¶ … speak personal reactions critique. Chris M. Sullivan and Deborah I. Bybee's article "Reducing Violence Using Community-Based Advocacy for Women With Abusive Partners" is focused on providing readers with a complex understanding of what causes domestic violence and of how women can be instructed with regard to strategies that they can use with the purpose of preventing their husbands from abusing them. The community-based advocacy intervention discussed in the article dealt with 278 women who were abused by their concubines. Advocates focused on providing women with the information needed for them to understand that their condition is critical and that they have to get actively involved in preventing their husbands from beating them. The experiment resulted in women who were provided with education reporting less abuse cases and generally appearing...
This article is especially interesting for me because it provides me with the opportunity to see things from the perspective of someone who is actually familiar with the tools that he or she can use with the purpose of assisting women who suffered abuse and with the purpose of providing them with the important knowledge that they need in order to avoid falling victim to domestic violence.
Beautiful Boy Reaction to Part I and Part II: Beautiful Boy Stay up late According to David Sheff's memoir of his son's addiction entitled Beautiful Boy, "I tried everything I could to prevent my son's fall into meth addiction. It would have been no easier to have seen him strung out on heroin or cocaine, but as every parent of a meth addict comes to learn, this drug has a unique, horrific quality…He
Personal Reaction to BUCK Documentary BUCK is a documentary that focuses on telling the real-life story of Dan Brannaman, who is commonly known as Buck throughout the film. Buck is a cowboy with seemingly magical capability to calm uncontrollable horses and travels the country 40 weeks out annually to host different four-day horse clinics. Through this film, Cindy Meehl provides a clumsy but seemingly uncannily story that focuses on the life,
Schindler's List is an Oscar-winning movie about World War Two. The movie won Best Picture and several other major awards. The basic premise is the true story of a factory owner, Oskar Schindler, who saves Jews from the Nazis. He employed them in his factories, which makes them important in the war effort for Nazi Germany. This is what saves them from being deported from Krakow to one of the
Tweak There are a lot of books and movies about drug addiction and the toll it takes on a person and on their family. Many of these are fiction or biographies about another person. Nic Sheff's book Tweak is his autobiographical account of how he grew up in a household which allowed him to become dependent on drugs and alcohol, although the parents were not directly involved, and how it impacted
The film handles the subject of diversity very well, staying with the most important component of diversity i.e. race. The film doesn't use stereotypes in the typical fashion. It gives us a new picture of a young black man who is highly educated. "By making the black man an eminently qualified and desirable suitor at the top of a professional class to which only the smallest minority of blacks
Beautiful Boy Reaction: Part III Whatever" of David Sheff's book Beautiful Boy addresses the author's attempt to get his son, Nic, into a treatment program. Nic's hostility towards his father is palpable, as is David's helplessness in the situation. Nic, though a boy by many societal standards, is an adult and David's power to compel him into a treatment program is incomplete. Furthermore, Nic's medical condition, as assessed by the addiction
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