Essays on Beauty 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 ...

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 ...

Beauty pageants have long been a part of the multibillion entertainment industry, serving as a platform, where participants can show their talents, earn money and recognition and acquire certain social status. While adult participants can take full responsibility for their actions and choices during the competition, children are usually dependent on the decision of their parents, whose irresponsibility can lead to a range of negative outcomes, such as the deprivation of normal childhood in healthy environment, sexualization of young participants, which may cause sexual abuse or the instilment of wrong moral values, according to which appearance is the main prerequisite for a successful ...

Introduction

During the late 1940’s and 50’s, media was on the forefront in a post war effort to reconstruct the family structure after World War II. Most shows on television are dominated by nuclear families whereby women who are home makers do not challenge their prescribed gender roles. It is evident that sexuality was not illustrated in these shows (Barry, 256). On the contrary, there are film images of the famous Doris Day whose acting career was popular between 1948 and 1973 during which she challenged the image of the woman at home by being single, independent and successful ...

Introduction

Child beauty pageants have been around for a long time. Brockman suggests they began in the 1960’s, although an article “Child beauty pageants” claimed the first one was staged in a hotel in Atlantic City in 1921, and that since the times of those earlier pageants, the pageant “industry” has grown to feature almost 25,000 pageants annually in the U.S. alone – a $5 billion per year business. As well as becoming much more common (and much more costly to enter), those pageants have also become highly controversial in a number of respects. This essay discusses some of the issues involved and ...