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Instant Plastic
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By: Nina & Liz
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Preparation #3
Having Dr. Luke Waltzer with us in class on Thursday helped me understand more about how to do a digital essay. In terms of the film, I plan to collaborate with Nina, since her topic is also about body image. Specifically, my topic is about how media is affecting young teenage girls to undergo plastic surgery. Nina is concentrating on how barbie images are changing over time due to media’s strict view on what beauty is.
We plan to create a film so we do need a video camera. We also plan to create our own script that connects both our topics together. Since both out topics relates to plastic, we plan to have a girl wanting to have plastic surgery to look just like today’s barbie doll.
I will focus more on young girls wanting plastic surgery more on my paper. I have found research that in general, the rate of plastic surgery in America is increasing. In one article, one teenage girl have gone through breast augmentation for her graduation gift from her parents. This shows how plastic surgery is becoming more common in society. Therefore in this digital essay, I plan to show visually how young girls are willing to go under the knife just to look a certain way.
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Research Proposal on Body Image
As the media develops technologically, the more influence it has on society. The ideal image of what is considered “beautiful” is decided upon what the media provide us with. Therefore, younger girls and boys are blinded by the unrealistic beauty that media portrays. They are “brainwashed” by the media to look a certain way and not single flaw is allowed. With the biased ways of how media and the entertainment companies run, society’s view of beauty is limited to perfectness.
The topic of how the media negatively affects the image of young girls will provide a reason to why the media should stop limiting the idea of what counts as being “beautiful.” Mostly young girls and women are stressed about their weight, skin, and overall appearance. This is caused by the typical make-up advertisements, such as “Maybelline,” which their motto is “Maybe she’s born with it. Maybe it’s Maybelline,” or the weight-loss commercials such as “Weight-Watchers,” which is promoted by singer Jennifer Hudson. These are the causing factors to young girls desperately wanting plastic surgery or being diagnosed with anorexia.
My thesis on this issue is that the media negatively influences young girls to cause harm to their bodies by strictly defining an “ideal” beauty that is unrealistic. To prove this thesis, I will use evidence from YWCA’s article called “The Consequences of America’s Beauty Obsession on Women & Girls,” an article called, “Images in Magazines and On Television Increase Body Dissatisfaction,” from Science Daily, and other advertisements on society’s idea of beauty. With statistics and persuasive articles from online sources, I will prove how the media influences young girls to eat, dress, and talk a certain way. The effectiveness of media continues to increase as more and more commercials are created with skinny models, flawless skin, and ultimate perfect beauty.
Free Post: Swift’s Modest Proposal
The first detail I noticed from the reading was the year Jonathan Swift wrote his proposal, which was in 1729. I thought this reading would be just another one that I wouldn’t fully understand, but this proposal contained very surprising elements. Swift’s idea of improving the economy and social aspects of the “kingdom,” is one of the most bizarre ideas I have read. He makes a proposal that is surely very modest, by stating that this proposal is “…something solid and real, of no expence and little trouble…” It is something very inexpensive and can better the economy, however, this idea does go against what is moral in society. Eating infants and selling them as merchandise is an act of cannibalism, which in my opinion is wrong.
While I was reading this I could not believe how any man who comes from a Protestant family create such a sickening idea of eating other humans. At first I forgot about the idea of improving the community, and just thought about why a man would ever think of this. However, I realized that even though this idea is unrealistic, Swift brings it up anyway, to point out that in his own modest opinion, the only effective way without wasting any money was to eat children. If there was no moral rules in society, this would be just another way to improve the economy.
He also provides statistical evidence to prove his idea that this system would work out. He shows that the lower and upper class are related and can also benefit each other. Throughout the reading, it shows how modest Swift is but he is also very persuasive by sticking to his own belief.
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Reader Response 2
At first I was confused of how the structure of the novel worked and the story as well because the narration would change constantly. However, as I read more, I began to gain interest in not only Oskar’s story but of his grandparents’ as well. The past chapters of the novel finally made sense after reading the letters that Oskar’d grandmother had written. As I focused more on the history of Oskar’s grandparents, I was slowly pulled in by their story.
The letters that Oskar’s grandparents write are very meaningful. They tell us more about the past of how they met and felt about each other. The letters were like a puzzle; I had to match up the stories to make sense. It was the reader’s job to gain an understanding of how each character felt and who they really are as a person.
The novel goes from present to past constantly, which can make reading a little hard to adjust to but it this can benefit the reader’s reading experience. This way of formatting the novel helps the reader to read one narration and at the same time gives the reader time to think carefully about the plot while reading a section from another narrator’s point of view.
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This is a picture of a question mark because Oskar is constantly asking people for clues.
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Reading Response to Foer
Author Jonathan Safran Foer tells of a story of a young child named Oskar Schell. Reading from a perspective from a nine year old child provided me with a new type of reading experience. I have yet found a novel as unique as this one, which contains actual photos and random drawings.
In the beginning, I was confused of how intellectual Oskar was for a nine year old. However, I thought this novel would not have been so interesting if it was not for Oskar’s amazing curiosity. After losing his father in the tragic 9/11 attack, instead of mourning his father’s sudden death, Oskar goes on an adventure. While I was reading the scene where Oskar listens to the last voicemails his father left, I felt utterly sad. Since Oskar did not portray his sadness as any other child would, I felt the need to feel sorry for him. This tragedy however, causes Oskar to embark in a new journey in life to find out and unravel who he is and his family.
Oskar’s continuous curiosity throughout the novel reminded me of the cartoon Curious George. Like Curious George, Oskar goes around the city looking for clues for the mysterious key that his father had left him.
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