Entry #1

1. Q-H-Q
The topic Q-H-Q assignment helped me generate ideas and figured out what topic I want to focus on. By starting off asking a question and generate my own hypothesis then writing a free write on my stand on this question. This lead on to other potential questions that got me to focus on one specific topic. The Q-H-Q assignment was a gateway to my research paper on "how the media affect the ideal body image" and that got me to figured out what specific idea I'm trying to convey and what stand I will take in my thesis. I started out asking the question:

How the media affect women definiton on what beauty is?

My hypothesis was: the media change their perspective that they need to look a specific way to feel beautiful and accepting in this society.

My stand on the question:
If you ask any young girls nowadays what do they want to like physically. Most of them will tell you they want to lose weight or I want to look like this famous person. Their answer has to do with how the media portraying what beauty is. For decades being beautiful is to look thin, has a flawless face, and more. With the newer generation, we forget what’s the true meaning of beauty is. Instead we are being blinded with the lies that are being drilled into our mind by this society. From high fashion to celebrities they are representing what girls see in their eyes as beauty. When a celebrity gained weight it is a controversy and our society make a big deal out of it. Like why is that. Its human nature to gain or lose weight, what important is just being healthy in general. The society we live in is putting pressure on us to look a specific way. On and magazines we are seeing ads for diet supplement, meal plan, exercise video, and more. On the other hand there are ads telling us to consume different products into our bodies.

2.Leads & Academic Intro Start
This assignment helped me to write an interesting introduction that helped me catch the readers attention. Usually I had a tough time writing a thesis because  I tend to focused on an academic intro instead rather then a story that lead to my topic. There is nothing bad about an academic intro; however, it can bored the readers out. When I wrote this paper I was able to create a character that suffered from an eating disorder due to the pressure in the media.
I started my introduction with a poem that described a model struggle to be thin.

"All she is is just skin and bones. Her body has no curves. Her face is full of makeup. She's wearing Chanel. A model is tall and thin. She thinks she's beautiful and the media agrees, too much starving to be what she could not be."

Then I continued with story of a girl who suffered with an eating disorder without knowing it.

"A teenage girl standing in the bathroom looking at her own reflection and questioned herself why does she look this way. She wore size three jeans and wishing she was a size zero. Looking through the pages of Vogue magazine she envied the models’ bodies; hoping that she will able to have that slim figure one day. After her meals she walked to the bathroom and makes herself throw up. She continued to do this after every meal until she stepped onto the scale and see she dropped five pounds, to her that still isn’t good enough. With not enough nutrition she still continued to exercise, but without the energy she started to weaken. As the week goes by she is much thinner and her complexion is getting worst, but to her that’s the definition of “beauty”. When we look at her, she is incredibly beautiful, but her thinness isn’t. In reality she struggled with bulimia, but she doesn’t agree."

3.Prospectus
This assignment was the beginning to my research paper, it got me to get the whole idea of my paper. I was able to figured out the purpose to my paper and the audience that I'm targeting to. I was able to focused my paper on how the media affect the ideal body image among women. In addition I was able to figured out how I'm going to illustrate my idea through the paper. For example; what kind of research I'm going to use to back up my thesis? Overall this assignment got me started to find the main focus on my paper. The Prospectus got me to focus on the purpose of the paper. Which are these two question:

How the media is the underlying cause of the different type of eating disorders?
How do the media harm our society by portraying the thin-ideal image as "beauty"?

The rest of the prospectus are my plan on doing my research and how I will relate my topic to the readers.