For most parents and their little girls it is just good fun. They do not take the beauty pageants seriously. For a few parents the beauty pageants become an obsession. This is when beauty pageants for children can suddenly become very harmful. “Critics of the industry warn that the stresses of competition, coupled with an extreme focus on physical appearance, can have a negative effect long before these girls will be eligible for Miss America.” (Triggs, West and Aradillas 160-168) The loss of self-esteem, the inability to show a full range of emotions, the fear of failure, the extreme focus on physical image, and the discord with or fear of parents are a few of the symptoms those little girls will suffer from.
Not only do the competitions cost a large amount of money but they also cost the children their confidence and other emotional issues. Competitions claim to boost self esteem and encourage self confidence but they do the opposite if you are not the winner. The pressure of winning put on them by their parents causes more stress than normal children would have to handle. An article in Current Events titled “Kids on the Catwalk?” states, “Some psychologists say pageants for kids are inappropriate. ‘Pageants force children to focus too much on themselves,’
But let us not forget that these celebrities are often persuaded into doing things that they aren’t really interested in doing for the sole purpose of boosting their popularity in society. Lets face it; drama sells for these individuals. If Madonna got a new tattoo, it would be headlining news on all the gossip TV shows and magazines. This is not an acceptable way to get people to like you. Celebrity or felon, tattoos all carry the same message to me.
It is irrefutable that the action and behavior of celebrities have more good or bad effect on people especially on youth. Celebrities are increasingly becoming role models for the youth as their images and lifestyles are splashed across televisions, movies, magazines, and internet in today’s era of technology. I strongly believe this is largely a negative development. A Number of arguments surround my opinion. To begin with, media is always trying to make these celebrities more and more famous by portraying their images as they are super hero and what they are doing is right.
U1A7- That’s More Than Just My Opinion Assignment #4 By: Chelsea Holmes Many women around the world are being brainwashed by the appeal of how a woman should looked, based on the media’s perspective. They show women as skinny, chesty, and cane free but when they Photoshop these women, they don’t take into consideration the feelings of women. The media’s idea of a woman’s body image can negatively impact her self-esteem. It can cause them to feel fat and ugly, result to harmful and unhealthy weight loss and it can cause suicide. The media’s idea of how a woman should look causes many women to feel fat and ugly about themselves.
2. The major issue with dirty dancing/grinding in middle schools and high schools is that parents, administrators, and other affiliates are not approving of the sexually interactive movements between the kids. This “dirty dancing” is defined as a style of intimate, close dancing between two partners. This issue has grown to a much larger definition due to the new age of teens who are evolving into what parents consider to be crude and unethical in many things that they do, one being “dirty dancing”. The ethical and moral issues are broad in scope due to the partial acceptance of this new culture of kids.
When Toby became a wrestling team member, the dialogue between him and his sister or his friend shows his attitude changing, thinking he has became cool enough to disrespect his elder sister and friend. Moving on to Terri who does modelling, she is stereotyped as a plus-size model. She is not confident of herself, because she gets negative comments on her body image. But still her friends support her encouraging her to continue her modelling to become successful. Teenagers are represented in television drama as
I live in the city and worse in a society that think it is okay to have sex before marriage. So as a result you have kids having sex like it is not a big deal. And to make matter worst they have sex without precaution. Now put all those things together; if society says it is okay to have sex, and it is cool to have sex without thinking about what may happen tomorrow. Now ask yourself how it is okay to do something morally unacceptable but is legal in so many states.
It is very rare that a magazine publishes a picture of someone who is unedited and natural. Women are smoothed, thinned, and enhanced causing young girls to think that is what they have to look like to be considered beautiful. This false image gets into the minds of the young girls making them feel inferior. Instead of saying “I want a healthy body”, they’ll say “I want a body like…” and they’ll go to every extreme to have a body like that specific person. Not only is the image of
The video shows how the media constantly bombards us with false images of the perfect woman, showing heartbreaking images of sickly skinny models that became this way because the media told them that they should be skinny-that skinny is beautiful. Sadly, the only women that appear on the cover on magazines and beauty commercials are thin, and the media does not show bigger women that are just as beautiful. The video shows that even models and celebrities have flaws; these physical flaws are just airbrushed so that they look perfect. People in society fail to see that beauty is in imperfections rather than perfection, and that beauty