placing their children in beauty pageants all across the nation. Beauty pageants were made for young girls to showcase their inner and outer beauty through their talents‚ personalities‚ and wardrobe choices. Today‚ there are many television series and movies that glamorize the world of children being in beauty pageants such as Toddlers & Tiaras‚ Little Miss Sunshine‚ and Painted Babies. These television shows may show the good that comes out of children being in beauty pageants‚ but the real controversy
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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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Disadvantages of Child Beauty Pageants In today’s world‚ there are quite a few things that bother us Americans. One controversial topic at-hand would be child beauty pageants. The article‚ “Playing at Sexy” written by Peggy Orenstein‚ goes into detail of the negative effects of showcasing one’s child in a pageant. Hilary Levey takes a different approach to child beauty pageants. She finds them to be just as helpful as children who take after school lessons in her scholarly article‚ “Pageant Princesses and
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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 (Statisticsbrain
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Compare & Contrast All guns serve different purposes. Guns have been a part of American history for many years. Many different kinds of guns have been used for many different types of jobs. Just as police use guns for law enforcement‚ hunters use guns to harvest game and they have different guns for different game. The two most commonly used firearms of hunters‚ are the rifle and the shotgun. One of the great things about having a well-made shotgun is that they are not very expensive and
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competition of child beauty pageants. These pampered princesses are brainwashed by their mothers to have one goal in mind: “get the money or get the tiara” (Grosaru 1). Most of these beauties finally dwindle down and end up having self-identity or self-esteem problems. Is this the state these young girls should be in to attribute to a successful future of their generation? Despite the negative side of this topic‚ there are a few positive aspects. According to the article “Child Beauty Pageants – Pros and Cons
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Mistakes That Serve For a Good Purpose When you make a mistake or something bad happens like spilling juice in your sofa how do you react to that? Do you forget it and run the risk of it happening again or do you learn from that mistake or that certain dilemma? People need to know that forgetting all past mistakes will not help but hinder them in learning and even overcoming those circumstances. For example I have learn that belonging to a divorced family isn’t easy and you will learn how previous
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Why do you think people join beauty pageants? What is the purpose? They cause stress and by the end of it‚ heartbreak. Everybody that competes in them just looks like a plastic barbie doll. At the end of the day‚ contestants start feeling like one also. Most of the time they step on people’s self esteem and make them feel worthless‚ even the ones for children‚ possibly for the rest of their life. Beauty pageants should no longer persist in America due to its outcome on most beauty pageant contestants
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When people think of pageants they automatically assume the stereotype that pageants are contests for tall‚ thin‚ young‚ barbie girls‚ however‚ this is not true. The first Miss America pageant started on December 7‚ 1921‚ when a hotel owner in New Jersey wanted to extend the summer tourist season and 15-year-old Margaret Gorman was crowned the first Miss America. Since this day‚ pageants have developed and evolved from once creating the perfect homemaker to empowering women. Many bans and restrictions
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year of the American beauty pageant. This was a groundbreaking year‚ as women from all over the United States were given the opportunity to show their talent‚ outer beauty and inner intelligence. Little did our country know‚ that 40 years later‚ children as young as 10 months old would be competing in beauty pageants. 1960 marked the first child beauty pageant in America and started a major American trend. Since the tragic death of JonBenet Ramsey in 1996‚ child beauty pageants have been a hot topic
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