Blog 24: Independent Component 2

Literal
(a) Statement saying: “I, Brittney Morales, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.”
(b) I interviewed and created a scrap book of 10 and their view on beauty.

Interpretive
I started by interviewing 10 people, from 6 to 70 years old,individually, asking 3 specific questions. The questions were, "what is beauty? Who exemplifies beauty? If you could change 1thing about yourself what would it be?" each question had a purpose. The first question was to see how they find beauty in others. Question 2 was to see exactly what they think a beautiful person looks like. And question 3 was to see how they judge themselves when it comes to beauty. I spent about 3 hours interviewing each person, as well as putting their scrap book page together.

 Applied
How did it help you answer your EQ?  Be specific and use examples.
My EQ is all about what influences our societies veins on beauty, so it was great to get an insight on what the girls around me think beauty is. I interviewd everyone from my best friends, to my grandmother, trying to get a wide view on what beauty is. I found out that my 6 year old niece sees beauty in a smile, and my grandmother see,s it in a God-loving person. I was able to get a whole new insight when I interviewed my mother who told me beauty is in a caring and loving person. Even one of my best friends surprised me when she said beauty is about being a strong minded person.

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Blog 23: Helping 2013

I interviewed Alex Ayala, on 4/24 during elective.

(1) What ideas do you have for your senior project and why?

• Something to do with engineering
• I told him he should choose a specific type

(2) What do you plan to do to complete the 10 hours of service learning (working with an expert) which is due prior to senior year starting?  Note: They also have to complete the 50 hours during the school year.

• He said he wasnt sure but was going to talk to purther and see what other seniors have done for their service learning
• I told him that he might be ale to talk to the robert or angel because they were doing sound and music engineering.

(3) What do you hope to see or expect to see when watching the class of 2012 present their two hour presentations?

• He was hoping it would be informative, but fun
• I told him just to pay attention to what everyone had done over the course of the year

(4) What questions do they have about senior project?  What additional recommendations would you give the 2013 student about senior project? 

• He wanted to know how the final presentation worked, with regard to the timing
• I told him it was 2 hours maximum, with a minimum talk time of 30 minutes, and most of the time can be spent on activities.

Blog 22: answer 3

EQ: what is most significant when perceiving beauty in the U.S.?

Answer 3: looking up to celebrities as role models is significant when perceiving beauty because we usually base what we think is beautiful off the celebrities and modles that we think of as attractive.

Evidence: Young children look up to celebrities as someone they want to be, as role models.
Source: http://www.commonsensemedia.org/advice-for-parents/celebrity-role-models

Evidence: Our society looks to the models and celebrities in magazines as real, ideal beauty

Source: Interview 4: Dr. Freitas

Evidence: Teens become influenced by the celebrities to make themselves ‘look better'. So many times they forget that they are beautiful the way they are. They want to look perfect.                       

Source:http://text.teachingmatters.org/node/8615

Blog 20: Room Creativity

1.  I plan on posting pictures around the room of people and things who are considered beautiful in our society's eyes on one side of the room, and on the other i will post pictures of  things that are beautiful, but not the conventional type of beauty.

2. For my answer 1 (influence from the media) I want to do an activity involving advertisements, and how there is only 1 type of women that ever gets put on them. Im not sure exactly what the activity will be, but it will center around that.

Blog 19: Answer 2

EQ: What is most significant when perceiving beauty in the U.S.?
Answer 2: Youthfulness


Evidence:1/3 of all cosmetic advertisements are for products that make women appear younger
Source: Media Awareness Network


Evidence: 28% of all women say they are much younger then they actually are when online dating
Source: MSNBC.com


Evidence: In 2009, there were over 9,000,000 plastic surgeries preformed to make women appera younger (botox, lipo, ect.)
Source: Juvamedspa.com

Blog 18: The Product

My product as of March is completing my pageant. 

I did it for my service learning and completed over 50 hours of rehearsals, fundraising, and promoting for the pageant, as well as competing in it. 

I was awarded a certificate from assembly member  Hernandez's office for my contribution to my city, and was awarded $50 for  my success in getting advertisement for the program. 

Certificate:

 Myself and the other contestants in the newspaper: