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I chose this picture of Jennifer Hudson because she is the perfect example of how beauty ideal affects the world. When she first became famous she was overweight but had an amazing voice as well.  I didn’t change the image because I thought it fit my point very well. Her mouth is open and that shows her fun side which is another reason why I chose this photo. Media has a way of changing how people look and society just accepts it. The point I wanted to prove in the picture is to let someone know society has an ideal that is unreachable and people still try to follow it anyway. My ad is directed towards women because many of them look up to her and would probably listen to her in real life. This helps me understand how other women think and it does affect my life as well. I want some of the features of the beauty ideal but I’m not too extreme with my goals. I believe health is very important and being overweight as a child really helped me keep my weight under control for awhile now.  In this photo she is wearing a tight fitted dress that shows some of her curves and promoting a book about how her weight has changed her life. Her skin in flawless and make up is done very well. She fits most of the characteristics of the perfect beauty ideal.  The color of her dress also compliments her skin color making it look lighter. There is a difference between implicit and explicit meaning because they are interpreted in two different ways. Implicit meaning is when something is meant to be implied and explicit is when the point is stated clearly in the text and gives no room for question.

Hey Girl

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 Did you know that society controls how our bodies look throughout our entire lives?  Beauty Ideal seems like just a myth because no one really looks like that actual Ideal. Resisting stereotypes is going to be a challenge for the world.  By the way girl I’m on this diet called weight watchers and it works great.

*I had a really hard time getting the words to be on the picture.

Works Cited

“Page 5.” Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2012. <http://www.google.com/‌search?q=jennifer+hudson+pictures+2012&hl=en&prmd=imvnsuo&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=c4hNT9ujOsTgtgeuqt2kCA&ved=0CCEQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=596>.

“Page 1.” Merriam Webster Dictionary. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Feb. 2012. <http://www.merriam-webster.com/‌dictionary/‌implicit>.

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SL Proposal

Service Learning Proposal for Beautiful Butterflies Mentoring Program Inc.

By: Andrea Thompson, Latoya Rattery, Nadean Richards

February 16^th 2012

Meredith Tweed

WST 3015-001

Program information:

Beautiful Butterflies Mentoring Program, Inc.

Office Phone (321)-972-5862

Cell Phone (850)-443-3088

E-mail: beautifulbutterflies.empower@gmail.com 

Web address: www.inspirebeautifulbutterflies.org 

Address: Beautiful Butterflies Mentoring Program, Inc. 

PO BOX 2594 Eatonville, Florida 32751

Project  Details:

Unity between You and Me: Recognizing Commonalities and Enhancing Individuality

Time: 12:00pm-3:00pm

Location: NW Community Center

Facilitators:  Andrea Thompson, Latoya Rattery, Nadean Richards

Potential Event Dates:  Feb.18, Mar.3, Mar.17, Mar.31, Apr.14

Community Partner Profile:

Mission: This is a non-profit agency that provides mentors for girls’ ages 9-18. BBMP connects women in the community with young girls who desire to have a mentor. Our Volunteers and Mentors are dedicated women from diverse backgrounds and professions who are dedicated to working closely with girls to identify their needs. BBMP provides different services to clients such as Academic Support Programs, Life Skills Development Programs and Counseling Services. They also provide one to one mentoring, summer workshops for help with self esteem, and hands on education networking programs centered on community participation. 

http://www.inspirebeautifulbutterflies.org/organizationalbackground.html

Proposal:

The purpose behind this event is to illustrate to the girls how similar all women of color are despite our assumptions, while encouraging them to celebrate their individuality. Our action plan is incorporated into an event consisting of two main activities. The first activity involves an anonymous Question/Answer session with the girls after having refreshments and playing an ice breaker game. This first activity will involve the Facilitators introducing themselves and providing a brief history of their past and different obstacles they have overcome. Facilitators will then ask the girls to answer a list of questions on paper anonymously. The questions that will be asked are the following:1)Write down a positive and negative childhood experience, 2)What are your fears, strengths, weaknesses , 3)What do you like to do,  4)What do you dislike doing, 5)Who is your favorite singer/rapper,  6)What is your favorite movie, 7)What does your favorite meal consist of,  8)What do you want to be when you grow up,  9)What convicts you (we will explain this),  10)Who do you think is the least similar to you in the group and why,  and lastly, 11)Who do you think is the most similar to you in the group and why. After the girls complete their questions they will place them in a bag and the facilitators will read through them and comment on the responses. The goal behind this activity is to show the girls that we are all more alike than we think and to not judge anyone by their appearance because they may be similar.

         Our second activity will involve facilitators showing the girls their vision boards and explaining what each picture represents to them. Facilitators will then explain how to complete a vision board and the girls will work on them together. To conclude the event, everyone will present their vision board and explain why they chose the pictures on their vision board. Facilitators will then reflect on the concepts discussed during the event and explain to the girls how they can encourage each other and refrain from judging. Each girl will bring their vision board home and be assigned to place it somewhere in their room where they can see it every day.

Proposal Plan:

It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students. Bullying has become an epidemic in our society today and we want to minimize that. We want to impact, influence, and change lives in the community by inclusive workshops that will build a community within Beautiful Butterflies and create a stronger bond for the girls among their peers. In doing so we will have workshops, discussions, and exercises such as the human knot as an icebreaker and introduce the girls to the term we have been discussing in class which is commonalities. We believe that this activity will help them in identifying, influencing, and inspiring each other to be aware of individual stories.  We understand the significance in numbers so we want them to know that they are stronger together. We will introduce “My Sister’s Keeper” which will encourage the girls that they are a family in Beautiful Butterflies. It will help them to realize they are not alone in this world and that they have extended family like each other that they can call on .Our ultimate goal is to resolve conflicts to create solutions to end bullying in schools and other negative influences that might be in their lives . As we shape the girls to have confidence within themselves they can encourage others about Beautiful Butterflies so they can all fly against all odds.

Supplies:

Supplies that we would need in order to host this event will be poster Boards, crayons/markers/colored pencils, paper, magazines, scissors, tape, snacks, drinks, and name tags. During our event, we will all be involved in each activity and provide feedback equally.  We are taking on the event as a group so we have not designated any particular jobs to each other. We will all come together to fund snacks and posters for the event.

TimeLine:

We would like to facilitate 5 individual events for five Saturdays. The five Saturdays we will be attending the group will be Feburary18th, March.3th, March.17th, March.31st, April 14th. Our goal is to work with different girls each Saturday because we will be having the same activities for the event each time.

Rationale:

The problems that BBMP addresses include self worth, conflicts between young girls, getting good grades in school, and having a healthy relationship as well as being physically healthy. They address all of these issues in the mentoring program because these girls need someone positive in their life to help them become successful women. Everyone has a past and these mentors want to help these girls heal and move in the right direction for their future. Self worth is very important to this organization because they believe every girl or woman needs this in their life to get respect from others and to have respect for themselves. This project relates to my women’s studies class because the course is about bringing women together for a specific cause and so is this project. Women need to stick together instead of going different ways and disrespecting one another. In order to produce change someone or a group of people have to address it. We are going to teach these girls to stand up for themselves and make sure there voice is heard from anyone they talk to.

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Campus Engagement

Nadean Richards

Ms Tweed

Intro to Women’s Studies

07 February 2012

Campus Engagement 1

The event I attended was called “Black women in feminism” and it was very interesting because the teacher talked about different challenges African American women had to overcome and different feminists that changed the movement.  Some names that were mentioned include Alice Walker, Bell Hooks, and Michelle Obama. Bell hooks talked about feminism in a pop culture way which made her books approachable for people to read.  One of the questions the teacher asked was “What steps can we take to educate people about black feminism?” .  I think we should start by putting information about black feminism in textbooks and having them accessible to everyone.  It all starts with education and unless students have access to the information they won’t know the facts. The three challenges that were discussed include proof that feminism is not just for white women, demand to share power with white women, and fight the hate towards men. People stereotype this movement because of what they have either seen or heard from someone else. Feminism is not just for white women and men can also be included in this change. We all need to work together in order to achieve one goal which equality for all sexes. Michelle Obama was called an angry black woman because she is an active member of feminism. This is morally wrong because this stereotype is not true and still manages to be in the media. Even though women have a right to be angry it does not mean that they are and it should not matter what their race is either.  We also talked about what people think is beautiful for a woman as in means of appearance, for example lightly colored skin, thin body, long hair, etc. I think the media has such a major role on how they think people should look and think, it seems like everyone is trying to look the same and seem normal. Being normal is very important to people because they don’t want t seem weird or different. Woman are pressured into looking beautiful everyday because of these assumptions and some women get called ugly or get told they look like a boy because they don’t have long hair. This needs to change because women are more than just an appearance to others; they have a voice as well. From this event I learned that feminism still has a long way to go in society and that women need to step up and voice their opinions.