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Reflection Paragraph on Sources

I felt it very difficult to find high quality sources. I think I had to go through about 4 sites to get my statistics because there were many varied opinions and conflicting facts, but thankfully for me, only 4 years ago my topic received much attention from organizations like The New York Times and the South Carolina Department of Mental Health. I think the only thing I would have liked better would be if there were one centralized site for statistics on which there was much information on a wide variety of topics so I wouldn't have had to search everywhere. But is that still research? Hmmmm...

Reflection Paragraph on Process

Overall, this whole process has showed me that most people need to learn to be careful of what they portray and what they say. It can be taken the wrong way by impressionable teenagers who will take it to extremes. I enjoyed doing a blog much more than doing an essay, even though an essay may be faster to write. This blog, for me, was more involved; we got to basically do whatever we wanted with them all still being similar. This was much more interesting of way of formulating a centralized resource of information and I wasn't falling asleep half the time while creating it. I think if my efforts had just gone into an essay it wouldn't have been as impacting. I wouldn't be able to put in pictures, which I felt made a large difference in the impact my presentation will make.

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Reflection paragraph on findings

What I found while doing research to write my blog was not anything I expected, in the least. I knew this was a big problem plaguing the world but I never even considered the possibility that girls as young as eight years of age could be affected by it. I did, however, think that it was amazing that there only exist 61 treatment centers in the country, considering that there are 8 million people in the U.S. who have eating disorders. Throughout my search for information, it was obvious to me that most people think that it is both the media’s and the fashion industry’s faults. They need to be more careful of what they produce, because most of their product furthers this catastrophe.

Finding Paragraph 3

          My last but definitely not my least question is, ‘what are people doing about this?’. As I said before in my second finding paragraph, there are 61 treatment centers in the U.S. These make a huge impact, don't get me wrong, but what is the likelihood that all 8 million Americans will fit or even go to the 61 centers ("South Carolina Department of Mental Health"). We need to do something more for these girls and guys, maybe even through outreach via friends or school. On the show "If You Really Knew Me" on MTV, they go around and tell things about themselves, setting off a chain of emotions and exposing things that no one knows about them to a small group of kids at their school. I think if anorexic people saw others reaching out to them then they would feel that they aren't alone and come one step closer to realizing that everyone has problems.

"Eating Disorder Statistics." South Carolina Department of Mental Health. N.p., 2006. Web. 19 Nov 2010. <http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/anorexia/statistics.htm>.

Finding Paragraph 2

Another big question I want to figure out is when is thin too thin. According to Health Central the average weight for my age and height is 139. The average weight of an anorexic is 110.5 which is 15% less than the average as stated by Mama’s Health. “We are minutes away from a catastrophe,” said David Bonnouvrier, the chief executive of DNA Models. Mr. Bonnouvrier is referring to the thin models on the runways at New York’s distinguished Fashion Week. He is veraciously correct when he said this. If we all let this continue then there are going to be even more relentless consequences.

"Health Central." www.healthcentral.com. N.p., 18 Nov 2010. Web. 18 Nov 2010. <http://www.healthcentral.com/diet-exercise/ideal-body-weight-3146-143.html?2,5,6,95,1>.

"Anorexia." Mama's Health. MamasHealth, Inc.™, 2010. Web. 18 Nov 2010. <http://www.mamashealth.com/anorexia.asp>.

Wilson, Eric. "When Is Thin Too Thin?." The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 21 Sep 2006. Web. 18 Nov 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/fashion/21MODELS.html>.