When writing this essay, I plan on using these modes of communication: linguistic, visual, audio and spatial. I would like to talk about how beauty is different to everyone, and how the media/society is influencing the opinions on our younger generations. Armstrong states that “beauty lies in the eye of the beholder”. I want to expand on this, and include pictures and audio of different styles of art that could be found as beautiful to different people. Using my experience of beauty, I want to include this song that I find beautiful on the piano: River Flows In You
I want to talk about my other experiences that I have had where I found something extremely beautiful, such as something that I find shockingly stunning in nature. I plan to include pictures of some things I find beautiful, and then contrast that with things that society finds beautiful. Example 1
I would like to include this article that I found which discusses the distorted views that society has on beauty, and how it is affecting certain individuals, specifically teenagers. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/katie-atkinson/media-beauty-distortion_b_3292467.html
This is a rough outline on some of the key points I want to talk about throughout my essay:
-Discuss different perceptions of beauty within society and myself. Start off somewhat broad, but then get into specific detail.
-Talk about John Armstrong’s essay and discuss Schiller’s ideas about human nature and how we perceive beauty.
- Bring up the sense drive and the form drive as evidence to why we see certain things as beautiful. I plan on using quotes from Armstrong’s essay.
-The media and how it is affecting societies opinion on beauty. Place a picture of what society views as beautiful. I will continue to place pictures that I feel are important throughout my essay. (spatial arrangement)
-Include 2 (possibly three if I feel like I could use another to strengthen my argument) of my peer’s Let’s Talk About Art presentations:
- Taylors presentation which was about tattoos, and the meanings that they have to the person that gets them’
- Alexis’s presentation which was about her sister and a song that is very special to her family.
-Include my own experiences with beauty by discussing music and piano. I might add some photos of piano and the song River Flows In You.
Love this outline. You go in depth of what you want to talking about and make certain points that you want to included. I Also, like how you talked about one of your favorite songs by a pianist and how you want to incorporate those feeling you get once you listening to that song. This is a really strong outline and can’t wait to see how your essay turns out.
I like how you are going to connect beauty to the piano piece that you talk about. That is a very strong point you can talk about. Also, the beauty of nature in your surrounding world gives you directions that you could go in. For the part where you have to include the “Lets Talk About Art” project, how are you going to connect that back to your thesis or relate to those in your paper? Overall I believe that you have a descriptive outline and it seems like you know what you’re going to write about. You include all the modes of communication that requires. Also, you have what you want to do for each mode all planned out.
Great! Your biggest challenge seems like it will be sticking to a singular argument. I think the way to do this will be to use the different sources of beauty as evidence to support your ongoing logic. (Unless you decide to further narrow your scope.)
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