Multimodal Project

The claim I presented in my multimedia project is in regards to the role parent’s play in the battle against child obesity. Parents are essential key players in ensuring their children maintain a healthy weight. I created a health related collage inside of a “family paper people chain” to illustrate certain healthy habits that parents should encourage children to take part in. The family linked together symbolizes the powerful connection between parent and child, and the influence parents have on their children.  I used this type of genre because I feel that healthy habits are easier to understand when seen visually rather than just text. I chose to use a poster board for my medium in order to emphasize the visual elements. The first modality I chose was still images, which create an effective visual aspect. The next modality I assimilated in my college was color. I paired healthy eating and physical fitness with bright energetic colors in order to generate a positive emotion. This is turn will hopefully encourage that being healthy can be fun and exciting! The last modality I chose was text, in my paper I focus a great amount on positivity whether it was dealing with a positive atmosphere, positive role models, or positive engagement/ support. I included positive words on the poster in order to show that health focuses on positivity. I also listed a few ways parents can promote a healthy lifestyle for children. Sometimes parents need a push in the right direction in order to begin the journey into a new healthy life. The overall effect of these modalities working together generates a positive message in that parents are the number one role models influencing their child’s health, and it is up to them to stress the importance of health.

Family Nutrition

The picture I chose to analyze includes a family sitting around a table with a large bowl of leafy green salad sitting in the center of the table. I located the picture on nutritionforfamilies.com. This is relative to my research topic because it presents parents enforcing/practicing healthy eating with their children, which in turn creates less of a change for their children to be obese. At the table the children, a brother and sister have a plate filled with foods in each one of the five food groups including, protein dairy, fruits, veggies, and grain.  

This picture does a great job presenting parents who are enforcing children to obtain a healthy lifestyle. Just taking a quick look at this picture will influence parents to begin encouraging healthy habits for to their children.

The fact that this photo is of a beautiful, and what seems like a perfect family creates a greater appeal to viewers. Every person in the family has a big bright smile on their faces, generating pleasant mood.

This photo creates a sense of practicality to healthy eating, so that anyone can do it. Parents think if these parents can do it so can I, and it really can be as simple as that to motivate parents into introducing healthy eating to their children.

This pathos appeal generates a sense of emotions that relate to happiness and reasonableness, so parents will be inspired to begin a healthy lifestyle for kidos. 

Reliable Sources for Research

The topic I chose to explore for my research paper includes how parents are key players in the battle against child obesity. My research paper will attempt to persuade my audience of why it is important that parents introduce and continuously practice healthy eating habits in order to help their children maintain a healthy weight. The struggle to fight child obesity is extremely important, because the habits children practice now are more than likely to be carried throughout their adulthood. Obesity is a very serious matter, because it is directly related to many life-threatening diseases.  I am thrilled I got to choose a topic that I am interested in to research and learn more about. I began using Google Scholar to search for scholarly and creditable articles related to my topic to investigate more about the parental role is related to obesity in kids. 

One of the sources I located on Google Scholar was indeed a scholarly and creditable source because; it shared original research, included scholarly authors (Dr. Golan and Dr. Crow), abstracts, and it was a bit lengthy. It was published by the International Life Sciences Institute witch fits under both scholarly and creditable categories. Dr. Golan and Dr. Crow introduce that because parents provide a child’s contextual environment, they should be considered key players in interventions aimed at preventing or treating weight related problems. They focus on how parenting feeding style are crucial factors in the development healthy lifestyle awareness. The Dr.’s mention how effective methods of prevention and treatment of weight-related problems should focus on being health-centered rather than from a weight-centered perspective.

This nutrition related article has done a superb job of presenting factual and reliable means of information about how parents are in fact enormous key players of the health conditions that their children are in. After reading this article I would no doubt second-guess my parental role on my child’s health-related behaviors if I had not already stressed its importance. How do you feel about parents’ role in child nutrition? Do you think parents are a factor in why their children are overweight?

Six-Year Old Drumming Prodigy

My mouth dropped wide open when watching the YouTube video of the 6-six-year old drumming prodigy Avery Molek. I couldn’t believe how someone so young could obtain a talent so great. Once you watch this video you too will be amazed at this six year olds breathtaking ability. According to the ABC News article, almost instantly after little Avery Molek’s drumming video was posted it became a YouTube sensation, and his parents were scheduling his own tours.

What is really special about Avery’s parents is that they are not pushy like a lot of parents wanting their talented children to gain fame. For example, the Toddlers and Tiaras show on TLC presents many of the parents spending an endless amount of money and time to better their child’s chances at wining the crown. I’ve noticed that most times the parents want the victory more than their kids, as if they are forcing them to compete.

Mr. and Mrs. Molek claim, “If he doesn’t have fun and doesn’t enjoy it, we wont do it… that’s our gauge.”

I wish more parents would realize when their children are unhappy, and let them participate in activities that they actually enjoy. I believe a lot parents are trying to live their dreams through their children, which is not fair to them.

How much do you think parents should push children in extra curricular activities? Do you think certain cultures push their children more than other cultures? If your child were to obtain a spectacular talent and they didn't want to pursue it, would you still force them?

The Door That Opens Your Imagination

The famous fairytale Alice in Wonderland was the big talk of the town when a mysterious miniature door was spotted at the opening of a hole at the base of a tree at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. No one is certain who is responsible for the addition of the small door to the tree, but it is known that this mystery has allowed for many individuals to expand their imagination.

The Article about this pleasant mystery indicates that the door created a sense of joy and delight throughout the citizens strolling through Golden Gate Park. The small door was unexpected surprise that uplifted the spirit of individuals, and brought out their creativity.

"Visitors have placed notes inside, hoping they'll be read by whatever creature lives in the hole. Some have speculated it is a gateway to a "far off fairy land."

I believe it is healthy to expand your imagination, and to think outside the box every once in a while. The “mystical world like Wonderland” generated by the mysterious door has been a positive distraction to the people living in San Francisco. So many individuals get caught up in their jobs and daily routines that they never really get the chance to get in touch with their creative side.

Could you imagine how bland life would be if you never used your imagination? I think that dreaming and fantasizing helps keep people sane. What do you think? How would you react if you stumbled upon this enchanted door?