Question 20 on the 2011 pass paper, critical essay. The movie 8mile explores in great detail countless emotions from beginning to end. The movie is based around a young rapper called Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, who is stuck a rut and is struggling to make a success of his life. He has been brought up with racial abuse and is surrounded my violence and drugs everyday of his life. He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job.
Joe plays basketball; mainly because that’s the one thing his father cannot do well. He has gone to private schools his entire life and was hoping to go to public school in Seattle. During the summer he walks plays pickup games at Loyal High, the public school down the street from his house, and makes friends there. His parents are not impressed with his new friend, Ross, but agree to let Joe go to Loyal High until the police bring Joe home from Ross’ party after he passed out on the lawn from being drunk. Joe’s father brings home a bunch of books from Eastwood Academy’s summer reading list and Joe starts to read The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
The movie Parenthood displayed parental challenges faced by four siblings. The main character, Gil Buckman, is a prime example of what characterizes Erik Erikson’s stage of generativity versus stagnation in middle-aged adults. This seventh stage characterizes generativity as an adult’s desire to leave behind legacies of themselves to the next generation. On the other hand, stagnation occurs when adults sense they have done little to nothing for the next generation (Santrock, 2012, p. 322). Although the changes in Gil are progressive throughout the movie, he ultimately reaches generativity through providing nurture and guidance to his children.
Updates from latest discussion:- Q2) To include the following factors: Analytical write-up of developmental stages of Will (Pls refer to Book 1, pg 59 to 62) Childhood Instability in the home Will moved from one foster home to another: emotionally & mentally distressing Psychological abuse Psychological mistreatment suffered from Will Eg. Punished unrealistically through overtly negative reinforcements eg. excessive criticisms, threatened periodically with abandonment (presumption - as Will had been subjected with physical abuse at 3 foster homes, he could have been threatened with abandonment due to his misbehaviours) Negative reinforcements contributed to Will’s low & inferior self-esteem Unmet Needs
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In Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin,Sonny's brother discovers that he has been arrested for possession of drugs.He reminisces on their past as children and can only imagine how his students could probably be doing the same things Sonny was. Sonny's brother has never accepted Sonny's way of life.He believed that the right way of life was to get an education and a good career.Sonny lived his life on drugs and with the dream of being a musician.Sonny and his brother were complete opposites which was a problem for their relationship.When his daughter dies,he finally decides to get in communication with Sonny. Music is a very important theme in Sonny's blues. Sonny's brother always had a difficult time understanding why Sonny would want to grow up
This “bad boys” will do whatever it takes to keep their rebellious reputation. As the boys are about to get into a fight with a boy they mistook as their friend Tony, the narrator goes for “the tire iron [he] kept under the driver’s seat” in order to fight. (398) The narrator admit she hasn’t been in a fight since the sixth grade yet feels the need to prove his masculinity by grabbing the tire iron and hitting the greasy characters in the head. As soon as he lays the greasy character out, the narrator feels on top of the world. All three boys begin to develop a higher sense of pride knowing they defeated this guy when at first it looked like they were going to lose.
Comer 1 Paige Comer Composition and Rhetoric Play Paper The Poet and the Football Star It can be seen on television frequently, the act of a parent living vicariously through their children. It can be seen in real life at a child’s baseball or soccer game, as a parent argues with the referee that their son or daughter was not out of bounds or that the swing was not a strike. It can be seen, perhaps with even more intensity, in a high school setting where the star quarterback is under so much pressure for perfection from his father, that when the team doesn’t win the homecoming game he is guilty of doing so on purpose to stop the violence of tension, arguing and misery at home. Pressure to be perfect often creates rebellion in a child because
This, combined with mood disturbances, can undermine relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. BPD disturbances also may include self-harm. [3] Without treatment, symptoms may worsen, leading (in extreme cases) to suicide attempts There is an ongoing debate between clinicians and patients worldwide regarding the term Borderline, and some suggest it be renamed, and called Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder. There is concern that the diagnosis of BPD stigmatizes people and is a discriminatory practice. It is common for those suffering from BPD and their families to feel confused by a lack of clear diagnosis, effective treatments and accurate information.
There is an increased risk of non-compliance due to: lack of insight, side effects and subjective response to medication. Lastly, a significant problem is substance use. Substance use/abuse can lead to an exacerbation of psychotic symptoms and suppression of the effect of antipsychotic medication. Barkhof et al. (2006) states that substance abuse frequently leads to conflict with family members, causing higher levels of expressed emotions, equaling a psychotic relapse.