I am Sam
This is a move about a father who is mentally challenged and his love for his daughter. Sam fight for custody for his 7 year old daughter although the juiditual system and his own attorney do not see him fit to care for her. From the time she was born Sam has tended to her every care. Lucy then starts to grow up and notices her father is different and not like other daddy’s. I don’t think I have ever been so moved by a move in my life.
1. Love is a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes that rages from interpersonal affection to pleasure. Throughout the movie you can see how Sam truly shows his love in many different ways for his Daughter. During his court proceeding the Judge declares Sam unfit to properly care for Lucy and removes her from his home. When she explains he would not be allowed to have
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Lucy stay in the home Sam becomes devastated and begins to cry that he wants Lucy to stay with him. 2. Stereotype a fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people. Sam was hurt, prejudged, and generalized about who and what he could do as a father because of his mental capabilities. Sam has the metal stability of a 7 year old child. Everyone throughout the move assumed that Sam was not capable of caring for his 7 year old daughter due to his mental disabilities. 3. Role Diffusion Erickson’s term for lack of clarity in one’s life role. This is first noticed during the Movie when Lucy says to her father “you’re not like the other daddy’s” and Sam then gets sad and Lucy being only 7 years old consoles him and makes him feel better about her previous statement. During the move Sam was reading to Lucy and he was having a difficult time understanding the more difficult book. Lucy then shows sympathy for her father and then chooses a much easier book for her father to read. The teacher states that Lucy may be afraid to learn and is holding herself back. 4. Life Changes altering a person’s life or circumstances in a substantial way. When the courts decided Lucy could not go back to live with Sam. 5. Hostility is seen as form of emotionally charged angry behavior. At Lucy’s birthday party one of the little children starts to ruin the party and Sam becomes physical. When meeting his lawyer for the first time she became upset about her son hanging up on her and kicked a plate on the coffee table. 6. Trait Anxiety refers to a general level of stress that is characteristic of an individual, that is, a trait related to personality. When Sam had to visit the court appointed therapist he became very stressed due to his past experiences. He becomes stressed at his Job and the new responsibly of being a coffee maker. 7. Neurosis is an actual disorder, such as obsessive thoughts or anxiety, while neuroticism is the state of having the disorder. In modern non-medical texts the two are often used with the same meaning. When Sam was at the restaurant with his lawyer he tried to remember how to count and pay for him and lawyers lunch bill. Towards the end of the move Sam becomes distraught about the way his court proceedings goes and he creates a shelter of paper origami to keep everyone out. 8. Conditioned Stimulus a formerly neutral stimulus that, after association with an unconditioned stimulus comes to produce a conditioned response. Lucy is Sam stimuli. Sam is Lucy’s stimuli. Towards the end Sam becomes the lawyer’s stimuli. 9. Anal Explosive Traits has a lack of self-control, being generally messy and careless. During his court proceedings Sam would jump out of his seat and hug the witness, clap and have loud outburst. During their meeting at the court Lucy stated she had to go to the bathroom and told her father Sam that the social worker allowed them to go to the park. Well she lied and Sam being not mentally capable of really knowing how to judge the situation allows her to have her way. 10. Equality is a social state of affairs in which all people within a specific society or isolated group have the same status in a certain respect. Sam stands up to his boss and ask for a raise. He becomes tired of the run around and the states his previous boss stated he would give him a raise and then did not give him the raise he deserved. 11. Jealousy is a complex emotion that encompasses many different kinds of feelings ranging from fear of abandonment to rage and humiliation. Sam becomes incredibly jealousy at Lucy’s new family and feels that she no longer loves him and decided to give up on his pursuit to get her back. 12. Job satisfaction is the level of contentment a person feels regarding his or her job. Sam decided not to continue on with is job because he did not do a very good job at the coffee making process. 13. Need for affiliation a person's need to feel a sense of involvement and "belonging" within a social group. Sam explodes at his lawyer in his home after she finds him hiding away wallowing in his sorrow about Lucy possibly not loving him anymore. He states that no one understands him. He yells that she does not know how it feels because she was born perfect and he was not. Sam is clearly has tried throughout his life to fit in with the “normal” public and is now really expressing his dissatisfaction in his inequality with those not like him. 14. Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. I think Sam has shown several examples of this kind of trait. When at his lawyers office for the second or third time he sees that one of his lawyers clients is very emotional about her X husbands lack of emotion about her not wanting her son and begins to cry. Sam then goes and hugs her. Another time would be at the court house when a witness was being cross examined by his lawyer and she began to cry with his lawyer asked about the witness son OD’ing and she began to cry. Here again Sam goes and consoles her to make her feel better and tried to help console her. 15.
Stereotypes is a fixed conventional idea about a group that can give rise to prejudice and discrimination. A gender stereotype is a fixed, conventional idea about how men and women ought to behave. Sam has several friends. They all share some sort of mental disability, developmentally disabled, mentally challenged, and developmentally challenged. Sam and the men he surrounds himself with have jobs and have incorporated in to the public and society.
16. Mood Disorders involve disturbances in expressed emotions. Sam and his lawyer both experienced this situation and it came to light when Sam’s lawyer came to his home to check up on him. They both express the neither could understand how the other was feeling and why they were sad. The lawyer then opened up about how she was dealing with her husband cheating and she would yell and become angary at her son from the smallest thing. Sam express how his disability will keep him from getting Lucy back.
17. Attraction physical appeal appears to be the key factor. The lawyer showed a clear attraction to Sam when he came to her home to go over the court proceeding and he tried on her husband
suit. 18. Conflict is frustrating and stressful. It occurs when people are pulled in two or more directions by opposite motives. A physical altercation between Lucy and her father ensued when he came to visit her without notice after time had passed. Lucy became upset at her father and began hitting him. 19. Frustration occurs when a person’s attempts to achieve a goal are thwarted. Sam becomes upset at his lawyer and screams at her that she is giving up on him and Lucy. 20. Conform means to adapt to fit in with new conditions. Lucy escapes her new home to go to the new home of her father Sam. Sam in turn takes her back every night. Lucy’s new mom cry’s to Sam and acknowledges that he gives Lucy the kind of love she needs.
Sam’s dad committed suicide after struggling with bipolar disorder. Sam didn’t want to follow in the footsteps of his father, which may have given him the upper hand when having to deal with those thoughts. If Sam didn’t have this psychological disorder he wouldn’t have these troubling or confusing symptoms. Dysfunction is the inability to function as expected in social and occupational activities. When Sam was in his depressed state, he found it hard to hold a job.
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Stereotyping is something that we do without noticing it. Stereotype is a predictive generalization applied to a person or situation (Johns). We will put them into a group according to their race, how they dress, or how they talk.
Stereotypes are relatively fixed, overgeneralized attitudes and behaviors that are considered normal and appropriate for a person in a culture based on race, gender, and religion.They are assumptions that people make about the characteristics of all members of a group, based on an image about what people in
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Stereotypes are a fixed image of all members of a culture, group, or race, usually based on limited and inaccurate information resulting from the minimal contact with these stereotyped groups. Stereotypes have many forms: people are stereotyped according to their religion, race, ethnicity, age, gender, color, or national origins. This kind of intolerance is focused on the easily observable characteristics of groups of people. In general, stereotypes reduce individuals to a rigid and inflexible image that doesn't account for the multi-dimensional nature of human beings. One example of stereotypes is the categorization of the Jews in the Elizabethan era.
Stereotypes are assumptions that are made about an entire group of people based on observations of a few; they act as scapegoats for prejudice behaviour and ideologies.
I am Sam is a motion picture highlighting Sean Penn as Sam, who is given a role as a grown-up male with the learning limit of a 7 year old with mentally unbalanced inclinations. He got a vagrant pregnant, and the lady left Sam being taken care of by an infant. The film experiences the battle and delight of bringing up a girl Lucy Jewel. Nonetheless, when she achieves the age of 7 and her mental limit has all the earmarks of being outperforming her fathers, inconvenience emerges and Lucy is detracted from Sam. Sam got an "ace bono" attorney, Rita-who is a rich, focused, furious, on edge lady who takes Sam's case to demonstrate something to her associates.
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