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Research analysis: Sociology Movie title: Lion Research question: 1) How does switch from a low class living style to the average middle class change a person? What happens if they go through that transition at young age, does it still accept them? 2) Does growing up with two different set of family, either biological or adoptive have a negative or positive impact? 3) Does growing up in family where a child is a different race as the parents have a negative impact on the child? Analysis “Lion” is a film that center around a young boy named Saroo. Who lives in the Khandwa, India. He lives in lower class of India, not being able to read or write. Through the movie he is lost and adopted by an Australian middle class couple. The movie
The next step up the ladder of normality is the lower class. Unlike the natives who don't look to fit into the normal set by American middle class, American lower class are constantly looking for ways to improve. PBS ran a very interesting special on classes within the United States. In the special, "People Like Us," was a section devoted to a woman named Tammy and her family. Tammy is a typical lower class citizen; she lives in a trailer in a small town, trash piled around, and no car to drive. After being on welfare for eighteen years, Tammy got a job at a Burger King restaurant 15 miles away. Tammy wants to become better; in fact she wants to go back to school. "I'm hoping to go to college and be a school teacher. That was my goal from the time I was five years old up until now." Even though Tammy wants to move up a class, she still realizes to which group she belongs.
Individuality is a valued character in society and is what makes us who we are, if we lose our individuality and conform we lose ourselves. In the article “The Sociology of Leopard Man” by Logan Feys, the author describes what he thinks it means to be an individual and the dangers of conformity. Leopard Man lives in seclusion and is covered in tattoos, Feys uses him as an example of an individual that does not care what the world thinks of him. I agree almost completely agree with Feys’s ideas about individuality. I agree because of Feys’s points about false normality, and how going against conformity is what makes an individual, however I disagree with his repeated use of the word freak, but see why he would use this language.
The field of biracial identity development and psychological adjustment is still in the beginning stages of its development. More research needs to be done in this field to explore other variables, such as environmental, which may affect the developmental outcome of the biracial child. However, research has shown that the healthy development of one’s racial identity is imperative for a biracial child to be able to achieve and maintain a positive psychological and social adjustment throughout the lifespan.
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The Lion King is a well-known children’s movie that was produced by Disney. The movie begins with a small cub being presented to the kingdom by his parents, Mufasa and Sarabi (Hahn, Minkoff, & Allers, 1994). The small cub is named Simba and he will one day become the king of his father’s kingdom. Mufasa’s brother, Scar, does not like that Mufasa’s son will one day take over, and plots to kill Mufasa and Simba (Hahn, Minkoff, & Allers, 1994). The movie continues on, and Mufasa saves Simba from a stampede, but Scar will not save Mufasa (Hahn, Minkoff, & Allers, 1994).
Individualism and conformity--two very commonly used terms to describe anyone in today’s time. In comparison to the article “The Sociology of Leopard Man,” written by Logan Feys, one of the most notable quotes that relates to individualism and conformity is “to be a human is to be an individual human, with individual tastes [...][and]talents [...] that are distinct from those of others. Living in society, we are under constant pressure to surrender our individuality to the will of the majority, the school, the workplace, the family, …” (Feys Par. 6). To be truthful, conformity and nonconformity are used to determine a person’s inner-being, but every person is different, and in this case people will not always agree with each other on how they should live.
The Lion King is a Disney animated movie portraying the life and times of Simba, who later becomes the greatest lion king known in the land. Simba's rise to the throne is a journey fraught with perils and hardships that make it an absolutely trilling story for the whole family! Although The Lion King is an exciting and entertaining movie, the movie is also a good illustration of several psychology concepts.
“All’s Not Well In Land of ‘The Lion King,’” is an article written by Margaret Lazarus. Lazarus graduated with honors from Vassar College and has made many films. In her article she tells of her experience at a showing of The Lion King. She brought both of her kids to this movie hoping to, “enjoy an original, well-animated story about animals on the African Plain.” By the end of the movie; however, her kids are, “scared and frightened by The Lion King,” and “deeply affected.”
The 2009 film “Precious”, based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire, tells the tragic story of sixteen-year-old Claireece Precious Jones; an overweight, illiterate who is now pregnant with her second child. Her life at home is a complete nightmare; her mother, Mary, verbally, emotionally and physically abuses her daily. Her father, Carl, molested her on multiple occasions and impregnated her twice then disappeared. Precious was kicked out of public school and took an offer to attend an alternative school where she meets her inspirational teacher Miss Blu Rain. Precious begins to believe in herself and prepares herself for her future. She becomes engaged in class and learns how to read and write; she was called stupid and dummy all her life and
The theatrical film The Lion In Winter stars Peter O’Toole as King Henry II, and Katharine Hepburn as his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Adapted from his stage play of the same title, author James Goldman provides a fictional, but plausible, account of intra-family deceit and political conniving within the large and powerful Angevin Empire, which spanned much of the land that is now Britain, and much of what is now Northeastern France, within the medieval world. Directed and edited by Anthony Harvey, the story, set in the winter of 1183, details the succession crisis faced by the aging King Henry II, as his three surviving sons vie for the crown, and Queen Eleanor plots, both with and against them, to regain her freedom, and become the power behind the throne occupied by her choice of successor. King Philip of France patiently waits, seeking political advantage within the internal fracturing, for the opportunity to destroy the Kingdom that Henry II has worked a lifetime to build.
I chose to view the movie Lion, a movie based on the book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. This movie is about a five-year-old boy, Saroo, living in a poor, rural area in India. Saroo convinces his older brother Guddu, to let him tag along and find work in a nearby city. Saroo ends up trapped and alone in a decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, over 1,000 miles away from his home.
They might say this does affect them because they can grow up with disorders or behavior problems. Allen et al explains they can result in behavior problems like depression, anxiety, stress disorder, and lowered school performance (Allen 324). For these reasons some may agree with the fact that this does impact the child in a negative way because of all the disorders and since the children are so young, they believe it will impact them. People may say a bad childhood impacts a child negatively, but I think it depends if the child lets it affect them. Others may argue because of the way the child is spoken to, it will leave the child traumatized and affect them in many other ways. Bride mom, Sweetness always said rude things to her own all because of her skin color, she said things like: “But I couldn’t do that no matter how much I wished she wasn’t born with that terrible color. I even thought of giving her to an orphanage.” (Morrison 5). The things parents say some believe would leave a child negatively impacted or traumatized since the parents are speaking them to this way. The children are so young and many believe they should not be hearing this from their own parents at such a young age. However everyday children come out of rough neighborhoods and most of the time they make the best of it and turn their life around, even while being neglected by their parents. And although people still believe it affects them negatively, but I don’t agree there are people who make it positive and live there life the best they can. While this may be true I just think it depends on how the child itself lets them impact themselves. The child has the decision because it is their life and they can push themselves to do better, if they do not want to live that lifestyle. Therefore I don’t agree that growing up with a hard life impacts the child negatively, since it is one’s decision to make on how
The 2008 documentary The End of Poverty? is a film that focuses around global poverty and how it became the tragedy that it is today. Poverty was created by acts of military conquest, slavery and colonization that led to the confiscation of individual’s property and forced labor. However, today the problem remains because wealthy countries who take advantage of developing third world countries. The film interviews several activists who discuss how the issues became and several ways in which they could be eliminated, as well as interviews from individuals who are experiencing it firsthand.
The Lion King is a movie created by Disney and was released in the summer of 1994. It is about a pride of lions that uphold the cycle of nature, or as they call it “the circle of life” (The Lion King, 1994). The lion pride is considered royalty within the “Pride Lands” and are just and fair when it comes to hunting only what they need. A young prince named Simba is introduced and he is next in line to be the future king. However, Simba’s uncle Scar had other plans. He believed that it was his right all along to be named future king and wanted all of the glory to himself. Eventually, Scar comes up with an elaborate plan to rid the Pride Lands of Simba and the current King, Mufasa and take the throne for himself.
Social class, as defined by the film, is something that affects who you are as a person. In the film, the people saw class as the defining factor of a person. They saw class as a barrier between people. If one person is in a different class than another person, then obviously, they are not supposed to associate. They allowed their social class to dictate their action each day. It was amazing to me just how much the people in the film allowed their class to truly define them and really serve as a boundary in their life. The people in the film lived their daily life with their social class as the most influential factor. Their worth and value as individuals was not determined by anything else except the amount of money they had. It was really interesting to see how the amount of money a person had somehow equated with their worth in society. The same is true within our society today, but in the film, this aspect was especially evident. The film really shed a light on just how impactful social class is and just how much we allow it to