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Danni Colello
my blog will show you the mind of a young developing writer.
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." Maya Angelou
my blog will show you the mind of a young developing writer.
For this blog post I will be reviewing/ discussing the documentary, "The Mask You Live In". Which is about the struggles boys are faced with on a daily basis and it is no talked about enough in my opinion. While watching the documentary with a friend (male) it got to a part where they discussed the amount of abuse and bullying happens to boys on sports teams either by other teammates or by coaches, and I asked my friend if he had ever had to deal with that (knowing he had a sports background) and he said, “Actually yea I did get bullied in baseball, but I’ve never really talked about it.” And it hit me that this is a very big, real issue in our society.
This film makes me feel like almost all boys in America don’t get to really grow up exploring who they truly are. It makes me feel bad and also angry because we need leaders to guide these boys and show them that it is okay to be different and to show a side of them that isn’t the social norm of “masculine”. I feel empathy for the boys because I truly did not know this is what they had to deal with growing up. This film makes me think that the message boys have to live with and grow up with is so disgusting, why do they have to show only the side of them that is considered tough. Why sincerely is it not seen as socially acceptable for a man to be emotional or like something that isn’t race cars and sports. In my opinion its completely ignorant for people, and parents to build these walls of what their child is “supposed” to be like. Guess what almost nothing in life happens the way we want it to, all we have power over is our reaction. You could either reject your/a child for not fitting into the idea you’ve build for them or you could be an open-minded person and try to learn and grow. If you reject things in life out of fear you will never grow as a person, its okay to have your ideals be challenged. Question everything. This film makes me want to do something for these boys. I want to help them so badly, to encourage them to war that pink shirt or go out for the school play. You know I wanted to be an elementary school teacher for my entire childhood. Now although this isn’t what I want to do anymore, this film (as well as miss representation) has made me seriously remember why I wanted to do it all those years. To be a caring person in children’s lives that can teach them things very few educators actually are able to. To believe in themselves and love themselves. And that bad things are going to happen but that doesn’t mean you have to give in to the bad things happening around you and to you. I feel like the world doesn’t need more “educators” it needs healers, of all sorts.
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For this blog post I will be reviewing/ discussing the documentary, “Miss Representation”. Which is essentially a film from 2015 that discusses how women are still not treated equal to men, we are portrayed in the media as objects or less powerful than men. This happens to the most powerful women in America by media and if they can be viewed/portrayed so horribly to a point where they are discredited and not taken seriously, what does that say about how any women is viewed in society and media.
This film makes me feel like there’s so much more I can/ we can be doing in our society today for women. Women’s rights were a huge movement prior to the new millennium, and although we have come pretty far we have obviously not come far enough. Because this movie is a few years older it talks inaccurately about how women now a days treat each other. I think when your young (as a girl) you are subliminally taught to compare yourself to women which makes women see each other as better than or less than like it’s a competition. Although this has been a norm for girls in the early 2000’s and even older girls branching all the way to grown women, I feel like this “competition” aspect has begun to change. Women are beginning to support each other and empower each other unlike anything before. I truly believe this could be the start to something so much bigger than we can even imagine. Because there is an expectation of what beauty is in our society, we feel like we have to live up to this completely unrealistic expectation of what beauty is, so we feel like we are valued or like we have worth. These are not the things that make up your worth as a woman or for anyone. This film made me want to be someone who does play a part in equal rights, who is a voice for the silent, I want to stand up to this bigotry and maybe make a small difference for women as a whole. This film has impacted how I think about the media. I mean I always obviously knew they only portray a certain picture to us and not the whole picture. But I think learning how extreme the media is now a day’s kind of really put it into perspective for me. I didn’t know there was 1-4 women compared to 10+ men for broadcasting system officials. I didn’t really ever notice how sexist the media is to female politicians or any women in office. The film was absolutely correct in saying that if the media can discredit and objectify women of high power, what does that say about how they view all women. The film was very powerful to watch. I feel like after watching this I want to stand up even more to sexism and misogynistic views. I want to play some role in standing for women’s rights. I mean its beyond ridiculous that it’s 2019 and we are STILL fighting for equal rights. The media needs to change. The way we receive information needs to change. I, going to stand up to bigotry going forward and not allow my voice to be silent any longer regarding any degrading sexual comments or content going forward. Home
I think my homepage is functioning because I do have everything for the most part on there, I just need to first add the link for my “Intrinsic goals”. Also, I need to develop the spatial aspect of this page its kind of just 6 or so lines of single sentences. I plan on bringing my quote up to the top right under my header image and then add a spacer before my introduction, over spring break. I also might switch out my quote for a longer one with a little more depth also. About I know my about page is flourishing. I might edit the spatial aspect by combining some sentences to make very short paragraphs. Also, I need to go through and capitalize all my I’s and capitalize the Q for the Proust Questionnaire. I have plenty of multi-modal content on this page though. Narrative project I believe this page is functioning almost flourishing, I need to go in and turn my blog posts from bulleted to complete sentences. I need to include more blog posts that we’ve done and need to correct very few grammatical errors such as capitalizing I’s again. I also need to develop my intro here a bit more. I plan to add more context over spring break. However almost everything asked is on this page and I believe is spaced rather well. Research project My research page is functioning but barley. I have the intro / blurb however it needs an extreme makeover: blog edition. Once we return from break and I have more understanding what our research project is about I will update the page promptly and add more content. Also need to remove the directions from beginning of the year. Contact My contact page is flourishing I have everything asked, header photo, quote about writing, the blurb to contact me, and a link to my Instagram. Honestly even though I have everything this page feels empty still I wish I could think of something else I could add. Blog My blog page is flourishing I have all blogs required up there also my quote and what my blog is about. The only thing I could do to improve this page is figure out how to move the darn things at the bottom of my page to the top right. I’ve tried a bunch of times, but I don’t know why it wont move there it might just be the layout. Draft 1 I think my first draft was very solid. I tried my best to just remember everything I possibly could about that night (it was hard because I repressed a lot from my childhood) and just get all the rawness out. To be honest I’m kind of surprised I didn’t have more to say I mean it was the most pivotal moments in my life and I only initially had about eight hundred words to say about it. However, I plan on going in for draft two and adding more moments of telling the reader the background of the family and how everyone interacts and the roles we play in the house in order to develop a more emotional connection to young Danni and the mother and brother. Also, I might edit the ending just a tad, make it a little more short & sweet. 3/10/2019 1 Comment Midterm ReflectionThis blog post serves as a reflection on my English Composition class at Delaware County Community College, on what I've learned thus far in the year. My vlog focus's on a few things, my author identity, my theory of writing, my growth as a writer, and my knowledge transfer to future writing situations. Also i talk about how much i value our discourse community
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