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Chapter 3: Disparaging the "Other" It's always interesting to me how as humans, we have a carnal tendency to want to feel as if we're superior than any one else in the room. It's a carnal tendency to be scared of vulnerability and so as a result, we find ourselves unintentionally 'disparaging the other'. The white race has been the superior race for...

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Summary: The African Doctor is a French comedy-drama film based in 2016 in a city north of Paris. The film is originally known as Bienvenue a Marly-Gomont. The film follows a doctor, Seyolo Zantoko, leaving and taking his family out of their home in Zaire/Congo, and settling in a small French village. The movie begins with Dr. Seyolo Zantoko struggling to find a...

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Chapter 5: How important is it to you to keep your name or take your partner's name if you marry? For me, I personally don't think it matters! I'm open to keep my own name or my partner's name. When I was younger, I definitely had dreamt of taking my partner's name because having a name that was practically last in the alphabet never...

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Film Analysis #1: Boy Erased Boy Erased is about a Pastor’s son, Jared, who realizes that he is not attracted to the opposite sex. He then participates in a church-oriented program called the Refuge Program. The film goes back and forth from time of the program to when Jared has significant interactions with either men or women. We begin to see how he...

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Chapter 1: If you have traveled to other countries and experienced other cultures, what differences from U.S. views of women and men and masculinity and femininity did you notice? I've traveled to many different countries but the one culture that I noticed a huge difference in gender views was Indonesia. I was born and raised until the age of 7 in Indonesia. Growing...

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"Language Influences Our View of Reality" The phrase “language influences our view of reality” means that our experiences, the way we communicate, how we communicate to others and receive communication from others affect how we live, affect how we see the world and affect our personal reality.  I speak two languages, Indonesian and English, fluently and one language, French, semi-fluently. English and Indonesian...

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Importance of a person's sense of self-worth in media It is extremely important to a person’s sense of self-worth to “see” people like himself or herself in the newspapers, on television, in magazines, and in other media outlets.  Life in Hollywood is completely glorified, and because of that, it causes people to feel as if they are less than if they don't see...

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