The Contest

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…

and white perceptions of beauty, both played a crucial role during the Civil Rights Movement while the road that led them there was life changing. White society used beauty pageants as a way to reinforce white supremacy, while blacks viewed beauty contests as an attempt to show others, and themselves, that black was beautiful as well. Her thesis is clearly depicted throughout her book. While issues like the Jim Crow laws tried…

executed and performed in a way to benefit the overall countenance, confidence, and personality of those maturing young females participating in beauty pageants to begin with, the overall reputation of said competitions would be altered from only a contest focused on the outward appearance to an edifying experience for all involved. As a result, more and more pageant agencies would follow suit, adhere to new alterations, and adjust the overall character of participants, judges, society, and the…

Each year around 5,000 child beauty pageants are held worldwide. Kids of all ages are signed up by their parents to be told by complete strangers whether they are worth a trophy or not. Many might argue that child beauty pageants can be fun and provide an opportunity for skill development, but they negatively affect the mental and emotional growth of many children because they are too young to deal with the pressure pageants put upon them and there 's always healthier ways to acquire useful…

The swimming contest by Benjamin Tammuz is a story of an Arab boy and an Israeli boy. This took place around the time where there was huge tension between the Arabs and the Jews. There had been much division and segregation amongst the two people. Most of the time, the youth is not up to date with any sort of political conflict or racial division that is occurring at the time. Hatred for the other group is a learned behavior that some youth have not learned yet. Such as the two boys in this…

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…

My Not So Regular Friday They always say Friday the thirteenth brings you bad luck, but my horror story begins with Friday the fourteenth. After school on a regular Friday I made a quick stop at my dad’s house to drop off his stuff from my fundraiser. But only for all his friends to tell me he had just went out for a ride. He took his friend’s motorcycle out to see what was wrong with it. He was always the one someone would go to if they had bike trouble. I didn’t feel like waiting for him…

Beauty pageants have become a staple in American culture. Winners of pageants such as Miss America are icons, representations of the ideal woman, and positive role models for young girls. So society says. More recently, however, a new type of pageant has increased in popularity to the point of being considered a national phenomenon. These pageants are just as glitzy, and the competition is just as fierce; the only difference is that these contestants are the miniature model. They are child…

According to Branston and Stafford (2006, p.12) Semiotics can be defined as the study of signs, or of the social production of meaning by sign systems, of how things come have ``significance´´.) Drawing largely on the work of the linguistics Saussure, Peirce and Barthes, semiotics argues that verbal language is just one of many of meaning. Others systems such as gesture, clothing or architecture can be studied like verbal languages. (Branston and Stafford 2006, p.12) Pretty Hurts video…

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…