Second In Process Blog

As I have brainstormed and thought about the format and direction that I want to take my project in, I have come up with one strong idea that I think can go really well. After reading about Evita and reading about the impact she had on so many people and the lasting effects she had on her death, I am going to focus on what makes a leader so effective. How was she so influential? How did she do it? What makes a leader timeless? What was she doing that is different from other people--or what did other people try to do to be like her (where I could bring in the bit about other first ladies of Argentina). I could find some information on other important leaders in history and see what similarities they have. The brainstorming in class today about possibilities for the other genres made me like the theme about leaders even better--I might do a recipe for a person, an obituary or eulogy (or both) of Evita, campaign stuff (considering it was all related to politics and the election) and I learned from my book that she actually ran for Vice President of Argentina (but then had to drop out because of her cancer).  I could also do letters between her and her husband, or a daily schedule of her activities since she was involved in many things and had a lot going on as the first lady and her other leading roles.
So in my expository essay, I am going to investigate Evita and her qualities as a leader that people liked, then expand to looking at perhaps other leaders or research on leadership in general, what works/what doesn't, what makes them memorable, and then come to conclusions about the most important part of leaders and try to pinpoint specifics about her. Many books have been written about her, a musical was made about her, and like I discussed in my previous post, she is someone that everyone knows.  My job in this project and research and expository essay is to find out what it was about her specifically, and her personal traits that made her such an influential figure.  My job is to find out WHY people study her and write about her, why people mourned her death so deeply, not just that these things happened and that she was very loved.  Using the book about the myths and the aspects of those that didn't like her will also help me have a total, overall look at everything, and then be able to pick out certain details.

Some confusion that this brings is then trying to tie in the "bad" parts about her. I have a feeling that investigating those more is going to show that they werent legitimate bad aspects of her, just that she had enemies in the nature of the political parties, etc. I like what you commented on my last post about the golden thread being connected to the three myths and the genres sort of relating back to that. I like that idea and that it would relate back to my original book and area of study but I just don't know exactly how that would work yet with the idea I have for the expository essay.  I will definitely be asking you some questions later on in the week as I progress to sort out some of the ??? in my brain.