By: Diana Larios TOPIC: Children Beauty Pageants GENERAL PURPOSE: To Persuade SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT: To persuade my audience that I’m against the children beauty pageants CENTRAL IDEA: So what happens at a beauty pageant? What is it? Essentially a beauty pageant is a contest over physical attractiveness. Some contests have portions of that focus on talent and interview‚ but a majority of the points come from the beauty and grace of the contestants as well as their outfits. Contestants try
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Societal influences have the potential to negatively impact one’s body image‚ particularly through participation in a Child Beauty Pageant. This “extracurricular activity” introduces unrealistic ideal images to children at such a young age; children‚ particularly females‚ are impacted psychologically and physically from this controversial practice‚ as well as from the undesirable parenting behind it. Society as a whole is also impacted by the airing of sexualized shows such as Toddlers and Tiaras
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The Problems and Pleasures of Pageants Beauty pageants have been questioned on whether or not their truly innocent. In some cases‚ the smiles are more likely than not phony. On the other hand‚ the abundance of memories and skills gained from these extravaganzas can create a positive effect on the child. On the negative side‚ pageants are found to be full of drama from both the parents and from the stress of the requirements‚ including eating disorders. They also lead to bad sportsmanship and the
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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 and sharpening them. Each year the
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in beauty pageants? This article answers that question by describing Achievement By Proxy Disorder‚ or ABPD‚ and how parental motivation changes from wanting to see their child succeed on their own to demanding their child to win competitions for the parents’ satisfaction. The article also answers the question as to how parents of pageant contestants treat their children through interviews with pageant parents and observations of reality tv shows by Martina Cartwright. Child Beauty Pageants May
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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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When we think of beauty pageants we tend to think of the society’s idea of perfect little girls competing to see who the judges think is the most beautiful. Also‚ we think of crazy moms who push their children too hard and will do anything so that their child will win. All of this is true but there are more issues with beauty pageants‚ some that are more concerning. Beauty pageants are judged based on physical appearance‚ yet haven’t we always been told not to judge based on looks? They aren’t healthy
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Child Exploitation in Beauty Pageants Beauty pageants should be banned across the world because of the different negative effects it has on children including fake love‚ national endangerment‚ and poor true self confidence. While there have been many attempts to make child beauty pageants illegal‚ it has failed to be banned in America unlike France where it is illegal. On any given day in America‚ 234‚000 sex offenders roam the streets. Many preying on girls where the median age of assaulted girls
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ty pageantsChild Beauty Pageants And why the rules should be much stricter Overall stand: Child beauty pageants should be deemed illegal because: * They objectify the children in an attempt to achieve an unclear vision of beauty. * The parents more often than not force their ideals on the children in the pageants‚ and go to ridiculous lengths to win. * The children are being manipulated and turned into icons not appropriate for their age. * To have children compete for a title
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Children Pageants Should Be Banned “This can lead to eating disorders and poor self-esteem” (Overington‚ 13). Children in beauty pageants get judged on their outward appearance and get received or rejected. Children shouldn’t be allowed to compete in beauty pageants. Not only are pageants expensive‚ they make the children grow up too fast and the participants have poor self-esteem at the end of the day. Children beauty pageants are expensive. Participation in a single competition can top $3‚000 (Laura
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