1995) calls to consider the relationship between “perception and expectation,” questioning whether things can “possibly be understood by what we see” (p. 96). Using this line of argument, one can say that people can miss out on the larger questions in life if they examine beauty on a merely superficial level.
Passage: Simply loving beauty is not enough, some might argue; in order to really know what beauty is, you have to examine something from every angle
Quotation: “Lovers of beauty for beauty’s sake are concerned with subtle qualities as tone, texture, and luster, as well as color and shape.”
Source: McMichaels, Roger. A Deeper Look at Beauty. New York: Graymark. 1995. The quoted material is taken from page 296.
Answer
In order to truly grasp what beauty is, one has to examine it from every angle, and not merely admire it. It is necessary to consider the beauty’s “subtle qualities” such as “tone, texture, and luster” (McMichaels, 1995, p. 296).
Passage: Ideas of beauty are not necessarily consistent
Quotation: “Notions of beauty vary among cultural groups. Even long-standing societal beauty myths are constantly retold through contemporary stories.”
Source: McMichaels, Roger. A Deeper Look at Beauty. New York: Graymark. 1995. The quoted material is taken from page 306.
Answer
Ideas of beauty are not consistent across space and time: they vary in different cultures, and “even long-standing societal beauty myths” are being reexamined by the contemporary society (McMichaels, 1995, p. 306).
References
McMichaels, R. (1995). A deeper look at beauty. New York, NY: Graymark.