Child beauty pageant

To the ecstatic audience of 1,600 filling the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, the beauty pageant was just a thirty-five dollar show full of attractive women competing for a crown. However, as a representing delegate I can concur that the pageant was more than just glitz and glamour. It was about the drama behind the scenes, the improvisations, the pounds of makeup, the extremely tight and heavy clothing, and the stressed delegates giving it their all. The ultimate goal wasn’t just…

Lola Montez was born on February 17, 1818, as Maria Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert. Her parents were Eliza Oliver and Edward Gilbert. Later, when the year of 1847 came around, Lotta Crabtree was born on November 7, in Limerick, Ireland, named Charlotte Mignon Crabtree, to Mary Ann Livesey Crabtree and John Ashworth Crabtree. These two were very similar. Lola Montez was an Irish dancer and actress, while Lotta Crabtree was an American actress and a dancer. Lola Montez was Irish and Spanish in…

Little Miss Sunshine starts off with the Ms. America beauty pageant. A young child name Olive Hoover, is watching the pageant on the television, fascinated with the events taking place. This film starts to address the idea of if there is only winners and losers, and how to be a winner. The point gets strongly put across as the father believes that you have to think you will win, and that is how you become a winner. The film becomes an eye opener for the viewers because it shows the amount of…

Many women grow up believing that they do not possess the skills to start their own businesses. Some of them may have dreams of beginning a profitable brand, but do not know how to begin. As a result, many women choose to work for someone else instead of following their passion. However, Doe Deere is proof that females can be successful entrepreneurs. Deere had visions of starting a booming cosmetic business many years ago and achieved her goal came up with Lime Crime cosmetic line back in 2004.…

Abstract This essay, Glitz Beauty Pageants and the Ugly Truth, examines the role glitz pageants play on young adolescent girls. There are two major types of pageants which include natural and glitz. Natural pageants are morally appropriate and acceptable for young girls because they promote a much healthier lifestyle as compared to glitz beauty pageants. On the other hand, the impact that glitz beauty pageants have on young girls is highly negative. This particular type of pageant puts girls at…

Pageants are a place where it is socially acceptable for society to judge women and girl’s of all ages on their external beauty. On the other hand today’s society tells young girl’s that they should not care what’s on the outside but what’s on the inside. How can people expect this to be true when society contradicts this by telling young girls they exact opposite by allowing young beauty pageants. Youth beauty pageants had first debuted in 1961 and since then it has become increasing popular,…

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…

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…

in beauty pageants. Beauty pageants for girls under the age of 13 should be illegal, due to all the long lasting consequences they can have on them. In France, recently, the government has voted to ban beauty pageants for girls under 13. In addition, anyone who is associated with the pageant, including parents and organizers, can get a fine of up to $40,000 and 2 years in prison (Healy). The United States should also consider doing this and having the same punishments. These beauty pageants…

going home telling your mom all about it and seeing her smile because how happy she sees you. As a child you go with the flow, you really don 't know exactly what is going on but you confide in your parents and they are to know what is best for you. But do all parents know what is best for the children? Do they know what they are doing to them when they put their girls in pageants? I myself been in pageants at the age of 16, I do it on my own without pressure. It was one of the best experience I…