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    The Dark Side of Beauty Pageants With their glamour‚ expensive dresses‚ jewels and‚ big fake smiles‚ beauty pageant contestants are just hiding their true personalities under materialistic things. People may say that beauty pageants aren’t always about looks. The contestants are scored on beauty‚ personality‚ evening wear‚ athletic wear and over all perception of the contestant. Beauty contestant ages range from 2 years old to 60+ years old. The fact that contestants lie about their beliefs

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    Tiffany What Is Beauty to the Young Black Female? There’s more to me that the human eye can see. I’m a woman of purpose and destiny. A perfect design‚ I’m special and unique. I won’t be identified by the parts that make up my physique. My beauty is not defined by my skin or my hair and my soul has more value than the clothes that I wear. I’m not a symbol of pleasure or sex appeal; I have the natural ability to comfort and the power to heal. When God made me‚ He created a

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    perfect Barbie doll would come to life‚ as our 6 year old daughters while competing in a beauty pageant. They ware the latest lipstick and matching eyeliner‚ some have fake hair and even fake teeth‚ they prance around in sequence gowns‚ and sophisticated costumes‚ times have changed‚ and the sexualization and commercialism of children have increased. Pageants promote such a narrowly defined standard of beauty. If you look‚ really look at this little girls they don’t even look like little girls

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    Are Beauty Pagents Harmful

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    Are Beauty Pageants Harmful? Introduction I. As the old saying goes‚ beauty is in the eye of the beholder‚ which means that someone or something may be attractive and eye-catching to one person‚ but completely unattractive to another person. If we lived in a perfect world‚ maybe everyone would follow the wise words of this old saying and admit that evaluating beauty is a subjective practice. (Bartell‚ Jeffery) Unfortunately‚ none of us live in a perfect world and the society that does exist

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    Leah Erickson Mr. Graham AP Language and Composition 22 December‚ 2011 In The Eyes of its Beholder Little Eden Wood is a name that may vaguely pop out of the back of your mind. She has been internationally recognized for her beauty‚ song-writing‚ and fashion modeling‚ and she is not even seven years old. So who is this Eden Wood? Born February eighteenth‚ 2005‚ Eden Wood is well known throughout the pageant world as the unstoppable toddler in creatively bedazzled dresses (Lexton). She

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    Definition of beauty

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    The definition of beauty has changed over the centuries‚ and over time become more obscure. In the past beauty was defined by the tone of ones skin or by the size of a persons waist‚ but it has yet to be defined by the character of a person. Men and women alike are held up to these impossible standards that were set by society way before their time‚ and enforced throughout their adolescence. For example when looking at the poem “Barbie Doll” you can see how society was looking from the outside in

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    “Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion‚ for the real and for the truth.” -Abraham Maslow It’s important to have objectivity in writing so it is all truthful. The article “Painful Beauty” by Melissa Tan is objective because of the content‚ tone‚ and purpose. First‚ the article “Painful Beauty” by Melissa Tan is objective because of the content‚ which is strictly fact based. “In China‚ foot binding was a common practice from the 10th century onward.” (Tan) This shows that the author is

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    In countries all around the world‚ beauty pageants are held as a long-standing tradition. Often‚ young women participate in these pageants. While pageants are said to present a sense of self-esteem and value for the participants‚ these competitions often cause damaging emotional issues for an already trying adolescent life. One young participant anonymously said‚ "I used to think I was pretty‚ but once I got on stage and didn’t hear my name called the world came to an end and from then on‚ I’ve

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    Beauty queens by Libba Bray is the story about girls in a beauty pageant trying to survive a plane crash. It’s a satire about American society.The story is so funny because it takes the idea of girls in pageants and puts them in a hard life situations to see how they react. The author uses the superiority theory to get her point across. There many times when they are trying to find things to survive most of the girls were so worried about the pageant look didn’t care about necessities they needed

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    What do beauty pageants necessarily entail that makes them immoral‚ that makes it seem horrible to the populace? The ideas I seem to find most interesting for me to answer are many which I will list and the reader will read as they are introduced‚ which is to say they will not all be announced in one clump. Now‚ for someone to be an apologist or attacker of this topic‚ a description ought to be provided which I do so here “A child beauty pageant is a beauty contest featuring contestants under 16

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