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“The Mask You Live In” I watched this documentary twice, once by myself and once with my wife. I wanted to do this so I could get her viewpoint on the documentary and its effect on the male adolescence. Viewing this we both discussed the issues affecting young men from our different viewpoints and how our parents could raise us. The first issue we discussed in the documentary was the issue of showing emotion in adolescent men. Our opinions were similar in some ways and coincided with the viewpoints of the documentary, particularly that it is not wrong to show emotions it is just our view of the context of how our adolescent men show emotions were different. I feel that my wife and the documentary were under the assumption that emotions female
One word: neediness. The entire Generation Like documentary can be easily summarized with that unique word. People striving for approval, fame, and the monotonous exacerbation of what one likes and what not; they believe that they are doing something empowering with their lives, without realizing that they are being exploited. Does social media truly empowers individuals to strive for better? I do not think so, for what I saw, is that people will almost do anything to get a “like”, or getting comments on their feeds. Values and principles seem to be forgotten for the likes of fame and small advancements; so much work for little gain. In the video, there is a girl who has millions of followers and many sponsors, and the girl’s mom was asked
Overall, though the series had some limitations it has showed us how people change, how education matters, and even for those who do not have education still have a chance to survive, have family and enjoy life as they intend it to be. One other aspect that makes the documentary remarkable is also it showed people that family background and environment by their own does not affect your outcome because people’s personhood is different and can evolve through time.
The documentary by Lockdown: Gang vs. Family by Gail Mitchell (2007) interviews gang members that are in the Utah State Prison. The state prison has more gang affiliated inmates than non-gang affiliated inmates. The goal of the prison is to stop or reduce gang violence in both the prison and the surrounding cities. In this film, the young lady they are interviewing is living proof of a sociological theory.
Analysis Of Two Documentaries I will be analysing two very different types of documentary, 'Dogtown and the Z-Boys', which takes the role of being a full length movie type documentary, and 'Teenage Transsexuals' which was recently shown on Channel 4. 'Dogtown and the Z-Boys' is a documentary which takes a look at the transformation of surfing into skateboarding. The film follows the evolution of skating through it's heyday in the 70's, to it's decline in the 80's, and then back upto it's popular return in the 90's. It also follows the Zephyr team, a high profile surf/skate club which revolutionised the skating industry right upto the present day.
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After watching this video, it became clear to be that my views on traditional masculine and feminine traits will be influenced. I understand the pressure that is put on both males and females to conform to society and the gender roles that accompany their culture. I will make a conscious effort to encourage males to act outside of the image they believe to be masculine. I will let them share their feelings and provide them with emotional support when they need it. I will also look at feminism differently. Before watching this video I believed that feminism was a good thing— now I believe that the idea of it is good but that is should change its objectives. I think that women should focus more on equality and less on the superiority of women. My thoughts regarding gender roles will be influenced after watching this movie.
Documentary theater, sometimes referred to as verbatim theater, attempts to bring social issues to the stage. Many times, theater has a hard time staying current and discussing the issues of today, and although some might argue that theater should an escape from the problems of the world, documentary theater’s aims to bring to light. If given the opportunity to create a documentary theater piece, I think it would be really interesting to talk about immigration to the United States. The United States was built, in part, by immigrants—and the nation has long been the beneficiary of the new energy and ingenuity that immigrants bring. Today, over 13 percent of the nation’s residents are foreign-born.
An article entitled “How Boys Become Men,” written by Jon Katz was originally published in January, 1993 in Glamour, a magazine for young women. This article details the process of a boy growing into a man and mainly focus on the lesson boys learn that effect their adult lives. These lessons are about how to hold back emotions and never appeared sensitive. The author includes examples of his own experiences as a boy to convey to the reader the challenges of growing into a man. Through the various stories of young boys, the author is trying to prove that the men are insensitive because they had to learn to hide their feelings during the stage of growing up with other boys. The purpose of the author is to explain the women of the world, why men appear to be emotionalist and “macho.” The author’s main idea of this article is to explain why men are insensitive and to help women understand why men sometimes seem “remote” and “uncommunicative.”
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I watched the documentary called, “The Power of an Illusion: The House We Live In”. The documentary talked about how the laws and policies in America create a racial divide; in addition, the documentary talks about how our federal housing policy has oppressed people of color throughout our culture. This was an interesting documentary that certainly talks about how our policies and laws in America have always been to benefit the whites and to exclude people who are non-whites.
The documentary explains how women and girls are more susceptible to peer pressure which leads to feelings of inadequacies, lower ambition and lower self-worth; in addition, they are more vulnerable to attacks leaving them as prey to men who judge them more harshly as a result of media propaganda. All of these issues combined often results in sever and often lifelong medical issues such as eating disorders, body dysmorphia, depression and self-injurious
One thing that I have learned about college is that you have to sometimes talk about things that make you uncomfortable or scared in order to learn. I do not think I am alone in saying that the United States’ current debt situation is terrifying. Ten trillion dollars alone is an expansive and unimaginable amount of money, and since PBS produced Ten Trillion and Counting in 2009, the national debt has grown to twenty-one trillion. As stated, the documentary was produced during the first months of former President Barack Obama’s first term and focused on former President George W. Bush’s relationship with national debt during his eight year tenure. Ten Trillion and Counting explains some of the questionable decisions that former President Bush made, especially regarding fiscal policy.
You are starving and your family is starving, but the law told you that you could not feed your family, would you obey the law or do you decide to feed your family anyway despite what the law says? To Tommy Pikok Sr., “When I am hungry, I can protest the law. I can use my stomach as a reason to protest the law” (Edwardsen, Duck-In). In the documentary, The Duck-In, the Iñupiat people of Barrow, Alaska fought against the law by coming together as a whole community to get what should be their right as native people. The Iñupiat people would rather hunt for their food than consume white people food on a daily basis. It is our culture, tradition, and duty to hunt for food and no one or anything could change our way of thinking. The citizens of Barrow, Alaska should watch the Duck-In because the documentary informs the citizens
Interpersonal conflict in films comes across the same in everyday life. There are times when things are said that are taken out of context and you wish they could be retracted for example when we become upset with a situation or comment that was said. I found there to be a lot of different instances of conflict in this film I chose. After watching this film, I learned to be careful of what I might say and how it is said to avoid escalating any incident you may have in an active relationship.
In the quote On Social Concern, it talks about how people who have a greater share of life should feel responsible for the weaker people and should help them. This reminded me of the Selma movie that we watched in class. In this movie when the African American were walking across the bridge to Selma they were treated brutally. The march was broadcasted and many people felt obligated to do something. Many whites throughout the country came to support the march because even though they had rights, they knew that they had to help the African Americans get the full extent of their rights. These people were putting their lives in danger for a just cause and because of them no one was beaten that day, and many others started paying attention to the