Final Smore
Windsor Stamey
Novel Project
Advertising Project!
The Advertising Project was one of my favorites this semester. One example that I loved was the picture of the son carrying his mom around that say "Try holding her for 9 months", and I was able to ask a few questions about the actual childbirth feeling to moms. My all time favorite question I got to ask the mother’s was “Do you think your husband could ever survive childbirth”. I know personally my dad complains way too much to ever go through that much pain. The mother’s were all on the same page about how it is not wrong to want a career and be a mother. I learned in this assignment you don’t always have to give up career goals when being a mother.
(Down below is an example of one of the Ad's I found on motherhood)
It was really neat to hear what the mother's wanted to pass on to their kids and their families as well.
Survey's
Films
In this link below, I found this cute how they found different parts of the movie to say Happy Mother's Day.
Television
The Television Project is a project I don’t think anyone minded working on. We got to watch TV for a class! I picked the era of the 2000's show's! (I picked 5 mothers who I explain below in pictures) See below for more summaries. I liked this project and learned a lot from it, unexpectandly. I watch a lot of TV, so it wasn't hard for me to pick mothers, but once we started doing this project I realized how motherhood is portrayed in TV shows. I loved learning how "cool mom's", "strict mom's", "lame mom's" were all portrayed in this project.
To see my whole presentation - > https://www.thinglink.com/scene/645119954680545282
Claire from Modern Family
Sara Carver from Chasing Life.
Nora Walker from Brother's and Sister's
Lorelai from Gilmore Girls.
From the 2000 ERA
Karen from One Tree Hill.
News!
Below is one of the news articles I found about a tragic accident where a mother accidentally let go of the stroller and lost her twins forever.
Magazine Project!
Disney Films!
Disney films had to be the biggest eye opener to me in this class. HOW MANY MOTHERS WERE DEAD IN THE FILMS IS ASTONISHING! I couldn’t believe that my mom let me watch so many shows where mothers were not present. From a young age we watch these shows and see these kids being all-dependent and not ever having a mother to look after them. After we studied some of the movies I asked my mom why in the world she ever let me watch it and she simply said I never asked her where mothers were. It was just accepted by society that mother’s were normally dead in TV shows. Now after studying this, I will definitely be keeping an eye out when my children try and watch Disney films.
Some that REALLY shocked me are pictured below.
Bambi
Cinderella
Little Mermaid
Children Books
Children Books were also a big shock to me. In the power points looking at what books showed moms and what books did not, was a huge shocker for me. There were 3 to 4 slides of books that did not have mothers present and then there were was one slide that had books that did show mothers. Looking at the list I was shocked because my mom use to read these books to me as a kid. I am shocked to see growing up the TV I watched, movies I use to love, and books I obsessed over there was no mother figure. I think from a young age I learned to be dependent because I had been taught that through everything I was watching and reading. It was not bad stuff; mothers were just non-existent.
Music
My favorite lyric would be,
In my daughter's eyes I can see the future
A reflection of who I am and what will be
Though she'll grow and someday leave
Maybe raise a family
When I'm gone I hope you see how happy
she made me
For I'll be there
In my daughter's eyes
I think that describes perfectly how mother's leave footprints on their daughters hearts and even when they are gone they live on through their daughters.
The Feminie Mystique
Farewell to my favorite class I have taken.
Overall, this class has by far been one of the most informational classes to me in my college career. I even told my mother after this class, what a different appreciation for her that I have after learning everything. I learned a lot about motherhood simply from hearing other mother’s answers too. It was cool to see how many women I looked up too take on motherhood. I loved hearing the classes’ perspective on different news articles and how we were shocked at the woman in the world sometimes. I loved studying woman and having a career while being a mom. That was probably the most informative part was how so many moms also want to be successful in their careers, because I know that is something I strive towards. It was very cool to look at how the world perceives mothers too. Whether it was Disney movies, Disney TV shows, songs, or even books, how directors try to capture a mother or just leave her out all together was so interesting. We say in the news how being a mother is one of the most important jobs, but yet we see on shows how mothers are nowhere to be seen. I tried to think of a definition of motherhood to end on my summary for this class but I couldn't. If I learned one thing its that everyone has a different opinion on how a mother should raise their child. Mom's all do it differently and are very passionate about how they raised their kids. Being a mother is one of the most difficult jobs people say, but they also add in how rewarding it is. All together I will miss this class a lot, but have learned more about the real world than I ever have in any other class.