By: Diana Larios TOPIC: Children Beauty Pageants 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
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in hope to win the grand supreme title. Child beauty pageants encourages young girls to think poorly of their peers‚ place too much identity in their outward appearance‚ and exploits them; the negative ramifications of these pageants are abounding. After the success of the Miss America Pageant‚ the first Little Miss America Pageant was held in 1961. Within three years more than 35‚000 contestants had enrolled (“Child Beauty Pageants”). Child beauty pageants have grown into a multi-million dollar
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Beauty is a form of currency that women are obliged to pay to live in this world. Even after decades of moving up the social ladder in terms of worth and recognition‚ beauty is an obsession that incessantly plagues women. Naomi Wolf explores this beauty obsession on political‚ economic‚ and physical levels. She breaks this down as the beauty myth and exposes it as a system that keeps women restricted‚ regardless of what societal advancements are made. Wolf delves into each societal aspect that the
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“A tale as old as time” rings true as this recreated Disney movie resonates to my childhood memories. Bill Condon‚ director of The Beauty and the Beast‚ makes the reminiscent qualities of the original movie come to life again with this new take of a classic. The best of Disney is displayed through this new rendition of Beauty and the Beast. This movie takes the cartoon version and takes it to a new level of amazement. People would be captured by this film‚ should they choose to watch it‚ because
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Look closer. The chilling tag-line of multi award winning American Beauty has great relatability‚ from the lives of all of the characters to the hidden beauty on showcase throughout the film. It cannot simply be filed into one genre‚ instead being a drama‚ comedy‚ tragedy and more. Director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Alan Ball fine-tuned the film‚ resulting in a triumph of writing‚ acting and directing. The movie follows the last few months of everyman Lester Burnham’s (played by the seemingly ideal
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Child Beauty Pageants While beauty pageants started in the 1920’s‚ children’s beauty pageants began in the 1960’s. This is when the predicament all began. Equally important is the definition of child abuse. It is defined as the exploitation of a child. Children in beauty pageants are exploited at a very over powering rate. Since there is so much exploitation‚ it should be considered child abuse. Due to parental involvement‚ children participate in pageants that damage them physically‚ mentally
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Children are usually seen in parks‚ exploring the outside world in their little innocent minds‚ living their lives irresponsibly. Today‚ child beauty pageants opened kid’s eyes on things they are not supposed to encounter in their early childhood. Kids now act like adults; they have unleashed their innocence and pure minds for the sake of beauty.Child beauty contests resemble young kids‚ under the age of 18. Contestants are usually divided into groups according to their age. Very young aged kids are
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PLANNING Introduction Issue: Debate has erupted in Australia over these beauty contents as pageant organisers prepare to bring these events to our shores. Text type: Opinion Piece Source: The Age Date: May 4‚ 2011 Author’s name: Nina Funnel Contention: Argues that the bizarre world of pageantry is fake and fictitious. Headline: Sugar and Spice. But all things nice? Tone: Logical‚ strong‚ polished yet slightly colloquial tone Target Audience: Middle aged working mothers
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working. The costumes and makeup helped support the setting and time period that the film was placed in by having the characters wear appropriate clothing such as dresses‚ poet shirts‚ and tricorns. The only two unique characters in the film were Beauty‚ an educated bookworm‚ and the Beast‚ a rich prince. Finally‚ there was one exaggerated character which was Gaston‚ a rich‚ overly strong and materialistic man in the village who wanted Belle to love him. In the film‚ there are symbols such as the
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Commodification of Children[edit] Critics of child beauty pageants say the pageants promote children as products. Some describe it as a deal. Parents spend money on clothing‚ hair‚ makeup‚ and accessories in return for a cash prize.[14] Law[edit] Besides the laws that regulate child education‚ pageants are a relatively ungoverned program. Child contestants are not considered "working"‚ so pageants are exempt from federal child labor laws. Pageants also have different rules‚ so it becomes hard
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