Essays on Pageant

Acts of Kindness

Group I Know My family had never travelled to Europe and they have always craved about taking the whole family to Europe. But, my father spent most of his money on his children’s education and a suitable home for us. After working hard for past few years, I decided to give my family a gift and take them all to Europe. I booked everything myself and gave my family surprise on my parent’s anniversary. I will remember the happiness on my parents face when they learned about my surprise gift. Even better was their happiness when they ...

(Class Information) Mike Tyson became a celebrity in his own right. He earned a big name in boxing, not to mention the wealth that he gained from the same sport. However, his fame waned when the front pages of the tabloids and newspapers feasted on his conviction story for allegedly raping one of the aspirants in the Miss Black America beauty contest. The Daily News read, “Mike Tyson, the world heavyweight champion at 19, last night became a convicted rapist at 25, after a jury found he attacked an 18-year-old beauty pageant contestant in his hotel room here last ...

Children beauty pageants became widespread in the US in the 1960s. The girls are introduced to these pageants in their early years. The media has encouraged the spread of the beauty pageants (Nussbaum 1). Media can be used to educate, entertain the audience and the same media can be an agent that causes destroys the moral fabric of the society. The various scenes of crime, sex and money depict a society whose moral fabric is washed down. Beauty pageant grown in the world market has grown, as many people are attracted to the changes in fashions and designs. The ...

Introduction

The objectification of women in cheerleading has been noted in many several news materials, research articles and online blogs. Women are presented in scantily clad clothes and are assigned to dance in provocative ways to ensure that audience is entertained. Overtime objectification of women and their body parts in cheerleading groups leads to women developing self-objectification traits. Female self-objectification has been defined as "regular exposure to objectifying experiences that socializes girls and women to engage in self-objectification, whereby they come to internalize this view of themselves as an object or collection of body parts” (Szymanski, Moffitt, & Carr, 2010, p. ...

International and local beauty pageants is a very popular and, obviously, profitable kind of show business, which is extremely spread worldwide, especially after the Second World War. Every year in different parts of the world over a hundred local, regional, national, international competitions of beauty are held. This essay will reveal some major pros and cons of beauty pageants, on focusing on its negative side. The beauty pageant is a so called expression of the ‘women power’, even though it has both positive and negative sides. Divisive, subversive and provocative role of popular international show beautiful women clearly demonstrates ...

For many years, beauty pageant became a part of communities all over the world. Also, they became obsessions to some parents, who think that these contests are appropriate for their kids. Some of them do not understand that with a decision to enroll a child for a pageant they kill their childhood forcing them to acts like an adult. Toddlers and Tiaras is an American reality TV show created to present kids, aged from 5 years and older, as adult models. The series show makes children act and behave in way that is inappropriate for their early age. For ...