Beauty

Beauty Pageants: Selfless or Superficial? High glitz, glamour and beauty may sound like every girl 's dream, but is there more to beauty pageants than what appears on the surface? Many believe beauty pageants are a wonderful opportunity for women to raise money, gain confidence, find an enjoyable hobby, and better themselves. However, others find that pageants waste money and turn women into sexual objects. Also, critics say that girls are sometimes forced into the pageants by parents and are…

How Beauty Pageants Effect Children and Women Why do girls find beauty pageants so important to their social status and popularity? For the longest time, girls have competed from ages new born all the way up to their twenties in beauty contests. Most of the time, it’s the parents who get them first started in the industry, but the amount of money and time they spend on pageants is ridiculous! Why is it so important for girls to win contests for beauty, and not for their true selves? Beauty…

Child Beauty Pageants: Moral or Immoral? In today’s society, beauty is deemed mostly as physical appearance especially for women. Movies, billboards, and magazines all exhibit attractive people, beauty must be everything. In the competitive world of Beauty Pageants, rivalry for the most beautiful girl is most relevant. Pageants are becoming extremely popular, particularly child beauty pageants due to the diversity that pageants offer. There is a spectrum of pageants in which contestants can…

Are Beauty Pageants Beneficial To Little Girls? “Child beauty pageants have gained in popularity in recent years, currently more than 5,000 child beauty are held annually in the U.S. amounting to a $5 billion industry”(Children and Beauty Pageants). Beauty pageants were introduced to the American society in the 1920’s but didn’t begin until the 1960’s. The contestants receive money, crowns, and scholarships and, on top of that they also learn self-confidence. Even though there are benefits to…

definition of “beauty” is a combination of qualities, such as shape, color, or form that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially the sight (Oxford, 2017). There are wide differences between ancient Chinese culture and the Western culture. The differences depend on the current culture of the dynasty. There are two types of the standard of beauty, which include the inner beauty and the outer beauty (Brand, 2000). Outer beauty is practicing their talents such as dancing or singing skills; inner…

Child Beauty Pageants: Positive or Negative? Nick Sipes 8-16-16 The child beauty pageant, one of the most controversial topics in our modern day world. Some say they have positive benefits, such as improvements to social skills, whereas others say It is downright horrible for children to participate due to the drawbacks, such as immense cost. I stand with the cons of child beauty pageants for a variety of reasons. The number of bad seem to far outweigh the acclaimed “positive effects” on…

Beauty pageants are viewed on television nationwide in America. It is a tradition for many pageant-based families. Researchers have stated in several ways how beauty pageants affect young viewers and people that are contestants. Beauty pageants affect the contestants by robbing them of their childhood, making the child self-conscious, and creating a false standard of beauty. The Pageant world annihilates childhood for each contestant. It forces the child to grow up too fast and skip a part…

The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood With so many different types and forms of folklore one off the more classical types of folklore is fairytales. Fairytales are one of the oldest pieces of folklore as they have had many different variations to adapt to few cultures and have usually had good morals or messages to the children they are targeted to. One of the most known fairytale is the story of “Sleeping Beauty.” “Sleeping Beauty” has lasted for generations ever since it was published in late…

33% of girls ages 7-11 are not happy w their appearance, and the pressure of child beauty pageants don’t help with that. Child beauty pageants in America mostly started in the 1960’s with the Miss America Pageant. In these pageants, children would dress up and present themselves and sometimes their talents on stage and would be judged against other children competing. Over time this gained the interest of many and became much more popular. As popularity increased, so did competition, and kids…

Disney’s best films, Beauty and the Beast is based on a French fairy tale about a beautiful woman who falls in love with a beast. This film sends the message that “it’s what is inside that really matters”. Jeanne Marie- Leprince de Beaumont wrote the timeless tale of “The Beauty and the beast” which has been embraced by the hearts of many for decades. The moral of the original tale by Beaumont, written in 1757, is that it doesn’t matter what occurs on the outside, because inner beauty is more…