Podcast: Love...Actually!
Artist Statement
I made a podcast because I felt as if it was the most captivating way to present my ideas. The thesis I landed on is “With over dramatic depictions of love through movies, tv shows and social media. The perception of love has changed so drastically that in today's society people feel as if love is unattainable or they are unworthy of being loved. I included three different examples to prove my thesis. The first is how Disney Channel brainwashed kids at a young age, the second is how The Bachelor and The Bachelorette is toxic to humanity, and the third example I used to prove my thesis was social media and its negative effects on mental health. I believe that these three examples are creative and intriguing ways to prove my thesis. I also feel like they are very relatable and any audience member has hopefully encountered one or all of these examples in their own lives. I also included intro and outro music from Bensound music as a way to make the podcast more interactive. I feel as if the tone of the song really sets up the audience to have good energy while listening in. I did not include an outside interviewer due to time constraints and my inability to find someone willing to match the examples I had already come up with. My podcast is thirteen minutes long. It's definitely lengthy but I tried my best to fluctuate my tone and put emphasis on sentences that really prove my thesis.
Cover letter
I have enjoyed my time working on my capstone project. Even though I got off to a rough start and wanted to switch topics after already doing research on the original topic, I am glad where I went from there. I have always been a hopeless romantic and have personally always been the “therapist” friend helping other people deal with their love struggles which is one of the reasons why I went down that path for my capstone topic. I struggled a lot with landing on a concrete thesis and ended up writing a whole draft only to delete it to go in a different direction. I ended up writing four different thesis’ before landing on one that entirely captured what I wanted my topic and messaging to come across. I love what my thesis came out to be but as for the execution of ideas in the podcast script, I think my ideas could have been a little more organized. The way I organized it was by the different examples that proved my thesis. I tried my best to create proof that was relatable and easy to understand. Overall, I am happy with the final podcast.
final works cited
1. Bryson, Michael, and Arpi Movsesian. "Love and Its Costs in Seventeenth-Century Literature." Love and Its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden, Open Book Publishers, 2017, pp. 421-66. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1sq5vd6.13. Accessed 23 Feb. 2020. This is probably the most "scholarly" out of my articles so far. This is from a book called "Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden". I like this as a source because it says "Love has never lacked for those who try to tame it for "higher" purposes, or those who would argue that "the worst evils have been committed in the name of love". I will use this source to think more in depth about love in the seventeenth century specifically. Love is often in the face of criticism so this source shines light on that and is an interesting source to have.
2. Fisher, Maryanne, Ph.D. "The Science behind Falling in Love." Psychology Today, 12 Feb. 2013, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/loves-evolver/201302/the-science-behind-falling-in-love. Accessed 14 May 2020. I used this resources to understand how people scientifically fall in love. I used this source in my script and also just to understand the general concepts.
3. Letourneau, Sara. "A Case Study on Love as a Literary Theme." MFA, 12 Feb. 2018, diymfa.com/writing/love-literary-theme. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This article takes love a step back and looks at it as a broad theme. It pulls from different classic literature as examples, such as, " Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Leslye Walton's The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender." It talks about love in both those pieces of literature and how love works in both. It also talks about love even more broadly.
I am going to use this source as a baseline for love as a concept and how it works overall in literature. Then it gives me solid examples with quotes and everything to examine. At the bottom of the article it talks about different motifs that are associated with love which is a cool addition.
4. Literary Terms." Literary Terms. 1 June 2015. Web. 3 Nov. 2016. <https://literaryterms.net/>. This article gives examples of different types of love. It also defines what love is. It provides an additional manual about how to write love stories and the do's and don'ts which I thought was cool
I will use this article because it helps me understand the different types of love. The examples they give are " historical, contemporary, and gothic" among others. I will use this to help categorize all the literature I will read and dissect. I learned that romance is more than just a love story.
5. "Love in Literature." The Guardian, 6 May 2011, www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/07/love-literature-tessa-hadley. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This is an article examining classic literature and how love manifests itself grammatically. The article states "What do we talk about when we talk about love? Early poets reached for the sun and stars to describe their beloved, while novelists have struggled to convey their 'wretched ordinariness." This captures the true essence of the article. It takes excerpts of literature and then does a close read on the grammar and how that translates to meaning.
I am using this source to help me read classic love stories and how to interpret them. This source also gives me great examples of love literature. It also provides great comparisons between texts and how love looks grammatically to different authors.
6. "Number of Disney Channel Viewers in the U.S. 2014-2019." Statista, www.statista.com/statistics/859487/disney-channel-viewers/. I used this source for the disney viewers statistic in my podcast script.
"The Science of Love." BBC, www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/love/. I used this resources to understand how people scientifically fall in love. I used this source in my script and also just to understand the general concepts.
"TV Viewers of the Disney Channel in the U.S. 2018, by Age." Statista, www.statista.com/statistics/228939/cable-tv-networks-disney-channel-watched-in-the-last-7-days-usa/. I used this source to know the target age of Disney Channel's viewers which I used in my podcast script
7. Vinaver, Eugène Vinaver, and Frederick Whitehead. "Romance: Literature and Performance." Encyclopædia Britannica, 10 May 2019, www.britannica.com/art/romance-literature-and-performance. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This is an in-depth journal about love. It talks about love and separation, psychological awareness, medieval verses, the setting, the component elements, gives a ton of examples, and defines what love is and how it is used.I will be able to use this information because it provides good solid examples in a very concise and clear way for me to understand. It sets love up as an overall concept and then clearly explains the different ways it "acts" in different situations.
8. Walton, Alice G. "6 Ways Social Media Affects Our Mental Health." Forbes, www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2017/06/30/a-run-down-of-social-medias-effects-on-our-mental-health/#6600a4d42e5a. I used this source to understand how social media affects our mental health and used one of their studies highlighted to prove my main point that social media only leads to self isolation.
9. Wu, Katherine. "The Science behind Lust, Attraction, and Attachment." SITN: Harvard University, sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/. Accessed 14 May 2020. I mostly used this source in my script for my podcast. A lot of the information was easy to read and made a whole bunch of science concepts easier to understand. A lot of the information from this source is a lot of the information I used in my script.
2. Fisher, Maryanne, Ph.D. "The Science behind Falling in Love." Psychology Today, 12 Feb. 2013, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/loves-evolver/201302/the-science-behind-falling-in-love. Accessed 14 May 2020. I used this resources to understand how people scientifically fall in love. I used this source in my script and also just to understand the general concepts.
3. Letourneau, Sara. "A Case Study on Love as a Literary Theme." MFA, 12 Feb. 2018, diymfa.com/writing/love-literary-theme. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This article takes love a step back and looks at it as a broad theme. It pulls from different classic literature as examples, such as, " Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Leslye Walton's The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender." It talks about love in both those pieces of literature and how love works in both. It also talks about love even more broadly.
I am going to use this source as a baseline for love as a concept and how it works overall in literature. Then it gives me solid examples with quotes and everything to examine. At the bottom of the article it talks about different motifs that are associated with love which is a cool addition.
4. Literary Terms." Literary Terms. 1 June 2015. Web. 3 Nov. 2016. <https://literaryterms.net/>. This article gives examples of different types of love. It also defines what love is. It provides an additional manual about how to write love stories and the do's and don'ts which I thought was cool
I will use this article because it helps me understand the different types of love. The examples they give are " historical, contemporary, and gothic" among others. I will use this to help categorize all the literature I will read and dissect. I learned that romance is more than just a love story.
5. "Love in Literature." The Guardian, 6 May 2011, www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/07/love-literature-tessa-hadley. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This is an article examining classic literature and how love manifests itself grammatically. The article states "What do we talk about when we talk about love? Early poets reached for the sun and stars to describe their beloved, while novelists have struggled to convey their 'wretched ordinariness." This captures the true essence of the article. It takes excerpts of literature and then does a close read on the grammar and how that translates to meaning.
I am using this source to help me read classic love stories and how to interpret them. This source also gives me great examples of love literature. It also provides great comparisons between texts and how love looks grammatically to different authors.
6. "Number of Disney Channel Viewers in the U.S. 2014-2019." Statista, www.statista.com/statistics/859487/disney-channel-viewers/. I used this source for the disney viewers statistic in my podcast script.
"The Science of Love." BBC, www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/love/. I used this resources to understand how people scientifically fall in love. I used this source in my script and also just to understand the general concepts.
"TV Viewers of the Disney Channel in the U.S. 2018, by Age." Statista, www.statista.com/statistics/228939/cable-tv-networks-disney-channel-watched-in-the-last-7-days-usa/. I used this source to know the target age of Disney Channel's viewers which I used in my podcast script
7. Vinaver, Eugène Vinaver, and Frederick Whitehead. "Romance: Literature and Performance." Encyclopædia Britannica, 10 May 2019, www.britannica.com/art/romance-literature-and-performance. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This is an in-depth journal about love. It talks about love and separation, psychological awareness, medieval verses, the setting, the component elements, gives a ton of examples, and defines what love is and how it is used.I will be able to use this information because it provides good solid examples in a very concise and clear way for me to understand. It sets love up as an overall concept and then clearly explains the different ways it "acts" in different situations.
8. Walton, Alice G. "6 Ways Social Media Affects Our Mental Health." Forbes, www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2017/06/30/a-run-down-of-social-medias-effects-on-our-mental-health/#6600a4d42e5a. I used this source to understand how social media affects our mental health and used one of their studies highlighted to prove my main point that social media only leads to self isolation.
9. Wu, Katherine. "The Science behind Lust, Attraction, and Attachment." SITN: Harvard University, sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/. Accessed 14 May 2020. I mostly used this source in my script for my podcast. A lot of the information was easy to read and made a whole bunch of science concepts easier to understand. A lot of the information from this source is a lot of the information I used in my script.
Final draft of script for podcast
Possible Podcast name: Love, Actually.
Intro music- find on website used from econ podcast … find the right vibe
Intro music- find on website used from econ podcast … find the right vibe
- Introduction:
- What is love? No seriously, what is it? A concept? A feeling? A neurological phenomenon? Just a word?
- As my old world history teacher would say…. YES.
- Love is all encompassing and we as humans simply can't live without it.
- It is an obsession, an addiction and is perceived to satisfy the internal craving for fulfillment that humans yearn so much for.
- but why do people spend their whole lives searching high and low for it? When did finding love become a competition? Why is love now correlated to one’s worth as a person?
- What is love? No seriously, what is it? A concept? A feeling? A neurological phenomenon? Just a word?
- Outro music:
- Thank you to my resources: Psychology Today, BBC, and Statista for making this whole podcast happen and thank you to my wonderful sponsor Dr. Holt for her generous contribution to the creation of this podcast.
- Thank you to my resources: Psychology Today, BBC, and Statista for making this whole podcast happen and thank you to my wonderful sponsor Dr. Holt for her generous contribution to the creation of this podcast.
- Transition:
- If you haven't picked up on it already… today we will be talking about love and how the perception of love has morphed to be what it is today which we will get to in a little bit.
- In order to further grasp the concept of love we need to discuss the science behind how people neurologically fall in love.
- If you haven't picked up on it already… today we will be talking about love and how the perception of love has morphed to be what it is today which we will get to in a little bit.
- 1st Body
- There are three phases to falling in love: lust, attraction and attachment and different hormones are involved at each stage.
- Lust: testosterone and estrogen
- Attraction dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin
- Attachment: oxytocin, vasopressin
- Lust is driven by the desire for sexual gratification.
- The hypothalamus of the brain plays a big role in this, stimulating the production of the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen from the testes and ovaries (Figure 1). While these chemicals are often stereotyped as being “male” and “female,” respectively, both play a role in men and women. As it turns out, testosterone increases libido in just about everyone. The effects are less pronounced with estrogen, but some women report being more sexually motivated around the time they ovulate, when estrogen levels are highest.
- Meanwhile, attraction seems to be a distinct, though closely related, phenomenon. While we can certainly lust for someone we are attracted to, and vice versa, one can happen without the other. Attraction involves the brain pathways that control “reward” behavior (Figure 1), which partly explains why the first few weeks or months of a relationship can be so exhilarating and even all-consuming.
- High levels of dopamine and a related hormone, norepinephrine, are released during attraction. These chemicals make us giddy, energetic, and euphoric, even leading to decreased appetite and insomnia – which means you actually can be so “in love” that you can’t eat and can’t sleep.
- Last but not least, attachment is the predominant factor in long-term relationships. While lust and attraction are pretty much exclusive to romantic entanglements, attachment mediates friendships, parent-infant bonding, social cordiality, and many other intimacies as well. The two primary hormones here appear to be oxytocin and vasopressin
- Oxytocin is often nicknamed “cuddle hormone” for this reason. Like dopamine, oxytocin is produced by the hypothalamus and released in large quantities during sex, breastfeeding, and childbirth. This may seem like a very strange assortment of activities – not all of which are necessarily enjoyable – but the common factor here is that all of these events are precursors to bonding. It also makes it pretty clear why having separate areas for attachment, lust, and attraction is important: we are attached to our immediate family, but those other emotions have no business there (and let’s just say people who have muddled this up don’t have the best track record).
- There are three phases to falling in love: lust, attraction and attachment and different hormones are involved at each stage.
- Transition
- Now that we have a better understanding of how people actually fall in love we can get to the main reason why you are listening to his podcast.
- With over dramatic depictions of love through movies, tv shows and social media. The perception of love has changed so drastically that in today's society people feel as if love is unattainable or they are unworthy of being loved.
- Now that we have a better understanding of how people actually fall in love we can get to the main reason why you are listening to his podcast.
- 2nd body
- Disney channel is notorious for their original movies.
- But what those beloved “children-family” movies end up doing is brainwash kids at a young age to set unrealistic standards to what love looks like.
- Disney has over roughly 500 thousand viewers and growing with Disney Plus now an option. And their target viewer being of the ages between 6-14
- Disney targets young kids like me when I was younger
- A dreamer, shy, and loved to dance in a tutu
- My whole childhood was filled with countless showings of Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, High School Musical, and Camp Rock but little did I know the damage that would do to my perfect image of love that I had created when reality started to finally kick in.
- I watched young girls go through struggles, find their strength, and get the guy all in the span of 90 minutes. Of course that is going to set unrealistic expectations for young females and males all across the world.
- Not only do these movies set the impractical beauty standards for males and females but it also generates various gender stereotypes. Such as the male has to provide and make the first move ect.
- Don't get me wrong Disney taught me a ton of great things, but it certainly fails in the love category.
- Disney channel is notorious for their original movies.
- 3rd body
- Not only are kids gaining fanciful portrayals of love through movies but pre-teens and teenagers are getting even worse depictions of love through tv shows like ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
- ABC is known for creating over dramatic “reality” tv shows… “reality”
- By definition reality means: the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them
- Is that what putting 30 women in a huge mansion to compete for the love of one somewhat good looking guy is?
- Is that the “real world”
- Producers create this world in which people have to compete and battle until the end only so the “perfect” male or female wins.
- And children, teens and young adults are left to believe that that is reality. And there ladies and gentleman here lies the problem
- There is a so called “reality” created in which love is a competition and women and men are pitted against each other, where only the people deemed “most worthy of love” win
- Not only does it give false portrayals of what love is and how it feels and looks but it also sets unprecedented beauty standards
- The show has always lacked racial diversity, setting a standard that only people of a specific race are worthy of finding love.
- All of the females walk out of the limo with skin tight dresses to show off their amazingly skinny bodies and a full face of makeup... seemingly perfect. Men come out of the limo wearing tight expensive suits to show off the muscles they have been training for for years showing that in order to be masculine you have to have muscles.
- This is ingrained into young adults minds that in order for you to find love/be worthy of love you have to fit into THAT dress or have THIS percentage of muscle mass.
- Not to mention the fact that every date is so fabricated to seem perfect that that is perceived to be the standard. One the perfect night, the couples to dinner… which is actually plastic food… in the best most romantic location with dozens of roses surrounding them… after their “dinner”
- They normally head out to dance the night away while listening to some famous singer serenade them and soon after they head outside to kiss under fireworks
- Really ABC? Will I ever get that? Heck no? No “normal” person would ever be given that treatment
- And see how I said normal…. That's because the mirage ABC puts on for these shows are HIGHLY unrealistic and only lead to a toxic mindset.
- It is these types of shows that triggers self hatred and the belief that you are unworthy of love when that is certainly not the case.
- Not only are kids gaining fanciful portrayals of love through movies but pre-teens and teenagers are getting even worse depictions of love through tv shows like ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
- 4th body
- This goes without saying but social media is one if not THE biggest reasons why love is perceived as unattainable especially within teenagaers and young adults
- Between tik tok, snapchat and instagram the world as we know it will never be the same.
- We fall into the trap of comparing ourselves to others as we scroll through our feeds, and make judgements about how we measure up
- The constant need to compare our lives to others through a couple of imagines on a pretty day or a video of someone dancing is being the new social norm.
- But what does this do to our mental health?
- According to Forbes…a study found that social media use is linked to greater feelings of social isolation. The team looked at how much people used 11 social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, Vine, Snapchat and Reddit, and correlated this with their “perceived social isolation.” Not surprisingly, it turned out that the more time people spent on these sites, the more socially isolated they perceived themselves to be. And perceived social isolation is one of the worst things for us, mentally and physically.
- As a teenager or even as an adult seeing your friends post with their significant others on cute dates or even getting engaged causes anyone to have FOMO. A fear of missing out
- This only causes one to think… what's wrong with me? Why can't I find the right person? Why can't I be the person to fall in love?
- It is these types of questions that tear a person apart… it creates mental illnesses and truly destroys a person’s confidence.
- Social media proves to be toxic for everyone but it is still being embedded into our culture.
- This goes without saying but social media is one if not THE biggest reasons why love is perceived as unattainable especially within teenagaers and young adults
- CONCLUSION
- We as a society have to be better
- Falling in love is one of the most rewarding feels/emotions there is… that's why everyone wants it.
- Throughout the years social media, tv shows, and movies have brainwashed EVERYONE in believing you have to look a certain way and act a certain way to fall in love. That 100% is not the case.
- With these over dramatized, unrealistic, impossible standards it forces people to believe that love is unattainable only causing an increase in self isolation and self hatred. This is the opposite of what our society needs.
- Love is what unites individuals, it's what unites communities and nations but it all if people begin to be put in boxes of self isolation because they are brainwashed into believing that having love… yes i said having love… is unattainable then the core of our humanity is gone.
- Everyone no matter your size, shape, color, religious affiliation, gender is deserving of love
- EVERYONE IS DESERVING OF LOVE…. Why can't our media preach that instead of just trying to boost ratings by putting two beautiful people on our screens and convincing us that that is what love looks life.
- Love is attainable, having love is attainable, being in love is attainable. You are worthy of love, you are worthy of finding love, you are worthy of being loved. THIS is what should be shown in disney princess movies and original movies, this is what should be shown in “reality” tv shows, and this is what should be preached on every social media platform.
- We as a society have to be better
second draft of script for podcast
Possible Podcast name: Love, Actually.
Intro music- find on website used from econ podcast … find the right vibe
Social media
Intro music- find on website used from econ podcast … find the right vibe
- Introduction:
- What is love? No seriously, what is it? A concept? A feeling? A neurological phenomenon? Just a word?
- As my old world history teacher would say…. YES.
- Love is all encompassing and we as humans simply can't live without it.
- It is an obsession, an addiction and is perceived to satisfy the internal craving for fulfillment that humans yearn so much for.
- but why do people spend their whole lives searching high and low for it? When did finding love become a competition? Why is love now correlated to one’s worth as a person?
- Outro music:
- Thank you to my blank blank blank resources for making this whole podcast happen and thank you to my wonderful sponsor Dr. Holt for her generous contribution to the creation of this podcast.
- Transition:
- If you haven't picked up on it already… today we will be talking about love and how the perception of love has morphed to be what it is today which we will get to in a little bit.
- In order to further grasp the concept of love we need to discuss the science behind how people neurologically fall in love.
- 1st Body
- There are three phases to falling in love: lust, attraction and attachment and different hormones are involved at each stage.
- Lust is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen.
- Testosterone is not confined only to men. It has also been shown to play a major role in the sex drive of women
- Then there is attraction. This is the truly love-struck phase. When people fall in love they can think of nothing else
- In the attraction stage, a group of neuro-transmitters called 'monoamines' play an important role:
- The neurotransmitters norepinephrine and PEA (phenylethylamine) lead to focused attention.
- Individuals start to "zero-in" on the person they desire, and at the same time, often have a feeling of euphoria.
- Norepinephrine is a stimulant, so it also causes individuals to feel alert, potentially unable to sleep, and enables them to notice and remember even the smallest of details about their partners.
- PEA is responsible for the feelings of giddiness, and may cause a loss of appetite. If the relationship doesn’t last, PEA levels fall and are partly responsible for the feelings of depression that can be experienced.
- Serotonin - One of love's most important chemicals and one that may actually send us temporarily insane
- The last stage is attraction
- TO BE FILLED IN--- FIND BETTER SOURCE
- The last stage is attraction
- Transition
- Now that we have a better understanding of how people actually fall in love we can get to the main reason why you are listening to his podcast.
- With over dramatic depictions of love through movies, tv shows and social media. The perception of love has changed so drastically that in today's society people feel as if love is unattainable or they are unworthy of being loved.
- 2nd body
- Disney channel is notorious for their original movies.
- But what those beloved “children-family” movies end up doing is brainwash kids at a young age to set unrealistic standards to what love looks like.
- Disney has over roughly 500 thousand viewers and growing with Disney Plus now an option. And their target viewer being of the ages between 6-14
- Disney targets young kids like me when I was younger
- A dreamer, shy, and loved to dance in a tutu
- My whole childhood was filled with countless showings of Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, High School Musical, and Camp Rock but little did I know the damage that would do to my perfect image of love that I had created when reality started to finally kick in.
- I watched young girls go through struggles, find their strength, and get the guy all in the span of 90 minutes. Of course that is going to set unrealistic expectations for young females and males all across the world.
- Not only do these movies set the impractical beauty standards for males and females but it also generates various gender stereotypes. Such as the male has to provide and make the first move ect.
- Don't get me wrong Disney taught me a ton of great things, but it certainly fails in the love category.
- 3rd body
- Not only are kids gaining fanciful portrayals of love through movies but pre-teens and teenagers are getting even worse depictions of love through tv shows like ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
- ABC is known for creating over dramatic “reality” tv shows… “reality”
- By definition reality means: the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them
- Is that what putting 30 women in a huge mansion to compete for the love of one somewhat good looking guy is?
- Is that the “real world”
- Producers create this world in which people have to compete and battle until the end only so the “perfect” male or female wins.
- And children, teens and young adults are left to believe that that is reality. And there ladies and gentleman here lies the problem
- A reality in which love is a competition and women and men are pitted against each other, where only the people deemed “most worthy of love” win
- Not only does it give false portrayals of what love is and how it feels and looks but it also sets unprecedented beauty standards
- The show has always lacked racial diversity, setting a standard that only people of a specific race are worthy of finding love.
- All of the females prove to walk out of the limo with skin tight dresses to show off their amazingly skinny bodies and a full face of makeup... seemingly perfect. Men come out of the limo wearing tight expensive suits to show off the muscles they have been training for for years.
- In order for you to find love/be worthy of love you have to fit into THAT dress or have THIS percentage of muscle mass
- It is these types of shows that triggers self hatred and the belief that you are unworthy of love when that is certainly not the case.
- 4th body
- This goes without saying but social media is one if not THE biggest reasons why love is perceived as unattainable especially within teenagaers and young adults
- Between scrolling endlessly through instagram posts and tik toks or tapping through snapchat stories.
- NEED TO FINISH
- CONCLUSION
- We as a society have to be better
- Everyone no matter your size, shape, color, religious affiliation, gender is deserving of love
- Throughout the years social media, tv shows, and movies have brainwashed EVERYONE in believing you have to look a certain way and act a certain way to fall in love. That 100% is not the case.
- Falling in love is one of the most rewarding feels/emotions there is… that's why everyone wants it.
- We need to stop setting impossible standards for our children and our children's children
- EVERYONE IS DESERVING OF LOVE…. Why can't our media preach that instead of just trying to boost ratings by putting two beautiful people on our screens and convincing us that that is what love looks life.
- Everyone is deserving of love and that is what our society needs to accept.
Social media
First draft of script for podcast
Intro music- find on website used from econ podcast … find the right vibe
Possible Podcast name: Love, Actually.
Intro music- find on website used from econ podcast … find the right vibe
NOT FINISHED
- Introduction:
- What is love? No seriously, what is it? A concept? A feeling? A neurological phenomenon? Just a word?
- As my old world history teacher would say…. YES.
- Love is all encompassing and we as humans simply can't live without it.
- It is an obsession, an addiction and is perceived to satisfy the internal craving for fulfillment that humans earn so much for.
- but why do people spend their whole lives searching high and low for it? When did finding love become a competition? Why is love now correlated to one’s worth as a person?
- Outro music:
- Thank you to my blank blank blank resources for making this whole podcast happen and thank you to my wonderful sponsor Dr. Holt for her generous contribution to the creation of this podcast.
- Transition:
- If you haven't picked up on it already… today we will be talking about love and how the perception of love has morphed generation after generation.
Possible Podcast name: Love, Actually.
Intro music- find on website used from econ podcast … find the right vibe
- Introduction:
- What is love? No seriously, what is it? A concept? A feeling? A neurological phenomenon? Just a word?
- As my old world history teacher would say…. YES.
- Love is all encompassing and we as humans simply can't live without it.
- It is an obsession, an addiction and is perceived to satisfy the internal craving for fulfillment that humans yearn so much for.
- but why do people spend their whole lives searching high and low for it? When did finding love become a competition? Why is love now correlated to one’s worth as a person?
- Outro music:
- Thank you to my blank blank blank resources for making this whole podcast happen and thank you to my wonderful sponsor Dr. Holt for her generous contribution to the creation of this podcast.
- Transition:
- If you haven't picked up on it already… today we will be talking about love and how the perception of love has morphed to be what it is today which we will get to in a little bit.
- In order to further grasp the concept of love we need to discuss the science behind how people neurologically fall in love.
- 1st Body
- There are three phases to falling in love: lust, attraction and attachment and different hormones are involved at each stage.
- Lust is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen.
- Testosterone is not confined only to men. It has also been shown to play a major role in the sex drive of women
- Then there is attraction. This is the truly love-struck phase. When people fall in love they can think of nothing else
- In the attraction stage, a group of neuro-transmitters called 'monoamines' play an important role:
- The neurotransmitters norepinephrine and PEA (phenylethylamine) lead to focused attention.
- Individuals start to "zero-in" on the person they desire, and at the same time, often have a feeling of euphoria.
- Norepinephrine is a stimulant, so it also causes individuals to feel alert, potentially unable to sleep, and enables them to notice and remember even the smallest of details about their partners.
- PEA is responsible for the feelings of giddiness, and may cause a loss of appetite. If the relationship doesn’t last, PEA levels fall and are partly responsible for the feelings of depression that can be experienced.
- Serotonin - One of love's most important chemicals and one that may actually send us temporarily insane
- The last stage is attraction
- TO BE FILLED IN--- FIND BETTER SOURCE
- The last stage is attraction
- Transition
- Now that we have a better understanding of how people actually fall in love we can get to the main reason why you are listening to his podcast.
- With over dramatic depictions of love through movies, tv shows and social media. The perception of love has changed so drastically that in today's society people feel as if love is unattainable or they are unworthy of being loved.
- 2nd body
- Disney channel is notorious for their disney channel original movies.
- But what those beloved “children-family” movies end up doing is brainwash kids at a young age to set unrealistic standards to what love looks like.
- Disney has over roughly 500 thousand viewers and growing with Disney Plus now an option. And their target viewer being of the ages between 6-14
- Disney targets young kids like me when I was younger
- A dreamer, shy, and loved to dance in a tutu
- My whole childhood was filled with countless showings of Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, High School Musical, and Camp Rock but little did I know the damage that would do to my perfect image of love that I had created when reality started to finally kick in.
- I watched young girls go through struggles, find their strength, and get the guy all in the span of 90 minutes. Of course that is going to set unrealistic expectations for young females and males all across the world.
- Not only do these movies set the impractical beauty standards for males and females but it also generates various gender stereotypes. Such as the male has to provide and make the first move ect.
- Don't get me wrong Disney taught me a ton of great things, but it certainly fails in the love category.
- 3rd body
- Not only are kids gaining fanciful portrayals of love through movies but pre-teens and teenagers are getting even worse depictions of love through tv shows like ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
NOT FINISHED
Capstone Process REFLECTION #2
Since my last process reflection, I have completely decided to change topics. I felt as if I was not passionate about my previous topic and had a really hard time finding research that supported my thoughts. Because of this, I decided to take a completely different turn and focus on a topic that has always intrigued me. My new topic I chose to focus on is love. Originally, the idea was that I would compare how the concept of love looked in classic literature and how that influences how we perceive love in society today. As I was doing research and talked it over with some peers on the senior retreat, I decided to focus my capstone project to be how the perception of love has transcended time. How did people view love in the seventeenth century? Why does love almost feel unattainable now? I feel like my research is pretty solid but I definitely need to reach out to my internal and external subject matters to relatively complete my research and start to formulate my paper.
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Works Cited
- Bryson, Michael, and Arpi Movsesian. "Love and Its Costs in Seventeenth-Century Literature." Love and Its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden, Open Book Publishers, 2017, pp. 421-66. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1sq5vd6.13. Accessed 23 Feb. 2020. This is probably the most "scholarly" out of my articles so far. This is from a book called "Love and its Critics: From the Song of Songs to Shakespeare and Milton's Eden". I like this as a source because it says "Love has never lacked for those who try to tame it for "higher" purposes, or those who would argue that "the worst evils have been committed in the name of love". I will use this source to think more in depth about love in the seventeenth century specifically. Love is often in the face of criticism so this source shines light on that and is an interesting source to have.
- Letourneau, Sara. "A Case Study on Love as a Literary Theme." MFA, 12 Feb. 2018, diymfa.com/writing/love-literary-theme. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This article takes love a step back and looks at it as a broad theme. It pulls from different classic literature as examples, such as, " Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Leslye Walton's The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender." It talks about love in both those pieces of literature and how love works in both. It also talks about love even more broadly.I am going to use this source as a baseline for love as a concept and how it works overall in literature. Then it gives me solid examples with quotes and everything to examine. At the bottom of the article it talks about different motifs that are associated with love which is a cool addition.
- Literary Terms." Literary Terms. 1 June 2015. Web. 3 Nov. 2016. <https://literaryterms.net/>. This article gives examples of different types of love. It also defines what love is. It provides an additional manual about how to write love stories and the do's and don'ts which I thought was cool. I will use this article because it helps me understand the different types of love. The examples they give are " historical, contemporary, and gothic" among others. I will use this to help categorize all the literature I will read and dissect. I learned that romance is more than just a love story.
- "Love in Literature." The Guardian, 6 May 2011, www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/07/love-literature-tessa-hadley. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This is an article examining classic literature and how love manifests itself grammatically. The article states "What do we talk about when we talk about love? Early poets reached for the sun and stars to describe their beloved, while novelists have struggled to convey their 'wretched ordinariness." This captures the true essence of the article. It takes excerpts of literature and then does a close read on the grammar and how that translates to meaning.I am using this source to help me read classic love stories and how to interpret them. This source also gives me great examples of love literature. It also provides great comparisons between texts and how love looks grammatically to different authors.
- Vinaver, Eugène Vinaver, and Frederick Whitehead. "Romance: Literature and Performance." Encyclopædia Britannica, 10 May 2019, www.britannica.com/art/romance-literature-and-performance. Accessed 13 Feb. 2020. This is an in-depth journal about love. It talks about love and separation, psychological awareness, medieval verses, the setting, the component elements, gives a ton of examples, and defines what love is and how it is used.I will be able to use this information because it provides good solid examples in a very concise and clear way for me to understand. It sets love up as an overall concept and then clearly explains the different ways it "acts" in different situations.
Project narrative + internal/external subject matter plans
Introduction:
Love. A concept seemingly simple but so complex it becomes almost mythical. Everyone experiences it at some point in their life, but what people forget to realize is where the facade of love as a concept even originated. Love is vital to the human condition, without it, the primal animal side of humans would inevitably consume the entirety of our humanity. Love isn't only a feeling, it's a desire, a completeness, a fulfillment unlike any other, it's how we connect, it’s manifested in the relationships humans observe from other relationships and it all started in literature. Love is portrayed in so many ways, we as readers become intensely obsessed with characters and we observe them, we dissect them and then we project the way the act and the way they feel onto our own lives. I believe by dissecting how love is characterized in classic literature can help us, as a society, understand why love drives the existence of humanity. I think it would also be a cool additional layer if I compare how love acts in classic literature and how love acts in modern-day literature. My main question for this project is: How much does classic literature depiction of love affect how people perceive love today?
Subject Matter Experts
Contact all three when we get back to school
Questions to consider:
How does love form?
What is the science behind it?
How do you think the way humans look at love affect the way we view our culture?
How much do you think love defines our culture?
What is your earliest memory of a piece of literature that dealt with love?
Has that piece of work shaped the way you view love now?
Is love attainable?
Timeline:
Scholarly Conversation
I think looking at Shakespere’s work and possibly some of the conversations around him could really help evaluate my project.
Initial Thoughts
Love. A concept seemingly simple but so complex it becomes almost mythical. Everyone experiences it at some point in their life, but what people forget to realize is where the facade of love as a concept even originated. Love is vital to the human condition, without it, the primal animal side of humans would inevitably consume the entirety of our humanity. Love isn't only a feeling, it's a desire, a completeness, a fulfillment unlike any other, it's how we connect, it’s manifested in the relationships humans observe from other relationships and it all started in literature. Love is portrayed in so many ways, we as readers become intensely obsessed with characters and we observe them, we dissect them and then we project the way the act and the way they feel onto our own lives. I believe by dissecting how love is characterized in classic literature can help us, as a society, understand why love drives the existence of humanity. I think it would also be a cool additional layer if I compare how love acts in classic literature and how love acts in modern-day literature. My main question for this project is: How much does classic literature depiction of love affect how people perceive love today?
Subject Matter Experts
- External: writers and psychologists
- William Shakespere (deceased)
- He is the original love creator. Romeo and Juliet as a love story is eternal among many many others of his works. He created and dramaticized love to the point where people now only hope to imitate the same premise.
- Nicholas Sparks
- He is more modern than “classic” literature but he is still an expert of creating the facade of love. He creates stories that transcends time.
- William Shakespere (deceased)
- Internal
- Mrs. Bullard
- She is a psychologist so she can give insight as to why we as humans are almost addicted to love and the nature behind it
- Mr. Clark
- He could add a level of scientific element to my project. I think having a scientific explanation of what happens to the brain when people are in love can help explain some of my bigger questions.
- Katie Crowell
- She is an English teacher and loves classic literature so she could give me good advice as to good texts to observe and share her initial observations that she has on this matter
- Mrs. Bullard
Contact all three when we get back to school
Questions to consider:
How does love form?
What is the science behind it?
How do you think the way humans look at love affect the way we view our culture?
How much do you think love defines our culture?
What is your earliest memory of a piece of literature that dealt with love?
Has that piece of work shaped the way you view love now?
Is love attainable?
Timeline:
- February 5-7 - Finish Process Reflection 1
- Work on Process Reflection 1 and have it up on my portfolio website by FEBRUARY 7th.
- February 7-13 - Finish Research
- Work on my research for my topic, which includes the following:
- An annotated bibliography
- Detailed explanations of conversations with internal subject matter experts
- Detailed explanations of conversations with external subject matter experts (if I want an E)
- Work on my research for my topic, which includes the following:
- February 13-March 12- EXCURSION/SPRING BREAK
- Finish Thesis+Outline
- Finish these by MARCH 12th
- March 12-March 19 - Finish Process Reflection 2
- Have this finished and in my portfolio website by MARCH 19th
- March 19-April 2 - BDAY TIMEEEEE
- Complete Rough Draft of Written Component
- Due APRIL 2
- April 2-9 - Finish Artifact Proposal (written) + Give Pitch (verbal)
- Due APRIL 9
- April 9-16 - Finish Revisions of Written Component
- Due APRIL 16
- April 16-23 - Artifact Progress Update Presentation
- Due APRIL 23
- April 23-May 4 - Finish Capstone Project Portion of Portfolio Website with Written Component
- Due MAY 4
- May 4-11 - Complete Portfolio Website+Process Reflection 3
- Due MAY 11
- May 11-15 - Rehearse the Senior Symposium
- May 15-18 - Finish Senior Symposium Process Reflection 4
- Due MAY 18
Scholarly Conversation
I think looking at Shakespere’s work and possibly some of the conversations around him could really help evaluate my project.
Initial Thoughts
- Why is love vital?
- How does it act in classic literature?
- How much does classic literature depiction of love affect how people perceive love today?
- How has classic love stories changed over time?
Process Reflection #1
I've had a very hard time thus far in this whole capstone process. I don't believe I have taken full advantage of this project in terms of researching something I am really passionate about. I am “interested” in my topic and I think researching it will be cool, but I feel as if I am not utilizing the whole premise of what this project is supposed to be: bridging individualized passions and connecting the type of thinking we have been doing all year. I believe changing a topic in this portion of the project would not be beneficial, so I am continuing on with my original concept of creation. What originally inspired this concept is when we read Ovid’s Metamorphoses, I found myself often contemplating the concept of creation and then corresponding opposite, the concept of endings. How do they correlate to each other? What is the relationship? However, I am still conflicted on how to include linearity and why we, as people, choose to think of history/creation as linear and why we write linearly. I definitely need to research more and figure out of these two topics even make sense to go together and what I want my overall project to look like.