The film Slumdog Millionaire, written by Simon Beaufoy, shows the story of a boy Jamal his brother Salim and his soul mate Latika it follows there struggles in the slums of India. After a long life of hardship of different types of prejudice, poverty, and other struggles of being parentless children in a third world country, Jamal finally gets a chance to make it out when he gets an opportunity to compete on the game show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. Although from the outside looking in you might not think these kind of things happen anywhere else like kids being exploited to make money for adults by being forced into prostitution or to beg and sing on the streets. But just because what happens in the United States is more hidden and more subtle doesn’t mean it isn’t happening and isn’t horrible. Look at the world of child stars these kids start at a very young age and aren’t yet capable of consenting to what is good for them they really have no say in the matter. Not to say that all child actors parents don’t mean well but a lot put the welfare of there children in order to get fame and or money. There are shows like Toddlers and Tiaras which shows very young girls covered in makeup and being judged for there looks. Women already have a tough enough time with the way that the media portrays beauty couldn’t they just let them have a childhood before they start to have to worry about there appearance all the time. Martina M. Cartwright Ph.D. said, “Many experts agree that participation in activities that focus on physical appearance at an early age can influence teen and/or adult self-esteem, body image and self-worth. Issues with self-identity after a child "retires" from the pageant scene in her teens are not uncommon. Struggles with perfection, dieting, eating disorders and body image can take their toll in adulthood.” different opinions about the effect of children beauty pageants came to light when in 1996 a child pageant star Jonbenet Ramsey was found murdered in the basement of her family home. Although this case was never solved there were theories about a convicted pedophile in the neighborhood who was known to be a fan of her could have done it. Even though there is not much to support this claim I feel like exploiting children this way is not only going to be damaging to there self esteem as teenagers or adults it is also dangerous when you are sexualizing a kid that age you are making a haven for pedophiles. Although I feel like being exploited for fame at a young age is not good and can cause damage to someones self worth there is a more underground and illegal way teens and young adults are being taking advantage of and that’s the sex trade. When people think of the words “hooker” and “prostitute” they think of the stereo typical women in a small shiny dress covered in makeup and wearing high heels on the corner but that is just not the case anymore especially with the rise of heroin addiction and also other drugs. It is starting to surface more because it is happening everywhere in the country and not just in poor neighborhoods and its as easy as going on craigslist to make a date with one of these women. A lot of these girls are broken down phsycologicaly and so caught up in an addiction that they rely on there pimp to get high. Many of these girls are afraid to leave because there family is threatened. They are beating and completely broken down it is easy for someone on the outside and judge when they see a girl like this but they have no idea what the circumstances are. Yea they could have been making bad choices and hanging around the wrong people and using drugs but that doesn’t mean people are allowed to hold them against there will and treat them like worthless objects. Millions of children are victims or trafficking in the United States I think it should be talked about more then it is. I hope more parents teach there kids the danger of the internet especially since now so many kids have smart phones and tablets they need to be aware of predators. So it might be a little more out in the open in third world countries it does still happen here everyday its just more hidden.
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10) Film Review [Category: Film-Based Project]:
The film Slumdog Millionaire is a story about a man from Mumbai named Jamal and also his brother Salim and a girl Latika that he is in love with. It starts with him on the game show Who wants to be a millionaire where he is accused of cheating for knowing the answers. It then is a series of flashbacks showing times in his life where he gained the knowledge of the answers and how it was stored in his memory. When he was a little boy he got separated from his mother because his town was attacked because they were muslim his mother was killed and then he was on the own with his brother Salim. When the police ask him how he knew a question about a religious figure he says “If it wasn't for Rama and Allah, I'd still have a mother” meaning that if it wasn’t for them beliefs there would have been no religious war in which his mother was killed. Him and Salim meet a girl named Latika Jamal falls in love with her at first sight and tells Salim “she could be the third musketeer” this quote has some meaning later in the movie. The movie is kind of a love story though out it Jamal loses Latika but he always comes back for her meanwhile Salim gets more and more involved with the underworld and is very jealous of Jamal’s relationship with Latika eventually he takes her an starts working for a big time criminal and she is forced to be with him. The question for the 20,000,000 rupees is “In Alexander Dumas book “The Three Musketeers” two of the musketeers are called Athos and Portos what was the name of the third musketeer” Jamal is smiling and the host says I guess you know the answer and Jamal says “do you believe it I don’t” this is funny because it seems like the one thing he should know that was him and his brothers favorite book he uses a life line and calls Salim but he is excited when Latika answers his phone and she doesn’t know the answer and they both laugh this is because to them love is more important then money. Salim realizes what he has done to them and redeemed himself by allowing her to leave he is then killed by the gangsters in a bathtub full of money and says “god is good” this had a lot of meaning to me because that was what Salim wanted in life that was his dream. I think this is a very good film it is very well written and although there is a lot of drama it has the right amount of comedie also In Teachers, Parents Often Misuse Growth Mindset Research , Carol Dweck Says (Carol Dweck) they explain the troubles that can come from parents praising there child in the case of them having a fixed mindset. It shows that in some cases if your telling your child how smart they are it may make them feel less than when they uncover a challenge at completing a certain task they may feel stupid. In The Perils of "Growth Mindset Education" [...] (Alfie Kohn) it shows theories that suggest a growth mindset may be more helpful because it shows kids to take on challenges and learn rather then just feel superior because they were born with more intelligence.
The differences between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset is the idea of a growth mindset suggest you can accumulate intelligence through work and effort compared to a fixed mindset which believes certain people are born smarter than others. I believe that I just recently started developing more of a growth mindset because I have been learning that I can better my intelligence and all around life with just more work and effort. Where as before especially in my teenage years I felt like I had more of a fixed mindset and just told myself I was dealt a bad hand and that’s why I would not do well in school and tell myself I couldn’t do things. Which in my opinion is know way to live because I feel like no matter what you been through or where you came from you are in control of your intelligence in certain situations I feel some people may have it a little bit harder but that doesn’t mean that they cant overcome the challenges and be just as smart as someone who was born with more intelligence. The Hiraeth is a home that no longer exists whether it be a place like your childhood home or a person who has passed away or you cannot see them for some reason or the other. I think I am really going to enjoy writing about this although it might be emotional. I recently lost someone who has been very important to me for a very long time. I considered writing about her because all I have now are the memories and both of the happiest times in my life were with her we were best friends growing up she lived two houses down from me an most of my memories as a child have her and her two sisters in them. Then after I moved a few blocks away when I was seven even though it was close we lost touch and then she came back into my life when I was twenty and we dated on and off the past six years. I consider her to be my home because I had a very rough time for a while and when I was with her it felt like everything was going to be ok and I could always be myself and feel comfortable around her because she loved me for who I am.
I think this is going to be a hard topic to write about but I am excited as soon as Dr Mangini mentioned this assignment I thought of her. One of the first things I thought of after hearing about this project is the song “Home” by Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros especially the line in the chorus of the song where it says “Home is wherever im with you” to me this line explains exactly how I feel about her and why it is so painful knowing I will never see her again. Frank Falo
In August of 2010 when I was twenty years old I was on Facebook and I saw the profile of a girl I grew up with and was friends with as a child. So we started talking and decided to meet up and we went to hang out at the golf course at the bottom of her street. Even though we haven’t talked in about eighteen years it was like we knew each other our whole life her and her sisters were my best friends until I was seven years old and moved even though I only moved a few blocks away we never really got together after that. But on this day we just talked and shared memories of when we were children and right away I knew I liked this girl. Usually when I meet someone I get anxious and nervous but since we were each others first friends I was very comfortable with her right away. For a few weeks we were with each other all the time and finally I got up enough courage to ask her out. The next year was great I never thought I would feel this way about someone else and kind of always made fun of any of my friends who spent all there time with their girlfriends but that’s all I wanted to do was spend time with her. One day after almost a year of dating we got invited to go down to her friends shore house its right on the bay in Ocean City, New jersey which is one of my favorite places because I been going down there every year with my family since I was born. We sat and drank in this old house that looked like it was about to fall apart and there was nothing really to do the bay was covered with horseshoe crabs and was very dirty so we couldn’t even sit on the beach. But just sitting around doing nothing with her was great to me I never been with a person who I could just sit in silence with. In the fall of this year she had told me she thought she was pregnant and we got a test it came back positive and I couldn’t of been more happy thinking I was going to have a family with the girl I am in love with. For five months we did nothing but talk about names for the baby and if it was going to be a boy or a girl and one night she had severe pains in her stomach and her mother took her to the hospital the next morning when she called me I didn’t even want to answer the phone because I knew it was going to be bad news finally I did and she was crying and told me she lost the baby. An I could do nothing more but promise that everything was going to be ok but I was wrong it damaged our relationship very badly. We had both become very depressed and we just couldn’t make each other happy it was very hard because it went from being one of the most happy and exciting times in my life to one of the worst in the snap of a finger. We had split up for about two years and tried dating other people and then we had got back together in the spring of 2014 and for a little while things were great again but we kept being reminded of the child we lost it started to occur to me that it was a very toxic relationship and maybe things wouldn’t work until we both got our lives together or maybe they would never work. It was very hard for me because I loved this girl very much she was like my best friend I always considered her family so over the next few years I would always try to make things work. For a while she was having issues and we weren’t really in touch but she was doing her best to get better I just wanted to give her space but I would always ask around to make sure she was alright and from what I was told she was. Then on October 19th 2016 I was at the wawa up the street from my house and it was just a normal day and my brother called me and said “Frankie you need to come home now” when I walked in my door to see my whole family waiting for me in the living room I knew it was something really bad my mom was crying and before she could even finish saying Bridget it was like my heart was ripped out and I instantly felt like I was in a daze or a dream state I couldn’t believe one of the most important people in my life was gone. I would do anything to see her again even if it was just for a minute to let her know I love her and that I am sorry I couldn’t do anymore to help her. |
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