Practice 1: Narrowing the topic and brainstorming ideas.


Narrowing the topic

Technology: How to prevent child grooming on the Internet

Parties: Parties for people who have tested positive on Covid

Feminism: How trans women suffer the patriarchy

Anime: The influence of anime in modern animation

Brainstorming

Listing

Chinease food!

  • Traditions: Tea tradition, etiquette, desserts traditions, chopsticks, rice, urban legends surrounding food in China.
  • History: The British & Chinese food market, the American influence, Chinese dinasties
  • Social: Take away culture, Wangfujng streetmarket, influence of China's economy in food, Wuhan.

Fashion!

  • Galas & awards: Met gala, VMAs, Fashion week, Grammys
  • Fashion capitals: Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Madrid & London
  • Brands: Gucci, Versace, Louis Vuitton, Women Secret, Coco Chanel
  • Dark side of fashion: models & anorexia, laboour explotation, insane beauty standarts caused by social media, cultural appropiation as a fashion statement

Cubing

    Cinema:

  • Description: The cinema is a type of building where a group of people buys a ticket to watch a film.
  • Association: It is directly linked to the theatre. The cinema is related to the theatre because theatre is the primtive version of the cinema. 

Freewriting

 Multiculturalism

    During the 20s, there were many laws that prohibited mantaining relationships between persons from     different races or religions. This caused white households to be very protective of their traditions and     greatly indreased the already existing racism and xenofobia. However, nowadays this law does not        exist anymore, making multiculturalism happen. 


Clustering




Asking questions

    Short stories: what are their usual genre? Who are the most famous authors? Why are they short             instead of long?



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