Beauty Pageant Platform Essays: Introductions

Video Transcript

"So let's break down this essay process and let's start with the Introduction. Something that you want to do and it's very important for the judges to see is to start with a very catchy Introduction, something that just automatically catches their attention. And it's always a good idea to tell a story about yourself. In this particular essay, I'm going tell you what this young lady put in her Introduction. It says, " I can understand why some youth behave the way they do. I was teased in high school so bad that sometimes I would eat my food in the bathroom. I was anorexic, self-harming and poverty-stricken for a time. This particular young lady's platform is Empowering Our Youth For A Better Tomorrow. So what she's talking about is the struggles that she went through as a young person and how she overcame them through her platform idea."