Take Charge Assignment Ideas

1. Personally, I really like the whole idea behind this assignment. People are constantly complaining about what their teacher made them read the night before and how boring it was. Now we get to blame ourselves or at least the people around us. Sooo beware…don’t pick anything boring or you will have the entire class to answer to! The topics that people choose should reflect what people my age believe is important for everyone to know out the many topics that the media covers. I’m not really one for watching the news at night..personally I find it somewhat depressing. Hopefully, this assignment will bring me back up to speed with some of the most current and/or the most important events.
2. After reviewing the assignment, there were a few topics that I believe I may want to look into. One of the first options that popped into my head, was the idea of global warming. I know that this has been a big subject in the news recently and I think that it would be good to bring to the attention of people my age. I would also like to explore eating disorders. If I did this topic, I would take a look at celebrities and the effect of their media portrayal. I overhear on a fairly regular basis girls of an average weight, saying that they are “too fat”. I think that the media has a very large part to do with this. I also think that it would be interesting to look into what is being done to find alternative fuel sources. People are constantly complaining about gas prices and worrying us with the fact that oil isn’t always going to be there for us to use. The only problem with this topic is that I think it would be hard to find sources. There haven’t really been many suggested solutions to the problem and therefore the media hasn’t really jumped on the chance to write about alternative fuel sources.