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The Miss America Pageant, 2004.
This paper looks at the Miss America Pageant, focusing on the controversies of the pageant.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 54.95
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In this essay, the writer discusses aspects relating to the Miss America Pageant. The writer focuses on the controversies of the pageant. In this paper, the ideal of the Pageant is studied. The writer examines the Pageant's desire to visually communicate a specific image of the ideal young woman. The relevancy of the Pageant is also discussed. Further, the writer looks at the impact of the Women's Movement on the Pageant.
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"The Miss American Pageant has become an institution on the domestic entertainment scene. Countless young women have moved up the ranks of local and state pageants to compete on the boardwalk at Atlantic City hoping that they will be the one to hear the magic words associated with the pageant. 'Here she comes Miss America Our Ideal.' Unfortunately, the pageant has at times been marred by various controversies that speak increasingly to the social and political agenda embraced ... "
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The Beauty Pageant Culture, 2004.
An analysis of issues of gender and power in the beauty pageant culture of America.
2,027 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 9 sources, MLA, £ 44.95
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This paper discusses how beauty pageants define gender, hierarchy, and power. The paper contends that, despite growing resentments to a male-imposed version of femininity, women in America are influenced by a wide range of powerful cultural messages that serve to define unrealistic expectations of what women should look like and how they should act. The paper explores the Miss America, Miss Universe, and Miss World pageants.
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"Data for the winners of the Miss America competition from 1921 to 1986 (when the pageant stopped collecting the data) were analyzed by Freese and Meland; these researchers found that simple correlations between WHR and a linear measure of the time of pageant victory show that the WHRs of Miss American winners have changed over time. The correlation coefficients indicate that the WHR Miss America winners have decreased over time (r =.-55, p < .001) and those of Playboy centerfold models have increased over time (r =.46, p < .001) (Freese & Meland, 2002, p. 135). On the one hand, the authors say these results could reasonably be assumed to mean that this is evidence of an invariance in the underlying preference over time; the opposing trends, while important, could merely reflect idiosyncrasies of employing self-reported Playboy and Miss America measurements as measures of indicators of American male preferences for specific gender characteristics in the opposite sex at a given point in time. In other words, they say, because the trends are in opposite directions, they can be thought of as canceling each other out, allowing the conclusion that reflected WHR preferences have effectively been temporally invariant despite evidence of change in both samples (Freese & Meland, 2002, p. 136)."
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The Miss America Pageant, 2004.
A report on how the Miss America Pageant reflects American values of womanhood.
3,019 words (approx. 12.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 61.95
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This paper looks at the history of the Miss America pageant and links it to the changing ideas of womanhood present in American culture since 1921 when the pageant began. An in-depth look at several of the pageant winners compares the image they set forth contrasted with the idea of womanhood present at the time. Specifically, the paper looks at the 1950s as the hey-day of the pageant and the scandals like that of Vanessa Williams, which changed the image of the pageant. This paper also explores why the pageant's appeal has faded in the 21st century.
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"Once upon a time, or so the story goes, there was a great warrior named Paris who was asked to judge who the most beautiful Greek goddess was between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. When Paris chose Aphrodite, he was granted the most beautiful woman in the world as his prize, and in taking her caused the outbreak of the Trojan War. Although the beauty pageants that would latter follow this mythic pageant had significantly less dire consequences, beauty pageants have played a role in shaping society. One pageant in particular, the Miss America Pageant, has become a hallmark of American popular culture and has served to reflect the American idea of womanhood. Through its history, the Miss America Pageant has changed to reflect the images of womanhood that America would like to project but it has recently lost popularity due to its concentration on the past ideas of womanhood."
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Pageant of the Masters, 2003.
A discussion on the pageant of the masters.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper is a cultural critique of the Pageant of the Masters, an annual summertime event in the Southern California city of Laguna Beach. It focuses on the tableaux vivants (living paintings) that accompany the two art festivals.
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"Most of us are familiar with an artistic technique called trompe-l'oiel. Taken from the French words for 'fool the eye', the term refers to paintings or other artworks that are so realistic that they fool the viewer's eye into thinking that they are the real ..."
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Beauty Pageants, 2005.
This paper explores beauty pageants and the search for the ideal lifestyle.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, £ 30.95
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The paper discusses how we live in a society in which demands for equality abound. At some point, the rights and privileges associated with the white heterosexual man between the ages of 25 and 40 became associated with the perfect life. At the same time, it seemed that a trend began. The paper describes how hyphenated Americans began their quest for the apparently ideal lifestyle that had been withheld from them. Women, gays and lesbians began their own efforts to achieve this same equality outside of gender and sexual preference. The paper concludes that despite it all, the beauty pageant still survives.
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Rise and Fall of Beauty Pageants, 2005.
A look at the popularity of beauty pageants in the mid 1900s.
2,185 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 47.95
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This paper discusses why national beauty contests emerged in America and Australia, among other nations, in the 1920s and why they declined
in popularity by the 1980s.
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"The withdrawal of US network television from the Miss America pageant marks a new low in the steady decline of a once great institution: the national beauty contest. From being shared communal events that embodied the hopes and dreams of a sizeable section of their populations and played a role as flag-waving occasions of national pride, events such as Miss America have become just one part of the fragmented multimedia world that is entertainment today, and a distinctly tawdry and unfashionable one at that. The same story of marginalization revealed by ABC?s withdrawal from Miss America is repeated across the world, with national contests no longer shared national events."
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Beauty Contests, 2008.
This paper explores the cultural practice known as the "beauty pageant".
1,543 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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The paper discusses the importance of the cultural practice of the beauty pageant, in particular the Miss America beauty contest. The paper discusses how although there has been scholarly aversion to studying the phenomenon, it is clear that this apparently frivolous cultural practice is enormously significant in shaping how sexuality, gender and race are shaped within the broader fabric of power relationships in our society. The paper also demonstrates how this cultural practice has spread across the world during the twentieth century to become a global phenomenon.
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"The topic of "beauty" and, in particular, "beauty pageants" is a highly controversial one in contemporary academia. In the wake of late twentieth century feminism, scholars in the fields of sociology and anthropology "often see beauty contests as somehow trivial, frivolous, or vulgar" (Cohen 5). In large measure, this scholarly response reflects the widespread controversy over addressing the cultural construction of "beauty" in the modern context. While feminist critics have led the debate over the scholarly analysis of the construction of beauty, scholars in other fields have tended to avoid discussion of the issue and the cultural practice of beauty contests. As one critic observes of this scholarly aversion: "The failure to grant beauty pageants serious attention may reflect a reluctance to deal with beauty itself as a serious matter" (Cohen 6)."
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"Between the Acts", 2007.
An analysis of the theme of imagery in Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts".
2,034 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 44.95
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This paper discusses how "Between the Acts" is Virginia Woolf's last published novel and certainly the most lyrical text of all her works. It looks at how the loose structure, the absence of a definite plot and the interspersion of verses throughout the text, enhance the lyrical quality of the book. It examines how the main achievements of the novel are the narrative form, the linguistic games and the symbolic imagery. The action spans only twenty-four hours during summer in 1939, and takes place at Pointz Hall, the home of the Olivers, where the whole village gathers to watch an annual pageant.
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"The image the "barking monsters" as well as that of the cows that interrupt the play with their noise at one point, suggests the presence of the primitive world of the past in the modern, civilized world. The theme of the pageant staged in the book, which is in fact a comprehensive outline of the entire history of England, also underlines this idea. The sea is another important imagistic element in this novel as well as in the previous books by Woolf. Talking about the fish that is to be brought and served at the party, Isa wonders how far the see might be from their village. "
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Art and Society, 2004.
A comparison of Egyptian and Greek sculpture.
1,001 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 24.95
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This paper discusses how different cultures see the world in different ways and how religion, society, and even politics, shape our views and give form to our human environment. In particular, it explores how society?s ideals are often reflected in its sculpture. It looks at how the Greeks represented people as they ought to be and the Egyptians as gods. It shows how, for the Egyptians, the world was an unchanging pageant set into emotion each day by a god on Earth and how forms were stereotyped and individual characteristics were replaced by symbols of status and class. In contrast, it shows how the philosophical Greeks, ever-striving for the perfect world, placed gods on the same footing as men and depicted both as physically perfect specimens, coolly detached from their surroundings.
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"Ancient Egypt was a fundamentally religious society. The axis of its world turned on the will of a god-king who endlessly re-enacted the drama of his father the sun?s journey across the sky and through the underworld. Life after death was central to Egyptian belief, as was the necessity of preserving the body intact. A world so regulated and repetitive required an art that expressed order and stability. The canons of Egyptian society and its art are aptly displayed in the towering Colossi of Rameses at Abu Simbel. Here as in all depictions of the king, individual characteristics count for little. ?The greatness of the Egyptian gods [is] represented by the images of the divine king and his family.? In each of the four identical statues, the Pharaoh is represented as a majestic giant, his hands resting calmly by his sides as he sits motionless on his eternal throne."
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Concepts of Beauty, 2003.
Examines why fashion models are admired in society today.
2,024 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 44.95
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Notwithstanding the adage, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," to explain why some humans appear more attractive than others, this paper provides a review of the relevant literature to identify what scientific basis there is for making determinations of beauty and how this can be applied to fashion models today. A discussion of the criticisms being directed against beauty pageants and their directors is followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.
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"We have all seen it: the New Miss America proudly walking down the runway, tears streaming down her humble face as she displays her crown and scepter -- showing the whole world exactly what it takes to be considered "beautiful." Some researchers, though, say the swimsuit-and-scholarship competition promotes an "ideal of female undernutrition" by crowning ever-skinnier contestants. A member of the staff at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health said, "Clearly there is a trend toward undernourished winners." In a recent analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, scientists examined the decline in body mass index (BMI) scores among contest winners since first Miss America won the title in 1921. The winner of that contest had a BMI of 20.4. The "BMI reflects a person's weight divided by height to arrive at a number indicative of weight-related health" (Vergano, 2002, n. pag.)."
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