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    GENERAL PURPOSE: To Persuade SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT: To persuade my audience that I’m against the children beauty pageants CENTRAL IDEA: So what happens at a beauty pageant? What is it? Essentially a beauty pageant is a contest over physical attractiveness. Some contests have portions of that focus on talent and interview‚ but a majority of the points come from the beauty and grace of the contestants as well as their outfits. Contestants try to sway the judges by having the brightest smile‚ cutest

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    III) Today I would like to talk about children beauty pageant. IV) The three main points that I would like to share with you include the background‚ positive and negative of children beauty pageant. Body I) A child beauty pageant is a beauty contest featuring contestants below to 18 years of age. A) Contestants spend about two hours or less in actual competition and no longer than 90 seconds on stage for talent or 45 seconds for modelling routines. B) All pageants have slightly different

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    allows girl’s to make meaningful friendships and is just a sport that teaches girls how to win and lose gracefully. Pageants in the past were about your waist line and how great of a wife you would be‚ recently pageants have been transforming. These contests are not just about which girl looks the best in a swimsuit‚ the judges now crown for who could answer a question on any subject and give a well-informed answer in almost an instant. For example‚ in 2014‚ the Miss America title was given to the first

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    Garrison 1 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

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    of the requirements‚ including eating disorders. They also lead to bad sportsmanship and the parent’s desperate attempts to win‚ even at the risk of their own children. According to The Merriam Webster Dictionary (1899)‚ the definition of a beauty contest‚ also called a pageant‚ is “an assemblage of girls or women at which judges select the most beautiful.” In other words‚ if one is the most beautiful‚ she‚ or sometimes even he‚ will be the most successful. This may be true physically‚ but the personality

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    Michelle Algya Algya 1 Ashley Dolan English December 9‚ 2012 Miss Not So Perfect She was asked one question. She had thirty seconds to answer. With her long blonde hair‚ perfect complexion‚ never ceasing smile‚ and sparkling blue dress‚ Miss Teen North Carolina‚ one of the last contestants left‚ plunged into the glass bowl for her question: “Recent polls have shown that 1/5 of Americans can’t locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?” Taking a deep breath‚

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    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 dysfunctional

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    Beauty Pageants: Creating a woman of success or failure Typically when beauty pageants come to mind we think of beautiful women in beautiful gowns who win scholarship money for school‚ participate in community service‚ achieve the goals that are related to their platform and role models that we hope the young women of our society aspire to be. In reality‚ behind the scenes there is much more than what appears to the eye. Many can argue that they play a major part in women’s self esteem issues and

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    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 mind.

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    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 community.1 In her important contribution to this body of scholarship‚ Sarah Banet-Weiser keenly observes‚ “the Miss America pageant does not mean one thing

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