Outline:
Thesis: Beauty as a whole has countless meanings, whether to not your beauty Is the same as others doesn’t matter, throughout the University of New England beauty has countless meanings.
Claim1: in order to understand what beauty is you have to take a look into Armstrongs description of the sense and from drives relationship with beauty
Quote 1: “there is sense drive which lives in the moment and seeks immediate seeks immediate gratification .it craves contact and possession.” (Armstrong 1)”The form dive:the inner demand for coherence over time, for abstract understanding and rational order”(Armstrong 1 )
Claim 2:I agree with Armstrong that it takes a balance contact and understanding to realize the true beauty in things.
Quote 2: “in this case-a case of beauty-both drives are at full power. bu they do not work against one another. instead, they co-operate, and Schiller’s point is that to experience a statue is that in this dual way is to find it beautiful.”(Armstrong 2)
Claim 3: In “Beauty is simpler, and less special, then we realize” from New York university explains how over time scientists, psychologists, and philosophers have come to a conclusion that over time beauty has become simpler than many think.
Quote 3:“researchers anticipate that a clearer understanding of beauty could change the way we understand decision making” (Beauty is simpler, and less special then we realize)
Claim 4: students and others alike find beauty in places that you may never think you could find beauty.
Quote 4:” when I was younger I used to live in the Dominican republic and its a tropical island so that alone is already beautiful. however one moment that sticks with me to this day was when I was in a small village where there wasn’t a lot of people with substantial income. but I just noticed all the ways the people in the village got together, collected food, had great comradery, and everything was just joyful.” (sheahan podcast)
Claim 3: not only at the university but in surrounding areas people view beauty in the world naturally.
Quote 3:” after I took a trip to the Maine coast , since coming back from Florida, I don’t like palm trees and manicured beaches, I’m not looking for that I’m looking for a rustic, wild, untouched beach, and thats what Maine has. it represents how harsh New England is.”(Casey podcast)
Continue to make your thesis more specific. Beauty has countless meanings—yes—but what if you added a “so what?” What is the result of this? You could also focus on what happens when people find something beautiful (like Armstrong) and explore how this process could influence your studies at UNE.