The movie that I have watched was based off the Detroit Depression, which started with the Detroit riot in 1967, which was also known as the 12th street riot, which was a violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan. This left 43 dead, and thousands injured, and the city in flames. It has since then been the fastest sinking city in the United States, with the highest foreclosure rate. The movie also shows the collapse of the United States manufacturing base. Detroit’s population rate has decreased excessively from 1955 to now.…
04.02 Assignment As election news sweeps through several media outlets, controversial topics fire up and are debated across the nation. The American people fire up their minds, reach into their stockpile of information, and begin to passionately fight for the matters that are important to them. One topic that has gained momentum is the fight for a higher minimum wage. There are many who support this argument but there are several that believe the opposite. Raising the minimum wage will help the economy grow and will help minimum wage workers by providing them a wage off which they can live.…
I was able to relate to the film in many ways because I am from an immigrant family and heard all the stories of how my parents immigrated to the United States from El Salvador. The film is about Rudy, the protagonist, a Mexican-American who was born and raised in East LA. Through experiencing many different stereotypes, Rudy is able to paint a picture of our society and how immigrants are treated, both in and out of America. In the film Rudy gets caught up in an immigration raid on a factory while attempting to pick up his cousin.…
The readings on socioeconomic class talk about the inequality within institutions. To be specific, Duffy and Mandell’s reading talks about the cycle of poverty, with the different perspectives of welfare and whose “worthy” to receive it without the title of laziness or irresponsible attached to it, plus the physical and emotional strain it has on individuals and those around them. Duffy and Mandell also expand on the role of women and the inequality within the workplace. Mooney goes into depth about the myths and realities of welfare and the perspectives individuals hold towards those who are in lower and higher classes. Mooney also talks about the discreteness in the topic of class because majority of Canadians are in the middle class,…
Living from Paycheck to Paycheck: An American Reality In the documentary short, 30 Days: On Minimum Wage, Morgan Spurlock and his fiancé explore the possibility of being able to survive for 30 days working only at jobs that pay minimum wage He and his fiancé relocate to Columbus, Ohio with each of them having only one week’s pay on minimum wage. Upon arriving in Ohio, they have to find a place to live and obtain employment.…
The that the separation of a family can hinder a person's emotional stability. Psychological issues can develop such as emotional distance which can make it more difficult to relate to others which can form a communication gap. This can negatively influence how an individual is perceived and treated. Also, bias can lead to discrimination which can add to the level of disparity a poor individual is going through. This film taught me that everyone deserves a chance to succeed and that one individual can drastically change the outcome of someone’s life.…
The documentary follows the workers of an emergency addiction hotline. Each worker spoke about why they chose his career. Most people who call are dealing with some form of extreme addiction. For example, one call was from someone with schizophrenia who was also addicted to cocaine and molly. From listening to them speak, it is amazing to hear how much they care about every single caller wether it be the addict or even a family member.…
On November 5, 2015, I was able to partake in a Poverty Simulation at the Rec Center. It was quite an experience. I was a fifteen-year-old girl who worked part-time at the local supermarket when school was not in session. I was living with my father, who was a full time worker, my mother, who worked part time, and my grandfather, who was paraplegic. We had to pay for our electricity, water, utilities, mortgage, miscellaneous and groceries.…
I think it was very courageous of Susan Hamovitch to make a documentary of her family’s most painful, protective secret at that time. In the early 90’s, when people were judged, criticized, made fun of, and in some cases even punished for what Susan tried to reveal to the world, was very daring. It must have been not easy for Susan, nor for her family, to reveal their family’s secret to the world as the mother said to Susan when she told her her intention of making a documentary of their family secret “well, you’ve certainly dropped a bombshell.” It was a bombshell for the family because of what they kept secret of their whole life was about to be revealed to the world. The secret of the family was Alan, who never developed the ability to speak as his…
Undeniably, the biggest influence to the development of my political identity would have to be my parents, and for a magnitude of reasons including their personal upbringings, emphasis on privilege, and importance of having values. My parents’ contrasting upbringing, mainly economic status, demonstrated the importance of utilizing my own life’s privileges and opportunities. My dad, having lost his mother at a young age, spent almost all of his childhood living in poverty being raised by his father. While my mother, much like myself, was able to grow up in a comfortable middle-class family. In sharing their separate yet intertwined stories with me, I learned the value of maintaining a perspective that empathizes with individuals’ differing experiences.…
Setting analysis of “The Lesson” In Toni Cade Bambara’s story “The Lesson”, readers are introduced to several characters. Most of the characters are children. They live a poor lifestyle and live in a run-down neighborhood.…
Living on a dollar Poverty is not an accident, like slavery and apartheid it is man made and can be removed by the action of human beings- Nelson Mandela. People all around the world are living on less than a dollar a day. We see in the documentary Living on a dollar how these people make it through life. Through the movie we learn the uncertainty of these peoples income.…
3. Access to Preventative Health Care Access to preventative healthcare was not possible because low socio-economic population do not worry of this issue unless they are in the late stage of their illness. They are busy providing and making ends meets that they forget to take care of their health. The access to preventative healthcare is there, but awareness needs to be enforced because majority of the people that do not use the resources are unaware of its existence.…
"It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world." Chaos Theory. The Butterfly Effect, is a movie that illustrates the life of Evan Treborn, who in stressful situations has blackouts and has no memory of the event. Later he finds that by recalling the memories, reading his journals, he can actually go back in time and change some of the horrifying events that have happened. The movie is based on the butterfly effect, a phenomenon in which a small perturbation in the initial condition of a system results in large changes in later conditions.…
‘Nothing last forever’ such a good quote. You can be on the top of your career but when you least expect it, you can be without a job and begging for a home. (Frontline Video, 2013) In the documentary, at the beginning the two families had a good life, and by a good life I mean without the worry of having to care about money, or sickness, etc. Maybe they weren’t millionaires but they had enough to own a house and raise their kids, money wasn’t a big problem.…