Reflection
Ever since I was a young girl I wondered why there was so many girls that thoguht of themselves as less or they thought they where not good enough. I often wonder why so many girls suffer from a eating disorder. I chose this topic because I was interested in finding out more about this topic and learning about the psychological factors that play in self-image. Working on my project was easy because like many teachers say if you stayed on track, it was pretty easy doing the work going step by step. Also working on a project on a topic you are interested about made it easy to work on. Some of my experiences doing research on my topic is that it was pretty interestingfinding stuff about things that I'm interested in. When it came to managing my time, I had to balance it between school, soccer practice, and church. I Think it was very helpful how one of my teachers had due dates for each part of our fire project so that kept me on track and it was very helpful getting all that feedback. Working with my partner was a good experience because we helped each other stay on track and also we where able to give each other feedback on our work. My goals where carried the way I wanted them to because everything we wanted to accomplish we did and we where able to gain a lot of knowledge about this topic. Doing the fire project brought some obstacles when it came to having to write the local context because I couldn't really find information about my topic locally. What I would want people to know about my project is that many young girls get influenced by media to look a certain way and they want to look skinny so they suffer from an eating disorder. It's very important for people to know about eating disorders because they cause severe damages to yoour body. The grade I would give myself is an A because I put a lot of effort on working in this project because I followed everything I had to do and I think my partner and I did a great job building my website. The skills I think i've mastered is doing citations in my work. I know that for college is very important to cite your work and doing this project helped me do all that. Also when it camed to construct the website it helped me be more technical. What I am most proud of my project is accomplishing all my goals and most of all getting to finish my project was a huge relief. A difficulty I encountered while doing my project is finidng certain information about my project because in some parts I didn't find information about my topic. An approach I would have wanted to take differently was to focus more on certain parts of myu project because I think I made my topic too broad. A thing I would want to change from my finished project would be my root causes because I don't think I explained myself too well. My central question always stayed the same, it didn't change. I was able to answer my central question. The source that helped me the most in my project would be the teachers that where helping us stay on track and that would edit our work. The advice that I would give the next year students is to just stay on track with your work because if you don't then at the end it's going to become harder and the quality of your work will not be the same. |
Reflection
I decided to chose this topic because I see that advertisements are targeting teen girls into buying products that they don’t really need. I also see shows that have a negative message about how young girls should look like and what they should do. This topic has been on my mind since my junior year, when a senior did her fire project on something similar to my topic. Self-image is a broad topic, and there is a lot of things that I can talk about, that I find the articles I find interesting and I like to know more about advertisements and the media. I can go on and on talking about self-image, which was why I decided to choose this topic. The total hours I spent working on my fire project were since my senior english teacher started to talk about it. Since all the due dates were put I started working on my issue. I found all the deadlines very useful because it would keep me on track. I would keep up with all my deadlines and I finished my fire project exactly when the website was due. It’s very helpful to do everything when we are suppose to. I would work on each section each day. If I was done with a section before it was due, I would move on to the next section, and my fire project didn’t seem so hard. It didn’t seem so overwhelming. Some of my experiences when I was doing research and writing each of the sections that I had to do is that some of the statistics that I found based on the negative effects of self image are crazy! A lot of teens have a negative perception of themselves, when they really should not have a problem. In the beginning I had some difficulty writing about the history of self-image because the topic is so big and I wanted to write about so much, because there was so much to talk about. I had to narrow my topic for only this section because I couldn’t really find specific information about appearance. I found most research history on body image, which can be included in self image. After I found the information about body image, it was so much easier to write and I could go on and on talking about what I read. It was a good experience writing about my topic, it was interesting. I managed my time well. I didn’t stay after school for any sports because I already had so much on me. I would get home right after school and cook and clean. After I would cook and clean I would have to go to church. Right after church I would spend at least an hour working on my project. It was hard typing my stuff without internet because I wanted to get research, but I would do my research at school and then work on everything else at home. Having internet at home would’ve probably given more of a chance to write more because I would’ve done a lot more research than I already had. Working with a partner actually did help me because my partner would help me if I were to be stuck on a certain thing. I would also remind my partner when due dates were due so we would keep each other on track. I also learned that if you leave everything at the last minute everything will be done in a hurry and you can’t put as much in your project. My goals for my fire project were to get everything done before it’s due, and I have accomplished it. I am actually very proud because I thought I was going to slack and not be able to work on everything that I was suppose to. I thought that the fire project was going to be hard but it wasn’t. Some fears that I overcame was actually talking to teachers if I had any problems, or asking for help in general. I don’t usually ask questions, I am usually shy to ask but ever since the fire project I had to get on my stuff because no one else was going to be asking the questions for me. No one was going to be telling me not to do a certain thing or to take things away from my project so I had to ask for that help myself. Something I would like the audience to know about my project that might help them understand what I have accomplished is that self image has been an issue since the longest and that there is some help for teen girls, but we need more people to be aware about the message advertisements give. Also that teens should be aware that not everything they see on tv is true, like the mascara product, the people use fake eyelashes before putting on the mascara. This is what young girls should be aware of. The grade that I would give myself is an A, and if teachers think thats too high of an expectation then a B. But I think I deserve an A because i spent a lot of my time working on my project, outside of school and during school. II took my time working on my project and I actually put passion in it. I did what each section of the sample fire project told me to do. I wrote more than what was said. I really like talking about this topic and I would write more if I had internet at home. A skill that I think I have mastered is annotating, researching and writing more. I think that writing about a topic that you are actually passionate about can actually make you write a ten page paper. I like that I was able to do research and actually find scholarly sources. I don’t think that I need any help with anything else. Now that my fire project is finished, the thing that I am most proud of is each section that I have done. I did more than a paragraph for each section when I thought I wasn’t capable of doing it. I didn’t think I was able to work on a ten page paper but I did. I did more than ten pages, which I am really proud of. A difficulty I encountered was probably not having internet at home. I solved this problem by getting all my research done in school and putting some information on my flash drive. It would’ve been easier and faster if I had internet at home, but at least I solved my problem. Another small little problem was making my issue a more smaller topic, focusing on only certain things, since I wanted to talk about more things. I don’t think I would’ve changed anything from my approach because I did my research before I started on everything else, so this approach was very useful to me. I don’t even think I would change anything about my fire project as well. I think that I did answer my central question and it didn’t change at the end because I already knew what I wanted to talk about. I found all my sources very useful because each source was talking about something different that I was looking for. Some advice that I would give to the students who are going to do the fire project next year is that they should keep up with deadlines, they shouldn’t leave everything for the last minute. The time given in class is very useful and you should take advantage of the time given. Also you should work on it on your own, if you are really passionate about your issue you will be able to write a lot. So make sure you pick a topic that you really like or you find interesting. |