JonBenét Ramsey

Miniature sized madonnas of their era gracefully parade down the stage as their names are called, covered in full glam from head to toe in extensions galore. The authenticity of these young girls wears thin as their costumes exhibit a mature look while their bodies have yet a long way to develop. As pure and glamourous the art of pageantry might seem, behind the curtains lie a different show. Karen Kataline, President of The Center for Leadership Communication and author of award-winning…

like Eden no more. Then Mr. Hollandsworth, talks about JonBenet Ramsey. JonBenet use to be heavily involved in pageants before her tragic death (Hollandsworth, 2011). JonBenet friend, Rayanna DeMatteo, talks about how she was scared to go back to pageants because she believed that she was going to also get murdered (Hollandsworth, 2011). The examples he uses were very affective. He pulled on the reader’s heart when talking about Miss. JonBenet. Using her as an example really helped show the…

There is a specific past event that shows the dangers of the pageants. A young girl named JonBenet Patrick Ramsey, (young pageant queen) was kidnapped and murdered at the age of six in 1996. The kidnappers asked her parents for a ramsen- which they didn’t pay in time. Her body was found in her basement on Christmas morning. (D) JonBenet would probably still be alive today if she would have never participated in these pageants. Pageants for children need to be banned…

Artificial beauty, confidence, and eating disorders are a few things that may come to mind when talking about beauty pageants. Beauty pageants have been around since Ancient Greece, but didn’t start becoming popular until 1960s. (Nussbaum, 1) “A beauty pageant is operated in a couple of ways, either corporate sponsors, where the competitors must meet eligibility requirements to participate, or the second way is by putting the responsibility on the participants. The applicants are responsible for…

The Adultification of Little Bodies Looking at Paisley Dickey and her fellow rivals on “Toddlers and Tiaras”, there is a glaringly transparent aspect of the representation of children in beauty pageants; they are all, for the most part, of Anglo-Saxon or European descent: “light skin, straight long hair, thin lips and a narrow nose” (Price 7). Child beauty pageantry is an essentially all-white, multi-billion-dollar industry. Pageant careers come with a hefty cost, with one mother spending…

rewards. In one year, the Miss America Organization provides more than forty-five million dollars of scholarship aid to more than twelve thousand women. With the help of this non-profit organization and their financial aid, a large percentage of the pageant participants have their degree or are in the act of earning their undergraduate or graduate degrees. Miss America’s Outstanding Teen can win thirty-thousand dollars in scholarships. In its thirty-five year history, this pageant has awarder…

for a while to try and link the handwriting with hauptmann. Final findings- Officer Osborn did end up finding the letters to be traced to Hauptmann. Osborn tested the way Hauptmann wrote and found similarities in the handwriting. Jonbenet Ramsey: Overview- Jonbenet was kidnapped from her own house, there was no trace of forced entry in the entire house so the daughter disappeared out of nowhere. The mother and father in the case were very suspicious and there are assumptions of them being part…

Gmira Houda Dr Michelle Hansen FAS 0210 02 12 December 2014 Research Paper “Are you beautiful ?”, asked one member of the filming crew, “Mommy, she is thinking I’m not beautiful, and I’m ALWAYS beautiful !”, answered the Barbie lookalike, crying and running away trying to hide from the cameras of Toddlers and Tiaras. This show is about toddlers participating to pageants, a competition where fake eyelashes, hair extensions, fake teeth, tons of makeup,and even sometimes waxed eyebrows merge…

She’s wearing a bikini, while she stands on stage in front of an audience, dancing and putting on a show to try and win money. Platinum blonde hair, extremely brown fake tan, the full face of makeup: lipstick, dramatic eyes, bright cheeks. She gets her eyebrows waxed on a Wednesday afternoon and her spray tan on a Saturday morning. Everything on her body is fake, from her eyelashes to even her teeth. Even some of the hair on her head is false. Every move she makes, every outfit and every…

approval, and they get it by winning a crown for they’re inappropriate appearances “... strutting across pageant stages, looking like a baby Marilyn Monroe with makeup more suited to women several times her age” Hollandsworth says, describing JonBenet Ramsey (a 6-year old pageant girl, who was brutally murdered in her own…