Ted talk on Beauty - Timo Liiv

 ‘How I define beauty’ - Winnie Harlow

https://www.ted.com/talks/winnie_harlow_how_i_define_beauty?language=en

I have decided to choose this ted talk about beauty. Winnie Harlow brings out many points based on beauty, such as:

• Beauty is in everything

• Societal standards in beauty

• Be yourself

These points were brought out because Harlow herself had experienced bullying due to her skin condition, vitiligo. She was alienated because of her skin condition and was picked on because of it. She discusses how she can see beauty in everything and to not follow societal standards in beauty. 

I personally do not agree that there is beauty in absolutely everything, but I do understand what Harlow is trying to say. 

As an example that she uses to bring out her message is her own experience of having vitiligo and how others had behaved towards her. 

TED analysis

 TED talk

The presenter is a Jamaican American woman suffering from vitiligo, which is a rare skin disease. Beauty isn't based on entirely physical appearance, and is biased towards certain individuals “bald head example”. Attempting to answer the question of what is beauty. Beauty should be determined by the person's physical appearance, but a great personality or certain thing does make them more appealing and vice versa. Talks about being bullied, ignored and somewhat hated because of her skin condition. She said she became the bully because she did not want to be bullied, so she befriended bullies because she thought it was the right side. And she realized that she didn't need to fit in and she would make her own side and so she believes that there is beauty in everything. Her message is “be yourself, and don't worry about what other people think. You don't need to fit in, so make your own mold.”

Presenter name: Winnie Harlow

Global issue: the alienation and towards people suffering from physical deformities.

TED talk on beauty - Anastasia Gvineria

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM4Xe6Dlp0Y

TED talk by a model named Cameron Russell who breaks down the most frequently asked questions about her, since she is a conventionally attractive female with a successful modeling career. She explains how modeling is not what it always seems and reveals the raw truth about it.

Title: 'Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model.' - Cameron Russell

The TED talk starts with Cameron talking about her experience with modeling, how she gets treated and later she explains that she will be answering the most frequently asked questions about her career. She says she will be as raw as possible and show the entire truth even if it is ugly. 

Firstly, she shows the modeling pictures from her portfolio and gives a backstory to all of them. The main idea for doing this is to show how photos and pictures are artificial and not accurate to reality. She shows a modelling picture of her with a guy where she seems very mature and sexual. She seems confident and like she knows what she is doing and looks much older than her actual age. 

She explains that in this picture, she is 16, very nervous and does not feel comfortable in what she is doing. She was told to pose like this and the picture was later retouched. This is obviously not what she looks like in real life and she is not as experienced as she might seem from this picture. 

We are also provided with some before and after pictures of her shoots. 

She also touches on the subject of racism and how the modeling industry tends to pick favorites and be obsessed with a specific look and not allow any diversity in their community. She says out of a 100 models, only a couple are black. 

Cameron also talks about how she has noticed people treating her differently from others just because of her looks and she gets away with things that some may not get away with as easily. She brings out an example of the cops stopping her for speeding but letting her go only 2 minutes later while another person would have been fined or faced more serious consequences. 

In conclusion, from this ted talk we learned that photos are not reality and we should not compare ourselves with them since they are productions and not real life. They are photos that are worked on by professionals in every aspect (Lighting, posing, makeup, retouching etc.). We learned that the modeling industry can be unhealthy and toxic and that people tend to switch up based on looks. 

Circle writing

Circle writing means one person starts writing, then after a stretch of time (e.g. 20 min) hands the paper over to the next person in the circle and that person reads what has been written, corrects any mistakes they notice, and carries on writing logically where the previous one left off, and the process is repeated several times. When the writers are going to run out of time, the writer knows they have to write a conclusion to the text.

Teaching others Pygmalion's Bride/Salome (Timo)

 Pygmalion's Bride

Global issue: Women empowerment

- Constantly referring to Pygmalion and how he wants to 'shape' the woman to his will.

- Duffy brings out the graphic, sexually violent treatment of the Bride.

- In the second to last stanza, Duffy uses sexually charged words to describe how the Bride pretends to enjoy the sexual interaction.

- In the last stanza, the Bride is 'liberated' from the man.

Salome

Global issue: Femininity

- Focuses on dangerous female seductiveness

- This poem is interesting to both feminist and marxist.

- Duffy retells the biblical story of the step daughter of Herod II and daughter of his second wife Herodias

- The poem presents the traditional story but Salome speaks and behaves like a modern woman

- Wide use of intertextuality

TED talk - a special type of text

The difference of TED style: 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-does-ted-style-talk-differ-from-other-lisa-evans

https://speakupforsuccess.com/how-are-ted-talks-and-business-presentations-different/

List of TED speakers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TED_speakers 

Belief and values: Beauty (work in progress)

Task: Discuss what beauty is for you with your classmates.

Put your ideas about what it is in poem form. Share. 

An example by me:

From dawn to sunset

Beauty is what beauty does

Lends a helping hand

© Erika

Lines of inquiry

How are social constructs of beauty and gender created and communicated? (factual)

To what degree does one's cultural perspective shape one's understanding of gender and beauty? (conceptual) 

To what degree do media platforms have a responsibility to communicate healthy constructs of beauty? (debatable)

Beauty standards through history: https://www.scienceofpeople.com/beauty-standards/ (3:09)

Is beauty in the average? (read this and some related texts from the same site): 

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/is-beauty-in-the-average-or-the-individual.html

Techniques in advertising: 

https://yourbusiness.azcentral.com/techniques-word-shapes-advertising-26060.html

Ugly = the new pretty: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/7/21/ugly-is-the-new-pretty-bologna/

Vocabulary to talk about beauty: NB! Not every word is formal enough for using in IB assignments

https://boompositive.com/blogs/positivethesaurus/words-to-describe-beauty-synonyms

https://www.words-to-use.com/words/beauty/ (Discuss the quotes :) )

TED talks about beauty: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TED+beauty

Task (portfolio and presentation and blog): Choose one TED talk on beauty (not to same as any of your classmates), watch it and make a short presentation to class (including presenter, specific topic, main points they make and ideas they put forth + examples, specialist terms, your own opinion of the issue, anything else you deem worthwhile).

See the document (on Tera) on summarising to help you with language choices. 

In addition, make a blog post on it (incl. link to where it can be watched, main idea, GI). It could be in the same blog post with your explanation of what beauty is.

To complement PhilpotNew Unit 2.3

Discuss it in detail, make sure you know all the vocabulary and key concepts.

Treat every text as a possibility to practice for Paper 1, i.e. detailed annotation and thinking of a possible guiding question to go with it (if the book has not suggested one). After annotating on your own, discuss with some classmates to pool your ideas. Balance-wise, pay a bit more attention to non-literary texts than literary ones. Save annotations in your portfolio.

Every time you go off the book to read / research something online (as directed by a task in the book, or me, or because of your own interests), share useful / interesting findings on the blog.

Set yourself homework at the end of each discussion lesson (unless the teacher has given you something specific to do). Each time include something that could and should be presented to the whole class the next time.

See which parts of PhilpotNew U2.3 Beauty the following might go together with:

* Same topic, different ways of presenting. What are the advantages and disadvantages of presenting an issue in such ways? Who might be the intended audience? 

How would you word a global issue here?

https://deeply.thenewhumanitarian.org/malnutrition/articles/2018/04/12/in-mauritania-force-feeding-leaves-young-girls-with-long-term-problems

Fed to Wed (documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8YJm6w2IvU

Objectifying men:

https://www.mainstreethost.com/blog/sex-sells-sexy-men-objectification-men-advertising/

Could this be the beginning of a BOW?
https://www.buzzfeed.com/crystalro/this-artist-re-created-sexist-vintage-ads-with-the-roles

(http://www.elirezkallah.com/photography)

Why is it so hard to see black and blue (Task 3.10 / Text 2.25): 

https://vulcanpost.com/188081/hard-see-black-blue-salvation-army-puts-thedress-new-light/

Task: Create a BOW :)

Task 3.11: Add catcalling to the list of problems.

Make Your Move!: http://www.makeyourmovemissoula.org/

The Bystander Campaign: http://www.makeyourmovemissoula.org/bystander (BOW!) (read about consent and bystander tips, etc., too)