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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Beauty Contest Experiment The experiment executed in the seminar was very simple. Players had to choose a number between 0 and 100. The objective is to choose a number based on your guess of the mean guesses of the group and multiply it by 2/3. It is called the Beauty contest Experiment because it was based on a theory John Maynard Keynes proposed on the relationship of the stock market with beauty contests conducted in newspapers of his time. In this report I will examine the logic behind choosing
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Colorblind? Little Miss Sunshine is a movie about a dysfunctional (yet oddly supportive) family’s road trip from hell. This extended family consists of a mother‚ father‚ her son from a previous relationship‚ daughter‚ uncle and grandfather. This film was released August 18‚ 2006 and won two Oscars for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role (Alan Arkin) and Best Writing‚ Original Screenplay. Abigail Breslin was nominated for her portrayal of Olive. Little Miss Sunshine was also nominated
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Makayla Todd Mrs. Heather Huffman First Year Experience 3 October 2012 Layered makeup. Clouds of hairspray. False teeth and lashes. Exotic hairstyles and outfits. Provocative postures. Awkward facial expressions. This is the perfect description of Barbie‚ right? No. These are society’s pretty little girls spiraling down to destruction. For many years‚ young children‚ mostly girls‚ have spent way too many hours practicing a routine or exercising their smile to score high in the intense competition
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involved. According to Wang Dong‚ the audience for beauty pageants has a male-female ratio of fifty-four to fourty-six (qtd. in Zhou) which means that males account for over fifty percent of the viewing audience. In this last year of the Miss USA contest‚ the judging panel consisted of four males and
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 PURPOSE 1.2 DATA DESCRIPTION 2. BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS AND TODDLERS & TIARAS 3. TELEVISION AND REALITY TV AS A MEDIUM 4. REALITY TV RESEARCH 4.1 MEDIA SPECTACLES 4.2 OBSCENITY OF TODDLERS AND TIARAS 4.3 USES AND GRATIFICATIONS THEORY 4.4 STUART HALL’S ENCODING-DECODING MODEL 5. METHOD 6. FINDINGS 7. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS 7.1 LIMITATIONS 8. CONCLUSION 2 2 2 3 4 5 5 7 9 10 11 13 29 31 31 33 ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT
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condemnation because they are in a position to encourage and authorise the CBP ideologies. Sarah Burge from the United Kingdom‚ who has dramatically ‘made over’ her seven-year-old daughter Poppy‚ and taken her to compete at the Darling Dolls of American Contest 2012‚ will be the object of study. The aim of this essay is to provide an assessment of Sarah as a child pageant’s mother‚ analyse and discuss whether her motivations and behaviours constitute the criteria for Factitious Disorder by Proxy (FDP).
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character contest in “The Use of Force” Everyone would like to be known for having a good character. One should want to be a person who has integrity‚ great morals and some measurement of faith. When we’re put into different situations‚ sometimes‚ our character is tested. In William Carlos Williams‚ “The Use of Force‚” the main characters in this short story is the doctor‚ the little girl and her parents. When we analyze this short story based on Erving Goffman’s theory of character contest‚ we see
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17 April 2012 The Negative Side to Beauty Pageants in Children’s Lives Two hours before the pageant‚ in a crowded hotel room‚ a mother and her two daughters are rushing to accomplish all of the last minute tasks. The stressed mother is doing her best to keep the youngest child calm and in her seat while she gets her extensions put in and her hair plastered into the style of the day. The little girl is screaming because her head hurts from her hair being yanked on and she is sick of sitting in
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Painted Babies The documentary Painted Babies is produced by Jean Treays and she constructed it using visual techniques and conventions to persuade the viewer to adopt the views towards the parents‚ especially the mothers of the baby girls. It has the characterization of the parents and the babies as well as the selection of interview and scenes. the techniques are used in the documentary to shape the viewers on certain issues like the beauty pageants and the lost of childhood and how parents live
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