Pretty Babies Many of us first learned about the world of child beauty pageants when a 5 ½ year old beauty queen named JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered the day after Christmas in 1996. The child was murdered in her Boulder Colorado home and found in the basement with her hands tied‚ her mouth duct taped‚ and her throat garroted. Her death was ruled strangulation but there was also blunt force trauma to her head as well as vaginal injury (Auge‚ Karen‚ par. 13-15). Her death brought these
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Banning Child Beauty Pageants Child beauty pageants commenced during the early 20th century‚ (1921 to be exact). That is 96 years of a running completion of where contestant’s ages may range from below as one year‚ to eighteen years old. The majority of the children competing in this line of ‘sport’ may experience long-term and short-term effects‚ which may be detrimental to their juvenile mental and emotional wellbeing. Therefore children’s beauty pageants should indubitably be banned. The first
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Is Barbie Harmful to Young Girls? Blonde hair‚ blue eyes‚ business woman‚ rock star‚ princess and doctor‚ can you guess who? It’s Barbie. To be beautiful is to possess qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction‚ and for most‚ Barbie is the epitome of beauty. For years Barbie has been a doll that has been living in the hands of girls of all ages. Some girls start getting Barbies as young as three years old and continue to collect these dolls sometimes into early adulthood. But are these
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In the short stories‚ “The Good Corn” written by H.E. Bates and “The Great Leapfrog Contest” by William Saroyan techniques such as characters‚ point of view‚ setting and structure work together to explore the issue of personal conflict and establish tension between the main characters in each story. An examination of these techniques allow a more enhanced reading of the texts and in turn evoke a particular response from the reader. In the short story “The Good
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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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be argued that it can be watched during our leisure but students spend all their free time watching television instead of dividing it and doing more profitable stuff. Media is ugly filthy and dirty. It shouldn’t exist. But alas it does. That is harmful to everyone‚ not just children and students. But on this group is the greatest impact. T.V. has fake trash in it that misleads stupid children‚ who don’t know any better and whose parents can’t raise them properly and teach them what’s bad. Even
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Prejudice Writing Contest When we think of ourselves and the world we happen to live in the word that comes to mind would be amazing but sometimes we humans seem to disagree in many different ways. Some ways to start off is prejudice it is when someone is harmed or injured in result to someone else’s negative action or judgment. It can start at the simplest word like “mean” to the deadliest stab or wound. It can be making up stereotypes without knowing if it is 100% true or someone being racist
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Homework is harmful Sometimes‚ I feel as if I have been doing homework my entire life. As a child growing up‚ I moved from worksheets‚ dioramas and book reports to essays‚ major projects and term papers. When I began teaching‚ I had lessons to prepare and my students’ homework became my homework for grading. (And‚ on occasion‚ it was quite obvious that I was putting a bit more effort into MY homework than they put into theirs!) As my children reached school age‚ “Mom’s rules” on homework included:
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Is Gaming Harmful? Video and computer games‚ like many popular‚ entertaining and addicting kid activities‚ are looked down on by many parents as time wasters‚ but why?‚ is it because they are harmful?‚ or is it simply because they are spending too much time on them instead of studying. Both have many good arguments‚ but I am going to write about the one in which I feel are most valid. One of the many good points against gaming is that children‚ teenagers and adults alike are losing sleep
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Gladiatorial Contest in Rome Rome was a warrior state. Since the state was a great fighting state in their time‚ the wars sort of formed the gladiatorial contest in ancient Rome. The Romans were fascinated and pleasured by violence‚ bloodshed‚ and human suffering the gladiatorial games. The gladiatorial contests began at the reign of their first emperor Augustus to pay tribute to their warrior traditions. The Romans built artificial battlefields within amphitheaters in cities and towns
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