My fourteenth blog post I will be talking about my research project. I have based my project off of the film Miss Representation. Thus far the only think I have struggled with throughout the course of the project was getting it in on time, however I have finished my first draft. I have used three sources with statistics and information about how the media is bias and can be harmful to the young girls using it. I have viewed many sources for my project to try and get an accurate representation of the statistics specifically on where social media has normalized self-harm to young women all over the world. In my research project I wrote, “In 2011, 45.9 girls per 10,000 harmed themselves, a number rose from 68 percent to 77 percent per 10,000 in 2014 (Bodkin). The number of self-harms in young females have risen dramatically throughout the years, and young girls that have social media profiles are more likely to engage in self-harming behavior do to their dissatisfaction of their bodies and appearance. People all over the world are even sharing and encouraging suicide over social media influencing young adult but more particular young women in general.” I found these particular statistics interesting because I never realized that social media had such a large impact on self-harm throughout the world. These statistics made me have a whole different aspect on what I do day to day. I spend so much time on social media it has actually become a problem, but to find out it has been encouraging and influencing people to physically harm themselves its horrible. The film Miss Representation helped me further understand all of the issues women in power have to deal with every day. In my project I talked about what Nancy Pelosi said in the film, “if they can see young women who share their experience, raising a young family, speaking for them, identifying with their aspirations. We're creating new leaders, and they're going to not look like how they always did...an older, white male. They're gonna look like a woman, and they're gonna look like people of colour, and that is the true reflection of this country and of this world (Miss Representation 2011).” It made me reflect to myself and my college major and how it may impact my life in the future but was also inspiring that she is advocating for the people of minorities, and the women of our nation. Overall, I know that I will have to revise and edit my research project, and add a few things into it over the course of the rest of the semester.
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For blog post #13 I will be talking about my research project based on the film “Miss Representation”. Each key point in the film supports my thesis on how the medias bias prevents young girls from achieving positions of power in American society.
For my research project I decided to use the film Miss Representation for my main source along with a few other sources. My rhetorical purpose is to persuade using argumentation. I chose the Genre of an MLA Research Paper with MLA style citations. My primary audience for my paper is the media and young girls, for them to know how their bias prevents and discourages young girls and their aspirations of achieving positions of power in American society and for young girls to not allow the media to prevent them from achieving their goals. In class we disused our thesis statements and how to better them using TPS and GPS. Using TPS and GPA helped better my thesis on keeping my research project on straight path without going off of topic, and how to properly grab my audiences attention with mu subject, opinion, an sources. What we learned about in class was different from what I have done before and it was a tad bit uncomfortable in doing stuff differently. What we learned in class made me think of why we were doing it so much differently in this class then my previous experiences in writing research papers. It makes more sense in a way it grabs the audiences attention with the topic and helps the readers understand what my position is on the topic, as well as what the reasons for my position are. Over all the hardest part of writing this paper and thesis is staying on topic but from what we learned in class I think it will really help improve my paper and future writing. This week’s blog is focused on my previous blogs, as well as our class discussion. Our class discussed and analyzed Mrs. Representation and The Mask You Live In, we pulled key words and information that was essential to the start of our research projects. The words we highlighted from the film allowed us to create Slug Lines, six-word Memoirs, and Found Poems I made for each film. More specifically I am going to be talking about how in class we re-genre the film “Miss Representation” to get a better feel on the films text, language, and themes.
In class we began analyzing one page of dialog of the film Miss Representation. At first glance there was harsh words being said, about how society views women. There were more negative things to say about women, then there were positive. The film centered around women of power, and in politics degrading and calling them cruel names. I took the negative words to re-genre a slug line, each word was right from the text of Miss Representation. “The rise of punditry in America is added to sexism and biased in the media.” Why are “experts” allowed to objectify women based of what they look like or what their job description is and portray it in the media to allow other men to do the same. I think people are to bias against certain genders and they are taught to be a certain way, and the media only emphasizes it in a negative way. I then made a six-word memoir from the text of the film. “Society failed women, I was fearless.” This short memoir really says it all about the film. Society portrays women in negative ways everyday only to leave women trying to fix themselves, so they can look more beautiful. Everything on the internet, news, and social media is portraying women like a sex object for men. The last three words exemplify how a woman is strong in a world where they aren’t considered “perfect” and where they are only seen as a sex object instead of a powerful person. Lastly, I wrote a found poem from the text of Miss Representation. De-humanizing the word liberal All women want is to be equal They try to sell us Using explicit images of us But I’m standing tall I will not crawl This poem exemplifies how women just want to be equal to men, work the same jobs, hold positions in government, and simply walk down the street without being looked at like a sex object. The media is portraying women in explicit images all over social media to just make money, but do not realize who they are hurting. Women are seen as a man’s property and are not seen as a human being. |
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