Pros And Cons Of Beauty Pageants

You walk down the stage, strutting your stuff. Any mistake could make you look bad. You've done your luxurious hair, packed your face with makeup, and put on your glitzy dress that your parents spent hundreds on. Today is the big day that you have been waiting for. Winning the beauty pageant. The children that compete try their hardest so that they could win the pageant. In addition there are many different awards you could win from, but of course you strive for the best. Beauty pageants are an advantage to those who work hard. If you don't win, your money was a waste. Perfect practice makes perfect, so contestants practice any chance they can to make sure they can impress the judges so that they never forget you. But it takes a real diva to bring home the diamond crown. All these glitzy things are why the U.S should set the age limitation of beauty pageants to begin at sixteen years of age.
Beauty pageants have been around since the 1920’s. That’s quite a long time. It all started in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Hotel men wanted to have a fall festival to make the summer tourists stay in town past Labor Day. In this festival they included a National Beauty Tournament on the beach, they would choose the most Bathing Beauty in America (Pageant History 1920s,1). "Pageants were introduced into the lives of Americans and became a major event, although they were discontinued from 1929-1932 due to the Great Depression" (Beauty Pageants,1). There are around 2,500 beauty pageants held world wide. In these pageants there are around three million children between the age of six through sixteen that attend them. "As the years progressed, pageants served as a political, educational, and entertaining events. A local news reporter started the...

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...family, also the scholarship awards help those who want to get into college. The disadvantage of the pageants are the hours of preparation, and the pageants make the children grow up too quickly. But, some parents can handle this situation. Do you think that the U.S should have the pageants age start at 16. In my defense I think they should because the children that are too small don't have a clue what they are doing. The children that are older will be more mature and understand what they are supposed to do. Even though you have to pay a lot of money for pageants they are very educationa, and help the participants be successful in life. Margaret M. Fitzpatrick once said "I learned the value of working hard by working hard."