I am excited about the opportunity to be creative in our research and presentations. At first I had a hard time with choosing a topic, so I thought about what most captivated my attention through our readings, positively or negatively. I realized a theme that continually has me outraged while reading these, and that is the topic of child abuse. We see it with Pecola in "The Bluest Eye", the poem "My Papa's Waltz", with the babysitter in "Blankets", and I'm sure there will be plenty of inhumane treatment within the holocaust stories we will be reading. I have children whom I adore, and was abused myself; this subject makes my blood boil, and I think that this project has the power to be cathartic for me.
I have no way to convey the true power of this message in a traditional paper, so that's most certainly out. I love photography, and would love to incorporate some pictures that way. The media is littered with heartbreaking stories every day about children who have been mistreated and even killed. There is music about the love of children and probably quite a few older songs about abuse. I can't think of exactly how the layout will be. I'd love to do something high tech, but I'm going to have to learn a program, which I'm up for.
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I think that is a really good idea for a research paper. I never even considered that but I remembered whenever we were having class discussions abuse was always something that seemed very close to your heart and it always made you said because you have kids.
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