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Work Cited:

Bennet, Cherie. Life in the Fat Lane. New York, New York: Doubleday, Batam, 1998. 35-55.

Abstract:

This is a functional story of a girl who has been through beauty contests and was homecoming queen. It’s an in-depth story of her struggle with her image and the pressure to be thin for her competition. This source shows a detailed process of a young woman who has become obsessed with her weight to obtain the crown in a beauty pageant.

Thoughts:

This book was a story that followed the lifestyle of the avergae over-weight, beauty-chasing, media run teenager. By media run i’m relating it towards our media and the influnce it has on our society and especially targeted to the younger generations that are more vulnerable and plausable to become more attracted to it. This idea then leads on to the main view of the effects, specialficaly, beatuy pageants have on our society. The want and need to be thin and change the way you are is because of the media. This is one of the leading roles to anerixia and bulimia. Just like the story the want to become the perfect figured beauty contestant drove her too far. Is it worth it?

Works cited:

Dayton, Jonathan. Faris, Valerie. Little Miss Sunshine. Steve Carell. Abigial Breslin. Greg Kinnear. August 18, 2006. 

Plot:

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Thoughts:

This is a perfect example of how beauty pageants play a role in our society. For example, in the film they are ordering breakfast and Olive, the contestant in the pageant, orders ice cream with her meal. Her father turned to her and asked her if Miss America ate ice cream. So she didn’t eat her ice cream until heavily coaxed by her brother and uncle. Then when she arrived at the pageant she spoke with Miss America and asked her what her favorite ice cream was and she said rocky road. It just goes to show the stereotypical views on being in a beauty pageant and being beautiful.

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I’m not sure what you meant by number 5, “list the names and at least 1 publication of 2 professors in a discipline of interests to you in your top choice school.”

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The colleges that i researched were Western Washington University, PLU, and WAZU. I love college shopping! How else would you be able to get a feel for the environment? I learned the cost of the colleges I would like to go to. Each of them have a good psychology program. This year is going to quiet stressful until i get my applications in and my letters of acceptance back.