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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Banning Child Beauty Pageants Child beauty pageants commenced during the early 20th century‚ (1921 to be exact). That is 96 years of a running completion of where contestant’s ages may range from below as one year‚ to eighteen years old. The majority of the children competing in this line of ‘sport’ may experience long-term and short-term effects‚ which may be detrimental to their juvenile mental and emotional wellbeing. Therefore children’s beauty pageants should indubitably be banned. The first
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compete in pageants measure their self-worth by their looks‚ they are in for a downfall if they don’t stay as pretty when they grow up‚ says Brown. University of Arizona‚ said at PsychologyToday.com that it’s not uncommon for teens who used to be in pageants to develop eating disorders and have body image problems. The average cost of a pageant dress is $1‚000‚ and some cost as much as $5‚000‚ according to a "Good Morning America" report. Young girls who compete in pageants often look
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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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“Beauty and folly are old companions‚” Benjamin Franklin. In life with beauty there is folly: a lack of good sense. When you so idolize a superficial thing such as beauty it does not come with good sense. There are no ways to demonstrate the good that has come with idolizing beauty. In recent trends it does show that as society progresses the more humans idolize the concept of “beauty.” Beauty has reached such detrimental standards that few can achieve them. In turn‚ the standards of beauty are corrupted
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Xavian Arnold Dr. Patterson EN 112 27 April 2012 Beauty: Beheld in the Eyes of Society There is an old saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." However‚ there are definite social concepts of physical beauty. Most of the time‚ people associate beauty with something that is seen‚ instead of tasted‚ or smelt. Therefore‚ a more precise definition of beauty would sound like‚ beauty is the quality or set of qualities that give pleasure to eyesight. Many things may not be as beautiful to
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Child Beauty Pageants: Robbing Little Girls’ Innocence There are over 5‚000 child beauty pageants held annually across the United States with girls as young as two-years-old competing in them. Little girls strut across the stage with make-up painted on their tanned faces‚ hair teased into big and luscious curls‚ fake teeth‚ and a raunchy dance to complement it. There’s no doubt that the very young girls do not resemble their age when they are on stage and performing; they’re transformed into “sultry
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Do Beauty Pageants Serve a Purpose in Today’s Sociey? Saundra Dugger Com 220 Mr. Atkins May 22‚2010 Do beauty contests really serve a purpose in today’s society? There are many different kinds of beauty contests these days. They are for both men and women and range from infants to adults in age. Beauty contests do not serve a purpose in today’s society. The only thing that it is doing is putting in young girls’ minds and a woman’s that they have to be beautiful. We need to teach the younger generations
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children to compete in beauty pageants? Do you want your child to be like Honey Boo Boo? Yes? No? Then understand my three opposing resons for the participation of young children in beauty pageants. Reason number one‚ some parents don’t prepare their kids for pageants well enough‚so little girls don’t really know what to expect when they lose. Reason number two‚ Child pageants are also time consuming‚ and may take up time for a kid to play and whatnot. Last reason‚ number three‚ pageants can be really expensive
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The Ugly Truth of Child Beauty Pageants Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen‚ it is an honour to be here. I would like to address a very and controversial issue present in our 21st century society‚ child beauty pageants. Every year‚ there are more than two million women and girls competing in child beauty pageants in the United States alone. Approximately 250‚00 of those girls are young children . The beauty pageant industry is worth over $5 billion‚ and each year is grossing more and more‚ due
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