Susan Berg Mr. Campbell English 155 3 November 2011 Child Beauty Pageants Can Be Ugly There are many pros and cons to entering beauty pageants. Most people feel that there is no reason to even enter a child into a beauty pageant at all. Some people believe that the mother of the child is trying to re-live her childhood through her child‚ and obtain glory in some other way. Then on the other hand‚ there are the many pageant moms who have fun and have the funds available to be able
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Commodification of Children[edit] Critics of child beauty pageants say the pageants promote children as products. Some describe it as a deal. Parents spend money on clothing‚ hair‚ makeup‚ and accessories in return for a cash prize.[14] Law[edit] Besides the laws that regulate child education‚ pageants are a relatively ungoverned program. Child contestants are not considered "working"‚ so pageants are exempt from federal child labor laws. Pageants also have different rules‚ so it becomes hard
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cliché that beauty is skin deep. In reality‚ regardless of our age or sex‚ humans love to judge people by their skin color. Two thousand years ago‚ Greek and Roman women used lead paint and chalk to lighten their skin. In Asia‚ women swallowed ground pearls to achieve the same effect. Right now‚ whitening products line beauty shelves‚ and advertisements bombard us with models having the finest skin tones. All for what? To look more attractive in the beholders’ eye and to live up to the beauty standards
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Beauty Within The Cultures by Phillip Namara How do you define beauty? Is it a small waist and large breasts? A perfect smile and straight hair? If you flip through the pages of an American fashion magazine‚ you may think beauty is narrowly defined...but that’s not the case. From thick ankles to small noses‚ women from five continents are revealing what’s considered beautiful in their countries. "It’s a way of connecting yourselves from your kitchen‚ your living room‚ your bedroom ... to the rest
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This story is the biography of Alice Walker called “Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self”. In this story‚ she is expected to be a pretty little girl who’s life depends on her beauty‚ so much so that when she is shot in the eye‚ her school work is heavily affected. She is treated differently than her brothers‚ who are given more freedom and bully her. I know that in my personal life I have been shunned for not being masculine enough. Societies today see femininity as a female trait. When she
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Many classic tales have origins and details so diverse and varied that one story tells but a fraction of what other stories might reveal. The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood‚ published by Charles Perrault in 1697‚ is no exception‚ but it does relay some common themes and familiar morals with an entertaining plot. This plot‚ however‚ is full of ambiguities and notes that are assumed to be taken for granted. For example‚ why did a king marry an ogress and how did they have a son? Why did this son not reveal
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Monica Isamat ENC 1101 Mrs. Schledorn 22 Nov 2012 Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder When you hear the word beautiful‚ what do you think of? Do you think of a blue sky‚ a flower‚ a rainbow? When it comes to the beauty of people‚ many people have different outlooks. Having true inner and outer beauty is what every women dream about. We are surprised when a women has both inner and outer beauty since we generally separate the category by stating if a women is beautiful on the outside‚
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"She Walks in Beauty‚" The Analysis She Walks in Beauty is a poem in which the author speaks of the physical beauty of a woman; a female who the author encountered. This encounter lead him to visualize a great distinct physical image of her so he began to speak of this phenomenal attractiveness. A special quality in her was being able to be identified with the heaven. Beautiful like the stars and clearly visible as a cloudless night. The poem "She Walks in Beauty" came by as an inspiration to the
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since I have seen the movie "American Beauty"‚ as I remember it‚ Kevin Spacey portrays Lester as the films main character‚ a middle aged man experiencing a mid-life crisis. After being fired from his job‚ Lester decides to return to his high school career as a burger flipper‚ smoke marijuana‚ lift weights in the garage‚ and try to impress his daughter’s high school friend. During this series of events‚ the other characters in the film go through crises of their own‚ until the film comes to a close and
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a different aesthetic on what is required in order to make an individual beautiful. During the height of the Grecian period‚ to be curvy and voluptuous was extremely attractive. This idea of beauty was also true during the 40’s and 50’s in the United States. Marilyn Monroe was the epitome of regal beauty around the world. There is a huge difference between now and the past‚ because in past‚ the possibility of escaping these images was a realistic achievement. However‚ today it’s merely impossible
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