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Date Posted: 13:29:07 11/28/04 Sun
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Re: Copied from other boards: Tradition, Honor, and Pride

Pageantry should be a time honored tradition of tradition, honor and pride. With the essence of the program, honor should enter into the voyboards. All these young ladies put forth their best effort and of course all young ladies would like to win. Pagentry should encourage a sisterhood steeped in pride and honor. Honor and respect should take forthright first place among contestants, family, friends and community, as well as the public. Pageants have received considerable blows over the years, and taken more beatings than can be imagined. This program is suppose to take distinguished young ladies, and help to continue to polish them in to an everlasing and forever shining diamond; which with time and age will contribute to the development of future society as productive members and tomorrow's future. Competiton should be about respecting each individual for their individuality and differences. Society in general forgets that these young women are not in competition with one another, but with themselves. Whenever each young lady steps onto stage, the judges do not judge the young lady in comparision to the previous young lady. There is not a comparision made. The judgement is made on what that young lady at that particular moment. Judging is based on what the young lady presents on stage, or what the young lady brings to the table with them during interview. It is how the young lady projects herself on stage, and as with anything, judging is the opinion of each individual judge. It is irresponsible, as well as unbecoming to throw negative comments toward any contestant. Individuals that are unsure of themselves, as well as their mental and physical self esteem tend to make unsavorary comments to make up for their own short-comings. It tends to give that individual a sense of power and self-worth for a short lived point of time, which eventually wears off and the same self-esteem issue once again arises. The Miss America program should be supported as should all the young women that participate. Individuals that can not support the programs and directors need to cease from creating negativity. Negativitiy only breeds mental corruption, which results in mud slinging and the deterioration of a system that is a time honored tradition of pride and honor. "It is an American as apple pie, and baseball." To attack the young women in this system, that is any young woman , is an attack on American valaues. When an individual puts a young woman down, and makes comments about their abilities, physical appearance, and intellect, they are attacking the basic foundation of American pride, tradition and honor. In addition, they must feel that they themselves have been left to judge, and issue hurts, whereas, I believe the final judgement is made by a higher power. As individuals and members of society, we should empower these young women with confidence, and not attack and drag them down as a result of individual short comings, jealously, hatred or prejudice. Negativism in these forms should be banished from society, in order to help mold young women that will be more than adequate members of society. We must empower these young ladies to be leaders for the future and emmpower them with the tools of fair play and all athe wholeness that makes our nation great! Constructive critricism is define as criticicims that will help individuals improve upon a particular area, which is something that is readily accepted; whereas just negative comments is meant to prick, hurt and chip away at an indivulal's self esteeem. Simply, how would you like to be treated? How do you want your friend, daughter, niece, granddaughter, friend, or your mother treated? Normally, the answer would be with honor and respect. Yes, when individuals say hurtful things, others react in self defense! It is only natural! So, if these hurtful things are not said, then it will give more character to not only the system, but tho those that compete. The system in North Carolina needs to be built up and not torn down. Build the system back to it's past glory, but if not, it will eventually cease to exist. It will only exist on the pages of a few magazines, or a blurb in an encyclopedia, as a footnote in history, that North Carolina once had a pageant system that was part of the Miss America System, way back when . . . . . . . .

Note: Hopefully, this is error free. If there are errors, I do hereby apologize. My focus was entirely on amessage of utmost impoortance to the success of the Miss NOrth Carolina Preliminary System and the fute of the MIss America System. May God Bless each and every individual and
family tht chooses to compete, and bless those that read this board.

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