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Blog Post 8- Introduction

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“ They don't numb your [buttocks] with anything, it was the craziest pain ever. I felt like I was gonna pass out. I felt a little dizzy. And it leaks for, like, five days."(Caity Weaver, GQ Magazine). This quote was stated by one of the most popular female entertainers, Cardi. B. In this interview the Gold and Platinum selling rapper recounts the dark, mysterious moment she allowed a stranger to inject into her buttocks an illegal substance used for making that part of the body bigger Purje, Lauren. “Status.”  End of the Line (Drawings and Things) , Gale Learning , Dec. 2015, www.laurenpurje.com/comics/.  This behavior is not unusual in the Entertainment industry it is deemed necessary in order to sell and make millions. It is slowly becoming an important procedure for many young women and also adults whom are bombarded with constant images of what beauty should look like, it is learned through different mediums of media, specifically social media. Countless of studies

Blog Post 7- Presentation Review

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WHEN YOU HAVE TO PRESENT!!! I felt more nervous than a box of rocks on crack. Okay that previous sentence was a joke everyone no need to call 12. I honestly felt like I was rushing my presentation, its something about when your body starts to panic everything you do is sped up times 100. I think before presenting anything to a class, a little practice is needed. I think the appearance of the Power Point was pretty nice, the colors weren't too dark but not bright either, I don't think I wanted it to be too colorful, because the topic of the essay discussed negative ways that social media impacts the lives of women. I think my time was 7 minutes, 2 minutes the over the original 5 minutes. I did notice that in some of my peers presentations,some people decided to present with gum in their mouth. THAT'S A NO! I also think that the body positions were more so navigated to the board than speaking loud and clear and facing the class. It is okay to read certain things of