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Josie’s Story is a truly inspirational and informative book written by a mother who used her grief and sorrow to educate people, and make medical care safe. Josie King was a curious and precocious 18 month old toddler who was just beginning to discover the world, and loved her dog Trapper. One day, while her family was preoccupied downstairs, Josie waddled into the bathroom in search of her blue airplane. She slipped into the bathtub, and turned on scalding hot water onto herself, causing first and second degree burns which covered 60 percent of her tiny body. Josie was admitted to one of the most prestigious children’s hospitals in our country, Johns Hopkins Children 's Center.
L’Arche engaged many young people, so Vanier travelled and spoke about his life-changing involvement of living with people who possess developmental disabilities. Young people from France, Canada, England and Germany, accompanied him and became assistants who lived with people with intellectual disabilities. http://www.jean-vanier.org/en/the_man/biography/short_biography Today, there are 130 L'Arche communities in 30 countries on six continents. http://www.larche.ca/en/jean_vanier/biography Vanier is also encouraging projects for new communities, and giving lectures and retreats to continue creating a beneficial change in our world .http://jeanvanier.hcdsb.org/jean-vanier/ as he said “But let us not put our sights too high.
In Born in the Brothel, a documentary by Zana Briski, she documented the lives of children who are born and raised in a brothel. Briski’s presence in the documentary and the way she could direct the documentary was an essential component that impacted the way the documentary was portrayed. The way that Briski chose to capture the children in a pure light allowed for the audience to connect with the documentary more. When I was first watching the documentary, I was expecting a very informative documentary that was going simply inform me of the conditions of the brothel and how the children are effected from it. I never expected for Briski to capture the purity of the children and how much hope there was inside of them.
I was fortunate enough to attend the Eichelberger Film Dayton Festival on Sunday and screened the film Becoming Bulletproof, which follows an organization of filmmakers called the Zeno Mountain Farm who each year invite disabled people to their headquarters and make movies. This year they decided to do a western and enter it into film festivals which means that they would have to increase the hard work that they do putting it all together. The film follows the many different types of disabled people that they invite and also show the regulars and a newcomer to the cast of people that they invite. It depicts the relationships that are formed between the disabled people and the caretakers (who are more like best friends) as they interact and
Temple Grandin was a girl with autism, she had many struggles in life, Throughout her young, teenage and adult years she learned to overcome her struggles. She found out things she had in common with others, she found empathy and she showed understanding to many people. Temple Grandin is extraordinary in many ways. There's one thing that she does best;she can relate to animals to help find out their needs. For example “The single worst thing you can do to an animal,” Temple insists, “is make it feel afraid.”
You do know that Genie was not your ordinary Genie in Aladdin. He’s quirky! He’s smart! He’s awesome! He’s fancy!
This documentary film explores the poverty issue in America. They follow three families who are struggling with financial difficulty due to the down fall of the economy. They interview the kids from each family while allowing them to freely express their feelings about being poor. These families do not come from the infamous welfare system. They are the victims of the market crash that led to the economic recession that started in late 2000’s.
The film I decided to write about was “ The Burning Bed.” Farrah Fawcett, who is the main character in the film is a victim of domestic violence and serious past of abuse with her ex husband Paul. The Burning Bed starts off with Farrah and Paul as young adults who fell in love with one another and had three children. Shortly after being together the two had children then got married, throughout the relationship Paul abused Farrah constantly in front of family and their children. Paul’s family was completely blind to the abuse and it turned out Farrah had no one in her corner trying to help her.
Mysterious, horrifying, scary, hilarious and disturbing are just a few words to describe the movie The Visit. Another scary and shocking movie created by M. Night Shyamalan (M. Night). This movie includes plot aspects in it, like the turn of events, relating to other horror movies he directed (Ex: The Sixth Sense) (O’Malley). This movie is recommended by movie reviewers for those who like to watch a haunted comedy.
Furthermore, public acknowledgment of people with a disability is either ignored or spotlighted so significantly that the person feels like they stand out in the crowd unnecessarily. DiCaprio’s character, Arnie who has autism portrays stereotypical behavioural traits of a person with the disability. Throughout the film, it can be analysed that Arnie constantly fidgets with his hands, cannot sit still and has difficulty following basic instructions which can all be examined as stereotypical characteristics of a person with autism. Obviously Hallstrom had a bias and stereotypically view on the behaviour of those with autism as Arnie behaved like a child, no clear independence as his brother, Gilbert had to wash him and put him to bed every night. Socially, Arnie was in need of constant supervision as he had a tendency to perform acts that were previously recognised as inappropriate.
The documentary title “Secret of the Wild Child” is an interesting title that captivates the audience to watch the video because of the last two words wild child makes the audience curious to what does a wild child look like and how does it behave. The music in the video sounds is calm and nurturing playing through some scene in the video. This was broadcast by PBS on its series NOVA. NOVA often includes interviews with scientists doing research in the subject areas covered and occasionally includes footage of a particular discovery. It was aired on October 18, 1994.
The story of The Jinnee and The Fisherman and Aladdin have many similarities and differences. Both of these stories are from A Thousand And One Nights and have been with us for a long time. While people who have seen Aladdin might want a genie, those who have read The Jinnee And The Fisherman would probably say otherwise. Not everything is as it seems, these stories teach you to think before you act. The story of Aladdin takes place in Agrabah.
Scientists and psychologists believed that Clark committing suicide also would've effected genie so they assessed her a lot more to see how she dealt with it. Genies case was a gift to the world as it helped answer a lot of questions, a lot of professors and so on wanted to study genies case as it helped them answer a lot of questions about language an development for example 'do you have to learn language and speech when you are young or can you start at any point of your life?' Genie is now in a private mental institution in Los Angelo's, the whereabouts exactly are unknown to anyone, as carer's believe that she is better left alone.
China’s Lost Girls video describes how child’s one child policy affects parents, and children drastically. The Chinese started this policy to decrease the population and Largest population control effort in history. Parents are told to only have one child and are fined thousands of dollars if they want to keep a second child. In Chinese society boys carry the last name and don 't leave home and at their parent old age they take care of them but the girls are married off and leave home. Which means boys are the preferred one baby choice.
Lisa is a thirty-four year old women with two children, a boy and a girl. When Lisa was fourteen, she was raped by her uncle and she never received therapy for it. Not receiving therapy has changed her life drastically. Lisa ,although a good mother, suffers from depression,tends to drink a lot more than she should, and suffers from anorexia. Because of this, her social life is unstable.
