Entry 1

Lead and Academic Intro

This exercise helped me to better organize my ideas. For me is easier to write a paper when I have my ideas structured like starting with the introduction. Being able to create a dramatic fiction for the beginning of my essay inspires and motivates me to find arguments and questions.

Bruna inspiration came from the article about Heidi Montag, when she gets several plastic surgeries at once.

“Is it justified by other people’s perception of them having to blend in, adhere to societies ‘look’?”

“It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Implied in that statement is that it is the human eye that is beholding that beauty”.

This statement challenges the each person with how they see beauty.

Enthymeme & Toulmin Outline

What an interesting exercise! The lead and background was a great start, it even caught my own attention about Body Dysmorphic Disorder among young woman. I like the fact that I had to write my thesis and right away do a courter argument, which in the end I realized that my counter arguments was different from the first time I wrote in the prospectus. Finding the evidences about this issue taught me away more than I thought I could find. The disorder is everywhere even if the person has not yet being diagnosed with it. Some studies presented me part of my conclusion where psychological tests should be given to any patient who wishes to change their body image. Great brainstorming exercise.

Prospectus

At first this exercise was not the best practice to me because I was undecided about my topic. It was not clear in my mind what I wanted to research about. So I end up mixing two topics, anorexia and plastic surgery, which they were related to what I wanted to write, but I just did not know what it was. Coming up with question like “Who are you satisfying first, you or someone else?”  After I figure that out, it was easier to generate questions and write to the audience I was looking for. With the purpose and target in BDD I was able to find some evidences of when a person acquires the disorder. “Most were found in the adolescence, when comparisons to other people start to have psychological effects.” Career occupation such as actor and actress have high care about their image because they are constantly in publicity that they need to look their best at all times. Moreover, when the media is involved by publishing images of them worldwide.