Week 3: "& posture" (Blog #4)

Hello people!!

Isn't my title clever? Ha. Ha. Ha.

This week I worked on quotes with just the cursive alphabet. I tried to do 'accents' on some of the words but it sort of just looks weird. I mean, I have no artistic talent so as expected. Oh well.

So here are a couple of designs I worked on:

YES THE OFFICE OK

Thanks Sam Korth for the bottom quote.

In my last post I talked about how posture affects you. There are two categories the effects fall into: physical and mental. The main things I want to focus on from each category are the skeletal/muscular issues that come with poor posture and the effects on your mood/general mental health. I am proposing that students learn cursive throughout their elementary school career, which is why I would like to focus on skeletal/muscular issues and mental health. At a young age, if students are taught good posture, they will avoid things like back pain and varicose veins when they are older. It will also combat the bad posture stemmed from looking down at your phone.
Ok, hold on. I should preface this with that fact that when you write in cursive you have to have very good posture. If you are slouched while you write in cursive, it makes it harder to write neatly. Good posture will allow you a steadier hand to write with, and make it easier to write proper lettering (certain order of strokes, upstrokes and downstrokes).
Poor posture can result in many bad things for your body, not just varicose veins and poor digestion. ion.
It can lead to a decrease in height, because stress on the vertebrae will compress the bones of the spine and result in a loss of height. Bad posture can also lead to difficulty in breathing because when you slouch you compress your ribs, making your rib cage smaller and giving your lungs less space to expand. Bad posture puts extra stress on your joints which causes a faster breakdown of cartilage and joint tissue, which in turn causes a smaller range of motion for the joint and pain. Extra pressure on the spine puts extra pressure on the nerves around the spine, as well as blood vessel constriction and nerve movement constrict
There was an article published in Health Psychology about how posture affects your mood. The author wrote in the abstract "Upright participants reported higher self-esteem, more arousal, better mood, and lower fear, compared to slumped participants. Linguistic analysis showed slumped participants used more negative emotion words, first-person singular pronouns, affective process words, sadness words, and fewer positive emotion words and total words during the speech. Upright participants had higher pulse pressure during and after the stressor."
It is important for younger students to have good posture because it will keep them healthy as they get older and will make them happier people in general. It is especially important to teach good posture at a young age because that is when children are most susceptible to learning and making habits.


All this research on posture is making me feel bad, as I lay here slouched on the couch... But my ankle is propped up so I have a sort of excuse...

Anyway, bye for now

Edit: not quite sure why the gif and first set of quotes looks like that, it doesn't look that way in the preview version of the post. My apologies.