Entry #2

Part I
After doing my Counter Argument essay I found out what I needed to focus more within my research. It got me to found the different type of research that focus on the topic that I'm writing. What most important was the Counter Argument got me to take another stand within my paper that challenged the thesis within my overall paper. By doing that I'm able to found the gap with in my research and figured out how I'm able to fix those gap to make the stand I'm trying illustrate stronger.

Before the question that I generated for my over all paper is how does the media changes the definition of "beauty"? and how that harm society? For the counter argument paper I wanted to take a stand on how the media doesn't changed the definition of "beauty, but we did. While doing my research for my counter argument I couldn't the sources I needed to support my claim. Therefore I ended up tweaking the claim I make; instead of focusing on the on media changed the definition of beauty, I want to illustrate how media can be harmful to society by illustrating the ideal body image which caused insecurities among women, which influence the different type of eating disorders.


Part II
One of the article I used came from the Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research. It called "Effects of Fitness advertising on Weight and Body Shape Dissatisfaction, Social Physique Anxiety, and Exercis Motives in a Sample of Healthy-Weight Females" by Catherine Aabiston and Krista Chandler

In the article the author observed the different type of research that link the media with body image. The main focus of the article is linking the media with the ideal body image that women are wishing for. It mentioned how media influenced women motivation to exercise and how they used exercise as a way to maintain their figures rather than other purposes. "Exercise is a common strategy that women use to manage and improve their appearance and weight" (Sabiston, and Chandler 1). I used this article  to illustrate how the media can be beneficial to society than harmful. One of the point that keep popping up is the idea of "Cognitive Image" which they explain as the desire body type that influenced by the perception of the media.