Freaks

1. Disability- Upon analysis of the term disability, Tod Browning’s film “Freaks” immediately comes to mind as it portrays the stark reality of how people with disabilities were viewed within the American society at the time. “Freaks” was critical in the early 1900’s, because the general public perceived this group of people as inferior humans with inhumane qualities. This film was pivotal in humanizing people with disabilities, and teaching the public the classic lesson that judging a book by…

well. A lack of social interaction does not give children the socialization that they need to develop. Children with Autism have trouble understanding society and their peers. This impacts their cognitive abilities and brain development. The book “Freaks, Geeks, and Asperger’s Syndrome” is written by Luke Jackson, a thirteen year old boy who has Asperger’s Syndrome who describes his experience with the disorder. In his case, he said that staying quiet and isolated only increased the effects of…

Every year, more than 100 million animals are being tested with products to help cure an illness, or are helping to better the life of humans. If these products work, then it is a success, but if they do not work it hurts the animal’s and it puts them in danger. Many may say it is a good thing because the products are being tested before handing them to a human. Animal testing is that it is wrong and dangerous and especially for the safety of medications for human consumption. Many researchers…

show— hence, why I adore words so much. My favorite example of communicating that “complex emotion” part is a book called Freaks Like Us, by Susan Vaught. The Public Library Teen Summer Reading Challenge decreed I read it the summer going into eighth grade, and earned the title of “first book to make me sob uncontrollably”. It’s about a schizophrenic boy everyone calls Freak. He’s suicidal. Readers feel the book, a decisive lack of adjectives form intense backgrounds and long sections omitting…

In Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s Think Like a Freak many key aspects of challenging unconventional thinking and “thinking like a freak”. One piece of advice the book offers is to incentivize people, but don’t manipulate them. This is valuable advice, which many people will find to be a beneficial resource to getting what they want. Incentives can be useful in achieving goals that would be otherwise unattainable without the help of others. Humans are inherently selfish beings, not…

The book that I did my project on is “Cirque Du Freak”, by Darren Shan and the book tells a story about a boy named Darren and how he came across the circus that changed his life. For the book project, I made the flyer that was used in the story to influence Darren and his friends into deciding to go to the circus. This flyer has a lot of importance in this story because this flyer is what convinced Darren to go to the circus and see the performance. One day, Darren’s friend named Alan came…

Reading Response Synthesis: The two themes in this week’s reading, “Get That Freak: Homophobia and Transphobia in High Schools” are, the negative role of high school teachers and administrators towards homophobic and transphobic bullying and the impact Canada’s multicultural society has on homosexual and transsexual individuals. The reading surprised me when they talked about the negative role that teachers had when it came to homophobic and transphobic bullying in high school. Teachers are…

Doris fuller lost his daughter to a mental illness. It was a few weeks before her 29th birthday. She did it by stepping in front of a train in Baltimore. Her name was Natalie and her dad and herself wrote a book together “Promise You Wont Freak Out: A Teenager Tells her mother the truth about Boys, Booze, Body Piercings, and Other Touchy Topics (and mom responds).” Since it was such a scary concept telling the truth about her secrets they were on morning America shows and got paid to give…

Old Causeway Steak and Oyster House The Old Causeway Steak and Oyster House is situated on a unique piece of property in Manahawkin. It is conveniently located to the Causeway bridge and route 72, just minutes from the Garden State Parkway. The average prices can range for $10 to $40 and they offer lunch, dinner, brunch, takeout and late-night snacks. Their cuisine is American, Seafood and they do offer a bar. My first time here with my family and we thought the food was out of this world!…

roles (eg. the athlete, the parent). While she does pay close attention to the commodification of the sexualized Black female body by Black men, and what is referred to as “black-on-black violence” especially in her chapters “Booty Call” and “Get Your Freak On”, what she does not examine is how these two ideas intersect. More specifically, Collins fails to address is the role of domestic violence and homicide within this power struggle. My thesis states that due to oppressive conditions created…