1. ARE BEAUTY CONTESTS HARMFUL?

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VOCABULARY
Pageant
Competition
Showcase
Exhibition
Minority
Related to money
Teen
Teenager
Flippers
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3. MEANING
A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that mainly focuses on the physical beauty of its contestants, although such contests also incorporate personality, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria.

4. THE GOOD AND BAD OF BEAUTY CONTESTS
Helps build confidence
Objectifies young women
Improves public speaking 
Causes issues with body image
Promotes social good/charity
The bathing suit competition (need we say more?)
Scholarships
Spotlights only one kind of beauty 
Showcases your talents

5. Critics say,
It is mostly based on the physical beauty of all contestants
Its a parade of female bodies
Beauty contests promote an ideal of female beauty to which only a minority of women can realistically aspire

6. Judging women, but not men, primarily on their looks contributes to the subjugation of women because other qualities such as intelligence, are not seen as part of ideal feminity and there fore, not as things to which women should aspire. 

7. HOW DO CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS AFFECT A CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT?
EXTERNAL VS. INTERNAL VALUES
Beauty pageants stress looks, glamour and, often, provocative attire

8. POSSIBLE EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS
it's not uncommon for teens who used to be in pageants to develop eating disorders and have body image problems.

9. FINANCIAL STRAIN
Beauty pageants are expensive, and some parents use money that could be spent on education

10. SEXUALIZES THEM
Young girls who compete in pageants often look sexy by wearing makeup, hair extensions, “flippers” , revealing outfits and by learning provocative poses and moves

11. ARE BEAUTY CONTESTS HARMFUL?
SO WHAT ARE YOUR VIEWS
ARE BEAUTY CONTESTS HARMFUL?
HOME ASSIGNMENT
1)Give synonym: Emulate
2) Give antonym: Disorder
3) Give meaning :
a) Pageants b) Flippers c) Provocative d) Aspire
4) Make a sentence using below word:
a) Ideal b) Idol c) Charity

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