Miss Representation - Documentary

This movie is really quite deep. It demonstrates that women and the media are closely linked, but not in a good way. The media depicts perfect women: skinny, large breasts and bum, thigh gap, caked make-up. Although these are traits of very beautiful women, most do not have them. Women are also gown in very sexual ways, to attract others who are drawn to them. 

Women are not shown as they should be. The average woman is not a size zero, size small. The average woman is not as thin as adverts show, and many females feel self-conscious of themselves because they feel that they don't fit Into the image that others think they "should" look like. 

The thing is, everyone has their own shape and size. We are not all the same, so why should adverts show that we must all resemble a supermodel?

Even famous women feel this way too. Society judges them about their looks just because they might have gained weight or ate some food. 

Everyone has flaws about themselves that they want to change, including me. I am not perfect, and if we looked deep down into the supermodels and famous people's thoughts, they would probably have something they don't like about themselves too, even if they seem to h e perfect lives with perfect looks. 

I believe that noone can really be safe from the judgement of others. Everyone has their thoughts about what each person looks like, what they think is good and bad. We all have our own opinions and there is no guarantee that a person will be judged. 

Women should not be known to be people with skinny torsos, tiny waists, or faces full with makeup. 

We also should not be put down, rejected, pushed aside, or taken advantage of just because we are females. 

We must be able to love the way we feel about ourselves and believe in ourselves that we can do what we choose to do. 

We must be able to appreciate the good personalities and achievements of the people around us instead of seeing each other for our looks. 

Level 8 - Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

The beep test. 

The dreadful grossness of running back and forth and back and forth, beep after beep after beep, hearing the Australian narrator say each number, level by level. 

The beep test is obviously not my favorite way to test my fitness, but it does show a lot. In Grade 8 (from what I remember), I was only able to go up to level 5. By Grade 10, the highest I could go was level 7. And now, my personal best was made at the most recent beep test that we did, and I achieved level 8-3.

I am just a little disappointed in it. My goal was to get at least 8, but I thought that I could reach at least level 8-7 to 9. I felt that I could have done a lot better, but I just got so tired and I really don't know why I decided to quit. 

I was hopeful to get to a high level because during the 30-minute run, I was able to keep a pace and not stop for the entire time (which I'm really proud of by the way!), and I thought to myself that if I could run continuously for 30 minutes then I could probably get to level 9 on the beep test. I thought wrong :(

I hope that for the next beep test we will do with our class I will be able to reach my level 9 goal!