Inquiry project

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Topic of Inquiry: Body language and Self esteem


Working Inquiry Question: How does ones body language compare to their self image?

My topic is on body image and how it reflects one’s self-esteem. I think it would be interesting to use body language as a form of language. We still communicate with our bodies and how we present ourselves, even if we may not realize it. I find people in general really interesting. I think it would be interesting to learn how and why we do certain things in our day-to-day lives.

I know very little about this topic. I know that in most cases when someone is seen walking with their arms crossed and their head down this is suppose to relate to their esteem and how they view themselves. Sure this might not be true in all cases but I do believe the psychology behind body language makes a lot of sense. I tend to cross my arms when I find myself in an uncomfortable position or when I feel like I shouldn’t be there. I’ve seen in magazines little articles on how you can read your significant others body language. Some of it seems a little far-fetched but then again I always read into it. I do think body language is a reliable indicator on how someone feels about you and think it would be interesting to get others views and opinions and eventually develop a research paper about it.

I would be interested in learning more about this. Perhaps, learning about eye movement and how that plays into one’s thoughts of their self. Or the speed of how someone walks and how that relays to body language. I don’t exactly know if I could easily find this information, which is one of the reasons why I might not stick to this particular topic.

I thought about other topic proposals, like the language of children or how animals perceive language but I thought that ultimately this topic was the most appealing to me.

I think if I chose this topic that I would most likely be elaborating on sources and ideas of others instead of my thinking and assertions like in Ballenger’s essay. I am assuming that is ok since, this is after all a research paper. I do want to be appealing in my writing and interesting. Hopefully the questions that I pose I can find in academic articles. The last time I used the online library for finding academic sources it was hard to find something that pertained to exactly what I was looking for. I’m not sure if this was just because the topic I had was too or what. I suppose this would be my only worry about writing this research paper; being able to find enough sources on my topic proposal.

How does one’s body language reflect their self-esteem?

http://prezi.com/wghvefm0rrnu/copy-of-research-proposal/?auth_key=90ab124b881bd0c41cb34e8ff223c8fe4428d8ec

 I believe my topic presentation went all right. We didn’t have time for much feedback but then again I didn’t offer others a lot of feedback either. For some reason I have been thinking that our inquiry topic is supposed to be like some sort of hypothesis that we are trying to prove. But it’s not. It was helpful to find out that I’m not necessarily drifting from my inquiry question. Our paper doesn’t have to be about our inquiry question, which leaves me to be a little more comfortable. I am still weary of how this is all going to look on paper. My topic seems to mirror a lot of others in the class, by being about body language. I wanted to relate mine to self-esteem but the more I research the farther I get from relating it. I feel confident that I could relate it to self-esteem but am afraid I would have nothing to back me up.



Final

Topic of Inquiry: Media and Eating Disorders

Working Inquiry Question: Is media the sole cause of eating disorders?

I realized that I wasn't really interested in my original topic. I feel like my new Inquiry topic I can further expand on. I feel like my personal experience will allow me to write better, especially in this particular paper. 

I believe media is one of the most important languages in society today. I do feel that it plays a huge role in all of our lives, whether it be for the better or worse. With that being said I have never thought media to be the sole cause of eating disorders. I feel like we are all unknowingly bombarded by unrealistic views of beauty and happiness but this doesn't mean we are all destined to eating disorders. Eating disorders are complicated and I think they are hard to describe. I do think I might have a challenging time of convincing my audience that eating disorders are not caused solely me media. I say solely because I think they affect one's view on themselves but it is never the only cause.