As I stated before, I want to write about Havel's idea of ideology and the idea of losing individuality by having to live within the lie. I want to connect it to girls/women in society today, of how social norms and the media end up influencing them to act a certain way. I want to use my all girls high school as an example, as well as the girls I mentor at Aldrich Middle School. I will also cite things from the media, such as tv shows like Gossip Girl, and I will use the blog to write about it so that I can also hopefully find videos online to post to the blog as I write it.
I think it would be best if I wrote about 2-3 "pages" or blog entries a week about the mentioned topic, and to evaluate me I think maybe it would be best to see how I am able to compare Havel's ideology of living within the lie to present day society, and by evaluating me on how many examples I use and how closely I can relate them.
You've got a lot going on here, potentially, but I think focus can emerge in the process of writing. As I mentioned before, I believe you ought to give your attention (in the spirit of Havel) to who/what is influencing who "through" the media, not become stuck on the media itself. You've given me a sense of how to evaluate you in terms of quantity and timeliness, but not so much in terms of "quality." What I suggest is that you write one that is best you can do, assign in the highest grade, and we will use that as our exemplar. I would hope that you will get better and better, but still this can serve as a measure of A work.
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