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    that does it” (Moss 7) Instances such as these are an outgrowth of that apotheosis of stage mother narcissism and child exploitation known as child beauty pageants. These shameless exhibitions treat small girls (and some boys) as if they were highly groomed pedigree dogs at a kennel show instead of children. Many parents enter their children in beauty pageants under the false notation that their child will be rewarded with confidence and self esteem‚ however‚ today’s pageants often foster poor body

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    provided by The University Of Texas at Austin‚ General Libraries (5 Apr 2013 15:10 GMT) Beauty Queens Behaving Badly Gender‚ Global Competition‚ and the Making of Post-Refugee Neoliberal Vietnamese Subjects Nhi T. Lieu Beauty pageants have received plenty of scholarly attention in the past two and a half decades‚ demonstrating through critical analyses and well-researched studies that these spectacular contests perform a number of cultural‚ social‚ and symbolic functions for any given local or national

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    one of the thousands of babies forced into the many children’s beauty pageants each year. Sharon is among the many over-demanding parents who pressure their young and innocent children into beauty pageants each year and this is wrong. Beauty pageants were started many years ago but became more prominent in the society in 1921‚ when a hotel owner started a contest to keep tourists in town past Labor Day. The winner of this contest would be called Miss America. Miss America pageants have been a

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    discriminate anyway: they’ll blow away a woman on their trail as readily as a man”. Similarly to Claudia‚ Gracie Hart‚ in the film Miss Congeniality‚ is a woman working in male dominated‚ FBI workforce. Hart goes undercover in a Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a serial killer of bombing the event. Like Claudia‚ she is also hard-boiled and has a tough external persona. She is very much work orientated and is not interested in her

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    The beauty contestant who is turning head‚ but not for the reasons you might think. Ariana Miyamoto is a beauty contestant winner from Japan who has got the country talking. She is tall and without doubt stunningly beautiful‚ however many people have commented on the fact that she doesn’t ‘look Japanese’. Ariana was crowned Miss Universe Japan in Tokyo in March this year but it has not been the happy time we might all predict. She has faced a barrage of backlash in Japan for being mixed race

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    drama written by Michael Arndt and directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. It follows the adventures of the Hoover family when they embark on a road trip‚ to take Olive‚ the youngest of the family‚ to participate in the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. As the Hoovers travel from their home city Albuquerque to California‚ the directors satirise aspects of American society through irony‚ stereotypes‚ narration and filmic techniques. Some aspects that have been satirised in the movie were

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    Shona Ethnoaesthetics: Beauty and the Shona Proverb by Kudzai Matereke Lecturer‚ Great Zimbabwe University; Ph.D. Candidate‚ University of New South Wales‚ Australia kudzaimatereke@yahoo.co.uk & Jacob Mapara Lecturer‚ Great Zimbabwe University; Ph.D. Candidate‚ University of South Africa jacomapara@yahoo.co.uk Abstract This paper seeks to examine how the Shona traditional society conceptualised beauty; drawing from the meaning and content of the Shona proverb‚ suggesting that traditional

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    from fear and want and that can grow up in peace”(Annan). Beauty pageants do not protect children’s rights nor from danger. Children and toddlers involve in beauty pageants are sorrowful because the parents are living their lives for them. Beauty pageants have cause children to have abnormal developments‚ social relationships conflicts‚ appearance conflicts‚ and emotional or behavioral problems (Eder). The parents of the children in beauty pageants do not see the negative effects pageants have on

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    to me. I just want to see how far I can go." 2. "It is for me to gain experience and exposure as it would help me for castings in the modelling industry." 7 reasons : 1. BUILDING SELF-CONFIDENCE The number one of a million reasons to enter a beauty pageant is to build self-confidence. Take me‚ for example... You would never catch me talking in front of large crowds‚ or being social at all... until my Mom entered me in my first pageant amongst 213 girls! Talk about life changing! I walked away

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    Chapter I Introduction In a beauty-pageant-crazy country like the Philippines‚ the annual Miss Universe pageantry is a most-awaited event for many Filipinos. It is that time when many Filipino people gravitate towards their TV sets with their eyes wide open as though entranced on the pageant events as they unfold. Probably next to boxing‚ the Miss Universe pageant is the most-widely watched worldwide event in the Philippines. As evidence of the country’s penchant for this event‚ the country has

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