Another idea I had was talking about doing was eating disorders and the perfect plastic image that media puts in our minds. It is implying that to be beautiful you must skinning, have perfect skin and be 6 feet tall. I was gonna go more of a definition route on this piece as well defining what beauty is and how media has altered what it means to be beautiful.
Going off of the whole "what is beauty" I also though about beauty pageants and talking about the negative affects of them. The show toddlers in tiaras would help with my evidence because in this show it is obvious that the 3-9 year olds have some attitude and ego issues and to me it would be interesting to look at how beauty pageants affect what they think about their image.
Also when it comes to sporting events I wanted to maybe talk about what makes a fan or something to do with being a good sport. I remember reading in the paper an article a Moorhead woman submitted about the Bemidji Student section at a football game having unsportsman like comments. I strongly disagreed with this lady's letter and would argue or define what a fan is.
My last idea is the tobacco advertising campaigns that have been going on lately. I think they should shift more to target teens because being a smoker for life starts when you are young. The ads try and "scare" the observer into not smoker but, in my opinion they should target image. Again, image is important to young people and if they new their image would be ruined because of smoking they might not try it.
If you have any feedback I would love to hear about it! Thanks!
I really like your idea of using your own experience of playing volleyball for so many years to define what it means to you as a champion. I think it would be really sentimental and easy to talk about. It would be pretty cool to end your senior year by doing on a reflection and how the sport has shaped you and as you said your understanding of a champion.
ReplyDeleteI also really like you idea of talking about how the media portrays what a women should look like to be considered beautiful. Being that the class is majority girls, I think your audience would find it easy to relate to. You could tie the pageants into that topic too by using it as one example of how the media's ideal woman is even recognized by very young girls. You could go on to say the negative effects that that has. That might be covering a lot, but it's just an idea:)
I like the idea of defining "champion", especially as the word changes and redefines every few years. You could almost consider it a compare/contrast of various time periods and how we define it vs other people in other times.
ReplyDeleteBody image would also be a great topic, especially since you could look at it as a cause/effect, discuss your own personal views/narrative on it, as well as compare our sense of body image to other societies. You could even combine, in a way, topics 2 and 3 into one and say "what is beauty" - and really examine our hypocrisy and changing viewpoints.
http://new.ted.com/talks/sandra_aamodt_why_dieting_doesn_t_usually_work
ReplyDeletethis TED is the one.