In the documentary “Undefeated”, a team member named Chavis was given a second chance after he got in a fight with Money, another player on the team. Before this, he was given chance after chance, yet he kept getting into trouble. After the fight, he gets a suspension from football. He is allowed back on the team after the suspension is over.…
Tying the Knot is a documentary that chronicles the issues of same sex marriages. It puts into perspective the question of what happens to a surviving spouse of a same sex marriage after their partner dies. The documentary offers emotional, as well as the financial troubles both men and women face as gay widows and widowers because of the laws in regards to marriage. It also places a human face on the struggle for equal rights and offers information from the past and into the present day meaning of civil marriage.…
Fed up is a film that reveals how sugar in all its natural sounding forms i.e. “pure” cane sugar is the main culprit in the obesity epidemic that has been ravaging the nation. According to the documentary there is an intimate relationship between the food industries, large corporations as well as the media that not only influences choices made by customers in the grocery store, but also blindly jeopardizes their health. The average American person is led to believe by the media that obese Americans are in critical health due to their own voracious appetite and sedentary lifestyle. The film further demonstrates how the close-knit relationship between the three the multi-billion dollar food industry and the government have come together to push sugar-laden junk food into our every diets by engineering their labels and deceiving the…
While growing up, children all across America were told, “Remember, it is better to start while you're young.” including me. Does this include starting off obese when we are younger too? Many more times than I possibly could have imagined I have seen an obese child. While watching the documentary Fed Up, couldn’t help but think to myself, “Has the world really changed so much throughout the time of my Grandparents.” I went and asked them if obesity even existed when they were my age. My grandpa’s response was, “Back there was the war to worry about. Kids worked on the farm before and after school. There was no time to go and get a burger whenever we felt like. Time was money and we didn’t have very much of either.” Ever since 1997, when George…
The PBS documentary on ethics and values in America, it shows how Julia was being honored for her ongoing hard work to achieve bigger and better opportunities for many less fortunate students. Julia’s achievement was a milestone in her career. Finally, everyone in the ceremony toasted Julia and the sponsoring corporation, and the evening at the ceremony comes to end. Julia and her friend are now driving back to their homes. Julia is driving down a dark rural road. As Julia drives, she’s conversing with Allison on how great the evening went, chuckling as she spoke. In that moment, Julia drops a piece of paper and decides to reach for it while driving. As Julia reaches for the piece of paper, she shifts into the incoming…
When talking about social stigmas and social problems dealing with pornography most people tend to talk about those who purchase or watch pornography. Those social problems could include the underage watching of porn, the fact that it can lead to a desensitization of sexual human contact, and the more aggressive and negative outlook toward women. However, there are several problems dealing with those involved in the…
The documentary Fed Up was written with the purpose of educating its watchers of the problems America has with processed foods and obesity. Some of the ideas that they presented that I found the most interesting were that this problem has been around for decades and has not gone unnoticed, the U.S.D.A. is responsible for setting dietary guidelines as well as supporting agriculture, and the similarities between big food companies and tobacco companies.…
When asked to recall the 1980’s, many fixate on images of Full House, Whitney Houston, Dirty Dancing, and a whole host of colorful pop culture phenomenon. But for the gay community of San Francisco, the decade is a reminder of a much darker time. In 1981, cases of what many were calling the “Gay Cancer” began springing up among young gay men in the Castro District, a disease which is today known as Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Commonly referred to as AIDS, this illness severely inhibits the victim’s ability to ward of infection and cancer, making it incredibly deadly. It tore through San Francisco, leaving thousands dead and many more permanently infected while most of the United States did little more than watch. The gay community of the city banded together in this time of terror and confusion, and their story is one which deserves to be told. This is the mission of the documentary We Were Here – to share the inspiring story of those who fought and survived the epidemic and remember those who they lost along the way.…
Cited: Michelle Viglianco-VanPelt, M.D. and Kyla Boyse, R.N. (2009) Your child Development and Behavior Resources. Retrieved from http://www.med.umich.edu/yourchild/topics/masturb.htm…
I would like to start this reflection with this quote, “Some people are born with disabilities… Other people become disable after a lifetime- whether brief of long-of being more or less like everyone else. It may happen in a catastrophic moment, or it may take days, weeks, months, or years of illness to develop” (Vash & Crew, 2004). This quote is something that has been in my head since day one, and once again this class has showing me that any person can become disable and it may happen at any moment; whether you are famous, rich or poor no one is safe from suffering a disability. Watching the documentary, The Crash Roll was something very interesting and it will stick with me forever. This documentary did not only demonstrated the ribality between both: Kevin and Shaun or Kevin tragic accident, this documentary showed…
Young boys then grow up to expect women to get naked for them when they want because it is so easy for them to access these pornographic magazines. In order for this culture to change, it must be taught differently, young boys and girls need to be taught that they are equal and that they should bth respect the other gender. Certainly not all objectiuf women and hae this sense of entitlement so the pop culture cannot be 100% to blame but when coulpled with the hypermasculine representations shown in society nd in many households, many men do succumb to this way of thinking.. Thoughts such as “You can’t be whipped, show her who is boss” are common among white teenage boys. Despite the many advances we have made towards gender equality over the past century, we still live in a patriarchal society which has developed the expectation among men that you should be strong and masculine and more powerful than women and an expectation among women either that we deserve special treatment due to out gender which is the recently developed stigma around the word feminism or that we should conform to male…
We all as humans have sexual behaviors; it’s something that is a part of every one of us and part of our humanity. Sexual behavior is with you even before you are born, for example a fetus can actually express some sexual behaviors. These sexual behaviors are more likely to happen if the fetus is a male versus a female. These sexual behaviors start to arise when we are all in our infancy stage. The development of these behaviors continues through our age. One thing that male babies have are erections even before birth a unborn baby can have an erection. Baby girls experience something a little different. Baby girls start getting lubrication in their vaginal opening and also swelling. This also happens before birth. The ages that kids start showing pelvic thrusting is at about 8 to 12 months and begin to masturbate a few months after that. Kids while they are young experience sexual curiosity and behaviors and it’s a completely normal part of their growth and development. One specific game that children play is a kissing game, this kissing game involves sexual stimulus. In the adolescence stage which is ages 9 to 13 is when the child experiments with masturbation and is the top key sexual behavior at this age. The child will continue to show sexual curiosity and different sexual behaviors as they become older and go into the adult stage. At this stage the male and the female will experiment with mutual masturbation. Puberty also takes place, once puberty happens then reproduction is a possibility and something that can happen. During adolescence women start to menstruate. The body of a woman produces something called estrogen and with estrogen production it causes to form women body parts like breasts. Men produce something different, its called testosterone and this causes genital growth and other male behaviors. The number one outlet for sexual desires in the adolescence…
The omnipresence of pornography in today’s society has increased extramentally over the past few decades. What is available over the internet is remarkably unrestricted and available to anyone who looks for it. This paper will cover how and what the messages on sexuality that are being conveyed to today’s society,…
There are several different viewpoints and levels of acceptance regarding masturbation. Within the Judeo-Christian culture masturbation was thought of as a sin along with other types of form of sexual enjoyments. It was looked upon as a sin, the act of masturbation have had many different viewpoint about it. Even in the 19th century it was looked upon as something that should not be done. Traditionally, masturbation has been regarded as a convenient sexual outlet for people who lack a lover. In this study, that held true for both men and women (Castleman, M. March 30,…
Today, with the technology available, people are easily connected to the media whether it is for the news, the season premiere of an upcoming televised series, or the recent release of a video from a YouTube producer. Along with the mainstream media, people are flooded with hidden messages and exposed to unwanted materials. The modern American culture is based on the contents of media and is recycled through a process of demands and contributions. As a result, the American culture is exposed to a steady increase of sexualization within mainstream media, especially the hyper-sexualization of women (Task Force, 4). The American culture is exposing future generations to a world where sex is mainstream and popularized. Through the social learning…