ESLR Check

Content:
1. I think this year has really helped learn alot more about computers applications and the internet. I have learned to reasearch much more effectivly. I have also learned how to navigate excel a lot better because of the W.B needed for reasearch check.
2. Before I had no clue how to use excel. Because of senior project, I have learned everything that I think I need to know about excel. I did not know how to wrap the text before this year. I didn't know how to print an excel document with out printing all the other boxes that came with it.
3. What I can improve on is finding better reasearch. I need to find reasearch beyond the media. Maybe it could be a emotional thing in the mind that makes the body feel a less self value about it self. I don't know but I need to find out if maybe there is something else.

Service Learning 10 Hour Progress Check

(1) I have been working  with Ms. Lagoo at the Girl Scouts of West Covina. I work with the girls with their activites. I am actually leading an actvity helping the girls work towards a badge.
(2) I go every Monday from 6:00 p.m-7:00 p.m since January. I got in contact with her in November, but because of family problems I have not gone.  (3) That no matter what age, what  skin color every girl has a problem some way with her body.

Interview 3 Question Approval

1. What do you thing the best way to help a girl with self esteem is?
2. Do you think that a peer group would help a teenage girl with her self esteem? Why or why not?
3. As far as media, what do you think is the most important thing for a girl to know?
4. Do you think that media should photoshop girls in the magazines? Why or Why not?
5. Is there a certain way you help girls feel confident about their body?
6. Why do you think so many girls have issues with there body?
7. How do you think girls can become more confident with themselves?
8. Why do you think society is making girls in mag so skinny?
9. What do you think makes a girl confident?
10. How do you know a girl is confident

What I Have Learned So Far!

1. Media is the biggest effect on teenager self esteem. Pretty women in the magazines
2. Friends and the people around you (i.e mom, dad, siblings, peers) also have to do a lot with how you fell about your self. comments do hurt you if said in an negative way even if they say it doesn't.
3. The teenage girls I have talked to so far say they feel more confident when guys tell them they are pretty or what ever the case may be over when their friends say they are pretty.
Dove Videos Help A lot. They have little dove films that they have made and they really help you understand what it is about media that is hurting teenagers images about themselves.
.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I

EQ

EQ: What is the best way to help teenage girls feel confident about their bodies?
(1) Define possible terms in your EQ (e.g. successful, effective).  
Best Way: something that is helpful for the girls to do.
Confident: To hold their head up high a be able to feel good about the way they look, or a flaw that they may have.(2) So far based on your research, what are possible answers to your EQ? 
I noticed media has to do alot with the influence of what girls should look like, or what society thinks girls should look like. It's every where. Magazines, music videos, television, and billboards.
(3) What has been your most important printed source and why?
Media wise dove commercials have been really good, but sources I have received from CalPoly database have been really good. I'm not sure which one it is because it is currently in my folder at school. It's about how even online it is hard to not feel like your not good enough. There is a dating website called beautifulpeople.com? and they actually kick people off if they are not considered "pretty."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

Idea Approval

What would you like to do/create for your independent component?
 
I actually was thinking about making a club with Valerie Dulay at school. What we would do is have girls talk about what keeps them down from feeling good about their bodies, and how media and what types of media effect the way they see themselves.
  If that is not possible, I plan to work at my hospital. They have a group of girls that go to patients rooms and give them make overs and talk about what they are good at and show them everything good about them. By doing this, this alows them to think about the good and not worry about the bad.


Explain how you think this will be a worthwhile use of 30 hours?

  Talking to different girls and seeing how and what effects them will be useful finding out what is making them feel down about themselves. Whether it's seeing skinny models in the magazine, or having family members pressure them into losing weight. What ever it maybe this will help see all the different flaw that are out there in the world that are making girls feel like this.


How will this help you to answer your EQ?
 
  My essential question is what is the best way to help teenage girls feel confident about their bodies?

By finding out what is hurting girls view of themselves, maybe that will lead me to finding out what it is best for them to do about staying positive. The club and the hospital will let me learn about a variety of self esteem issues I may have never thought about.

5 Expert Questions

1.What made you decide work in the field you do?
2. What keeps you interested in your job?
3. How long have you been in this feild of work?
4. Would you choose to do something else with you life instead of this job?
5. Do you work for anyone else or are you your own boss?
6. Why do you like this job?
7. What is your worst and favorite thing about your job?