A New Miss America As Nina Davuluri took her first walk as the new Miss America on Sunday night‚ audience members and viewers at home showed their true colors. They exclaimed dismay over the crowning of the Indian-American beauty by expressing their views through a social media‚ especially Twitter. They attacked the former Miss New York through a variety of insults‚ including using racial slurs and dubbing her “Miss Al Qaeda” (@SHANN_Wow). The main accusation by social media users online is that
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The article‚ “Miss America and social media’s ignorant bigotry” written by Leonard Pitts Jr. is about how people label all Indian people as being Muslim and view them as terrorists‚ even though they are not Muslim. People in the US commit acts of violence against people from India who are presumed to be Muslim‚ and assume they are terrorists. The recently crowned Miss America is of Indian descent and people feel that this is not acceptable‚ and some people feel Miss America should be white with
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Since 1945‚ Miss America has offered 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
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121- CRN#30527 October 24th‚ 2013 Word Count: 1‚261 Little Miss Sunshine Laughs abound as we join the Hoover family on their hilarious and outrageous family road-trip to get young Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin)‚ an aspiring pageant contestant from their home in Albuquerque New Mexico‚ to the “Little Miss Sunshine” pageant being held at the Embassy Suites in Redondo Beach California Little Miss Sunshine (2006) is well developed and departs from the
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of a folding chair skimming the thin pages of Cosmo. Her mother’s oversized designer sunglasses were framed by bleach blonde tendrils all of which had been carefully placed‚ as today marked an important occasion. It was the day of the Tiny Miss Beauty Pageant and all the way from South Carolina was reigning regional champion Rebecca Mint and her mother. The duo had been up for five hours in their flickering fluorescent hotel room doing Rebecca’s heat-treated hair and show makeup. A compact resemblance
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Ty Morris English IV DC 09/09/2013 “How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant” Stylistic Analysis Cindy Bosley’s “How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant” contains numerous literary elements that‚ if left undiscovered‚ prevent the reader from truly understanding and appreciating the work as a whole. For example‚ Bosley’s use of connotation‚ such as “My mother had secret hopes. Finally divorced for the second time from the same man‚ my father‚ she sat with me and gave me her own commentary about who was cute
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The average weight for a Miss America contest winner is 121 pounds. The average woman’s weight is 166 pounds. This contest creates unrealistic images of what a beautiful American woman is supposed to look like. This was the case for the Alvarez sisters. They saw the pretty‚ blonde haired‚ blue eyed white girls from the Miss America contest and tried to be like them so they could fit in and be accepted by their peers. On top of that‚ their parents wouldn’t allow them to be the All American Girl they
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April 16‚ 2013 Child Pageants are Exploitive Like anything‚ there are pros and cons to Child Pageants. Personally‚ I think they are wrong. The kids have to wear makeup at an early age‚ they take from their childhood‚ the pageants are solely judged on looks‚ and the costs are outrageous. The rebuttal is that pageants are supposed to promote self-confidence and be fun. Makeup utilization was intended for adults. When these young girls are getting ready for the pageant‚ they focus and stress
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Barbie doll right? No‚ nowadays this is what we call a beauty pageant contestant. Young girls will use a Barbie doll as a source of inspiration and this is perceived as completely normal in the eyes of society. Among other things‚ girls are judged on individuality‚ poise‚ perfection and confidence. But are these really things a 5 or 6 year old should be thriving to achieve? Young girls should not be allowed to participate in beauty pageants because they are taught the wrong values from an early age
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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 and their
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