honestly.. I'm kind of stuck.  I am not sure what I want to do my slideshow on.  what's left?? not much is coming to mind at the moment.

I am interested in writing about my selected topic, schizophrenia, for a few reasons actually, but I have to say that the most important and most influenced reason is the movie named 'A Beautiful Mind.'  I love love this movie and what it's about.  I am so intrigued by the disease schizophrenia, the illness that takes a hold of notorious code breaker Mr. John Nash in the movie, although it is based on a true story.  After seeing that movie, I was hooked.  I wanted to watch it again and learn more about this sickness called schizophrenia.  It's so interesting to me.  I want to learn about it; how it comes about in a person, how many worldwide does it affect, is there a cure, what are the symptoms and signs, what exactly does it do to one, how many different levels and variations are existing, and most importantly how can I help.  All of these questions are going through my head, I'm wondering the answers.  I am passionate about this topic and want answers and want to get involved, that's why I'm interested in this topic, schizophrenia.  I think that my audience will be very interested because I feel that it is something off the wall, different, interesting, and it is something that many people do not have any common knowledge about and can learn something from my research.  I do not think that my topic will target one specific demographic group of people.  It is a topic that anyone and everyone can learn about and I think that it has some "catchiness" to it even in the name, schizophrenia.  Those who directly suffer from schizophrenia and/ or anyone else who may know someone suffering from it may be especially interested in order to broaden their knowledge and find ways to help out.  For the most part, I just think that it is something that we all should be aware about, because it's fascinating, the way these victims lead their lives seems unreal, but it's very real indeed. 

narrowing ideas

okk so I've been thinking about the topic that I want to use for the semester, and when I thought about my three selected topics again recently, the answer seemed to just kind of jump out at me this time. I could choose one of the two topics that I know way too much about, dance or fashion, and while either of those may seem an easy topic to work with, I think that either will be just as difficult, if not more, to work with because it would be hard to incorporate every part in either of the worlds, the dance world or the fashion world, in one main idea. So I think that I've decided to go with my third topic of choice, Schizophrenia. I am so intrigued by this disorder and would love to learn more about it. I almost find it fascinating and so interesting as to what the disease does to it's victim. I think that it will be a good topic because I think that it is not very commonly known about and maybe some common knowledge can be learned. I fell in love with the movie 'A Beautiful Mind' a few years ago, where actor Russell Crowe plays the notorious codebreaker John Nash who's powerful mind is a victim of schizophrenia. I love the movie and the acting was supurb, but I want to learn more about this disease. I don't know much about it as of now, other than that I find it fascinating. It is an illness that plays with one's sense of reality, in which case the victim is affected by various hallucinations that cause them to see and hear things that do not exist, but in their minds' they make up their world. What I don't know and would like to learn is how the disease comes about, how many people across the globe does it affect, and what are the different cases and severities the illness contains.
So that's the topic I think that I am going to go with, just writing that made me eager to get on this. hope everyone finds it interesting!

topic ideas..

I haven't given it much thought and I need to give it more, but right away I always have a few

options in mind. They come to me because I do think about them or do them everyday, ideas about

my life, or things in my life that I know much about and that are important to me. I'm a dancer and

would be very happy with any sort of topic related to the dance world, and I know that's broad and'

for sure needs to be broken down but like I said, i need to give it some more thought. I want to work

in the fashion industry as a career path in my future. I'm all about fashion and anything that goes

along with it like styling, editing, designing, buying, and the list goes on. Maybe breaking down the

business would be a good topic, hmm I don't know yet. i also love love the movie A Beautiful Mind

and am so intrigued by the disease that strikes Russel Crowe's beloved character John Nash

called schizophrenia. I would love to learn more about the disease and really explore what it's all

about, so that's another idea. Those are all I have for now, hopefully I'll come up with more soon.