Pageant

Are Beauty Pageants really worth all the hassle? The organization of beauty pageants was founded in 1921 by an Atlantic City hotel owner (Nussbaum). The main reason that he created the pageant life was to keep the tourist in town longer. It was a marketing tool for the hotel (Nussbaum). The term that everyone uses for beauty queen is ‘Miss America’, this was brought upon the world by a news reporter that thought it was a clever name (Nussbaum). Pageants were discontinued from 1929-1932 due to…

While beauty pageants often reign in American without much debate, the same subject is a hot topic for debate in France. Legislators in the French Parliament have issued a move to ban such pageants that are radically supported in places like the United States. The source for formulating the controversial ban stems from the views that pageants, and similar contests, force the youth surrounding them into a state of hyper-sexualization (Healy). Vast citizens are worried that the girls are being…

Topic: Banning beauty pageants for little girls Opening/Attention: Would you like to show your son/daughter that the only thing that matters in life are good looks and pleasing other people? Spoken Link/Transition: Emotion/Story: “During a block party, Michael Light paused to ask police officers the way to the Little Miss Fairborn beauty pageant. Shortly thereafter, he was arrested for causing a bit of a ruckus riding his bike in an unsafe area, and after doing a quick background check,…

Beauty pageants have their origins in Ancient Greece, where they even have their own Grecian myth, “The Judgment of Paris.” However, in ancient Greece there is no real evidence of beauty pageants, so the most direct line of beauty pageant history takes place in the medieval era. The beauty pageants of the modern era can be traced back to Phineas T. Barnum in the 1850s. As can be seen, beauty pageants have been around for many years and have been formed from very much tradition. However, how much…

Helen Rockwell Mr. Bertelsen English Three 10 November 2016 Beastly Beauty Pageants Children’s beauty pageants- their popularity has been on a rise in recent years. Shows such as Toddler and Tiaras or Here Comes Honey Boo Boo have brought the topic into the public eye. Although these shows are on-air for entertainment reasons, many people are outraged and are asking for a ban on children’s beauty pageants. Pageants for children should be banned because they cost more than the prizes that come…

participate in pageants in order to make her parents happy and boastful that their child has won the “Grand Title” in a child pageant. Some parents, in order to win these prizes, have to hide their children’s imperfections with make-up, spray tans, and flippers (fake teeth) to make judges see them as a flawless. Parents entering their children in these…

First, the supporters of pageantry contend that contestants relish the platform that are often a reward for participating in in the pageants. “[pageants] Represent causes they are passionate about through their platform statement, while gaining professional and personal skills” (Stern). Pageants do not just jump start political careers, they give the contestants experience that expands everyday life and future jobs. The contestants show their compassion, and get to help a charity of their choice…

author as a young girl watching beauty pageants in the living room. She’d watch the shows with her mother as she narrates what she enjoyed and envied about these women. She tells about her parents’ divorce and all the hopes her mother had for her, including winning a pageant of her own. She comes to know later that her mother knew she was too weird, chubby, and poor to ever win. During her pageant she stood out like a sore thumb, and ultimately lost the pageant. She’d lost before she’d ever…

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,…

Another aspect that affects the reputation of pageants is the toll that such an obsession of body image and thinness has on viewers. As we look around, it is evident that not all connections of young men and women’s problems with their self-confidence and self-love in their own skin lead to pageants. Celebrities have proved to be thinner, which negatively affects all those who look up to said celebrities and want to be just like them. However, with recent campaigns and public attention, more and…