Body Image
Jamie Fries
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What I Have Learned
About Me
My name is Jamie Fries. I am a freshman from
Davenport, Iowa. I am planning on double
majoring in international relations and leisure
and sports management. I also hope to have a
minor in Italian. I enjoy traveling, art, sports,
and being with people.
My English 110 Professor is Michelle Trim, and
my project is titled “Body Image” (creative, I
know).
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My paper entitled “Body Image” is an imitation of
“Chief Seattle’s Letter to President Pierce, 1855.” I
chose to write my imitation on how the struggle to
have a perfect body affects women in this day and age.
My project touches on different reasons for why
women feel pressured to have a certain appearance,
and how this hinders their lives.
Many women strive to look like the models they see
in magazines, and in trying to achieve this look, they
put their bodies at risk. My paper explores why I think
women try so hard when it comes to their appearance,
and what they feel as they try to reach this “perfect”
body type.
My paper also touches on why women should not
go through the emotional and sometimes physical
strain in order to have this ideal body type. It reassures
them that they are fine exactly how they are, and tells
that the best thing in life is to love, so it does not
matter whether they are a few pounds heavier or have
a bad hair day. At the end of the day, the people that
truly love them will not care about those trivial things
at all, they truly just care about the person inside.
Writing Process
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The first step I took in writing this paper was to
read “Chief Seattle’s Letter to President Pierce,
1855.” I was required to pay attention to the style,
voice, and rhetorical approach of this letter, and I
could write my paper on any topic of my choice. I
spent some time trying to think of topics, and
decided to write about body image because it is
interesting to me, and I know it affects many
women my age.
I had to spend a lot of time making sure I was
writing this essay in the correct style, and I finally
finished my rough draft, which is drastically
different from my final draft. I then took this draft in
for peer review, and I received many helpful
comments from the members of my groups. I
revised my paper, adding a few topics that they had
suggested, and then turned it into my professor for
her review. When I received her comments back, I
finally turned my paper into the final draft it is
today.
My main inspiration for writing this paper was
because of all of my friends who do suffer from
having a bad body image. Many college age
students are affect by this problem, and I used my
experience with them to inspire the different topics
I touched on.
What I Have Learned
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From this project, I learned that I could
successfully write in a different style. Before this,
I thought my way was the only way, but I am
extremely pleased with this paper. I now realize
that using other people’s work as an example can
be helpful in improving my own style and helping
my way of writing become more successful.
I have also learned that peer revision is an
excellent tool. It never helped me very much in
high school because no one took it seriously, but
my group helped me think of ways to greatly
improve my paper in order to make it the best it
could be.
These lessons are going to help me become a
much better writer in the future, and they will
help me to utilize different aspects of the writing
process that will help to make my final product a
fantastic one.
English 110 Objective
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I believe that this project helped me develop an
appreciation for the capacity of writing to change
oneself and the world. This paper has a very strong
viewpoint on how body image can affect a person’s
world, and how having a good view of oneself leads to
a more fulfilling life. Many women struggle with body
image issues, and sometimes, just hearing that they do
not need to be perfect is enough to help them.
I have a friend who is an English major, and I made
her proof read my paper. My friend suffers from body
image issues, and after reading my paper, she asked for
a copy of it. She said that it helped her realize that she
does not need to be so concerned with her body
because in the long run it does not matter at all. For
many people, it just takes a little reminder to help get
them back on the right track.
The fact that something as simple as this paper could
help change someone never hit me until my friend read
it. With that, I realized that writing really does have
the ability to help change the world. I started to think
of the many books and articles that have helped
change my life, and discovered that my English 110
assignment has the possibility to help change the
world.