I plan to do my project on the broad idea of emotions. How they work and how they are able to effect how you feel and what you do will all be included in my project. I am allowing some leeway in my idea so that my research can take me anywhere it chooses. Like my idea, my goal is also general is being that it is to just to increase my level of comprehension on all things related to emotions. I would really enjoy to do this project because I believe that not many people have really thought into the whole process of emotions, but I think it is interesting and should be taken into consideration more often. I would also like to educate my classmates on this as it is a deep and meaningful topic (or at least I believe so). I think that feelings that are being processed inside your body are effecting the emotions you show on the outside and I really want to comprehend more on how this works.
For my project I will simply just need a computer and access to a library to check to check out books on this topic. My project will mainly be researching and making the data I collect into a cool presentation. I do realize that I may hit a "roadblock" when I am researching. I am not sure how much data and reseach has been done on emotions so I might not be able to find enough info right away. I will continue to search for the everything that I can to overcome this diffuculty.
My grandma will be my main consultant throughout this study as she has a major in physcology and emotions do fall under the physcology category. I will also look to my dad, mom and uncle in this project who all have degrees in science. With their help and research on this topic I am sure to get some definite answers about the factors of emotions!
Camille <3
Monday, January 14, 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
TEENS AND THE MEDIA: ALWAYS ALTERING EACH OTHER
When someone brings up a question about teens' influences on media and media's influence on teens, my mind exploads with thoughts. On this posts, I will let my brain burst and share my position about this with you. I hope you enjoy and I hope you are able to form your own opinions on this topic!
Now lets go back to the beginning of the cycle..............It all starts out with the media. The media shows something on television or on a website and all it takes is one teen. One teen looks at that picture,show, or quote of (or by) a certain person and instantly likes the idea because they see their role models (actors,singer,athletes,ect.) trying it. Whether it may be trying a new sport like soccer or partaking in a bad activity like smoking, they suddenly really want to do it."Pop cultural figures as P. Diddy, Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez create
intangible brands that help establish these 'norms'" says Tiesha Hood from Discourse magazine. Then, that teens goes off and starts telling all their friends that this star was doing this or that. Then they tell their friends. And suddenly the whole school or even town knows that someone important or "cool" was doing a certain activity.
Well, I beliveve that when the whole town knows, they are all going to want to begin trying this new activity to be like their role model. Soon the whole town will be learning to play hockey, or skateboard, or even take drugs. Now, other towns will see the same show or picture and soon they will try too! Before you know it, this activity will be popular world-wide!
From here, the teens begin to effect the market/advertisments. Once companies see that most of the population is doing this event, they will try to make products to go along with the "in thing". For example, if knitting suddenly became popular, authors would begin to tie knittting into their books or make how-to knitting books. Toy companies would begin to make cool needles and threads. Jewlary and accessorie stores would make more knitting scarfs, bracelets, hairbands, ect. Clothing stores would sell knitted sweaters or hats. These knitting supplies and clothes would become the majority of advertisments throughout the media.Other things would no longer be popular or shown on tv. Every second commercial would be about this or that knitting supply. The world would then revolve around knitting because of the few teens that saw the show with a star knitting.
And then suddenly, a new show/picture comes out with a new activity in it and the whole world would no longer care about the last activity. The ads,teens,stores,ect. would all have to change their products and lifesytles to do with the new popular activity! And somehow the last popular thing is no longer even remembered.
Now this is the cycle that I believe always seems to be happening. I challenge all of you to break away from the flow and only do something if you enjoy it, not because you see a celebrity doing it. I also suggest taking a minute to think about how the media has effected you in the past and how much you truly want the media to control what you do or how you act or what you wear or how you see yourself.
Camille <3
There is a constant cycle. The media (such as tv shows) influence the acts of teens and those acts effect what is popular on the market and in advertising. Then the cycle begins again and everything shifts. This is a non-stop thing. It is happening all around us even when we do not realize it.
Now lets go back to the beginning of the cycle..............It all starts out with the media. The media shows something on television or on a website and all it takes is one teen. One teen looks at that picture,show, or quote of (or by) a certain person and instantly likes the idea because they see their role models (actors,singer,athletes,ect.) trying it. Whether it may be trying a new sport like soccer or partaking in a bad activity like smoking, they suddenly really want to do it."Pop cultural figures as P. Diddy, Britney Spears and Jennifer Lopez create
intangible brands that help establish these 'norms'" says Tiesha Hood from Discourse magazine. Then, that teens goes off and starts telling all their friends that this star was doing this or that. Then they tell their friends. And suddenly the whole school or even town knows that someone important or "cool" was doing a certain activity. Well, I beliveve that when the whole town knows, they are all going to want to begin trying this new activity to be like their role model. Soon the whole town will be learning to play hockey, or skateboard, or even take drugs. Now, other towns will see the same show or picture and soon they will try too! Before you know it, this activity will be popular world-wide!
And then suddenly, a new show/picture comes out with a new activity in it and the whole world would no longer care about the last activity. The ads,teens,stores,ect. would all have to change their products and lifesytles to do with the new popular activity! And somehow the last popular thing is no longer even remembered.
Now this is the cycle that I believe always seems to be happening. I challenge all of you to break away from the flow and only do something if you enjoy it, not because you see a celebrity doing it. I also suggest taking a minute to think about how the media has effected you in the past and how much you truly want the media to control what you do or how you act or what you wear or how you see yourself.
Camille <3
Thursday, January 3, 2013
THE NEW YEAR OF 2013
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
When I look back on the year that has past (and the 2012 version of myself), I see that I have grown alot over the year as a student and just as a person as well. For now, I will focus in on the most important thing that i have realized in 2012. That is..... just how important my family is to me and how lucky I am to have the life that I have. I think that this has come to my attention in the past year because I have witnessed many more things involving people less fortunate than me. I have done a lot more community service in 2012 than I ever have and I have been around the less fortunate a lot lately. Seeing so many people around me that are suffering in many different ways makes me so glad of all that I have. This is the most important thing that I have learned in the memorable year of 2012.
So for this year I hope to grow and discover just as much as last year. To do so, i have one goal or resolution(as you might call it)...................to go into every activity or event with a positive attitude and to look more on the brighter side of life. This has been sometimes a stuggle for me in the past and I believe if I work to accomplish this goal I will become a much better person by 2014.
I hope that you all use this year to find "the real you" as well! Good luck and enjoy 2013!
Camille <3
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