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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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    BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER! THIS IS MARIQUIT PEREZ‚ 16 YEARS OF AGE AND PROUD TO REPRESENT ILOILO CITY! AND THIS YEAR’S MS. PHILIPPINES IS NO OTHER THAN… CANDIDATE NUMBER…10! MS. MARIQUIT PEREZ! OH‚ MY GOSH! IS IT REALLY ME? I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! Thank you! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! (MWAH MWAH MWAH) HEY‚ MARIQUIT! WHAT’S UP WITH THAT TOWEL WRAPPED AROUND YOUR NECK? D’YA THINK YOU’RE SOME KINDA SUPERHERO‚ HUH? DUH! HELLO!! CAN’T YOU SEE THAT I’M BEING CROWNED AS MS. PHILIPPINES??? AND THIS IS

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    III DISCUSSION There is no law regulating the management of child beauty pageants‚ according to the Attorney General of the Department of Justice in California. In this‚ the activity is exempted from the federal child labour laws and participants are not considered in labour although they do receive prizes and awards. The participants aren’t considered in labour despite receiving rewards for their performances. Since beauty pageants function individually‚ they set their own rules and differ in

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    ENG 101 SEC 5 25 November 2012 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Child Beauty Pageants In today’s world‚ there are quite a few things that bother us Americans. One controversial topic at-hand would be child beauty pageants. The article‚ “Playing at Sexy” written by Peggy Orenstein‚ goes into detail of the negative effects of showcasing one’s child in a pageant. Hilary Levey takes a different approach to child beauty pageants. She finds them to be just as helpful as children who take after school

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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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    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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    Aleena Garrison Honors English 10 Period 4 18 March 2016 Beauty Pageants Negatively Affect Children The official definition of a Beauty Contest‚ or pageant‚ is an assemblage of girls or women at which judges select the most beautiful. Although some people argue that they can be much more than a judging of feminine beauty‚ it is glaringly obvious that no good can come of them. Recent research shows that there is no use for child beauty pageants and they are harming our future generations (Statisticsbrain

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    A child beauty pageant is a beauty contest featuring contestants younger than 13 years of age. Divisions include talent‚ interview‚ sportswear‚ casual wear‚ swim wear‚ western wear‚ out-fit of choice‚ decade wear‚ and evening wear‚ typically wearing makeup as well as elaborate hairstyles. The debate about child beauty pageants in Australia is getting particularly ugly. Ever since the US group ‘Universal Royalty Beauty Pageant’ announced plans to hold its first Australian competition in Melbourne

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    be the as beautiful and perfect as the princess is. Child beauty pageants allow these young girls to wear elaborate dresses along with makeup that makes their face look unrealistic for a child. Some parents of children who compete in beauty pageants say that the competition help the child’s self-esteem; however‚ these dysfunctional and harmful pageants give young‚ vulnerable girls a false impression on what true beauty really is. Child beauty pageants are exploitative‚ pressuring children to adopt

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    Beauty is something that can be interpreted completely different from person to person. A famous quote that goes along with this perfectly is “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” I think a person’s inner beauty should be taken into account when deciding whether or not a person is beautiful. Wikipedia’s definition of beauty is‚ “a characteristic of a person‚ animal‚ place‚ object‚ or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction” while Oxford Dictionary states‚ “beauty

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