Blog #14

I plan to use images to enhance what I am saying in my essay. I plan on adding the comparison photos into my paper so the reader can fully understand what I am talking about.

As for a peers art project, I plan to use Liv’s project, specifically the part about the colors and images within the hospital and how they made the patients feel. I am connecting this to beauty can be reflected in how the person, or art makes those around them feel. To incorporate this into my paper I will use a hyperlink to Liv’s project on her blog.

To cite these sources correctly I will use reference templates that help cite the other forms of media I use. These references include easybib and Purdue owl.

here is my working outline:

Intro:

• Briefly touch on each claim as a preview of what is to come
• Touch on idea of “beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” because I do believe that

Thesis (working): The definition of beauty may depend on the individual, but social media has the ability to influence society’s definition of beauty as a whole.

Claim 1: Social Media gives people false sense of beauty

• Use psychology as evidence
  • In psych class talked about people’s psychological need for feedback whether it is positive or negative and how seeing people get positive feedback (like likes on instagram) makes people want to be like those they see (will cite ted talk that discusses this) 
• Only look at what we see, not who they are, how they treat those around them, how they are trying to make a positive impact

Claim 2: People with a platform are beginning to stand up again “one size fits all beauty”

• People calling out magazines for photoshop
  • Zendaya
  • Ashley Graham (?) 
  • For multimodal include the picture comparisons so the read fully understands what I am talking about
• Insta fitness models doing relaxed vs posed pictures
  • For multimodal include the picture comparisons so the read fully understands what I am talking about

Claim 3: Art glamorizes things that truly matter like nature, unlike social media which tries to hint at what matters, but tends to focus on unimportant things

• Quote from video: “Art returns glamour to its rightful place, highlighting what’s genuinely worth appreciating.”  

Claim 4:  For me people’s beauty is about their hearts and their legacies

• I try to look at people for  who they are and not what they look like
• How people make those around them feel is a testament to their character and inner beauty
• This idea can also be applied to buildings or other aspects of life (might break into own paragraph)
  • Use Liv’s project about the hospital being colorful and having pictures in order to bring hope and color into patients lives as well as their family’s while facing very serious life situations (could link to livs project in order to see the pictures thru a hyperlink)

Claim 5: in order to see a change in society as whole there must be a change in enough individuals to spark a new movement for change in seeing beauty

• Explain Schiller’s ‘sense drive’ and ‘form drive’
  • Sense → lives in moment, seeks immediate gratification, craves contact and possession
  • Form → inner demand of coherence overtime, abstract understand and rational order, discover universal principles
• Analyze to connect back to thesis
• Expand on Schiller’s “unnerving…beauty” (armstrong) quote
  • Connect back to how change in how we perceive social media and those around us is what will lead to “higher level of inner development of the sort enabled by beauty” but will take a long time if at all

Conclusion:

• Add a small naysayer part about how even if you look at someone for their inner beauty, the initial physically beauty is often what draws someone in to spark an interaction
• tie all ideas together