The Contest

psychologically and the other 60%of children are unhappy during the pageant itself.” (rodriguez) For those girls who didn’t get the crown or place are devastated after parading around on stage only to be told she isn’t the prettiest. People will shower contest winners with so much attention that the positive aspects of what the competition should be can be pushed to the side and overconfident can take its place. Losing a beauty pageant also means losing a great deal of confidence and come away…

introduce a face to the faceless troubles of racism, handicaps and illnesses. People believe that pageants are a great thing but in all reality they aren 't. The scholarships and politics of it all is pointless. All of what it takes to be in a beauty contest could have been useful in other ways. Being in pageants is not worth the time or day or price. A major thing in beauty pageants is that its waste of time and distance. In the following states there is no laws that states beauty pageants are…

contestants or maybe even just to gain the crown and glory.Even though pageants’ are supposedly created to enhance self-confidence. The way that the contestants are judged is solely based upon looks of the participants and hence, is a very superficial contest. These pageants competitions are considered to be superficial because of all the glitz and makeup that is involved, but ever since the year of “nineteen- twenty one in an effort to lure tourist to stay past Labor day, Atlantic City…

“She is beauty and she is grace, she is the queen of 50 states, she is elegance and taste, she is Miss United States (Lawrence).” This song, from the soundtrack of the movie Miss Congeniality, describes amazing women who have been crowned Miss United States. While outside of this movie, in the real world, we do not have Miss United States; we do have other titles similar. Beauty pageants encourage their participants to be the best versions of themselves they can be through building the…

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and confidence to get on a stage in front of hundreds of strangers to show your package (Day). There are also beneficial programs that the pageants help out while they give out scholarships. Alot of people argue that negative aspects that take over contest, but in reality benefits play a huge role. “I always think if you can stand on stage in front of hundreds of people, then I can stand up to the bullies being horrible to me” says the former America’s perfect teen. Even bullied girls get away…

act and dress in such an adult fashion may cause them to miss out on certain rites of passage, such as the first time a girl might wear a formal dress under normal circumstances (eg., at a prom) (Child beauty pageants). Furthermore, joining beauty contests at a young age subjects the children to rigorous routines and schedules, they are prone to miss the usual stuff that kids join and experience growing up. Children concentration is not focused of kindergarten or school and not to find first…

Though the judges do rate the child’s talent, the contests are called beauty pageants for a reason. It is to rate how beautiful you are. If you were told that you weren’t beautiful enough because don’t meet someone’s beauty standard, wouldn’t you feel bad? Everyone has different beauty standards. This is…

appearance” (2). By having them focus on their outer beauty, they undermine qualities such as kindness, intelligence and the ability to understand that everyone is different. Because being attractive is a major way a young girl can most certainly win a contest, and adding the factor that they are still young and around that age they’re still developing their perspectives, they will start to believe that their physical appearance is the main way to succeed in the real world. When rejected, this…

botox? Frank Furedi (sociologist) said, “such contests are just a couple steps up from cuffs. (F) At first, children are forced by their parents to put on a bunch of makeup and costumes. Frank is saying that forcing these children to do all this is almost as bad as putting them in handcuffs. The reasons I think these pageants put children in danger are JonBenet Patrick Ramsey (pageants queen) was murdered, one mother gave her child botox, and these contests are just steps up from…