Blog #16 – Outline of Prompt 3

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  • Introduction

 

      1. Intro Sentence: Beauty has the power to capture emotions.
      2. Can beauty help us become better people—as individuals and as a society?
      3. Armstrong
        1. Philosopher and author
        2. Introduce “sense” vs “form” drives
        3. Beauty is the perfect balance
      4. Individuality behind beauty
        1. Use their versions of beauty to cope with the world around them
      5. Thesis: Although beauty is subjective and can range from laughter to nature, beauty is something that elicits the freedom of human emotion.  

 

  • First Body – Sense vs Form

 

      1. Intro Sentence: Beauty needs the harmony between the sense drive and the form drive.
      2. Sense: lives in the moment and seeks immediate gratification, Abstract
      3. Form: delayed, more rational

 

  • Second Body – My own version of beauty

 

      1. Intro Sentence: Beauty comes from finding laughter in all that you can while there is so much hate in the world.
      2. Laughter
      3. Use Jamie/Taylor’s podcast
        1. 10 years old – 5th grade
        2. What/Why beautiful?
          1. Castle for first time
            1. Generation of kids had seen how magical it is
            2. Art?
              1. Is very pretty
              2. Disney is more beautiful than art
                1. Better
              3. Happy and warm and fuzzy
        3. Matters
          1. Needs beauty to be warm and fuzzy
          2. Without it world would be sadder
        4. Second trip
          1. Not the same the second time
          2. More recent
          3. Different but still exciting
        5. Beauty means to her
          1. A feeling
          2. Not look at but a moment
          3. Happy and have fun
        6. All beautiful
          1. Not on the outside but on the inside
      4. Use science article
        1. “When you laugh, you’re saying that not only do you find something amusing, but that you’re agreeing with somebody, that you’ve got something in common with them”
        2. “It’s a social emotion”
        3. “So laughter has a very strong element of behavioral contagion”
        4. “And she left with a spring in her step, just because she’d had an opportunity to laugh.”

 

  • Third Body – UNE’s Version of Beauty

 

      1. Intro Sentence: The University of New England finds beauty in the nature all over campus.
      2. Nature
        1. UNE’s beautiful campus
      3. Use Jon’s podcast
        1. Simple scenes in nature
        2. Calm after a Hurricane
        3. Stress of midterms vs fall nature calm
        4. Used scene to make him feel calmer

 

  • Fourth Body – How does your understanding of beauty intersect with your community’s understanding of beauty?

 

      1. Intro Sentence: It is beautiful to find relief from the problems that life throws at us.
        1. Feelings of stress vs peacefulness of nature
        2. Hate in world vs Laughter
        3. Connect how emotions are affected by beauty
          1. TIES IT ALL TOGETHER

 

  • Conclusion

 

    1. Help us become better people in society
    2. Consider if you believe that beauty serves a purpose for the individual, community, or both.

 

One Comment

  1. elishaemerson

    I applaud your risk-taking as you prepare to write your final paper! 🙂 For more, see my comments on your Google Doc. 🙂

    Reply

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