America's Junior Miss

Lost the Pageant But Discovers the Hidden Truth In Cindy Bosley's essay, How 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)

In the story, “How I Lost the Junior Miss Pageant” by Cindy Bosley, the narrator tells her story about how she lost the Junior Miss Pageant. She takes us on a journey about how she watched pageants and rated the females as if she was the judge and how she got into the pageant and practiced. She told us about her and her mother’s struggles with money, men and ultimately how she lost the pageant. She went even further after the pageant was over, to tell the reader how disappointed her mother was because

Acceptance. Katie was a young girl with a very ill mother. On her tenth birthday her mom had died. This led to horrible depression in her young life. Also, her peers lacked helping Katie after the death of her mom. In this beautiful short story, “Birthday Box” by Jane Nolan. Katie learns the importance of acceptance. Now I come back to asking you, what really is empty? Heartbroken. This was the feeling young Katie went through after her mom's traumatic death. Her bereavement was awful. At

that was not the norm of my friends, or “women” in general. When thinking about this paper, I suddenly recalled an episode of John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight, where he discussed the Miss America Pageant. I had heard of the pageant before, but I never knew they were a scholarship foundation until watching his show. The Miss America Pageant has been in existence for nearly one hundred years, yet they still judge women primarily on their physical beauty; making it difficult to believe their true mission

Having a book be banned from school and teenagers, makes teens want to read the book more. Sherman Alexie has wrote one of America's banned books, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian. The main plot of this book is the life time story of a teenage Indian, Arnold who is 14. Some of the reasons this book is challenged are because people think it is racist, has sex, swearing, violence, against beliefs, and propaganda. Also the list can include sexim, drugs, alcohol, nudity, and bullying

Skeeter tries to behave as a proper Southern lady: She plays bridge with the young married women; edits the newsletter for the Junior League; and endures her mother's constant advice on how to find a man and start a

asses the contestant's physical appearance based on these superficial themes. The past winners are no role models either. The majority of Miss America winners have been 'undernourished' on the BMI scale, or Body Mass Index, a relation of someones height to their weight. Beauty role models are setting a poor example of how they should be taking care of themselves: Miss America 2008 is a recovering anorexic (Huey). As

Many books around the world have been banned because they are offensive. One example is Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a novel about the journey of a thirteen-year-old boy named Huck, who fabricates his own death to run away with an escaped slave named Jim. The two voyage in a raft along the Mississippi River to gain their individual freedom. In addition, Huck gains a new understanding about humanity. Huck Finn has been creating great controversy on both sides of the argument: to

Known for her creative thinking and unique outlook on life a child mourns the death of her soul and heart; so suddenly taken from her by the one she trusted and loved most, school. It is widely acknowledge that creativity is becoming endangered in America; this is so because the American education system is strict and regulated, allowing for little wriggle room for creativity. Many people wonder if schools should teach creativity, however, that is impossible. Creativity is the unique way of thinking

Marketing Mix MKT 421 Tyson Foods promotes several different types of food in the food chain industry. They are ranked 96 in the Fortune 500 in America’s largest corporations. Tyson’s produced poultry, beef, and pork, as well as providing the previous to several chain stores to use products. From McDonald nuggets to the Subway sandwich, Tyson is one of the largest poultry processing plants in the country. Tyson also distributes bag in bag products to stores which include Sam’s and Wal-Mart stores