Beauty contest

the other teenage girls with wearing makeup or wearing new fashion forward clothes. Even though Ava did not dress like the other girls, she was still seen as a natural beauty to everyone. The photo’s her brother in law Larry took of her would be exactly like how she was in person a natural beauty, along with being a natural beauty in the pictures he took of her. The pictures he took of her would later end up in his photograph shop window in New York city, where Ava would first be seen by a…

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…

putting your child through such damage. Having your daughter think that only beauty and winning is everything. Women are already objectified within the media. Now with pageants that just makes that much more worse, how attractive they are is judged harshly. They are to conduct themselves in a way that would please the audience. That exactly what these little girls will grow into. They would feel as if their natural beauty will never be good enough, there will always be something to fix to…

a good sport. One reason why Lupe is a good person to look up to is, because she is very intelligent. To begin with, Lupe is amazing at school. She gets all A’s and wins a lot of awards at school. For example, she was the winner of the reading contest three summers…

Having a Growth Mindset is the most important determiner of success. Growth Mindset is defined as the belief that many basic qualities like intelligence could be developed through dedication and hard work. For instance, when you fail a test or lose a game we have to try to keep a Growth Mindset. When some of us fail we tend to give up, thinking that it is too challenging for us. For example, Jennifer Bricker, a girl who was born without legs wanted to be a gymnast. But how can you do that…

At 9 years old, I thought I would be a famous actress with fame and great clothes. At 12, I imagined being a professor that spread wisdom and was loved by all my students. Now, at 17, the future does not look as certain or as grand. I have changed career aspirations more than I have changed my hairstyle. I don’t have my exact path mapped out because no one is ever 110% certain about what we want to do with our lives and because we can never know what the future will bring. However, I know that…

not as it seems. Child beauty pageants are wrong. 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…

on their external beauty. On the other hand today’s society tells young girl’s that they should not care what’s on the outside but what’s on the inside. How can people expect this to be true when society contradicts this by telling young girls they exact opposite by allowing young beauty pageants. Youth beauty pageants had first debuted in 1961 and since then it has become increasing popular, with all the much wanted media attention. According to the article By the Numbers: Beauty Pageants the…

But what Queen B defines as beauty may be different from what you expect. She feels that “It’s just heartbreaking” to see how much pressure the media has placed on women in society today to have outer beauty. Beyoncé uses “Pretty Hurts” to discredit “the disease of a nation”, the media’s overpowering definition of “perfect”. In her video, Beyoncé demonstrates the effect…

In 1995, Misty Copeland received a letter stating her rejection because of her body to the Ballet Academy. Misty was devastated by the news she read, at the age of 13 from that day forward devoted herself to become a better dancer. Misty has been working hard ever since, dancing at the San Francisco Ballet School practicing every day, she is one of the first African American Ballet dancers.. At the age of 15, she won an award, first place at the Music Center Spotlight Awards. She now has…