Final Piece

Model Attraction to Size Zero

Many people are not striving to be a skinny size zero, although some people in the world are naturally small built and slim more more celebrities are striving to achieve this uk size 4 through unhealthy means including; excessive exercise, coffee/diet coke drinking, smoking.
There has been alot of controversy around this in the press regarding the fashion industry due to several models dying because of their child like weight.  One example of this is Luisel Ramos who died of a heart attack in 2006 when she was due to be on the cat walk.  Ramos has been told to lose even more weight even though she was already at a very low weight, she has been only eating salads at the time of her death as she was striving to stay at a size zero, when she died she weighed only 97 pounds which was incredibly low for her 5'9" stature.

Died at the mere age of 22 years old due to her fight to be size 0

New Branch

From researching the different form of beauty throughout the world, it got me thinking more about what affects this has on children today.  This is where I decided to look into bullying and what is going on in the world today.  When I attented my comprehensive school- Pentrehafod, there were two girls who commited suicide, yes there were multiple reasons contributing to them doing this to themselves but when we were informed of thier suicide we were informed both girls were being bullied and had been suffering with depression.   This is one of the ways in which I found my sense of place within my project.  I then decided to add some true stories to my project to display the consequences of bullying.

Toy- Reflection

Struggling with making my toy for my assignment, Im not as creative as I initially thought and havent done any form of painting before.  So far so good and my ideas seem to be coming together.  Ive experienced a few problems with working out which materials are best to paint on to make my toy(boardgame).  The pics attached show my progress so far.

Pages of Scrapbook

Project Progress

So far my ICT project has been mainly cutting and sticking but now I have moved on to including more facts and references.  I can see the whole idea coming together and finding more ways for it to branch off.  My intial idea was "What is Beauty" this then branced off to different forms of beauty in different countries, also about pressures and influences in the media.  After further research I found a website that discuesses beauty throughout the times

http://maddieruud.hubpages.com/hub/Standards_of_Beauty_An_Illustrated_Timeline 

I adapted information from this website and adding additional facts and opinions.  Im considering using this as an element of my final piece.

20inch waist: Attractive?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096377/The-human-hourglass-The-Romanian-model-just-20-INCH-waist.html

Is this a good look?

Within the fashion industry models are getting thinner and thinner.  This link above is an article on a Romanian model with a 20 inch waist, giving the girl an "hourglass figure".

Is this the kind of thing we want the future generations to aspire to look like; surely there are health repercussions to come along with such a small waist.

Guest Speaker- Governor

Guest Speaker Steve Gullen- Governors Role

On the 23rd of January 2012 we had a guest speaker to educate us on who governors are, what they do, and how they are elected.

A Governors role is to run a school. The governing body is made up of; parents, LEAs, teachers, pupils and members of the community. The head teacher is automatically a Governor but they can choose to take a step back and not participate.
Every 4 years there is an election. To be elected votes are cast, teachers will vote teachers, parents with vote parents and soforth. LEAs and elected by the council and no votes are cast.
The community governors are people which have no attachement to the school, they are people who live in the community and just have a sense of pride regarding how well their local school does.

It is more important for them to be interested and to care about the school that to be experts on education.

I found the lecture interesting and very informative and has made me look into becoming a governor myself for my local school. I am now looking into finding out more.....

Plastic Surgery for Children??? ... continued

After researching cosmetic surgery in teenagers further after seeing the case of the "Human Barbie" injecting her 15yr old daughter, I found an even more shocking story from the United States where a mother injected her daughter with botox at the age of 8 because she thought it would enhance her chances of winning in a childrens beauty pageant. After following up my reasearch I have found out social services have been involved and are taking action against the mother.....

Here is a link on the story;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EOgkA3p9zI&feature=related

Plastic Surgery for Children???

Plastic surgery is becoming an addiction and that addiction is now affecting todays youth. If you click on the link below you will see a clip of the self proclaimed "Human Barbie". She has spent over £500,000 on cosmetic surgery and now has her "enhancements" done free of charge as long as she recommends the surgeon. What is the world coming to???
Within the link the "Human Barbie" aka Sarah Burge tries to convince her audience she is justified in injecting botox into her 15 year old daughters face.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_yxqWD26L8&feature=related

What is Education? Estyn

Within our what is education lecture we are having a number of different guest speakers. This week it was a gentleman from Estyn. We found out about the inspection process with education. He showed us the inspection criteria which schools are marked against. I felt I knew alot about what he was saying through knowing an English teach who has told me alot about how inspections work, however it was interesting. Seen as the gentlemen was very welcoming it made inspections seem less scary for when I become a teacher.

Wordle

I created a wordle using my blog for the wording. This uses the words most commonly used within this blog.

Tagxedo

My Graffiti

Flower Text Image

Here I created a text image of a flower using the word flower.  I did this using the website http://www.text-image.com/

Christmas Technology

Over the Christmas period I noticed there was a great deal of technology being used. From presents to the usual tasks we carried out on a day to day basis.... technology played an integral part of Christmas more so this year than any previous year. From iPads to Kindles to indivuals iphones and blackberrys. Even with the distractions and mountains of presents people could still not function without their smart phones! Children were more interested in playing with Angry birds than their sacks of toys... weldone Santa!