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In the article, “Every Little Girl Wants to Be a Princess, Right?” the author, Mariah Jackson represents her main claim in her thesis where she says that child beauty pageants have to be eliminated in their current form. Through the essay, the author brings evidence to support her stand. Likewise, Mariah Jackson gives the reasons of why she is against the current child beauty pageants, for example, the author mentions that pageants exhibit age-inappropriate sexuality, causing a future negative image in the little girls. Also, Jackson suggests how child beauty pageants have changed in a wrong way, causing health and mental problems in the girls. The author includes counterclaims where she points out what the pro side thinks. …show more content…
The author purpose is to show people that pageants are hurting children; at the same time, Jackson is trying to convince us that child beauty pageant have to be eliminated. The author compares the old pageants with the current ones showing how has been its transition and the effects it has caused in society minds. In her backing, the author comments how networks support the beauty pageants justifying those as a way of the document the children life. The author assumes her audience will be against the child beauty pageants, with this, Jackson let us know that her audience supports her claim. Also, the author’s audience is the pushy parents who support the pageant because, in paragraph 3, Jackson mentions that those parents are not good, and she assumes that the rest of her audience will …show more content…
In her thesis statement located in the last sentence of the first paragraph, where also Jackson put a qualifier on her claim to address those who might still see some value in child pageants by claiming the pageants need to be eliminated at least in their current form. In the second paragraph the author starts the introduction by presenting her ground for her argument, the writer compares the old pageants with the new ones, by quoting Henry Giroux’s article “Child Beauty Pageants and the Politics of Innocence.” In the third paragraph, Jackson presents more grounds, “once at the pageant, it’s all up to the judges, and the drama ensues when every parent wants to prove that their child is beautiful”(TLC 2009). And she adds “that quote alone is enough to shine a small light on the darker side of the glamorous exterior of pageants. The evidence supports her claim that beauty pageants are harmful and should be eliminated as they currently exist. In the same paragraph, the author presents the audience with a warrant, “Clearly, pushy, parents are a part of the morbid attraction that those TV shows have for the masses.” With this, the author assumes that her audience understands that pushy parents are not good. At the end of paragraph 4, the author
In the article, “Every Little Girl Wants to Be a Princess, Right?” the author, Mariah Jackson represents her main claim in her thesis where she says that child beauty pageants have to be eliminated in their current form. Through the essay, the author brings evidence to support her stand. Likewise, Mariah Jackson gives the reasons of why she is against the current child beauty pageants, for example, the author mentions that pageants exhibit age-inappropriate sexuality, causing a future negative image in the little girls. Also, Jackson suggests how child beauty pageants have changed in a wrong way, causing health and mental problems in the girls. The author includes counterclaims where she points out what the pro side thinks. …show more content…
The author purpose is to show people that pageants are hurting children; at the same time, Jackson is trying to convince us that child beauty pageant have to be eliminated. The author compares the old pageants with the current ones showing how has been its transition and the effects it has caused in society minds. In her backing, the author comments how networks support the beauty pageants justifying those as a way of the document the children life. The author assumes her audience will be against the child beauty pageants, with this, Jackson let us know that her audience supports her claim. Also, the author’s audience is the pushy parents who support the pageant because, in paragraph 3, Jackson mentions that those parents are not good, and she assumes that the rest of her audience will …show more content…
In her thesis statement located in the last sentence of the first paragraph, where also Jackson put a qualifier on her claim to address those who might still see some value in child pageants by claiming the pageants need to be eliminated at least in their current form. In the second paragraph the author starts the introduction by presenting her ground for her argument, the writer compares the old pageants with the new ones, by quoting Henry Giroux’s article “Child Beauty Pageants and the Politics of Innocence.” In the third paragraph, Jackson presents more grounds, “once at the pageant, it’s all up to the judges, and the drama ensues when every parent wants to prove that their child is beautiful”(TLC 2009). And she adds “that quote alone is enough to shine a small light on the darker side of the glamorous exterior of pageants. The evidence supports her claim that beauty pageants are harmful and should be eliminated as they currently exist. In the same paragraph, the author presents the audience with a warrant, “Clearly, pushy, parents are a part of the morbid attraction that those TV shows have for the masses.” With this, the author assumes that her audience understands that pushy parents are not good. At the end of paragraph 4, the author