Monthly Archives: May 2016
Dove’s Evolution: An Inspiration
When getting assigned the multimodal component of our research assignment I knew from the beginning that I wanted to use a video to convey my point. I decided it could be a cool idea to film myself scrolling through my various social media platforms and then put it in fast motion. After filming the video … Continue reading
The Vast Wave
When reading through my peers blogs I cam across a post, written by my friend Alex, comparing his writing style to a wave. He does this by explaining that when writing, he starts with a lot and then narrows his essay down to whats really important to his main point afterwards. While this is probably that … Continue reading
Why Procrastination Will Ruin Your Life
Hello All! As a chronic procrastinator I know first hand that while it’s not the best idea, with enough coffee anything can be crammed out in time. Right? However, as I have learned throughout my college experience there’s a big difference between “cramming something out” and spending an appropriate amount of time on something. When … Continue reading
Social Media vs. Social Standards: How the Internet Has Changed Sex
Hello All! So the time has finally come for me to embark upon the final essay of my research project. For those of you who don’t know I have been spending the quarter going through a variety of research techniques and papers trying to formulate my own arguments on whether or not social media has … Continue reading
Let’s Survey! Pt. 2
Hello All! As many of you know, I recently conducted a survey to help determine whether or not social media has amplified the social and sexual pressures on females. The contents of my survey (which are displayed in my last post) asked the subjects an assortment of questions ranging from basic information, like their genders, … Continue reading
Let’s Survey!
Hello all! As most of you know I have recently started a research project to see whether or not social media is amplifying both the social and sexual pressures on females. You may have seen in my earlier posts that, throughout my research, I discovered a number of different opinions on social media’s impact. While everyone agreed that … Continue reading
Response: Co-ed Education and Female Pressures
Hello All! Over my past couple English classes me and my classmates have been sharing our findings on the research topics of our choosing. As you guys know I chose to focus my research on whether or not social media plays into misogyny, i.e. the social and sexual pressures on college-aged girls (check out my last … Continue reading
How Technology Has Shaped Writing
Hello All! As I’m sure you have seen from my last couple posts I have spent a great deal of this quarter looking into social media and it’s various effects. In this post I want to steer away from social media’s effects on our social standards and focus a little more on how it effects … Continue reading
Social Media vs. Misogyny: What My Sources Say
Hello all!!! For those of you who don’t know I recently set out to discover whether or not social media has increased the social and sexual pressures on young girls (research questioned explained in Research Question: Social Media vs. Social Pressures). For the past three weeks I have spent endless hours researching a variety of … Continue reading