An Examination of Shelby Eatenton in 'Steel Magnolias'

Interpersonal Communication is a very important ingredient in making strong, healthy relationships. Communicating is how we get a better understanding of one another’s perception of things, as well as how we help someone to better understand ours. We need to express our feelings in relationships and know that they are reciprocated. Not communicating leads to problems and misunderstandings. People need to learn to understand what the other person is trying to communicate. Interpersonal communication is the process by which people exchange information, feelings, and meaning through verbal and non-verbal messages: it is face-to-face communication. It is about what is said, how it is said, and the use of non-verbal communication through

After her son, Jackson Latcherie Junior’s first birthday party, M’Lynn and Shelby head to Truvy’s to get their hair done. In this scene the supporting characters find out Shelby’s kidneys have failed and she is on dialysis. Shelby states she can’t continue to live in that manner. She and M’Lynn nonchalantly inform the others that the following day they are going in to the hospital so that M’Lynn can give Shelby one of her kidneys. This behavior seemed to suit the definition of mutual pretense. They both knew they could die in surgery but act as if all is well or will soon be well (DeSpelder, 2015, p. 264). Shelby fit the description of an ideal candidate for organ transplantation, her condition was not improving with her current course of treatment. Fortunately, she became the one out of every four patients who receives their organ from a living

The film is the story of Mona, who is an African-American woman who is brought back to Africa and finds herself as a slave on the Lafayette sugarcane plantation (Gerima, 1993). In a previous life, she was born on the sugar farm and named Shola. She was caught and sold and transported as a slave in North America. This brings the interplay between the African American identity on one side and the other African identity. The film achieves this through reconstructing the past and history and also through the conception of blackness and race.

When Connie tries to be independent by not going to the barbeque with her family, Arnold Friend arrives and puts her into a dire situation in the “adult world”, which shows her the reality of life with a terrible

Leigh Anne leaves her Ordinary World by Crossing the Threshold into the Special World, where she must overcome a series of challenges. Leigh Anne’s journey begins when she helps out a juvenile in need. As a wife and a mom of two Mrs.

First, Lizzie’s father and twin brother join the army and go off to fight in the civil war and everything changes. Lizzie and her mother are left to run the family butcher shop with help from Amos, an african-american man who worked for Mr. Allbauer. Meanwhile, Rosanna is distraught because her crush, Henry Phelps, also went off to join the army. On her first day running

In this film, the main character Ada Monroe, who is the daughter of urban preacher, has lived a sheltered life. She has been raised with all the comforts of a privileged lifestyle including the finest education,

It is about a woman who drops out of medical school after her husband has been sentenced to eight years in prison. While she turns all of her attention to his well being while incarcerated, she also goes on a journey of self-discovery. The film went on to be acquired by AFFRM and Participant Media at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. While at Sundance, it played in the U.S. Dramatic Competition and won the Best Director award for DuVernay, the first African American woman to ever win. It also went on to be nominated and win many awards at other festivals. The film had a budget of $200,00 and a total domestic gross of $236,806.

V.S described her present health as “good” and described her definition of health as “an absence or control of illnesses and disease.” Her immunizations are all up to date. V.S exclaimed that she is “self-sufficient” and plans to remain that way for “a long time.” Although she is satisfied with her present health state, she conceded that “there is always room for improvement with diet and exercise.” V.S said that she smoked “heavily for 40+ years.” She quit after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015, and proudly declared that she hasn’t smoked

The plot by Matthew Harmon tells the story about a visit from Anne Boldin (Kate Voigt) to her sons and daughter. Different events had happened while they were preparing to welcome their mom after a long time since they

During the discussion, Anna stated that she perceives her current condition as a healthy person although she has chronic diseases such as osteoarthritis and type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and hypertension. Anna also mentioned that as she gets older, she found slightly difficulties in managing her life or conditions which include personal hygiene, cooking, carrying or lifting heavy weights when she is cleaning the house and lastly, walking for such a long period of time.

This film stars singer Harry Belafonte and actress Dorothy Dandridge. The plot of the film is about Belafonte’s character who is in the Air Force and has a girlfriend is seduced by Dandridge’s character and they run off together. They run off to Chicago where Dandridge’s character gets involved with a rich boxer and leaves Belafonte’s character for him. Belafonte’s character goes crazy and kills Dandridge’s character. The film mainly portrays two kinds of stereotype.

Lisa is 5’4’’ tall and weighs 140 pounds. She has not been hospitalized recently and she does not have any chronic medical conditions. She explains that she does not have any health conditions that keep her from participating in activities that she does enjoy. She explains that she does not practice preventative health measures. Lisa does not have a regular physician. Lisa rated her health as a 7.2 because she believes she eats healthy. However, she is concerned because she has not been to the doctor since her twins were born eight years ago. Lisa’s health history is “excellent” because she has not had any issues since the last time she went to the doctor which was eight years ago. She states that she does not get sick easily. She explains that medical bills are very expensive and she does not believe it is necessarily important. Lisa explains that

Additionally, she becomes friends with a girl at school named Rosa. One thing is different with Rosa than any of her other friends. She lives her life in a wheelchair and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at a young age. Rosa ends up giving Jessica the spirit she once had before the accident, maybe even a little more than before.

Inspired by actual events, this film is a story of the suffragette as told through the experiences of the fictional character of Maud Watts (played by Carey Mulligan). Reluctant at first, Maud commits herself to the suffrage cause when her husband throws her out of the house, she loses her job, and her only child is put up for adoption. While there are many poignant scenes in this film, one was when she told her son to remember her name and pleaded with him to look for her when he was older.