Introduction

Hello, and welcome to my first blog post!

My name is Breanna, and I've created this blog to take you on my journey throughout my AICE Media Studies Course. I have chosen to create a four-page magazine that will consist of a magazine cover, contents page, and a double-page spread. In this blog, I will be creating an Introductory/Preliminary blog and incorporating research, planning, production, and a reflection once I've reached the end of my media product. Furthermore, I will be solely working on my magazine edition and submitting my own Individual project. Luckily, I will be able to benefit from my communication and writing skills while writing this blog. However, I do wish to learn how to use critical theories of media studies and subject-specific terminology.

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Aiden & Ashley uncover their path towards self-love and self-acceptance. Openly discussing their hardships, realizations, and overall journeys with self. Self-love and self-acceptance look completely and utterly different to each and every person you encounter. "We all struggle with accepting or loving some part of ourselves", Ashley says. For Ashley, it was always the inability of accepting and embracing the physical vessel she had been brought into this world with. "I always hated social media and the Ideas it enabled into my mind as a 10-year-old." The unrealistic ways in which media portrays women tremendously affected the way Ashley started perceiving herself. She thought that in order to fit society's definition of "pretty", she must have had to carry each trait she noticed the women on TV had, a tiny waist, hairless bodies, no stretch marks, or pimples, and so on. Because Ashley fed into this preconceived idea of how a "truly...

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