DONE DONE DONE

My manifesto paper is finished! I am so excited. Hopefully I made the corrections it needed. I am now very worried about the midterm tomorrow. I have not been able to get a lot of sleep lately, so hopefully I will be able to think straight. I am not very good at writing something under pressure, so that should be interesting as well!

skydiving

I have not been able to get a lot done today. My brain must still be on vacation. I really need to get focused because I have to get all A's. My mom said today that if I got all A's again this semester she would pay for me to go skydiving. I mean who would not want to jump out of a plane?

wishful thinking

My paper is giving me major problems. I realized I have a difficult time writing about myself. In high school we never had to write about ourselves. We always concentrated on how a topic affects the society or another audience. I have written about three drafts of my paper, and hopefully I am now heading in the right direction.  

tough time

I am having a hard time reflecting on my paper. I have written the story part about how my belief has affect me, but I cannot seem to reflect enough on it. I am also having trouble coming up with general topics for each paragraph. Right now, my paper is very unorganized. 

Intro

How many times have you heard someone say "I'm never eating again" after they watch the Victoria Secret fashion show? Facebook was covered with statements like these after the first angel came out in barely any clothes and hardly ant fat on her body. The social media is all around us. It is the t.v. we watch, the billboards we see, and the magazines we read. It is constantly surrounding us, reminding us how we should look in order to be called "beautiful."

Against my belief

I believe the only people that would be against my belief would be people who are currently experiencing the trouble with their body image due to the social media. This makes them in denial.  I think they might feel that the social media can help reduce obesity by pressuring people to be skinnier. This may be true, but there is a fine like between skinny and unhealthy. I think people who are not experiencing trouble with this are probably not against my argument, because it’s for the betterment of society.

Social Media

I decided on what I am going to write about for my essay. I am going to write about how I believe the social media has a strong effect on teenagers. Specifically, I am going to talk about how the social media shows the tooth-pick thin girls, and many teenagers think that this is what is “beautiful”.  I do not really think I have had an extreme personal experience with this, but I do believe that it makes me think twice about eating bad foods. It is not really because I want to be healthy, but more that I want to stay thin.

Belief

Coming up with a belief of mine was much harder than I thought it would be. I have many beliefs, but I feel like I would have a difficult time writing about some of them. I would have loved to write about Christianity, but I don’t think I would be able to be specific enough. My next choice was to write about an environmental belief or a social belief, but I’m having a difficult time thinking of something that I can write a whole essay on.

About Me

Hey, I’m Ingram Melton. I’m from Auburn, Al.  I traveled a long way to attend Auburn University. I am a freshman and my major is Biomedical Sciences. I hope to attend the University of Alabama at Birmingham for Physical Therapy school in about four years. I absolutely love chocolate and exercising.