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I am Nick Weaver, the people who know me would verbalize, I am an abundance of different things. I am not just your typical guy; for example, some days I can be diligent and not focused on anything. Some-days I might have to make life decisions about something describing me are not something that is facile to do. I have had my fair portion of events in life and all the events have affected who I am today, however if you put these three descriptive words together; nice, intelligent and charismatic

Professionalism is a defining characteristic of the interviewee whom I was fortunate enough to be able to spend some time talking to. Under the motor vehicle company Subaru, I had interviewed Keith Cook, the National Manager for Finance and Insurance Products and Certified Pre-Owned. Keith Cook was promoted to this position a little over two years ago while spending the past twenty-six years in the corporate motor vehicle field, spearheading its marketing and sales departments. Through his time with

She did the pageant to get her mother’s acceptance for one. Her mother always had put her down, “After my mother’s never-subtle hints that if I’d just lose 20 pounds boys would like me and I might even win a beauty contest” (Mauk & Metz, 2016, pg. 34). Throughout reading the story, I felt the mother and daughter always had a problem with people accepting them for who they were. The theme about wanting people to accept you is a hard one to talk about because I feel

Walking the Ramps of a Beauty Pageant Christopher Lowell once said, "Beauty is not skin deep…." but is it really so with the exposure of today's generation to media's promotion of their own concept of beauty? Turn on the television and see that most commercials, especially those selling beauty products such as Ponds, Skin White, and Gilette for Women, are endorsed by thin, tall, pimple-free, smooth-legged and fair to white-skinned women. Flip pages of fashion magazines, see fashion shows and discover

The Negative Effects of Child Beauty Pageants Purpose: To persuade my audience of the negative impacts beauty pageants have on girls. INTRODUCTION: I. It is 6:00 a.m. on Friday morning, and Sharon is about to awaken her two year old daughter, Jessica, to prepare for a 4 hour car ride. Jessica has not gotten much sleep in the past few days due to long hours of practice and is now very cranky. The only time Jessica will get to nap is during the 4 hour drive but then must stay awake the rest of the

Unless the skeptics have proper knowledge and understanding, they are unable to understand the criteria for judging a pageant. There are so many reasons to enter a beauty pageant. Although the stereotype is multitudes of girls with big hair, caked on makeup, and fake personalities; being a size 0, or 2 that’s not even close to reality! To tell the whole truth about pageants skeptics have to be open minded and erase all of their prior knowledge of what the portray pageants to be. Yes pageants do

Since 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

Child Beauty Pageants: Are They Moral? Lisa Allen Com/172 March 12, 2011 Ron Tatum Child Beauty Pageants: Are They Moral? They say that beauty comes from within but if this is true why do parents parade their young children around and make their five-year-olds dress, look, and act like they are 18 years old. Child beauty pageants are very upsetting. “It aggravates the average viewer because how can a parent put their child through that emotional

Imagine you are at home, watching tv. Flipping through the channels, you see a preview for next week’s episode of Toddlers & Tiara’s. They show the girls dressed in frilly, sparkly attire, fake teeth, fake hair, fake tans, and makeup that could transform their faces into someone in their 20’s. These children are usually misbehaving, disobedient, overdramatic and they are between the ages of four and six. Any person could see that this lifestyle is incredibly harmful to these children not just because

Painted Babies The documentary Painted Babies is produced by Jean Treays and she constructed it using visual techniques and conventions to persuade the viewer to adopt the views towards the parents, especially the mothers of the baby girls. It has the characterization of the parents and the babies as well as the selection of interview and scenes. the techniques are used in the documentary to shape the viewers on certain issues like the beauty pageants and the lost of childhood and how parents live