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- a. I will open my story with a personal anecdote of how I reacted to Kobe Bryant’s death.
b. Why do we feel hurt by celebrity deaths, and is it okay?
c. People shouldn’t feel sad about celebrity deaths because we didn’t know them.
3. This topic interests me because I am usually not someone that gets completely overwhelmed by emotion, but Kobe’s passing really messed me up. I spent an entire week wondering why I felt so sad, and wondering if it was normal that I felt this way.
4. I hope to learn more about how other people reacted to this situation and other similar situations as well as get insight into whether or not the way I reacted was normal or not.
5. The main big picture idea I think of is how people grieve. Another one is social media and how we can feel like we know celebrities by following their lives.
6. It will be an investigation. It will be a look into why people are devastated by the death of celebrities they don’t even know.
7. The audience will be people that either feel something when a celebrity dies, and people that don’t understand why people care about celebrity deaths.
8. The purpose of my article will be to let people know that it is okay to be sad about the death of a celebrity, and to help them understand why they feel that way.
9. My article could be found on a psychology-related site or blog, such as this one here. This blog has articles that explain why we feel the way we feel about certain things, and it explains how we can use that knowledge to overcome certain things.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/essentials
10. I want my story to be about the effects a celebrity death has on us, and why we feel so strongly about losing someone we didn’t even know. I want to talk about celebrity deaths in general, but have a focus on the passing of Kobe and Gianna Bryant because it was a tragedy that affected me and the people around me so strongly. It feels terrible to express this, but I don’t understand why Kobe’s death had significantly more of a negative effect on me than the passing of some of my semi-distant relatives. Why did I spend days feeling like Kobe being gone left a gaping hole in something I couldn’t quite pin down? I want to get a better understanding of these feelings because I used to be someone that didn’t understand how someone could possibly feel saddened by the death of someone they had never met. I also want to tie in a section about the business side of grieving celebrities to satisfy the CE component for my program (commerce).
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