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    The difference in the way that men and women are treated and portrayed through the media and society when it comes to images that enter the public domain is unfair. A fifteen-year-old girl walks into her classroom in the morning and can feel every eye in the room staring her down. People laugh and whisper to their friends‚ looking right at her as she takes her seat. She feels ashamed of herself guessing that nearly every person in the room has seen her in naked picture with the slutty pose that

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    Can men and women be just friends without any sexual tension between them? I don’t believe so. I believe‚ both from personal experience and from several scholarly sources‚ that there is always‚ at some point‚ a sexual attraction between two people of the opposite sex who have a friendly‚ pleasant relationship. There are too many natural human instincts that drive us to be sexually attracted to a person for male-female friends to not ever experience physical attraction towards each other. From my

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    while bad parenting will produce problematic children. Many people believe that women make better parents than men and that is why they have a greater role in raising children in most societies. Others claim that men are just as good as women at parenting.   According to Kurianjoseph (2013)‚ women have proven to be a better parent than men because women tend to be more understanding and patience than men. Besides that‚ women also possess good qualities in communication and intelligence. As an example

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    appearance is valued over talents or personality. Personality and talent can be included in pageants but are usually only given small fraction of time. More and more children each year are becoming insecure about their bodies and overall appearance. These things should not be ranked as one of the highest concerns among young children‚ but surveys have shown otherwise. The sexualization of children in pageants‚ where they are told to wear promiscuous clothing and model in suggestive poses‚ can be linked

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    Beauty Contests: Good or Bad? A beauty contest is a competition in which the entrants‚ usually women‚ are judged as to physical beauty and sometimes talent‚ with the winners awarded prizes or titles. There are several disputes over the affects of beauty contests‚ but in reality beauty contests give negative images to girls of all ages. Beauty contests build up the hopes and dreams of little girls‚ and even teenagers‚ only to hurt them later in life. Sure it’s fun to get dressed up and have everyone

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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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    Beauty Competitions‚ also known as Beauty Contests or Beauty Pageants degrade women to mere objects. Such a competition is the exploitation of women by men and other women. A competition based on skill or ability is all right. However in the case of a beauty competition‚ no skill or ability is involved. Beauty is supposed to be the criteria for such a competition. There is nothing wrong with judging people primarily on their physical prowess. We do this all the time in competitive sport‚ where fitness

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    Women these days are constantly being reminded of who is beautiful and what defines beauty. The media and beauty industries have an imperative role in their advertising to promote impossible standards of beauty in society. Many studies have been done to show the effects of the media on beauty image for women. These studies show the effect of media on women today by noting the increasing rate of plastic surgery and how the media negatively affect the woman’s self-image. In 2008 a report that was prepared

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    someone else’s opinion on beauty which brings me to the question “Do beauty contests really serve a purpose in today’s society?” There are many different kinds of beauty contests. They are for both men and women and range from infants to adults in age. It’s putting in young girls and women minds that they have to reach the description of beauty from society. It is all about what is inside and the person that they are that makes them beautiful. What the media and shows such as beauty contests have done is

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    Argumentative Essay - Beauty Pageants - Exploitative? A beauty pageant is a competition that is based solely on physical attributes but often includes talent‚ personality and question and answer portions. Most beauty pageants are made for women especially young girls at the age of five. Although beauty pageants are seemingly harmless and just provokes the competitive side of women‚ it should not be welcomed to young girls at age ten and below because (a) beauty pageants set their own definition

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