Beauty Pageants: From Prim to Poisoned Her eyes glimmer with the latest layer of eyeliner. Her cheeks‚ a wind-bitten pink‚ ache from constant smiles. She combs her hair‚ unaware of the damage she is inflicting on herself. She looks around. Some wear false hair‚ others false teeth. Every participant there is driven by the same potential outcome of beauty: meticulous hair‚ white smile‚ bright eyes‚ and a thin figure. Everybody strives for that same superficial facade – not the average values for a
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scholarships to winners and now to all the women who compete as well. Transitioning from simple contest of beauty‚ it has become become one of the largest providers of scholarships for young women in America. Testing contestants on current events‚ public speaking‚ talents and fitness‚ women must be well verse in all of these categories to compete in the pageant. Competing in beauty pageants‚ women are encouraged to better themselves by obtaining these qualities and sharpening them. Each year the
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English 1301/TT/9:30-11 April 19‚ 2013 Beauty Pageants Ruin Childhood! Think back to your childhood‚ what was most important to you? A toy? A Barbie doll? Your bike? Nowadays many girls hardly ever have time to play or even take a nap‚ because they are too focused on their pageant life and fixing their appearance to perfection. Beauty pageants first began in the 1960′s‚ and the purpose was to use them as marketing tools and raise money for business. Now‚ pageants seem to serve as tools for exploiting
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Pros and Cons of Beauty Pageants We live in a society in which demands for equality abound. At some point‚ the rights and privileges associated with the “perfect” life. At the same time‚ it seemed that a trend began. Hyphenated Americans began their quest for the apparently ideal lifestyle that had been withheld from them. Women‚ gays‚ and lesbians began their own efforts to achieve this same equality outside of gender and sexual preference. And yet‚ despite it all‚ the beauty pageant survives. The
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Benefits of Pageants Nowadays‚ many beauty pageants are being planned and held due to their innumerable useful effects. In fact‚ different from earlier when pageants were only held in schools‚ now most communities also organize their own events as they believe it is an excellent method of displaying talents. Other than simply entertaining people‚ pageants offer the following benefits. 1. Develop communication skills A common standard for testing participants in pageants is basically how fluent
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Beauty queens by Libba Bray is the story about girls in a beauty pageant trying to survive a plane crash. It’s a satire about American society.The story is so funny because it takes the idea of girls in pageants and puts them in a hard life situations to see how they react. The author uses the superiority theory to get her point across. There many times when they are trying to find things to survive most of the girls were so worried about the pageant look didn’t care about necessities they needed
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Walking the Ramps of a Beauty Pageant Christopher Lowell once said‚ "Beauty is not skin deep ." but is it really so with the exposure of today’s generation to media’s promotion of their own concept of beauty? Turn on the television and see that most commercials‚ especially those selling beauty products such as Ponds‚ Skin White‚ and Gilette for Women‚ are endorsed by thin‚ tall‚ pimple-free‚ smooth-legged and fair to white-skinned women. Flip pages of fashion magazines‚ see fashion shows and discover
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women. This is important because the effects that pageantry has on young children is highly negative‚ while the effect of beauty contests in adult women is highly positive. Martina Cartwright is a dietician and a clinician who counsels young children who participate in performance or entertainment. She is credible for writing her articles "Princess by Proxy: What Child Beauty Pageants Teach Girls About Self-Worth and What
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Children’s beauty pageants have been around for a long time. I admit that as someone raised in the North and on the West Coast‚ I never really encountered this phenomenon in my daily life. Recently‚ two different reality shows have popped up on TLC that exposes the viewer to the works of pageants. The shows are titled "Little Miss Perfect" and "Toddlers and Tiaras". As I’m the mother of a pre-teen daughter‚ I watched both of these shows with a horrified curiosity. I have certainly garnered some opinions
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Research Essay: Beauty Pageants and Self Esteem in Kids Beauty pageants: A confidence boost for kids or setting kids up for disaster? Children competing in beauty pageants have a higher chance of eating disorders‚ mental health problems‚ and self esteem issues in the future. More then 2.5 million beauty pageants are held a year with over 3 million girls competing‚ 100 million being kids in the age range 4 weeks old to 18 years old. Nearly 6% of these girls will or are suffering from depression
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