Essential

Why do we have to look a certain way?
Is it only the media that makes us feel, that we have to be skinny to look beautiful?
Why do we only see skinny people running around in the television?
How do people respond to people like Monique, taking against skinny people?
Is it only teens who feel pressure to look a certain way?
Is there any way to see the media in a different light?
Are the people behind the screen, the ones that feel only certain image should be put out in the media?
Why can’t we all just love who we are?
Can insecurities sometimes lead to a deadly path?
As a human being how do we see ourselves in our own lives?

Progress

Today I was able to research my topic and hopefully by the weekend have some essential questions put together and be able to get to the main point of my topic. When researching I was able to find a place in Squirrel Hill that works with the youth, so I am going to email Ms. K and talk to her about internship ping there next trimester to help me with my Grad Project

Finally a topic

I finally figured out, what I am going to do for my graduation project. I was bringing many ideas together and seeing in what ways I could expand my topic and make it more desirable for myself. The main point of my project was on “Dieting.” So then instead of me having three different topic and trying to bring them to together as one Ms. Savido helped me to develop my project and come up with my essential question. My essential question is “How does the media affect the teenage body image?"

I've Got it!

Figuring out what I was going to do for my graduation project. I was going to do a topic involving three main points for my topic. For the first it would be about the harmful effects and causes on dieting and working out. The second would be on how some teens look at themselves and how many f the insecurities come from the pressure from the world today. So finally for the last part it would about how the media, and shows and all of the tuff that you see on TV, many of it targets people who are not skinny and a size one to make them feel insecure.

What am I Goind to do?

From what I have been hearing the graduation Project is not easy and is something that you really have to put your all into. When talking to the 12th graders about it, the number one thing that they tell me is to make sure when I have the class to do all my work and stay focus and NOT TO FALL ALSEEP. I don’t know any former graduates, so I just talk to the 12th graders about their former projects. From their personal experiences, they had mention that it was very hard and some did not even have everything together and were scrambling to get it done. They did so though to pick a topic that you are going to be interested in, and not just some random topic to do. I did know what I wanted to do my project on. It was going to have to do something with the environment. I wanted something that I could be active in and to be able to contribute something to my community. My concerns would have to be that I don’t want to be stuck in a position where I feel like my project will take a turn for the worst, and it would not turn out the way I want to.