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    Beauty is a hyped up subject in America. The media makes beauty seem so much more important than it truly is. Girls will do just about anything to look beautiful, whether that means using the newest Urban Decay eyeshadow palette or gluing false eyelashes on to their real eyelashes.Younger girls, in their teenage years, are influenced by celebrites, youtubers and makeup commercials. They are taught that they don’t look beautiful enough naturally but that’s alright because they can always use a variety

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    confidence when they become older, but there are so many biased opinions about beauty pageants for kids. After seeing young kids spray tanned, in revealing attire and a full face of makeup, beauty pageants are nothing less than blatant objectifications of these young girls. As entertaining and hysterical beauty pageants can be, pageants have raised immense controversy throughout the world. What is a beauty pageant? A beauty pageant is a competition that focuses on the physical appearance of its contestants

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    what generally defines the world of childhood beauty pageants, however, not all aspects of pageants can be so charming. Beauty pageants are competitions that focus mainly on judging contestants on their physical attributes and clothing choices. Young girls across the globe are continuously taking part in beauty pageants as a part of their daily lives where they are judged based on their looks, confidence, talents, and poise. Childhood beauty pageants have drastically grown in popularity over the

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    Beauty pageants have been apart of the American community for many years. They are a competition where people, young and old, go to show off their talents, costumes, and of course their beauty. While this may seem somewhat accepted for older men and women, what happens when you throw children in the same competitions? Children beauty pageants have been growing at an alarming rate. Popular television shows, like Toddlers and Tiaras, are perpetuating the idea of theses ‘shallow’ competitions. While

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    The Negative Effects of the Child Beauty Pageant By: Pamela Wingate English Composition 2 Individual Assignment 5 May 28, 2015   Abstract This paper will explore the negative effects that a beauty pageant has on a child. While many people think that these pageants are an overall good experience for any child this paper contains and explores research paper that will outline the negative effects these pageants have on the children in them, some of them being long term effects. Some of these effects

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    “True Beauty: Only on the Inside or Outside?” Beauty can be identified for anyone, or anything, and it can be quite difficult to decipher so easily; for, it is a concept of a personal preference to be found as impressive or pleasing. For decades, women have been competing in beauty pageants representing their state, country, or self, to be judged and ranked for physical features and even talent, personality, and intelligence. Eventually, beauty pageants have become more open based on who is eligible

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    effects that beauty pageants can have on their contestants. Judged solely on physical beauty, beauty pageants have been around for quite some time. The first pageant, the Miss America pageant, was held in 1921. Miss Universe and Miss USA soon followed, and by the 1960’s beauty pageants were part of American culture. Viewed as a positive and potentially rewarding competition, pageants have now recently had a drastic turn of view. Advocates of beauty pageants put forth that beauty contests develop

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    Beauty Pageants With all of the fake teeth, nails, hair, eyelashes, overkill of makeup, and spray tans how can a beauty pageant truly showcase beauty if everything that makes up the contestants is bogus? A beauty pageant by definition is a competition in which people judge a group of women or girls and decide which one is the most beautiful. The standards by which this so called beauty is judged can vary depending on the level of the pageant but the most common categories are swimsuit, talent,

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    Whether you are a pageant fan or not, it is impossible for you not to hear about the pageant news especially here in the Philippines. Filipinos are one of the greatest and most dedicated pageant fans worldwide. According to Medel in one of the interviews conducted by Sun Star Philippines, "I think the strongest fans in the world are Filipinos. It's incredible. In 2006, I was in Los Angeles and there are a lot of Mexican people. But the Filipinos are very massive. When you talk with the people, everybody

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    Beauty pageants have become a controlling part of our society, based on statistics, around 5,000 child beauty pageants are held every year and 250,000 child contestants are participating. In general aspect of beauty pageant, more than two million girls are competing in beauty pageants every year. A child beauty pageant is a beauty contest featuring contestants under 16 years of age. Competition categories may include talent, interview, sportswear, casual wear, swim wear, theme wear, outfit of choice

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