Author: CRISLEYDI PAULINO

1. 1. One thing I revised from my research based argument was changing my topic so that it corresponds with my sources. Originally, I wanted to write about the beauty standards in the 1980s to modern day. I was having a hard time finding sources with this specific information. So instead I decided to search beauty standards in general and got more insight on what other things affects society besides looks. Racism, sexuality, and mannequins was some of the things I found influence body image in our society. So my topic will now be how does restrictions in beauty standards affect people in our society.
   2. Academic intergrity is refers to quoting and paraphrasing at appropriate times. If you decide to paraphrase but most of it resembles the what’s in the source you can possibly be accused of plagiarizing. Essentially, you are taking credit for someone else’s work making it seem like you came up with that idea. This is why it is important to cite. When you use citation you are using someone else’s idea in your writing but you will not be accused of plagiarizing.

1. How has beauty standards changed from the 1980s to modern day? Some arguments that can be made for this topic would be what influenced there to be change in beauty standards? Does social media have an affect on what currently is portrayed as our beauty standards? Or is it just people?

2. Gallo writes about how human behavior is always under surveillance. Norms and surveillance go hand and hand with one another. Gallo argues that surveillance violates the privacy of humans and however surveillance was necessary for things like “stop and frisk.”

Lang, M. “Surveillance and conformity in competitive youth swimming”. Sport, Education and Society, vol. 15, no. 1, Sport, Education and Society, 2010, pp. 19–37.

3. After examining the quotes on my own I noticed how they clearly support the argument. Quotes were used for background and to support their claim on their current paragraph. They quoted the author fairly as some of the quotes were originally very long and necessary to include the whole thing.

Foucault, Michel. “Panopticism from Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison.” Race/ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts, vol. 2, no. 1, Indiana University Press, Oct. 2008, pp. 1–12.

1. One way I practice crap detection is by ignoring things that bring negative energy. For example, when I hear someone speaking bad on someone else I usually decide to ignore for multiple reasons. One because it’s non of my business and two because whatever goes around comes back around and  I’m an unproblematic person. I don’t look for problems with others and people don’t look for problems with me.
2. A new tool that I learned that I have yet to consider is the audience. At some point in my writing I do think about my audile but never in the perspectives of advocates or opponents. I think this is a good strategy that I can add to my writing and possibly include a rebuttal paragraph.
3. A past rule about writing that is no longer helpful to me would be planning out my whole essay before actually writing it. I find this to be helpful sometimes or on rare occasions. However, I would much rather free write and organize my writing after I have something written down on my paper.
4. An unpopular opinion that I support is abortion. I believe that women have the right to decide what they want to do with their own body and the opinions of others shouldn’t matter. A lot of the times women can’t bring a child into this world because they can’t support them. Reasons as to why they can’t support a child would be because they’re not financially stable, they got disowned by their family, abusive situations etc. Another unfortunate situation would be rape. If a young girl gets raped and ends up pregnant she shouldn’t be forced to keep that baby. Women should be able to make their own decisions when it comes to bringing a child into this world.

1. One process I’ve pursued entirely for pleasure is setting up a schedule for my day. I usually do this on the days I have a lot to do. I set up times for the things I want to do. I don’t usually set an end time as I don’t know how long my tasks can take. But, I get satisfaction from completing everything I had planned for that day.
2. Sometimes when I’m riding on the train I examine those around me and wonder what things they’re currently going through in their personal life. Although I may never have an answer to my own questions it gives me comfort to think that everyone is human and we all go through things in life. Other times I picture myself as someone else and try to look at myself from their point of view. It would be nice to know myself through someones else’s eyes. Lastly, at times I wonder how my life would’ve been different if I was born wealthy. What opportunities will I have, where would I be living, where would I be in life, and what would be my parents occupation that brings wealth.
3. Performing your own experiments and interviews are important. From this you can get a personal sense of things on your own. from experimenting you can learn where you went wrong and what things you can do differently moving forward. When you interview others around you, you can get an idea of their way of thinking and why they think that way. It also feels more real than just searching it up online or watching a video on your topic.

Yablonovoskiy’s family Como from the southern area of Ukraine. they immigrated in 1997 to the United States because of religious persecution against jews. His family wanted him to value their culture despite the fact that they disliked the system they had back at home. The show Nu Pogodi was once just a show for Yablonovoskiy but as he grew older he realized that the show portrayed the life of his parents and grandparents. Growing up his grandfather would always speak on how life was for him. It was clear that this show was something significant not only to him but to his grandfather  as it spreader the idea of communism. Even though the family is very different they still find a way to connect with one another.

Yablonovoskiy’s essay was very effective as it focused on comparing a show to the life his family are up living. It shines light to the injustices his family had to deal with when it came to their religion and how hard their life once were. The show in itself illustrated Communism and it gave something for him and his family to relate to.