I have to admit, before watching Michael Moore’s documentary, Sicko; I did not have the slightest clue how terrible the United States healthcare industry was. I must say, after watching this documentary, I consider myself to be very blessed that I or my family has not had to experience this, yet. Through the years, my family has not had any issues getting anything approved through the insurance companies or doctors for surgeries or anything. After watching this documentary, I had a whole completely different view on the United States healthcare. I knew we lived in a day where people do not really seem to care for one another, but I would have never dreamed it would have been that way in the healthcare system.
The one thing that I do respect about the photographer Jean Mohr, the man who took the photos shown in “States”, is that he took his photos in order to shine some light on the situation in Palestine. Sadly several other photographers don’t take their pictures because they feel bad for the people and they want to help them, but because they want the nice paycheck they get if their photos are chosen. I hope these photographers learn to realize that there is more to the world then just money; people they are taking pictures of are hurting. They need to realize this and do all they can to
On this model I was only at step one at the beginning of your class. Even though I am apart of the dominant culture, I knew nothing of my heritage and did not really care. Same with racism, I never knew how bad it really was and the things our country has done to people until it was brought up. I feel that because of this class, I have become much more aware of racism that exists around. Because of my awareness of racism, I am now bothered by acts and behaviors that might not have bothered me in the past.
In the film, Stampler claims to suffer from blackouts quite often, where he says he “loses time.” However, there is no other evidence presented to suggest that Stampler has ever suffered amnesia before the events of the murder took place. It has been shown that malingerers will often not be able to produce any concrete evidence of suffering from the feigned disorder or amnesia in their past (Ramsland, 2002). This is clearly true in Stampler’s
The CNN article of the same day is concerned more about getting the facts across then actually stoping to realize the emotional toll it has taken on the British. The author of the CNN article includes one or two quotes that mention the accident being shocking, none that talk about the mourners all across the world and the tributes which were sent to the princess' family like the BBC article had done. Another very important and comparable address to the british public about Diana's death was the Queen's Speech on September 5th. Queen Elizabeth did not mention the facts of the accident because by that time all of Britain already knew, what she did mention was the toll it has taken on her family, not her, and the public. She also mentioned some of the Princess' personality traits which neither BBC nor CNN mentioned.
Essay on accident to nothing about and it's not something anyone is eager to learn about. Even just watching the movie they had prepared was hard and all it did was tell facts and share people's experiences. So that's what I'm going to try to do: share some facts, tell someone's story, give a few websites people could go to learn more. Hopefully, with one person at a time, we can get the message out; hopefully the world can open its eyes to the injustice that is being done to so many. About 80% of all human trafficking is for the sex trade.
“What will your friends think about you?” That factor never occurred to me. I would be entering this playing field alone; I had never really been alone before. That question was a sucker punch and like most people who get sucker punched, I ran following the hit. I left my interview with tears rolling down my cheek and just broken inside. By skipping a grade I would be leaving those who shared all my memories that I had of school life.
People all over the country were totally in shock of the extreme events that were occurring. To the typical American citizen, it seemed the attacks were in every way random, so you can only imagine what was on the radio and TV seemed like to an 8 year old. Never the less, the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001 gave me an experience that I'm happy to have had as a child, it gave me an understanding of horrible things people can and will do out of fear, jealousy, and revenge. Attending St. Johns the Evangelist, I was only in second grade and pretty much isolated from the rest of the world. I don't even think I knew all the capitals or even all 50 states in general.
I went into combat as a naïve 20 year old and came out of combat a little damaged. Talking about my demons as I referred to my triggers earlier really is not something that comes easily to me. As a soldier I was taught to shut off my emotions and do what was needed to be done to accomplish the mission, little did I know when I took that advice to heart it would still be with me to this day. I have dealt with the ignorance of people far too long to really discuss openly what I went through. I have seen the damages of war and to this day those damages replay in my mind.
Amber Stovall August 03, 2012 BI-100 Environmental Biology Global Warming Video- Lab Makeup The whole dvd was interesting, from beginning to end; I learned a lot of neat things that I had never even thought about. For instance, when the West Nile Virus broke out in Colorado and although television channels and the radio were giving warnings to citizens to protect themselves, they didn’t know how to because many of them had never even heard of mosquitoes, let alone knew what they looked like. The most interesting about that scenario is that for every one patient that reported their illness, one hundred fifty other individuals didn’t, I can’t imagine what that state went though doing this time. Another interesting thing in the dvd was when they swayed to the topic of warming sea temperatures. I finally learned what exactly the El Nino was and that it’s southern oscillation sets the pattern for much of the world’s climate.