Media Source Assignment Guidelines DIRECTIONS: Identify an example of a family with a child with a disability from either a social media source (e.g., blog, vlog, twitter, facebook group) or a television show (e.g., Born This Way, Speechless). Follow your media source each week throughout the course of semester. – Create a log of days and times that you review the media source – Write a paragraph about the media source for that week, you can include ideas like: A) Observations about the dynamics of the family B) What you found interesting or curious You will turn in your weekly log and a one-page final summary at the end of the semester. GRADING: 15 Points – Weekly Log Entries 15 Points – Final One-Page Summary ----------------------- …show more content…
It is Arnie’s behavior that I find to be quite fascinating. Arnie does have stereotypical behaviors like hand flapping and wanting to climb up high on different objects. I have also noticed that Arnie has no fear when it comes to heights and does not seem to understand that he is not supposed to do something. For example, when Arnie climbs up the water tower the citizens of the town say “Here we go again” like this is a normal occurrence. • At this second stop in the movie I still believe Arnie has a type of low functioning autism. However, this form of autism also prohibits Arnie from growing cognitively. In the movie they say that Arnie is going to be turning 18, but he seems to be functioning cognitively at preschool level. The reason I say this is because like a preschooler Arnie does not understand the passage of time “how many days to my party Gilbert?” Arnie is also honest and very egocentric without regard to how others might feel like when he says “I’m having a party and you are not …show more content…
Arnie would frequently flap his hands, would obsess over people trying to find him when he would hide, and loved to climb tall things without fear. Arnie’s disability also seemed to prevent him from being socially appropriate. Arnie wouldn’t understand that it was rude or mean to say things like “dad is dead” “you’re not invited to my party!” Arnie also had a difficult time listening and comprehending direct instructions or orders. Arnie was told a few time not to touch the cake and not to climb the water tower, but he didn’t seem to listen. him. Arnie could repeat what he was told to do, but did not seem to comprehend what was asked of Arnie also seemed to have trouble regulating his emotions. One minute Arnie would be laughing because he killed the grasshopper the next he would be crying because he killed the
Arnold seems like the typical teenage cool guy with his roughed up look. In this short story, Joyce Oates says, “She recognized most things about him, the tight jeans that showed his thighs and buttocks and the greasy leather boots and the tight shirt, and even the slippery friendly smile of his, that sleepy dreamy smile that all the boys used to get across ideas they didn’t want to put into words” (Oates 5). Connie knows
To begin, Lennie has this big dream of George and him living on their own land, being their own bosses, and tending to his own rabbits. Lennie’s major obstacle in achieving his dream is that he is slower than most people for his age. Lennie acts like a child making George the responsible adult. Lennie also listens to whatever George says because Lennie looks up to George almost like he is his brother. Lennie also has a tendency to forget what he is told:
After analyzing the possible mental issues displayed within the animals in Winnie-the-Pooh, there is a question with the mental state of the author A. A. Milne. The characters within the story could have possibly displayed Milne’s mental disabilities that he faced on a day to day schedule.
...ng skills. Student Chelsea Greenlee says “We help the kids keep boundaries, teach them alternative responses, and we teach them things that a typical person does on a daily basis. It all ties into their basic social skills” People with autism are very smart and Lennie could have had the opportunity like kids today and his life could have been different. Given these arguments research has shown Lennie may have had some kind of autism, which is the same as mental retardation. “Autism is just a complex brain disorder that affects that way the brain uses or transmits information” and due to Lennies symptoms it is 90% that he has Autism. Research also suggests that boys are almost 4 times more likely to be diagnosed with autism than girls . Throughout the story Lennie showed many different symptoms repetitively but overall he was a good character that showed much quality.
Gilbert wanted to go back so bad that he asked Arnie if he when he’s done he could get out the tub and put his clothes on. But Gilbert forgot that Arnie’s disability make him forget things fast so Arnie forgot to get out the tub. Arnie stayed in the tub all night until Gilbert got him out in the morning. Arnie’s disability is so severe that he forgot to get his own self out the tub. Arnie’s disability also affect his everyday life by acting up in public. Every time Gilbert goes to work Arnie runs to this tower and climb it. The cops always come but can never get him down but Gilbert does and that can really get Arnie in trouble. Arnie doesn’t know what he doing is illegal because of his disability. One time the cops actually locked him up but Arnie seemed to didn’t care not realizing he’s really in trouble now. When people talk to Arnie his words is drivel and people don’t really understand what he’s
Another powerful video, Including Samuel, ignited my insight in this week’s class. As I heard in the video, “inclusion is an easy thing to do poorly.” The movie chronicles the life of a young boy, Samuel, and his family. With the shock of learning about their son’s disability, it caused his parents, Dan and Betsy, to experience the unexpected. Nevertheless, they did everything to include their son and help him live a normal life focused on his capabilities, rather than his incapabilities. I even admired how his friends knew so much about him, his likes and dislikes, his strengths and his weaknesses.
Arnie Grape’s disability has a number of traits and has developmental disability. When looking at Arnie, we notice he has sensory issues, inappropriate laughs and cries, ordinary tantrums like when he yells “I want hot dogs” like a four year old, poor verbal skills; he is able to speak but has limited vocabulary, he has major social issues and does not understand morals. Arnie comes from an economically depressed and dysfunctional family where incidents happen quite often such as the death of his father and older brother, the struggle of his obese mother who is unable to perform as a normal mother, the role of his older sister is like a mother to them, his younger sister who is in a stage where she has not found her identity yet and is embarrassed of Arnie, and finally Gilbert his second brother who acts as a male head of his family after his father’s death and is the main caregiver for Arnie. Indeed, every member of the family has a role in the house that fulfills every one of them. This paper will clarify the movie, the role of the characters and their purpose.
“Including Samuel” is a documentary about the complexities of inclusion. Like so many other issues in our lives, the solutions are far from clear. This film explains a kid named Samuel and the family’s efforts to provide an education that involves inclusion for him and his disability. He was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of 4. The film then describes other people like Nathaniel and Emily that struggle with inclusion and the difficulties they face on a day to day basis. An analysis of this film shows the filmmakers effective and accurate complexities of inclusion to a full extent.
In the Salinas River Valley, after the Great Depression, there were a large number of unemployed workers seeking jobs. In the fiction novel "Of Mice and Men," by John Steinbeck, Lennie Small is among one of those men. Lennie and his friend George both have just received jobs on a ranch as farm workers. What brings the two together is their dream to someday own their own land. Lennie has a lot of character and personality traits that define him. One trait that he has is he is very forgetful. Another trait he has is he is very curious. A final trait he has is that he is very reliant. Although he might not be the intelligent person in the book, he has a very well developed personality. Lennie demonstrates his personality and character traits throughout the novel.
Throughout the movie the psychological, social and physical impact that Arnie’s chronic mental illness had on his family are illustrated. The aspects I will discuss are the social and psychological as they had the most impact on the family. However the physical impact of fatigue due to increased burden on Gilbert and Amy was assessed.
Arnie is always with someone in his family. The Grapes make reference to a sort of “to-do” list for Arnie when Gilbert does not help Arnie get out of the bath. While there are several scenes where Arnie is able to feed himself, someone is always serving him. Gilbert is always transporting him somewhere. Arnie’s social skills are also very poor. One example of this is Ken Carver’s funeral. Arnie is sitting by his father’s grave, pulling at the grass during the ceremony. When he sees a large Burger Barn semi-truck barreling down the road, he cannot contain his excitement and starts screaming for Gilbert. This is far from one of his only inappropriate bursts. In another scene, Arnie is sitting in a tree while Gilbert is working on the house with his friend, Tucker. Gilbert wants to Arnie to go down into the basement to help Tucker, but Arnie disagrees and says “Dad’s in there!” and pretends to hang himself with his necklace. (Grape). His father is not actually in the basement; however, Arnie is recalling his father’s suicide. This is an inappropriate moment that leaves Tucker feeling rather uncomfortable. As for his conceptual and occupational skills, there is not any defining moment in the movie that demonstrate his abilities. That being said, Arnie is often with Gilbert at
In the end this assignment was one that was not only eye-opening, but also one that had some personal fulfillment was well. I was able to truly access my own personal usage and see not only how it compared to others but also show me that I needed to really think and question myself about if I truly need to use Media as much as I currently do. Along with this the Media silent day also showed me that we don 't need to be connected with the media for our lives to function normally and that in fact we as humans can be much more productive without it, something that I was able to experience first hand over these 5 days. What I learned about my media consumption I know I will carry with me not only throughout this year but hopefully my entire life as well.
Media or medium of communication has been conceptualized to effect and drive information to the greater masses because it’s the venue where information can be linear form of communication. This essay will discuss what it is meant by media according to online Business Dictionary defines as the communication channels through which news, entertainment, education, data, or promotional messages are disseminated.” This may include broadcasting and narrowcasting medium such as newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, billboards, direct mail, telephone, fax, and internet, the Business Dictionary further includes in this definition.
In the essay “Disability,” Nancy Mairs discusses the lack of media attention for the disabled, writing: “To depict disabled people in the ordinary activities of life is to admit that there is something ordinary about disability itself, that it may enter anyone’s life.” An ordinary person has very little exposure to the disabled, and therefore can only draw conclusions from what is seen in the media. As soon as people can picture the disabled as regular people with a debilitating condition, they can begin to respect them and see to their needs without it seeming like an afterthought or a burden. As Mairs wrote: “The fact is that ours is the only minority you can join involuntarily, without warning, at any time.” Looking at the issue from this angle, it is easy to see that many disabled people were ordinary people prior to some sort of accident. Mairs develops this po...
Media is everywhere. Spending a whole day purposefully avoiding media in todays tech savvy, media saturated world is difficult. Phones that have connection to the Internet, Television, radio, books, movies, billboards are all ways the media communicates with us. To avoid media is almost impossible it seemed. Without interacting with the media it is easy to notice what hold it plays in daily life. This task may not have been an easy one, but it was a very eye-opening adventure. By removing media it became clear as to why we actually use media, and how those uses can be affected. A day without media shocking was very informative.