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    Consumption

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    University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons GSE Publications Graduate School of Education 6-1-2005 Consuming Globalization: Youth and Gender in Kerala‚ India Ritty Lukose ralukose@gse.upenn.edu Reprinted from Journal of Social History‚ Volume 38‚ Issue 4‚ June 2005‚ pages 915-935. Publisher URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jsh/ This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/gse_pubs/30 For more information‚ please contact repository@pobox.upenn.edu.

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    Miss Sunshine beauty pageant and is unsure of her true identity because of this. Richard‚ her father‚ is an unsuccessful motivational speaker and businessman and this effects his perception of himself. Another character‚ Dwayne‚ loses his sense of identity when he realises he is colour blind. The uncle in the film‚ Frank has been suicidal due to losing his love and is not happy anymore. Olive is the youngest of the Hoover family‚ her aspiration to become Little Miss Sunshine’s beauty pageant winner

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    Little Miss Sunshine

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    participate in a young girls beauty pageant ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ which breaches many moral values through out the film‚ Throughout the film you can see the family draw closer together and begin to over come many of their issues as a family. The film Little Miss Sunshine focuses on a young girl whose life was altered by the changing nature of society whereby "Child Beauty contests" define physical attraction and personality at as young as 8 years old. The pressure of the "beauty myth" is an onset for

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    frown upon the whole concept of a child being exposed to older men and women having them wear makeup and flirtatious outfits. As older women are also involved in beauty pageants‚ they too go through extreme acts of body changes making it harder for parents to fathom. Restricting little girls from engaging in beauty pageants or contests protects them from dangerous people along with remaining pure with their self-worth‚ learning to live as a child and not a woman‚ and retaining a healthy emotional

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    blondes‚ and plastered on smiles. Although outer beauty plays a role in all aged pageants‚ many people don’t know what really goes on in pageants. The superficial nature of beauty pageants even affects very young girls in our society. The popular TV show Toddlers & Tiaras once featured Algya 2 these sayings by contestants: “All children are beautiful it’s just some are more beautiful than others‚” “Facial beauty is the most important thing in life‚” “Beauty is painful‚” “ I’m happy I won but I’m more

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    As seen on the hit TLC reality show Toddlers & Tiaras‚ and its spin-off‚ Here Comes Honey Boo Boo‚ child beauty pageants put a premium on appearance. And in the case of so-called "high-glitz" pageants it’s an appearance that requires girls to dress up and perform like pint-size adults‚ complete with fake hair‚ spray tans‚ full makeup‚ ornate costumes and even artificial teeth (known as flippers). The child pageant and dance circuits are competitive‚ demanding and stressful. Watch any reality dance

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    Analysis of Emma Knight

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    agency would not have convinced Emma to join the beauty pageant‚ then she would not have gained more confidence in herself. In the beginning‚ there was a dream of glamour‚ convivial‚ adventure‚ and pure contentment. For a certain little girl‚ the thought of the dream was simply that…a thought. The adolescent Emma Knight watched the American dream on television but never thought of herself being in the dream. “For many girls who enter the contest‚ its part of the American dream‚ “It was never mine

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    really want something and don’t get it at the first attempt‚ are you a loser for failing or a success for trying?. Michael Arndt’s script‚ “Little Miss Sunshine”‚ tells the story of Olive Hoover‚ and how her dream of participating in a children’s beauty pageant brings her‚ and her dysfunctional but caring family into an eventful road trip from their home in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico to California. In the 2006 movie adaptation of the script‚ by following the stories of Olive’s

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    Formal Outline: Child Beauty pageant Introduction: 1. How many of you guys have heard or seen the show Toddler and Tiaras? It’s a show where toddlers and young children take stage wearing make ups‚ spray tans and fake hair to be judged on beauty‚ personality and costumes. Tiaras are following families on their guest for sparkly crowns‚ big tittles‚ and lots of cash. 2. Preview : I think child beauty pageant is absolutely unacceptable. Children should be on the play ground playing

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    little miss sunshine

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    chosen to watch and research on the film ‘little miss sunshine’ as I believe it is a great example of journeys. The film Little Miss Sunshine‚ directed by Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris‚ is about a dysfunctional family that take a road trip to a beauty contest. Along the way to the little miss sunshine pageant‚ the family must deal with crushed dreams‚ heart breaks‚ and a broken-down Volks Wagon bus‚ leading up to the Surreal Little Miss Sunshine Competition itself. The Hoover family might not be

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