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    Beauty pageants are essentially a form of child abuse. Forcing children to continue to participate in pageants even though it is evident that they are not enjoying it for the sake of gratification for the parents or financial gain is ethically immoral and a form of abuse. Some parents believe that they are providing healthy competition for their children and that since it is not physically harming them, then it is not a form of abuse. However, when parents coax children to do something the…

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    little girls entering the pageant world. Thousands of girls are forced into joining pageants by obsessive-winning parents who are not informed properly about the scandalous world of beauty pageants. Parents need to understand the consequences of joining child pageants and how they teach children to become ignorant and conceited. Extracurricular activities look amazing when applying for colleges but, they can become excessively time consuming. Time is precious to pageant parents which require an…

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    Emotional, physical, and mental healthiness is crucially imperative to an individual, especially a young individual so that he or she can develop properly while transitioning into adulthood. Unfortunately, many child beauty pageant participants are pressured to look their best at multiple competitions, and particularly girls who have started at a very early age fall into a routine of being lectured about their looks. So with all the pressure on little girls to look perfect…

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    Paulina Parzygnat Prof. Schering Com-102 April 6th 2015 Child Beauty Pageants In today’s society the expectations of appearance are inclining at an incredibly rapid speed. Everyone has a different view of beauty, but people still feel the need and the stress of not fitting into that perfect beauty image that is brought down upon them. To try to feel beautiful people feel that they need to change the way they look and alter their beauty entirely with different tools designed to transform ones…

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    Camel Beauty Pageants and Cultural Importance In the documentary “Miss Camel Beauty Contest” staring Charlet Duboc as the narrator, the viewers get an inside look at a small portion of the Western World’s culture. Throughout the documentary the filmmakers use rhetorical devices such as pathos, logos and ethos to get across the seriousness of keeping cultural practices alive. The documentary effectively portrays the importance of keeping up with “old” culture in today’s times. The documentary…

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    Child beauty pageants Children beauty pageants are one of the worst exploitation. Due to this, young children are maturing at a young age and thinking that physical appearances are more important than their inner self. Therefore, children beauty pageants should be eliminated. Children under the age of 10 should not be allowed to participate in beauty pageants because young children are spending time focusing on their appearances. About 250,000 children participate in beauty pageants each year…

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    BB1 Beauty Pageants All Beauty pageants have been questioned for whether or not they are truly innocent. In many cases, the smiles and happiness is more real than phony. While many believe it is okay to put children in beauty pageants, others feel that child beauty pageants are wrong because it is child abuse. Beauty pageants should not be thought of as child abuse. In the moral state of mind, it is a little girl’s dream to be a queen. All little girls see an adult woman as a role model or…

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    about the banning of children beauty pageants? If you haven’t, this paper gives examples and reasonings why I think children beauty pageants should be banned. The reasons I think children beauty pageants should be banned are they are overly focused on appearance, parents become too involved, they can be dangerous, they affect the children’s aging, they sexualize children, and the pageants are expecting children to be attractive. I believe that children beauty pageants are too focused on the…

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    than their age. Beauty pageants for young girls have become more popular since the show “Toddlers and Tiaras” aired on TV for the first time. In 1996, a 6 year-old daughter, who was famous for beauty pageants, was left dead in her basement at her own home. The case is still being questioned as to who killed the little girl, but I can almost guarantee you that the parents wish they would have never allowed their daughter to partake in pageants. Here are some reasons why beauty pageants are…

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    The Ugly behind Beauty Pageants Iconic actress and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn once said, “The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode, but the beauty of a woman is reflected in her soul.” (“Audrey Hepburn Quotes”). These words remind girls that their self worth should not come from the artificial things, but from the strength and morals inside of each child. Child beauty pageants heavily contradict this idea, by leading girls to believe that physical perfection is just as, or more valuable…

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