Child Beauty Pageants

Here is a great YouTube clip of an opinion on child beauty pageants. Take a look!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smad1MmqyIg

Beauty Pageant Judges

So now I am thinking about who are the judges and how do they find them? What makes them a good judge compared to a bad judge? I wanted to look at the judging and see if this had any affect on the beauty pageants and the girls involved in them. Here I found a list of good judges and how to find them. I was surprised to see the list and I am going to explore this idea more of what the judges are looking for and why they were selected.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2208884_choose-judges-beauty-pageant.html

1. As a pageant director, never serve as a judge yourself. You want your election of the winner to be unbiased. By not serving as judge yourself, you will avoid the possibility of any questionable comments regarding your pageant.

2. Step 2

   Don’t ask a director from another state within your pageant system to serve as judge. Some state directors will try to intimidate the stronger contestants so they won’t do well enough to win.

3. Step 3

   Choose people with a diverse background. Your judges should be geographically distributed, and have different professions and ages.

4. Step 4

   Look for judges with a good reputation. You want your judges to live by the morals they expect from the contestants.

5. Step 5

   Choose people who have an idea of what they are doing. They should have an experience in appraising the ideals of your pageant.

6. Step 6

   Do explain the judging criteria and your pageant goal to your judges. If your winner advances to another level, explain that too.

7. Step 7

   Appoint a judges’ committee chairman. This person will guide other judges, deliver scores to your tabulator, and resolve any judging disputes or emergencies.

8. Step 8

   Choose an odd number of judges in order to avoid a tie.

9. Step 9

   Make sure your judges don’t have any personal ties with the contestants. You can outright ask the judges for this information and have them sign an agreement that states this.

Beauty Pageants Positive or Negative??

In my class today I had the opportunity to present my blog and my ideas. At the end of my presentation, I realized that I need to focus more on what is beauty? who judges it? what are our standards? is it ok for little girls to be judged? etc. So now I am going to look more into this idea of beauty and pageants.

Baby Beauty Queens, Kids Pageants Pt1of6

Watch this clip!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSLvniGba0Q


I came across this movie and was really interested in watching about how different communities see beauty pageants in different ways. This movie was set in the UK, and it is interesting to see how strict the parents are and how much they are pushing their daughters. Is this the message we want to send to little girls? Wow! After I watched this I was in shock! Why do parents do this to their children? Are the mothers living their dreams through their children? I strongly believe that this is true! Many mothers that I meet are so consumed with their daughter's pageant life that they don't realize what they are doing. When a child is nine years old, she does not want a fake tan and have to go through this! It is ridiculous. OK, to have a religious ceremony so the child wins the competition! I strongly disagree. This is terrible! By having these kind of pageants, it sends out a terrible message to the world when really pageants don't have to be this way! Pageants are a positive event when it focuses on intelligence, poise, grace, etc.

The Miss America Pageant is featured on the Ten Great Places to Find True Americana List

Miss America Pageant

Las Vegas

"Beauty contests are an American staple, but this is the Super Bowl. McKechnie says the event has enjoyed a renaissance of popularity since moving from Atlantic City six years ago. There are three days of preliminaries before the finals in the pageant (the next one is Jan. 26-30), and tickets are sold for each round. "One night they do talent, one night evening gowns and so on, so it is pretty easy to buy tickets. Whatever they choose to do for the talent show they do very well, so the quality of the performance is as good as any show on the Vegas Strip." Tickets go on sale in December." 609-653-8700, missamerica.org,
(http://www.missamerica.org/)



When I went on the Miss America site I was really excited to see this article posted and talking about how great beauty pageants are. Most of the articles I read on a daily basis, are discussing how bad pageants are and how much of a negative affect they have on little girls, but I truly believe that Miss America, has great intentions! Look at all of the volunteer work she does, and how she reaches out to communities to help! Go online and purchase tickets!!!!! Support Miss Minnesota!!!!!!! Go Brooke!!!!!! Wow, what a great way to publicize the Miss America Pageant. I am very glad that this was a positive article and how it stated that this is a popular event! I know tickets are on sale!!!!



http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/10great/2009-08-20-americana_N.htm?csp=DailyBriefing&POE=click-refer

Anoka- The Halloween Capital of the World

Many of the cities royalities gathered Saturday to celebrate Halloween, where? Of course, Anoka, the Halloween Capital of the World. On Saturday, October 31st, the royalities from all over met and had a royal brunch in Anoka at the VFW's with coffee and dougnuts preparing for a long day. Many of the royalities were in charge of setting up and taking down their floats so at eleven a.m. the girls started getting ready for this HUGE parade. Every city was dressed up in a Halloween themed float and costumes. Once the royalty set up their floats they would have the chance to go trick or treat at the other floats. The girls would then get ready for the parade to start at one o'clock. Some of the royalty didn't even start in the parade route until three o'clock. Saturday was very cold and many of the Halloween costumes were hard to see under all of the layers the girls had on. After the parade there was a pre-cornoration dinner where all of the girls had the opporunity to get warm and get ready for the cornoration. This year there were fifty-one girls trying for three crowns! What a amazing turn out! Here are the new girls that were crowned: Amanda Funder, Erin Hilliard, & Chelsea Tulupan.

The floats were so great this year despite the cold harsh October weather, here are some pictures of the floats:

( I am the scarecrow:)

Go Green, Green is Gorgeous

"Tamara Henry went to Orlando, Florida and asked the 2010 Miss America Contestants what "being green" means to them. Fifty-one of them were on hand to give their eco-answers. Now you get to vote for which one you think has the best insight on "being green." The winner will take home some environmentally conscious prizes, including a wonderful gift basket from Betty Belts. Click on the box above to go to our contest page and Vote Now! Miss Alaska and Miss Louisiana 2009 were not on hand to take part.The contest will end on Friday, January 29, 2010 and we will post the winner that evening." http://www.greenwithtamara.com/

What a great way to use the media to display the go green message! Have the contestants participate, have a interactive application for voters, etc! This is such a wonderful idea! I love how they had each contestant state why they belive going green is a good thing and then it leaves the world to vote for the woman they believe is the best! WOW:)

PLEASE GO AND VOTE FOR YOUR STATE'S MISS AMERICA CONTESTANTS!!!!!!! This is such a great opportunity for the Miss America candidates to explain why they believe going green is goregous! Help support Miss Minnesota and go on and vote for her!!!!!!!!! This is such a great idea that Tamara came up with! How to go green and advertise this idea! Wow! great:)

http://www.greentwithtamara.com/