The Contest

In her opening paragraph, she describes how her family came to know the Miss America Pageant, and how her family made it into an annual event to watch the contest. The author vividly remembers watching the pageant and “the fifty young women who had the American look we longed for” (Alvarez, 2538). Any teenage girl knows the feeling of trying to fit in, so by using this remark at the end of the paragraph it…

33% of girls ages 7-11 are not happy w their appearance, and the pressure of child beauty pageants don’t help with that. Child beauty pageants in America mostly started in the 1960’s with the Miss America Pageant. In these pageants, children would dress up and present themselves and sometimes their talents on stage and would be judged against other children competing. Over time this gained the interest of many and became much more popular. As popularity increased, so did competition, and kids…

Many young girls are posing in front of cameras at ages as young as 9 and 10 in chest revealing animal print outfits. With teased hair and explicit makeup, moms are being forced and told that their daughters need to have carved abs sprayed on with a bronzer just before they go out and perform explicit dances that have many gasping in wonders as to why young girls are being forced and allowed to give their selves out like that. What happened to innocent, playful young women? There is a real issue…

Paulina Parzygnat Prof. Schering Com-102 April 6th 2015 Child Beauty Pageants In today’s society the expectations of appearance are inclining at an incredibly rapid speed. Everyone has a different view of beauty, but people still feel the need and the stress of not fitting into that perfect beauty image that is brought down upon them. To try to feel beautiful people feel that they need to change the way they look and alter their beauty entirely with different tools designed to transform ones…

Beauty Is Pain Winning best song and video with a social message at the 2014 MTV Europe Music Awards; Beyoncé, Sia and Ammo wrote the song called “Pretty Hurts”. Exposing the truth about how our society creates pressure among women to achieve the idea of a “perfect body.” The song was written in 2013 and released in June next year. They focus on the extremely high standards young women face to fulfill the stereotype society has created for them, regardless of how their self-esteem is being…

Beauty Pageants in society Child beauty pageants are used to make profit while pushing the children to start using semi-sexualized adult customs, that at their age cannot fully understand the consequences of those actions and grow up believing the message that physical appearance is all that is important to succeed in life. Unrealistic beauty standards push us to become unhappy and ashamed of ourselves children involved in beauty pageants might grow up to be self-centered people who don 't…

communication with others. They can fall into disfavor around their environment or they can feel like that. They start to compete in pageants at early ages, so from childhood, they develop a fear of losing. They would be afraid of competing in beauty contests and loose. For these reasons they start to turn in upon themselves and they would be depressed. At this early age, beauty and competition concepts would frighten them. To sum up, children who compete and loose in beauty pageants can be a…

Beauty Contests don’t serve any purpose Beauty pageants became a part of American society in the 1920’s. Child beauty pageants began in the 1960’s. Approximately 250,000 children participate in child beauty pageants in 100 beauty pageants all over the U.S. A child as young as three may take a part in a beauty pageant. Parents today are the reason to beauty pageants for children. They put their children in front of the stage light to build up their confidence rather then distorting their…

Child pageants have been a growing glitz and glam phenomenon to some since 1921. Some may use the words glamorous or enchanting to describe these pageants, but others may use words such as horrible or awful to describe something that is meant to promote child beauty. Child pageants are harmful because they are very expensive, they sexualize children, and they also bring negative attention to these little girls. They are meant to promote beauty but in reality they are horrific spectacles hidden…

a good sport. One reason why Lupe is a good person to look up to is, because she is very intelligent. To begin with, Lupe is amazing at school. She gets all A’s and wins a lot of awards at school. For example, she was the winner of the reading contest three summers…