Beauty pageants

The definition of beauty is interchangeable. What one culture might define as beautiful and desirable, another would define as undesirable. Social change occurs as society develops over time and the opinions of those in society develop as well. (James, 2013) Body image has been constructed over centuries. The society constructed the idea of body image and at the same time it keeps changing. Mass communication has the power to influence the group of people and/or individual in big amount within…

By definition, the word beauty means “the quality of being physically attractive.” However, the meaning of beauty differs depending on one’s interpretation of the word. Some think beauty is merely what you see on the outside, which can sometimes be deceiving. True beauty runs deeper than one’s outward appearance. True beauty comes from within. It is human nature to look for the beauty in things; the eye tends to be drawn towards pretty faces and objects. Beauty is in everything, and it truly…

“Beauty without intelligence is like a masterpiece drawn on a napkin” - Unknown. This quote contains a deep message. The meaning of this quote is that it is harder to recognize true beauty on a person who is intellectually flawed and author is comparing that to a napkin and like how it's harder to find a masterpiece on something as disposable like paper. Nowadays women are obsessing over the way they look and in order to look beautiful they change themselves but that isn’t the only aspect to…

To know Beauty, first one must see beauty in someone’s body and fall in love with that. Once in such company, the person can begin to give birth to fine ideas and conversation and continue up the erotic ladder (Plato, 211c). One must then fall in love with physical beauty in general, realizing that all the world’s beautiful bodies are really one and the same. He will now regard physical beauty as truly unimportant. (Plato, 210b). After the beauty of law and custom comes the transition from the…

Many people define beauty as the way someone looks or how much they weigh or if they have a certain skin type. Beauty is defined as a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially sight. But beauty is so much more than someone’s appearance. Beauty standards have changed significantly in the years. Beauty use to be modesty, light makeup, and being simple. But now beauty is all about having a nice body, having clear skin, or having…

By definition of middle schoolers, to be beautiful means that someone is physically attractive and enticing, but it also means that a person is content with who they are. For the past one hundred years, beauty trends and icons have changed drastically through each decade. Whether it was Hollywood’s Golden Age or the Roaring 20s, something new was thought of as beautiful at the height of each and every decade. In some decades it was desirable to have an hourglass figure, while in other decades it…

Many teen girls dream of modeling in beauty pageants; on a down side, the public has chosen to say beauty pageants sexualize women. However, this is false for the Miss USA Pageant. The Miss USA Pageant doesn’t sexualize women for the reason of having interviews on girl’s personalities, judging on confidence, and how the girls present themselves. The judges mostly look at the girl’s personality. At the beginning of the pageant, each contestant gives the judges a bio about themselves; with…

participate in pageants in order to make her parents happy and boastful that their child has won the “Grand Title” in a child pageant. Some parents, in order to win these prizes, have to hide their children’s imperfections with make-up, spray tans, and flippers (fake teeth) to make judges see them as a flawless. Parents entering their children in these…

beautiful. The unrealistic beauty standards set by society have led women to believe that they are not beautiful if they do not meet these standards. One of the biggest contributing factors of these unrealistic beauty standards are beauty contests. Over time, beauty contests have led to the objectification of women and the use of women for marketing purposes. Overall, beauty contests have had more of a harmful impact than a helpful impact on women in today’s society. Therefore, beauty contests…

Queen in the United States, it is clear that the narrative of “beauty contests” amongst women is not a recent human construction; rather, its long history may in fact partially explain how we have come to normalize the judgment of female bodies. Nevertheless, the issue is even more problematic when we extend this practice to the bodies of extremely young girls. Three-year-old Paisley Dickey made headline news when she walked out to the pageant judges dressed as Julia Robert’s prostitute…