(TS)We are all unique, we all like and dislike different things. What some might find beautiful, others find disgusting.(SD) Naomi Shihab Nye writes a just this in a poem, saying." Nothing was ugly just because the world said so. He really liked those skunks. So, he reinvented them as valentines and they became beautiful. At least, to him."(CM)Nothing is ugly because one person says it is. (CM)Not one person or one group of people of many groups of people for that matter have the right to say something is ugly because there will always be someone out there who thinks it's beautiful.(SD)Anything can become beautiful if we just look closer. In Naomi Shihab Nye's poem she says "and they became beautiful. At least to him". (CM) If we look closer even the most desolate places can become beautiful, even if only to us.(CM)Sometimes what we find to be beautiful may not be shiny with a bow on top.(CS) What each of us finds unique depends of how each of us is unique from each other.
(TS)Beauty is all around us. No matter where we go in life, something beautiful will always be lurking in the shadows. (SD)I discovered this when I was confronted about living in New York City a few years back. (CM)I wasn't aware of the fact that a lot of people think of New York to be a dirty, money obsessed city, and now when I look back at all my years there, I understand. For a long time after I moved there I wasn't sure if that was completely true, many memories would pop up that wouldn't help me decide what I thought. (CM)Then I remembered a day that helped me decide. I was on the sidewalk, waiting for the stop light to turn green when I saw some newspapers fly-by in the wind. When I saw this my eyes automatically found the green of the trees in central park, then the gray, smog-filled sky. I looked around and saw so many different things going on and the colors for once weren't all gray, things seemed to pop of the concrete sidewalk. New York, to me, is one of the most beautiful places, not for it's money or class, but for it's ability to hold so much diversity. (SD)There have been times where I could not see the beauty that others see. (CM)A friend of mine once came up to me and asked me to read this poem she had found on the internet. After I was done I said I couldn't see why she though it was so special. (CM)It wasn't until she told me how the poem was beautiful to her that I realized not one thing can be beautiful to everyone. Sometimes we just have to learn to appreciate what some like until you find what seems beautiful to you.(SD)Just realizing this helped me open a new world, one filled with beauty in the shadows. Art is a good example of this. (CM)There is so much art in our world that sometimes we just don't know what to think. There have been many times when I would find a piece of art that I thought was beautiful. (CM)There was one piece in particular that took some time for me to like. The canvas for this piece looked as if someone threw two hundred paint-filled balloons at it. At first I only looked at the browns and the grays that were produced when some of the colors didn't compliment each other. But when I took a step back, I realized that all the colors came together to create almost a community. Every splotch of color worked with the others to produce something amazing. Even the grays and browns came together to represent that all communities can have a rough patch. (CS)These colors and defaults made this piece beautiful, at lease to me.
Beauty is a diverse subject. Everybody has their own idea of beauty, whether it's green trees and blue skies, or the purple clouds in the darkest of night. Everything has a deeper meaning to it, we just have to look. We don't have a right to say something is ugly just because we think it at first glance. Nothing is ugly because there is always going to be someone out there who finds it beautiful.
Self Assessment:
One of the things that I am working on to help improve my work in English is coherency. I feel that sometimes I get lost in what I'm writing because I am trying to make my work have flow that makes it easy to read and slightly poetic. On this essay I think I did a good job explaining how the world is beautiful to me and how others may see it. Each chunk had a different example of something that I find beautiful. I do, however, think that I need to start making my chunks more proportioned. Often times I will have something to say and my first SD and CM will be normal length while my final CM is very long.
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