Instead of picking a certain article/tool to blog about, this week I chose to blog about multiple ones briefly. I started off with wordle and although it caught my eye due to the colors and sizes, all in all, I didn’t find it very useful, more just for fun and interesting to look at. As we discussed in class, I think it would be more useful if you could put these words into a specific shape that represents meaning behind the words.

I then explored TIME magazine database and researched deeper into my topic of how society has changed body image, specifically in beauty pageants such as Miss America. An interesting article I found was talking about the Miss America winner of 1926, Norma Smallwood. I then googled images of her and as I suspected, she was a voluptuous and curvy.

In 2002, however, Miss America winner, Katie Harman, had a completely different body structure since at that point in time society pushes women to show their bones and it is bad to be anything bigger than a size 0 or have meat on their body.

On the contrary, I am not saying neither Norma Smallwood nor Katie Harman necessarily looks “better”. My focus is more on finding out the reasons behind why there was this change in what is considered a beautiful body image.