Beauty

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…

Child beauty pageants are a repulsive affair, and not a practice that should be continued. I believe they are severely damaging to the children involved. Pageants cause these kids to have a skewed perception of what beauty is, and can encourage parents who are struggling financially to use their offspring by entering them into these competitions. Chiefly, pageants can prove remarkably damaging to the participant’s self-esteem. Being exposed to the beauty standards set by these competitions at…

rich guy after facing some obstacles that prevent them from being together. The Beauty and the Beast by Beaumont doesn’t stray from the typical fairytale outline, but is there more to the happily ever after then meets the eye? Almost all fairytales end with a happily ever after, but is it just a mask to hide the real plot from the readers? In The Beauty and the Beast by Beaumont we come to an ending where the Beauty falls in love with the Beast, but was it a guilt free love or was there a wicked…

Beauty pageants have become a staple in American culture. Winners of pageants such as Miss America are icons, representations of the ideal woman, and positive role models for young girls. So society says. More recently, however, a new type of pageant has increased in popularity to the point of being considered a national phenomenon. These pageants are just as glitzy, and the competition is just as fierce; the only difference is that these contestants are the miniature model. They are child…

Beauty and the Beast is a French folktale that has been translated by many to fit the culture in which it is being read. Beauty and the Beast is amongst the most popular told story in the western world. It has been rewritten over and over again mostly to adapt to the culture of the person whom is writing or speaking. In 1946, La Belle et la Bête was made into a French romantic/ fantasy film which included adaptations from the original fairytale. Then, in the 1990’s, Beauty and the Beast was…

Edward Scissorhands parallels De Beaumont’s tale in more ways than one as Burton adopts the same characterization and fundamental plot elements of the fairytale genre and subgenera of “Beauty and the Beast” all set in a modern, suburban neighborhood. The Beauty character is portrayed by Kim, a beautiful, popular teenage girl who is the daughter of the woman who takes Edward in. The role of the beast, is manifested in Edward but takes on a contemporary twist as his monstrousness…

A beauty pageant is a form of public entertainment consisting of a procession of people in elaborate, colorful costumes. Many pageants consist of females usually up to the age of eighteen. The girls get dolled up backstage with loads of makeup, spray tans, hair extensions, veneers, and other essentials to enhance their body appearance. After covering up their natural appearance, they set off to the stage to compete where they show off their costumes to a crowd of people and multiple judges. The…

Brian Yolen introduces Briar Rose--her version of the Sleeping Beauty which contains differences when compared to both the Grimm and Perrault versions, a clear and unarguable distinguish is the method that that story is presented. So far on my reading, Yolen introduces altered elements found in versions read last week, for example, Yolen states in her version that Sleeping Beauty falls asleep at the age of seventeen; meanwhile in Grimm and Perrault versions states that the princess falls asleep…

Beauty by Robin McKinley is a retelling of the story, Beauty & The Beast. Beauty is a nickname Honour was given when she was younger and now finds herself unsuitable for the name. However, she believes her everlasting courage makes up for her absence of beauty. When Beauty’s father returns home with a tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the promise he made to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, in order to save her father. I would give Robin McKinley…

In Don Sabo’s “Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain” he explores how young athletes are destroying their bodies without awareness. While Naomi Wolf’s “The Beauty Myth” investigates how the media and society as a whole are constantly portraying unrealistic images of beauty for women. The media constantly perpetuates that if females are not beautiful then they will not receive recognition. Sabo’s approach to reach his audience is solely on his experiences from being on the field. Wolf uses many direct…