At the start of my research project, I felt completely lost! I had this thought deep down inside me of fear. Fear of me not going to meet the deadline, what am going to research on, it was going be difficult for me in compiling my sources and most of all fear of making mistakes or doing the wrong thing. But all those feelings, and thoughts were all for nothing. I was joined by 2 of my class mates Florence Jossy and Zahedul Islam to work on our research project, something I have never done before. At the beginning, we struggled with finding our topic, we argued on what our thesis statement should look like and what question we as a team should answer.
With the guidance of our amazing instructor Sabatino, we established our identity and begun to work on our project. A thesis topic and a question were agreed upon and we started to work. We worked tirelessly to produce our first draft; it wasn’t easy as we thought it would have been. We spent hours together working, texting and calling each other to make sure we complete our first draft and for us to meet the deadline and we were successful in meeting our benchmark for the project. To my group members Florence Jossy and Zahedul Islam, let me use this medium to express my gratitude and appreciation to you guys for co-authoring with me. It was awesome working with you guys especially with times that we disagreed on issues and views, we came together and found common ground as a group to move our project forward. We contributed our individual skills, experiences and cultures to our work. I learned a lot from both of you and I have developed a different mind set when it comes to co-authoring. I have become more open and ready to share my ideas in co-authoring any project in respective of the persons or groups involves. Let’s go into the world and make meaning.
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This blog will give an insight of our group research project from our English 100 class. Our group is made of 3 persons and we've agreed to research on the above topic. With the aide of our professor, we'll do our best. I am going to post what we've written so far (Introduction Page) and more to be published soon.
The Mask You Live In is a documentary produced and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom that explores the negativities of masculinity with in the American culture. Newsom’s inspiration for the documentary originated from her getting pregnant with her son. She was quoted during an interview when she said, “It was really important to me that I could nurture a son who could be true to his authentic self, who wouldn’t always feel like he had to prove his masculinity. There’s so much loneliness, pain, and suffering when one is pretending to be someone that they’re not.” We imagine the mixed view this documentary had. Some saw it as gender bias against men and some saw it as the wrong view of masculinity by female. This research paper will traverse masculinity and redefine masculinity as it relates to how American parents raise their sons. Newsom argues that we’ve constructed an idea of masculinity (05:33) in the United States that doesn’t give young boys (05:36) a way to feel secure in their masculinity, (05:39) so we make them go prove it at all time. She went on to say that masculinity is not organic, it’s reactive. (05:50) It’s not something that just develops. (05:52) It’s a rejection of everything that feminine. (05:54) We believe that Newsom’s definitions toward boys and their parents are harmful to society and has the propensity to initial violent boy, we differ with her on those issues. We’ll as a team redefine how American Parents define masculinity for their sons and we are going reconstruct the I deal that masculinity is not organic, it’s reactive. (05:50) It’s not something that just develops. (05:52) It’s a rejection of everything that feminine think that It’s the society that’s unfair masculinity with in the American culture. Let me start by first given an historical over view of masculinity to give the basic to my argument. Our last week section was full of creativities, we drew capturing images along with a quote from each documentary Miss Representation and The Mask You Live In in class and we displayed them on the board.
Miss Representation “It’s all about the body and not the brain” This quote to me is one of the most powerful quotes in the documentary. Women are more then just an object in our society, they are like a bridge to me. We need them to us through almost everything our society calls for. Example: We need them to give their views on things that will ship our world in a positive way, like in the educational sector, political or policy making decisions etc. The Mask You Live In In the mask you live in, there’s a part where group of boys from different age rang was given a paper to write what ever they felt inside. They all wrote down “pain”, “anger” and on and on. Their faces could not tell what they felt inside of them. I think we as human regardless of who we’re, we all wear different kinds of masks. I look forward for another excited week come Tuesday. |
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