Aesthetics

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. Your job is to research the aesthetics database and create a page on your website with the TOP 10 best sites for aesthetics. Include a paragraph describing each site; give each site a rating (thumbs up, 5 stars); include who would best use this site (kids, women, people interested in XYZ...). Finally, create an embedded power point presentation from AuthorStream or SlideShare in your wiki that describes each of these sites. Include your voice in the presentation. You could also save it as a SWF file and upload it as a video to YouTube.

PEN International is a place where writers from all cultures meet to discuss, debate and communicate. Your job is to contact PEN International and see what you can do about starting a chapter here in Honduras. You will also need to research other PEN communities in Central America and contact them to see if any writers would be able to visit EIS to speak to students. Post your emails and responses on your wiki. Also post to your wiki what difficulties and problems are going on right now for writers and artists in Honduras. Answer the following question: Does the murder of journalists in Honduras constitute a de facto censorship? Explain why or why not.

The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty In 2004, Dove launched the very successful //Campaign for Real Beauty// which features real women, not models, advertising Dove's firming cream. The advertisements focus on promoting real, natural beauty, in an effort to offset the unrealistically thin and unhealthy archetypal images associated with modelling. The sentiment is articulated quite strongly through their slogan "real women have curves" as well as the campaign's Web site, @http://www.dove.us/, which features quotes from each of the //Campaign for Real Beauty// models. The women share their perspectives on what real beauty is and why they wanted to be involved in the campaign. Go to these website and create a web page that responds to the questions and concerns raised there.