In The End

At the end of this blogging process I am very pleased to read and look at all that I have accomplished. At the very beginning I was unsure of how to do a blog and what to blog about, but over the semester I have put together a wonderful blog and I am very proud of my accomplishment. When I look back at the very beginning of my blog and my first posts, I realized I was very unsure of what to do and it was going to become a learning process over the time period. My couple first blogs were very simple and concrete. They were focusing in on what the media was presenting on the idea of beauty pageants and the news that was current that was streaming in negative and positive beauty pageant topics. I looked at the positive side of beauty pageants by discussing my ambassador program and the Miss Minnesota events and then focused in on the negative side by looking at the body image, the negative press and the scandals that were occurring. After looking at both the negative and positive aspects of beauty pageants and ambassador programs, I felt I needed to look further into this topic and analyze the media more. I then looked at the idea of judging and who judges, the idea of child exploitation and lastly I looked at the media and how beauty is portrayed. With these new topics in mind, I found tons of information that was great in leading to my question about the media and beauty pageants/ ambassador programs. At the end of this process, I am very shocked I have found so much information and have a greater sense of the media and the image it promotes beauty pageants. When I realized that blogs were free to expression and that I could blog about anything I would like, I started looking at art. I have always been very interested in art and how this affects the media. I looked at art that portrayed this "beauty" ideal that our society has and also the opposite of that and what our society should look at. After this whole process is done, I now look at my blog and feel that it has been a wonderful experience and I believe it will not end here. I will continue my thoughts about beauty pageants/ambassador programs and how it is displayed in the media. I have come to a broader idea of who is the judge of beauty? Or who tells someone they are "beautiful" and someone else that they did not make the cut? This will be a continuous question that may not be answered right away, or in the future, but more people will ask themselves this and feel what I do about beauty and the media. So for now, but not for long, bye blog!