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Queen for a Day (QFAD) is a non-profit organization designed to raise the self-esteem and self-confidence of girls coping with cancer. QFAD events, called "tea parties," are held at local hospitals and counseling centers where girls diagnosed with cancer are invited to participate in a day of beauty. Volunteers provide refreshments, crafts, jewelry making, manicures, makeovers and lots of love. Each girl benefits from the royal treatment, where they are dressed up in a queen's robe, pink feather boa and rhinestone tiara. The tiaras have been worn and donated by real beauty queens from around the country. The girls get to keep the tiaras. Recent addition to the program is our Heroes. It brings in firefighters and police officers to participate with boys diagnosed with cancer. Their parties are given simultaneously with the girls. Established in 2000 by former Miss Teen USA All American Jenna Edwards, QFAD now operates internationally in 19 cities, including a chapter in So...

I am taking an Intro to Sociology course this summer. Our final paper is due at the end of the class (in just four weeks) and I need help! I have to choose a topic that will allow me to relate it to a social problem of some kind that we will have covered in class. I choose pageantry in realations to the social interaction and groups within. I'm also thinking about looking at the stigma that negative press and preconcieved notions have placed upon the pageant world. Problem is this: I can only use internet data - I'm not sure why only that, but that's the case! What I am asking for is any sites - positive or negative - to use. I'm also looking at information I can use of actual pageant websites (coaching, news, states, locals, etc) to help. If you have any websites I can use to do research, please email me at btwilinski@gmail.com. I'm going to also ask the instructor today if email correspondence can also be considered as internet research & if he says yes,...