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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Children’s beauty pageants have been around for a long time. Toddlers and Tiaras is a show‚ based on mothers living their dream lives through their children. The mothers dress their young girls as if they are grown models. My out look on the whole situation is that little 5 year old girls‚ should not be competing in beauty pagents. Fake teeth‚ tans‚ eye lashes‚ and hair make these children look as though they are in their teens. No child should have to compete in looking "beautiful" or "the best"
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would change her confidence and the other peoples around her. Her mom being the former young beauty pageant queen was super excited that Willowdean was trying out the pageant stuff. “I really hope that this will help people feel better about themselves and even build up my own confidence‚ she tells her mother. In response to what Willowdean was saying her mom nods her head. When they get to the pageant‚ willowdean goes behind the stage there she sees all of the young girls trying to win. A girl
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Furthermore‚ Nick Serpe’s article did not only show social commentary on class‚ the article also argues that TV shows explores bias towards gender in game shows. Serpe mentions‚ “Beauty pageant that collided with a high-stakes Dating Game: women were paraded on stage for a rich man‚ seen only in silhouette‚” (Serpe 269). When Serpe describes this‚ it illustrates that men sees women as lottery to choose from. This kind of show changes the way in which some of these women think‚ due to the fact that
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Are Beauty Pageants exploitive? Recently beauty pageants have been increasing in popularity on television and other social medias. Many may argue that they are exploitive and they are simply useless shows that objectify both women and young girls. They are not realistic and they do not have any benefits for the young participants that start them at a young age. Many say that shows such as "Toddlers and Tiaras" do nothing but prove how spoiled many of these children that participate in pageants‚ get
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The value in child beauty pageants is extremely difficult to find‚ partly because it doesn’t exist. The industry is responsible for confidence issues in millions of participants that can’t seem to win the ‘Grand Supreme Title’ or the “Prettiest Smile Award.’ As quoted by Andrews‚ “experts see a clear association between these types of events and the development of body image problems‚ eating disorders‚ and depression” (1). The young participants are resulting to harmful act to relieve the pain the
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“2.5 million girls participate in beauty pageants‚ and 6% of these girls suffer from depression”(Demographic Partitions). This is just one of the many problems that come with young girls participating in beauty pageants. A few more are sexualization‚ mental health problems along with self-esteem issues. This along with many other reasons should make people alarmed and not want to enter young girls into beauty pageants. The sexualization of girls is one of the many problems that young girls face
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you’ve worked for be placed in the perfectly manicured hands of someone else. Would you ever want to be put through this? Well‚ girls who are in beauty pageants deal with this and so much more every
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Beauty‚ glamour‚ girlie stuff is what most of the girls love! America’s Next Top Model is one of the reality shows that is shown every Wednesday at 8:00 pm PST. It seeks to find the next golden girl of the modeling industry. Contestants from different states go for auditions‚ and the judges pick 13 finalists who fit with the requirements which include an age that is between 18 to 27 years‚ height of at least 5 feet and 7 inches‚ a US citizen‚ and must not have previous experience as a model in
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BEAUTY PAGEANT A TERM PAPER PRESENTED TO MRS.VILLAHERMOSA “STA.TERESA COLLEGE BAUAN BATANGAS” CHAPTER I Introduction: The only importance of that is to raise young girls’ confidence in them. Beauty Pageant contestants represent their country because I think they only want to know which country has more talented‚ beautiful and great girls. They just want to compete with each other and to know who more superior prior to beautiful women is. In Mauritius it has NO IMPORTANCE
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