Retrospect

Well...the hardest part is over. All my research is finished and my paper was drafted and submitted to my teacher for editing. What a relief.

In retrospect, I'm shocked with the way my paper turned out. It is so far from my original idea that I can't even piece together the train of thought I had. My blog, out of lack of a better term, is a gigantic wreck. Until the January-February era there is absolutely sense of idea, organization, or major research.

Here's my blog in review:
I hit it off with a bang (otherwise known as my very loud complaints of what a waste of time this paper would be). Then, being my naive self, I decided to write a paper on all of mythology. From four different cultures. How nice. After I proposed by ridiculously humongous topic, college application deadlines closed in and I basically wrote about anything Mrs. Wiener mentioned to me in class. Smooth. Then Sandy hit and I was left with an immeasurable amount of time to sit and think about what I wanted to do. It was at this point that I developed two major breakthroughs in my paper that would stick. The first was the idea of a modern aspect, which included the debates between Victoria's Secret and Dove. The second was changing my paper topic to the art of beauty. Although I pursued a very different route, I still stayed true to my main of beauty and included some art examples. From here on out (approximately about December time) I really developed my thesis. I used the two definitions of beauty to argue how society is crippled because of our obsession with physical beauty. I originally planned to include an aspect of my paper regarding spiritual beauty as well (which was my interview) but that got cut along the way. I developed my project, which is a bullying seminar for the freshmen that will take place on March 11. I wrote a poem that fit my my thesis that society has twisted beauty. As I began interviewing, I was able to discover topics from many different cultures and time periods that fit with my thesis (so I guess some of my myth paper wiggled its way into my paper in the end). My paper ultimately included topics that ranged from the Bible to modern media. I think this paper, though time consuming, gave me an opportunity to explore topics that I would have otherwise never really gotten a chance to learn about.