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    Child beauty pageants are known all around the world. They are advertised through magazines and reality shows. The young girls are marked up to be someone they are not. They resemble Barbie dolls with the fake lashes‚ fake boobs‚ fake nails‚ the pounds of makeup‚ spray tans‚ hoops‚ fake hair extensions‚ flashy and not age appropriate costumes. I am personally not a fan of the child beauty pageants for several reasons. I feel as though the children are being robbed of their childhood. The young girls

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    Beauty Pageants: Good or Bad? Beauty pageants for children are growing more and more popular and‚ in turn‚ causing more and more controversy. Everyone has a different opinion on them but most would say that it is a bad idea to put young girls through this kind of thing. I would have to agree with them. These types of beauty pageants began back in the 1960s where children from the ages of 6 to 12 years modeled things like sportswear and evening clothes and showcased their talents. There was a lot

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    | * The first reason that led to English colonization in the Americas was the growing ________. | population | * Another reason that led to English colonization was ________ depression. | economic | * The economic depression in England in part was caused by the _______ acts which allowed land owners to fence in open fields surrounding peasants villages to allow their sheep to graze. | enclosure | * Another reason for the colonization by the English in America was _________. These

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    Arielle: her first pageant had been Miss Louisiana Teen at the age of 13. She remembers being turned off by the experience‚ and did not compete again for almost ten years‚ during which time she had moved from Louisiana to Los Angeles. When she went back to pageants at 23‚ she says‚ it

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    in beauty pageants adversely affect a child’s development? Pageants are a way of forcing a child to act as an adult – smearing make-up on a child and making her dress up like an adults to “supposedly” build confidence but instead giving that child the wrong message. They are basically beginning to lose their childhood. Overtime‚ children get very competitive and at that point in their minds all they think about is winning‚ not about the true purpose of a beauty pageant. Beauty pageants have a negative

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    Revolution 1. The Deep Roots of Revolution 1. And‚ those American colonists were growing independent. 1. The Americans felt separated from England; they felt as though they were the cutting edge of the British Empire. 2. The Americans were developing their own brand of politics. 1. The Americans were embracing republicanism‚ that is a society where citizens elect representatives to govern for them. 2. The "radical Whigs" of England influenced American thinking. They criticized how the king would appoint

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    Reflection: Beauty Pageant This movie made me very upset. I found myself‚ while watching it‚ lashing back at the screen with comments of disgust. The whole beauty pageant thing is something that I do not understand that much about. To me it seems ridiculous; placing girls in a competition over their looks‚ which at times their looks are fake with the outfits‚ the make up‚ the fake tans‚ and the fake teeth. It does not represent what a young child really looks like. I am also upset with the

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    1) The Earliest Americans a) The first settlers of the New World arrived over a land bridge between modern-day Alaska and Russia i) There were more than 54 million people inhabiting the two continents by the time that Europeans arrived in 1492 ii) Over time‚ they split into many tribes‚ developing more than 2‚000 separate languages and cultures iii) Native Americans in Central and South America were hunters‚ gatherers‚ and farmers specializing in maize‚ or corn. (1) About 5000 B.C. hunter-gatherers

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    The August 17‚ 1892 LONDON TIMES CALAMITY IN THE CONGO In 1876‚ King Leopold II of Belgium began plans for international benevolent committees for the people of the Congo region. Though originally accepted as multi-national‚ scientific‚ and humanitarian propositions‚ they have of late become anything but. Soon after their conception‚ Leopold used these organizations to establish a sphere of influence and eventually Belgian sovereignty in the Congo Basin. The region is rich in ivory and rubber

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    Chapter three preview questions. How does the painting suggest freedom of the colonists was becoming less 1. The painting suggests that freedom was becoming less and less. It shows servants working in the fields‚ along with slaves. The slaves were not receiving money from their owners‚ thus meant they could not making a living. The men on horses are most likely delivering an important item to some one. What are the indications of prosperity that are evident in the 7 foot painting? 2

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