Kirstin Costello Michelle Marits Eng 112 - Writing Project 1 21 September 2013 Controversy on Child Beauty Pageants Child beauty pageants have been around for a long time. Children started competing in beauty pageants in the 1960’s. (Nussbaum) Children are judged on beauty‚ talent‚ and outfit of choice. Little girls or boys from infancy all the way up to preteen are judged in all of those categories.They base everything off of
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During child beauty pageant competitions‚ child competitors are pressured to look ‘flawless’ by their parents to win. Actions are taken place by the parents in order for their child to win at all costs by pushing their child to imitate unnatural adult-like physical appearances. Parents will also enforce disciplinary actions onto their child for poor performances‚ lack of enthusiasm or a flawed appearance. Many parents will also deny their child naps or breaks during the pageant schedules in fear
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Benefits of Pageants Nowadays‚ many beauty pageants are being planned and held due to their innumerable useful effects. In fact‚ different from earlier when pageants were only held in schools‚ now most communities also organize their own events as they believe it is an excellent method of displaying talents. Other than simply entertaining people‚ pageants offer the following benefits. 1. Develop communication skills A common standard for testing participants in pageants is basically how fluent
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perhaps they would rather not see it as it is. Child abuse is running ramped in beauty pageant around the world and children are not being protected from their Legal Guardians that are causing major harm to the child throughout both their childhood and leading into adulthood. Legal Guardians are entering their children into beauty pageants at the young age and are subjecting them to mental and physical abuse. Beauty pageants are competitions that children are competing being as young as 11 months
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sexy by wearing makeup‚ hair extensions‚ “flippers” -- false teeth to hide baby teeth -- revealing outfits and by learning provocative poses and moves. Paul Peterson‚ president and founder of A Minor Consideration‚ said on “Good Morning America” that beauty pageants are “feeding the sex industry.” Is the woman who walks the ramp a true woman?? Who is a true woman?? Is she someone who has the perfect hour glass figure created by strenuous exercise and diet and cellulite chiseling off? Is she the
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Beauty and The Beast I have always pretended to be belle from “Beauty and the Beast.” I wanted so desperately to find my prince charming‚ dance to songs‚ have a castle filled with enchanted creatures‚ and have a library filled with books from floor to ceiling. Many years later‚ after watching the same story plot unfold‚ what I can honestly say about Belle is that she could have been a role model in ways that she lived her life. The personality of Belle was her strength‚ because she was open-minded
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The value in child beauty pageants is extremely difficult to find‚ partly because it doesn’t exist. The industry is responsible for confidence issues in millions of participants that can’t seem to win the ‘Grand Supreme Title’ or the “Prettiest Smile Award.’ As quoted by Andrews‚ “experts see a clear association between these types of events and the development of body image problems‚ eating disorders‚ and depression” (1). The young participants are resulting to harmful act to relieve the pain the
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The very popular children’s movie “Beauty and the Beast” was originally a fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont. While the movie holds true to many of the themes displayed in the fairy tale‚ it falls short in other aspects. In the original fairy tale‚ the deal between the merchant and Beast is that one of the merchants daughter die in place of the merchant. However in the Disney movie the deal that takes place between Belle and Beast is only that Belle stays in the castle as his
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When we think of beauty pageants we tend to think of the society’s idea of perfect little girls competing to see who the judges think is the most beautiful. Also‚ we think of crazy moms who push their children too hard and will do anything so that their child will win. All of this is true but there are more issues with beauty pageants‚ some that are more concerning. Beauty pageants are judged based on physical appearance‚ yet haven’t we always been told not to judge based on looks? They aren’t healthy
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Child Exploitation in Beauty Pageants Beauty pageants should be banned across the world because of the different negative effects it has on children including fake love‚ national endangerment‚ and poor true self confidence. While there have been many attempts to make child beauty pageants illegal‚ it has failed to be banned in America unlike France where it is illegal. On any given day in America‚ 234‚000 sex offenders roam the streets. Many preying on girls where the median age of assaulted girls
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