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    The purpose of this paper is to assess the negative effects of children beauty contest on its contestants. Although many people argue that there are some benefits of this contest such as build up the confidence, self-esteem, public speaking skills, tact, and poised it is also true that it can result to negative psychological effects and interferes in child development worldwide. The Toddlers and Tiaras, and Little Miss Perfect are popular reality TV shows that features young girls the real hardship

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    Topic: Children beauty pageant should be banned. Thesis Statement: Children beauty pageant should be banned because it is an indirect child abuse, cause financial strain and affects children’s behavior. A girl smiled and posed elegantly while parading on the stage wearing such a beautiful tiara and glittering dresses. She seems like was having so much fun with her make up on her face. Everyone was clapping for her. However, behind that cute and pretty face, a needle of toxin was injected on her

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    Lady Parts Beauty Pageant Over: Vaginas of the World Have Their Queen The vagina beauty contest that started in June finished with the decision that the world's most beautiful lady parts come from Scotland. A total of 182 women submitted their vagina photos and 134,707 visitors voted for the best one. Voters were able to rank photos as many times they wanted. The vagina beauty queen Nell has won 7.7 votes out of 10, winning herself a prize of $5,000. Her runner-ups are a 23-year-old Jenny from

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    the introduction of the Miss America pageant in 1921, there have been thousands of organizations holding beauty pageants for children over the decades, but what are the various consequences that emerge from the children by allowing them to be judge for their beauty? From 2010 through 2013, the television network TLC captured the lives of frantic parents and their children competing in beauty pageants around the country though the show Toddlers and Tiaras. The show became widely infamous for portraying

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    I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant, she reflects on a childhood memory of her experience with a beauty pageant to expose how society pressures everyone to be perfect. Bosley enters the beauty pageant after Bridget, her friend, suggests they enter the local Ottumwa Junior Miss Pageant. By entering the contest, Bosley gains the opportunity to fulfill her “mother’s secret hopes” that her daughter will win a beauty pageant (33). Two weeks before the pageant, Bosley, along with the fourteen other contestants

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    Miss Sunshine beauty pageant and is unsure of her true identity because of this. Richard, her father, is an unsuccessful motivational speaker and businessman and this effects his perception of himself. Another character, Dwayne, loses his sense of identity when he realises he is colour blind. The uncle in the film, Frank has been suicidal due to losing his love and is not happy anymore. Olive is the youngest of the Hoover family, her aspiration to become Little Miss Sunshine’s beauty pageant winner

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    Ballerina Photo Credit: Go Fund Me Daphne Lee, who won the national Miss Black USA this year is also a ballerina. She wears her natural curly hair with proud and is very determined to squash the stereotype when it comes to the black female body. This beauty queen and ballerina confidently identifies herself as an Afro-Latina. As a ballerina, she is constantly exposed to the criticisms of targeting the black woman’s body. More than half a century ago, Raven Wilkinson became one of the very first African-American

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    this idea is in the beauty pageant where girls are being judged on their beauty. Olive doesn't fit the definition of beauty pageant the producers showed this by dressing the beauty constants in short revealing outfits covered with a lot of details. Olive wore a dull outfit that wasn't very revealing comparing to the other girls, the directors padded Olive's outfit to make her seem chubbier than the other girls this made out Olive stand out from the crowd. In the beauty contest, we see a lot of extravagant

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    chosen to watch and research on the film ‘little miss sunshine’ as I believe it is a great example of journeys. The film Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathon Dayton and Valerie Faris, is about a dysfunctional family that take a road trip to a beauty contest. Along the way to the little miss sunshine pageant, the family must deal with crushed dreams, heart breaks, and a broken-down Volks Wagon bus, leading up to the Surreal Little Miss Sunshine Competition itself. The Hoover family might not be

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    physical health of the children. They are exposed to an environment where beauty is everything; and in that environment, adult’s beauty standards are passed to children’s. Little girls are dressed in outfits with wigs and makeups to look like adults. Some parade around in “Las Vegas showgirl” outfits while doing "cute" tricks and performances. This is when cosmetics, high-heels, and diets shows their powers of enhancing the “beauty” of the contestants. It is explicit that makeups are produced for adults

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