Summary: “Born into Brothels”, which is directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, is a documentary film about prostitutes’ children in Sonagachi, Calcutta’s red light district, India. Briski, a New York photographer, comes to the red light district to capture the lives of women prostitutes. In order to understand them and their lives, Briski decides to live with them. And that is when she meets the children and develops a closed relationship with them. Those children are curious about Briski and are fascinated by her equipment.
Her next project became the children of prostitutes in Calcutta. She wanted to document the lives of women and children forced into prostitution by their husbands and families in order to support their families. After seeing the children’s environment and learning that there was little or no hope for the young girls to escape the life in which they were born. Zana decided to team up with Ross Kaufmann; an established director who has worked for PBS, The Discovery Channel and many other projects. Together they decided to film the lives of the prostitutes and their children with the hopes of ending the social stigma given to them and improve their lives through social change and education.
I can understand” – Hellen Van Meene Hellen Van Meene began photographing her friends when she was 15 as a hobby. At 18, she chose to study photography at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Van Meene felt the teachers at the Academy helped her to develop her ideas, emphasizing content, rather than technique. Van Meene continues to take pictures of teenage to twenty-something-year-olds, finding that adolescent girls were more open and playful. She says her photographs focus on skin.
Children will have a one on one session with their teachers so that the teachers will be able to ask questions and so will the student. There will also be small assignments that will be completed in class as well as homework that is sent home so that the children can continue to practice their skills and continue to increase their learning curve. There will also be short question and answer sessions so that the teacher can make notations of where the children need more assistance. Each method will be used for each child. The teachers will observe the children during free play and during assigned activities so that they can make valid notations and observations about the cognitive development of the child.
It is not uncommon for elementary schools to cancel recess and keep children indoors when there are possible chemicals in the air that can harm them. Elementary school teachers report that when children paint pictures in class, they always use colors like grey, black or brown instead of blue when painting the sky. This is how the children portray the sky should look like because that is what they are used to seeing. Children often complain of headache, and fatigue, sore eyes, scorched throats and difficulty breathing and these are just the most common problems. Asthma and respiratory problems are also familiar and some people are more affected than others.
Another example of this is, when a teacher is conducting a lesson the teacher will test a pupil by asking him/her a question about the work. This involves the pupil to the lesson. The body language of a teacher is key to communication. For example, if a pupil has his/hers backs facing away from the teacher, the teacher waits for the student crossing his/hers arms. This shows the pupil that the teacher is waiting for him/her and that the pupil is wrong.
Jonathan Hobin is an artist whose exhibit in Ottawa during September 17- October 10 has caused a controversy because he used children to model many historic events taken from news headlines. His photographs show the impact of the media and how the kids experience the realistic world through it. Many people disapprove his work while the others, included the parents of the children who appeared in his photographs, think of it as a good project to make people meditate about the world we are living in. In the article “The kids are not all right”, there are six pictures that are part Hobin’s latest series “In The Playroom”. They all reflect many well-known events around the world with the children play a role as adults.
Growing up, we all go through these situations where we are the victims of hurtful situations. As long as it doesn't get out of hand, it can be seen as a rite of passage. Some kids are afraid to go home at night too. With no home life and scared at school, kids can turn to drugs and alcohol for release. Society, parents, and schools do not teach children the skills of physical, psychological, emotional and verbal self-defense.
She is currently is a special education instructor in Livingston County, Kentucky. Cell phone are a distraction. In her essay Fortner informs the reader what children use there cell phones for, “Along with brief calls to their parents and hours spent texting their friends, kids use their cell phones to listen to music, play games, and watch videos”. In the classroom setting students are supposed to pay attend to the instructor and the subject at hand, not play Angry Birds on their iPhone. Children will also use their phone to text to each other during class via texting.
He found his passion through his addiction to filmmaking, but it came at a price of making poor grades in school. In other situations students are multi-tasking with technology because of their addiction. While doing homework or writing an essay the students are being distracted by listening to music, texting, and watching television. In my personal experience with this I also get very distracted and sidetracked and cannot keep focused on what I’m supposed to be doing. I end up forgetting I have homework and not coming back to it later that night or the next morning to finish it.