Beauty pageants

Passing the Torch lessons has made Jayrhien improve as a musician by learning the fundamentals of playing the violin. During our lessons together, Jayrhien learned how to properly hold the bow and violin. Learning this skill took harder than I expected due to the amount of correction we had to do and the time it took to fix it, but eventually, Jayrhien was able to fix her wrist and bow hold. We then moved to learning the positions of the finger depending if the note was natural, flat, or sharp.…

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…

“Cool, blonde and beautiful. Kelly was fire under ice.” (World, 134), producer Alfred Hitchcock describes actor Grace Kelly which would later be starred in three of his films. Over five years, Grace Kelly is casted in 11 films and over 60 televisions shows until settling down with a Prince and starting a family. Grace Kelly lead an extraordinary life pursuing an extremely successful acting career, but gave up hollywood to start a family with Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Grace Kelly was born on…

“Play note right, but doesn’t sound good! No singing sound,” complained my mother. pg 145 (Two Kinds Ch 8) In the story Suyuan wants Jing-Mei to become a prodigy and wants everything to be perfect. She wants to have everything right with no mistakes. Suyuan wants Jing-Mei in the talent show to play her piece for the talent show. Jing-Mei thinks she’s not a prodigy and doesn’t know how to play the piano. The meaning of the quote shows how Suyuan wants everyone to like her. And how she wants to…

Young girls become cheerleaders, because it gives them confidence, because they learn gymnastics, poise, dance, and the art of makeup. For most cheerleaders, makeup improves their self confidence, and it tends to makes them feel pretty. Makeup is only one out of the thousand things that make a cheerleader feel beautiful. “Whether it’s on the sidelines or in a major competition, a cheerleader always wants to look her best.” Makeup tends to make young girls stand out while on the floor while in…

Young Adult fiction story. The story is based of aspects of real people’s lives but does not display real people or events of any real person specifically. “I must acknowledge the dozens of readers who shared personal stories of eating disorders, pageant experiences, drug usage, and many other personal problems that helped to create the characters for this book.”-Hopkins dedication page. It took me approximately a week total to finish this book between reading 10-15 pages in class each day and…

Many grew up with the Disney movies, their catchy songs and fantasises about a special prince or princess. In the article, “The portrayal of older characters in Disney animated film,”, the authors stated, “Disney films are passed along from parent to child, which introduces each new generation new values, beliefs, and attitudes…” (Robinson, Tom 206). While Disney movies brought positive messages for children to learn; it also portrayed negative effects in the society. Disney films supported…

repeatedly introduces the term “object” to describe the king’s daughter, so that she can be returned in the right moment to resolve the issue of diverted desire. The princess’s ornamentation of herself with three magical dresses to maximize her display of beauty in front of another king and her deliberate insertion of golden objects inside his soup to indicate her wealth seem to support Brooks’s argument. He defines “female plot” of the tale merely as endurance by the woman until her desire “can…

The Color Red: The Key to Woman’s Sexual Maturity The color red has always had some significant meaning, whether it is in real life, myths, legends, or even fairy tales. Two fairy tales which illustrate the symbolic meaning of the color red are two tales about Snow White; Brothers Grimm’s “Snow White” and Lasiar Gheug, “The King of Ireland’s Daughter.” In these fairy tales red resembles the opportunity for women to be rescued by a prince and possibly reach sexual maturity, but the shedding of…

children, rather they were written for teens/adults to say things about the world and paint a picture. Having a genetically dark nature made fairy tales have more of an allure, and more of a power over the reader. By way of example, the tale Sleeping Beauty was originally about a princess who befalls a prophecy and ends up getting sexually assaulted in her slumber. The pain of childbirth is what awakens her, not a prince. Similarly, Little Mermaid ended with the mermaid dying and turning into…