Daniel and I have recently finished our first draft of our research project. In order to make revisions, we brought our hard copy of the project to class on Thursday along with a print out of the assignment sheet. After receiving feedback from Professor Mangini our paper will be complete. We hope that our project has significant impact on not only teenage girls, but women as a whole. The points that we focus on are extremely important when involving toxic behavior in young women. We want to see change in the future when it comes to social media degrading women and making them feel less beautiful. Our goal for this paper was truely to make meaning and show how women are worth more than what is portrayed through media.
We also reviewed our classmates prefaces, this helped because having another set of eyes looking at your work can help find mistakes you overlooked. Another very important thing Daniel and I did this week for our project was re-evaluate our sources and make sure they were credible sources, if they were not then a lot of our argument would be false or unbelievable.
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Me and Dan are just about finished our final draft of our research project. We have some tiny details that we want to go over but other than that we feel as if our project is the best it can be. We believe that our paper will have an impact on anyone who decides to read it. We give a detailed explanation as to why our thesis statement "Social media has influenced toxic behaviors in young women by making them insecure." holds a very real meaning. We give a wide variety of meaningful statistics as well as counter arguments for our stance on the matter. So that the audience does not finish our paper with questions and concerns about our argument. Something that really helped guide us through the writing process in this project was not just watching Miss Representation but reading the transcript because this gave us a better understanding of the films discourse, the better we understood the film the better we could present our opinions that were supported by facts we found.
In this blog post I am going to explain the topic for my research paper which is going to be co-authored with Daniel Weaver Cooke. We will be describing the genre, medium, citation style, ect. This post will give you insight on what our project will mainly be about.
For our argument, Daniel and I decided to focus on the question “How does social media animate toxic behaviors in teenage girls”. Our main resource is going to be from the film “Miss Representation”. We chose to write this project in MLA research paper format and in a google doc that is shared between us. Our primary audience is going to be targeted at teenage girls and we are going to focus on both personal experiences and global. We hope to give people a good understanding of what is really going under right under your nose in American Media. We believe that it is not fair for all of these people to go throughout life not knowing what is going on around them. In our writing we utilized everything we went over in class. The notes taken about how to express our points clear, and direct to our audience as well as making it so our bias and objectives were clear. We tried to use all the precise steps it takes to create a convincing and moving research argument like ours. We believe that after our fellow classmates read our work they will have an even better understanding of what we learned in class and what they wrote in their own research papers. In this blog post I am going to be comparing the messages in Plato's cave with the two films we had watched, “Miss Representation” and ‘The Mask You Live In”.
In plato’s cave it seemed to be that the prisoners have been locked away their whole life so they don’t know any better and think that, that is a normal way to treat someone. This explains that when the one prisoner got to experience the world and came back describing what he had discovered, none of the other prisoners could understand what he was saying. I feel like this relates to the two films because we grow up with our families and the media creating these stereotypes about men and women and we believe that it is normal to view women as “weak” or think that it is not okay for men to cry. I also think the two films could relate to plato’s cave in a way that each shadow on the wall represents a person and the prisoners are society interpreting each shadow without actually knowing who that person is nor having basic knowledge about them. |
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