Uniqua Smith: Week 4 Analysis:

• What themes or concerns in the presented reading are your responding to?
• What are the materials and processes you used to formulate your response? Why these? If several, which are you most concerned with?
• Why these materials and processes. What are their limitations? What do they allow?
• What choices did you make? (For example, the tone of a piece of writing, or the lighting decisions for a photograph.) What led your decision-making about them?
• What did you learn through this response? (You can address new knowledge or new questions you’ve gained regarding the class reading, the materials/processes you used, or both.)

I decided to respond to the prompt. Deciding to reflect on my anger towards society for putting an unrealistic expectation for people especially because the standard for beauty is white skin, with blonde hair, and blue eyes. Most of the world looks nothing like that trying to understand this is my main point. Appropriation seems to be more of the "wave" these days. Where people of color were always deemed ugly for certain looks they possess whereas mainstream media will appropriate the same styles and features, and that's called beautiful. An example would be big lips and butts. I'm sure there are other cultures, like the Native American headdress, but I can't really speak to much on that.
The only materials I used were the readings, to understand what the prompt was about, and the internet to look up the word, belleza, which is supposed to be "beautiful" in Spanish. That's the only thing that concerns me, so hopefully that is the right word to use.
These materials just allowed me to understand the prompt. It;s limitations were that I didn't really know what was going on in the readings. They were sort of everywhere with their words, but they allowed me to think as outside of the box that I could see myself taking this.
I really wanted this to be like me talking to myself to try to understand the world, but having to raise others' spirits that might be near me, in the process. I didn't really know where I was going with it until I started just typing.
This prompt and whole process just brought to the forefront of mind what I really hate about society and what I feel society does to a lot of minorities and people that are not of the norm, which is making us feel less than we are unless we try to some how attain that beauty by changing ourselves.