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Mental health stigmas in our society
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DAY ONE
“I don’t know. I drink half-a-bottle of cough syrup and I end up with this ingenious poem. Go figure”
“Well I suppose I’ll give it a try.”
DAY TWO
“Dude, look at this painting I did because of the cough syrup.”
“See dude, I told you. It makes you smarter.”
“Totally.”
Then they tell two friends
And they tell two friends
And they tell two friends
And so on
And so on
GENERATIONS LATER
Soon word gets around to big names
Big names tell the right people
The right people turn DXM into a pill designed,
Not to prevent coughs,
But to,
As it says on the box it comes in,
Make you smarter.
DXM becomes mainstream
A household substance approved by the FDA
Everybody does it
Everybody likes it
Everybody wants it
Except for those metalling kids who hate everything that is mainstream.
MORE GENERATIONS PASS
Those metalling kids grow up
Get hair cuts
Get jobs
Get married
And have metalling kids of their own
Their own metalling kids grow up and have more metalling kids
Out of all the metalling kids populated in this world, one of them catches a break and becomes a big rock star
He’s looked up to
Idolized and praised
By millions of metalling kids who hate mainstream
JUST LIKE HIM
So he’s up there. His name is thrown all over the media. His name is big.
His name means something.
It means
“I HATE MAINSTREAM” and “I'M A METALLING KID, JUST LIKE ALL OF YOU”
“I'M YOUNG”
“I'M CUTE”
And “I'M REBELLIOUS”
And now that all of you look up to me I can’t let you down
I gotta find something I can attack
And I gotta rock
And I gotta roll
And I gotta rock and roll hard
So I ask myself “ what am I gonna attack?”
And I answer myself “I'm gonna attack mainstream.”
And I ask myself again “ what am I gonna attack that is mainstream?”
And again, I answer myself by saying“ the mainstream I am going to attack is a little old miracle substance forever known as DXM”
So our little metalling rock star goes into hiding for a while trying to find all the dirt he can about DXM: the drug that makes you smarter. Days pass
Weeks pass
Months pass
And all the while
All the fans
All over the world
Are splitting up into two categories
The Appalled and The Obsessed
The Appalled say
He’s gone, and he’s never commin back, EVER
It’s time to move on.
And The Obsessed say
Just you wait. He’s commin back and is gonna be better then ever
And I'm gonna be waitin
Right here.
And believe it or not, a whole year passes.
Because of these reasons, and others perhaps unmentioned, Jessica becomes involved in Boy George’s heroin trade. She fronts for him, helps cut and package the product, takes and re-directs his business calls, and many other duties. In time, both Jessica and Boy Georg...
must stand up in my pulpit and meet so many eyes turned up to my as if
The article “When The Media Is The Disaster,” by Rebecca Solnit discusses the accounts that took place with the media and the victims during the Haitian earthquake. People were trapped alive struggling to survive. Many of these victims became so desperate for food and water they began to steal. The mass media interpreted their actions as stealing, characterizing them as “looters”. Solnit does not agree with the media labeling victims as “looters” because victims are being portrayed as something they are not. In paragraph 7 Solnit says “the pictures do convey desperation, but they don't convey crime”. she believes victims should take any alternatives to sustain human life even if that means stealing. As she furthermore discusses that the reason laws in the United States are being broken is due to necessity. Solnit does not agree with the victims being characterized as “looters” because they did this in order to survive.
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Art influenced by drugs faces a unique challenge from the mainstream: prove its legitimacy despite its "tainted" origins. The established judges of culture tend to look down upon drug-related art and artists, as though it is the drug and not the artist that is doing the creating. This conflict, less intense but still with us today, has its foundations in the 1960s. As the Beatnik, Hippie, and psychedelic movements grew increasing amounts of national attention, the influence of drugs on culture could no longer be ignored by the mainstream. In an age where once-prolific drugs like marijuana and cocaine had become prohibited and sensationalized, the renewed influence of drugs both old and new sent shockwaves through the culture base. The instinctual response of the non-drug-using majority was to simply write drug-influenced art off as little more than the ramblings of madmen. Some drug-influenced artists tried to ignore this preconception, and others tried to downplay their drug use in the face of negative public scrutiny. For some drug-influenced artists, however, it was imperative to gain popular acceptance by publicly challenging the perception and preconceptions of mainstream America.
Gina Marchetti, in her essay "Action-Adventure as Ideology," argues that action- adventure films implicitly convey complex cultural messages regarding American values and the "white American status quo." She continues to say that all action-adventure movies have the same basic structure, including plot, theme, characterization, and iconography. As ideology, this film genre tacitly expresses social norms, values, and morals of its time. Marchetti's essay, written in 1989, applies to films such as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Rambo: First Blood II. However, action-adventure films today seem to be straying farther away from her generalizations about structure, reflecting new and different cultural norms in America. This changing ideology is depicted best in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers (1994), which defies nearly every concept Marchetti proposes about action-adventure films; and it sets the stage for a whole new viewpoint of action in the '90's.
The music industry today seems to have taken a step into two different directions, rock and R&B a.k.a. rap music. Rock has taken on the form of a derelict ship floating amongst a monstrous sea of rap. Even the most hardcore of rock bands have incorporated a hint of rhyme into their music. For better or worse, Korn is one such respectable rock band who has partially retreated to the refuge of the rap style of music. In the song Freak On A Leash Jon Davis, the lead singer in the group Korn, describes the torment of his band by the sinking ship that rock has become.
I strode in front of 400 frenzied eighth graders with my arm slung over my Fender Stratocaster guitar — it actually belonged to my mother — and launched into the first few chords of Nirvana’s ‘Lithium.’ My hair dangled so low over my face that I couldn’t see the crowd in front of me as I shouted ‘yeah, yeah’ in my squeaky teenage voice. I had almost forgotten that less than a year ago I had been a kid whose excitement came from waiting for the next History Channel documentary.
Cursed by controversy since it's inception, heavy metal music has often been thought of as offencive and bombastic in it's approach to music. Even now, the controversy brought about at the top of heavy metal's popularity in the 80's still seems to linger over the genre. Controversy could easily be seen as a part of heavy metal culture as a whole, the committee hearings in 1985 putting the musical genre in the public's eye as offensive and dangerous due to it's lyrical content (Hjelm, Kahn-Harris, LeVine, 2011 p.8). To many, these out of context looks into a larger culture seem to paint a picture of violence and delenquency, but seeing the genre from within offers a new view. Research suggests that heavy metal music can have beneficial psychological
It is known that his fame is compared to Notorious B.I.G’s fame. But, the most astounding status on the album charts that Biggie at any point accomplished while alive was #13 on the main 200 album charts, and #3 on the Rap and RnB
The War on Drugs is a lost cause. The United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars and lost thousands of lives. The result is any adult or child with a couple measly dollars can purchase any existing illegal drug almost anywhere in the country (Greer 6/24/98). The emergence of a new designer drug (a combination of two existing drugs) "ecstasy," which is the most common street term for the illicit drug MDMA (+/-3,4Methylenedioxymethamphetamine), has brought a fatal blow to the War on Drugs. The "love drug," as MDMA is sometimes referred to, has spread from its previously isolated dwellings within the darkness of the "rave" scene (a rave is an all-night illicit dance party), into high schools across the United States and Canada. "Police say the manufacture, smuggling, and availability of ecstasy are booming" (Oh 4/24/00). The tremendous increase of ecstasy use is due to its escalating social acceptability, the perceived safety of the drug, and the influence of peer testimonies. This dramatic proliferation of the use of "X" is something that urgently needs to be addressed.
It’s the ever-present question that has been asked by authorities, educational institutes and parents alike. Does violence in the media influence the behavior of society? Some say yes, others say no. Other questions posed that I will try to clarify in this essay are those to do with what, if anything is being done to control this virus. To fully comprehend these questions we must first understand what is meant by violence in the media, and whom it effects, if anyone at all. Also, did violence in the media come first, or was it derived from violence in the ‘real world’? There are arguments that can be stated from both sides. Some say that escalation of violence in society is a symptom of deteriorated value systems and poor parental instruction. Others say, and this is backed up with factual evidence, that violence that is seen on television, in the movies and in video games is directly linked to the violence in society. Either way, there is too much violence in the mass media and the outcome of this can in no way, shape or form be of a positive nature.
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