PART 1: Using the four terms below and in 2 paragraphs, provide a explanation of each and how each relates to the other and what was the eventual outcome. 1. The Virginia Plan 2.…
We are not Toddlers and Tiaras Spotlights shining right in your eyes, you can hear everyone cheering your name, will you win? Or was all the hard work for nothing; pageants are not just based on pure beauty. Many communities each year have their own pageants For Berrien County, it’s the Miss Blossomtime pageants. These consist of 22 pageants for each local community, and then in March each one of those girls who won compete for the title of Miss Blossomtime. By competing in pageants you learn how to socialize with your peers, how to present yourself in front of a community, and you learn how to grow as a person inside and out.…
1. The Puritans were able to leave all they had in England to seek religious, political, and economical freedom from the English throne by building a new civilization in Massachusetts, an unexplored and foreign terrain for almost all the Puritans. First of all, the Puritans were English protestants, who wanted the Church of England reformed and perished of all Roman Catholic remnants but did not want to separate from the Church; they were “non-separatists” unlike the Pilgrims ("Religion and the Founding of the American Republic"). Then, in the 1620s, the Puritans faced religious persecution for not following religious beliefs that they absolutely hated ("Religion and the Founding of the American Republic").…
A statement that stuck with me, “The Pageant contestant epitomize the roles we are all forced to play as women” (Collins 193). This statement Collins makes is absolutely true. I remember as a little girl watching the pageant and wonder if I would ever look like them. I was a athlete would never stepped foot in a dress. I questioned if I should be wearing dresses, and if people would like me more if I did.…
“It’s a contest no one should want to win. Our mother should not have such dreams for us,” is a statement almost at the very end that sums up just how the author truly feels about the pageant. It is a contest based solely on shallowness and giving everyone what they want. A rich and pretty girl who’s dying to save the world somehow. Cindy Bosely was real, and in her essay she makes it clear that real is not what wins you beauty pageants.…
Since the dawn of humanity, women have been trying to achieve their personal idea of beauty. In the book, “Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women”, author Blaine Roberts, shows the racial division between white women and black women and the role perceptions of beauty also played. Women of different colors, sizes, attitudes, mindsets, and dreams all concurred that beauty was an important aspect for the Civil Rights movement. Roberts’ thesis, black and white perceptions of beauty, both played a crucial role during the Civil Rights Movement while the road that led them there was life changing. White society used beauty pageants as a way to reinforce white supremacy, while blacks viewed beauty contests as an attempt to show others, and themselves, that black was beautiful as well.…
When the pageant was first started it was a ploy to keep tourist and it literally measured the ‘value” of the contestants’ body parts. By the 1950s rules had been incorporated that excluded minorities and sought the views of what most Americans believed was wholesome; middle-class Caucasian female preparing to marry, take care of her husband and…
Child beauty pageants started around 1921 but only recently have it become a trend. However, in France legislators feel child pageants should be banned in the USA. Child beauty pageants encourage children to act as an adult in a sexual manner. The girls have to sacrifice childhood activities for beauty pageants. Many young girls value external beauty rather than internal beauty.…
This sheds light on the fact that these pageants have more to do with the parents then the children themselves, parents start their children in pageants at as young as eighteen months old. The…
They are immoral. They are stripping little girls of their childhood and forcing them to grow up at such a young age. A poll on mirror.co.uk showed that only 11% of voters agreed with child pageants, and almost 90% of voters disagree, and…
Beauty pageants, Barbie, and Marilyn Monroe all exhibited characteristics which consisted of beauty and sexuality. Miss America pageants have been popular since they were first established by Atlantic City businessmen whose main intentions were to make a profit (Miss America Transcript, 2016). Many American’s enjoyed these shows because they displayed the most beautiful women in the nation. The pageant gained the attention of contestants who wanted or needed the money. By the 1940’s pageants then consisted of four categories talent, evening gown, swim suit and personality (Miss America Transcript, 2016).…
The way that the contestants are judged is solely based upon looks of the participants and hence, is a very superficial contest. These pageants competitions are considered to be superficial because of all the glitz and makeup that is involved, but ever since the year of “nineteen- twenty one in an effort to lure tourist to stay past Labor day, Atlantic City organizers staged the first Miss America Pageant in September”. (Houk, Jeanne n.d) Young women and even children have been coming back to compete in these pageants ever since the pageants were…
What pageants should really be focusing on is the beauty inside and not outside. The fight against beauty pageants is growing a lot of support, and the fight continues. Schools are banning them, harassment against children is being fought, and change in the way we see true beauty is changing as well. Society needs to realize that beauty isn't what is on the outside. People are being hurt by this “past time” and things need to change.…
The time that it takes to get everything ready is such a waste. The chances of winning is very slim. The cost that it takes to make a contestant look beautiful is exaggerating. In the end scholarships are not nearly as much as they are suppose to be. Also the publicity that goes along with having a beauty pageant is overwhelming.…
This writing starts off with the author as a young girl watching beauty pageants in the living room. She’d watch the shows with her mother as she narrates what she enjoyed and envied about these women. She tells about her parents’ divorce and all the hopes her mother had for her, including winning a pageant of her own. She comes to know later that her mother knew she was too weird, chubby, and poor to ever win. During her pageant she stood out like a sore thumb, and ultimately lost the pageant.…