Going In

This picture shows a group of students walking into the school building. As seen in the picture, the sun is out and shinning on them and it seems like a beautiful day, but the students are walking into the school building that is dimly lit. The light from outside is a contrast to the darkness from indoors. This photo relates to my project because the school is where most students spend the majority of their time through out the year.

Fooling Around

This picture shows to girls on our track fooling around during gym class. I liked this picture because it shows that gym class is mainly the only time during the school day for the students to get outside and have fun. Most of the time these days though, the gym teachers are more concerned with their students losing weight and being fit than making their class fun.

Skipping Lunch

This photo is of one of the students in my school running to get to class on time. He is carrying his lunch with him to class, so I assume that he skipped lunch just to finish some project up. This picture relates to my project because it shows how the students and myself have to give up our lunch time just to get somethings done.

New Proposal

A while ago my mother told me something that changed my out look on this project. She told me that I work to hard sometimes and that I miss out on life experiences. I stopped and wondered on what she told me and found it to be true. The career choice that I have in mind has been predominantly male and so in order to succeed I've needed, or believed I've needed to work harder than any one else to make my dream come true. I want to be a pastor and a missionary. Many colleges turn away women who wish to be ordained. So in order to get into a college I've had to work and constantly think about my grades. My Proposal for this project is to show the mind center I , and many other students, have on school, grades, and college. I also want to take photos of my church and how it is what I'm striving for and where most of my hard work is evident. For this project I would just need my digital camera and the cooperation of my church.

The beginning of this Project! First stop West Ellicott!

Like I stated before, my project idea was to take pictures of the local areas around here and compare them. The first location is the lovely residential area that is West Ellicott.

~ This is a picture of a street behind my house in West Ellicott. The road is bumpy and uneven, and the houses are lined down the street, close but still retaining their own yards. Mailboxes are only on one side of the road for the convenience of the mail man. Many of the mail boxes contain red boxes next to them for the post journal.

Girl Culture by Lauren Greenfield

1) This series is about the way girls believe that they need to act or dress or look like in order to be considered beautiful by our culture. It’s called Girl Culture because the need to be beautiful has been morphed into an all consuming thought that is in the back of every girls mind.
2) This series came about by the author , Lauren Greenfield, digressing her photo style and remembering her teenage years as the girl culture had really swallowed her. She remembered how it was important to be thin, sexually appealing, and fashionable.
3) This series is more journalistic as it documents the culture that is still at large and controlling girls everywhere.
4) A lot of this series makes me uncomfortable. I’m a girl and I’ve fallen into the trap of girl culture. I’m still in that trap as I constantly obsess over being pretty and what’s wrong with my body.
5) I would have probably have shown more picture on how younger girls are obsessing over it and becoming moms at such a young age.
6) As I read the authors thoughts on her series I’m reminded of memories of my own experiences with girl culture. I can remember the first time I thought my self ugly, the first time a boy showed interest in me, the first time I wore make up, and so on so forth.