Argumentative Essay On Beauty Pageants

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the “no other girl is your friend here” speech, regarding the relationships between the participants (both mothers and daughters), usually all smiles and hugs at the surface but opposition can be sensed at a deeper level. And this brings another problem to my mind, dissimulation as a form of interaction, which can be used outside contests too and become a habit. Restricting the age requirements on beauty pageants will take the pressure off children that do not want to participate in pageants and were forced to take part. Nicole Hunter wrote an article about the issues she went through competing in beauty pageants at a young age. Since she was four, she had been competing in high glitz beauty pageants all over the world unwillingly. She explains how it was not her dream but her mothers. She felt as though she did not have the option to say no. In a blog that she wrote about her experiences, she shares how to this day she still struggles with a low self-esteem, especially when she does not wear makeup. For many years now, she has been fighting anorexia nervous, and just now as an a...

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