Orpheus Video Analysis

This video is a lecture by Jean Kilbourne. She is the creator of several films in the Killing us Softly series, which deal with the exploitation of women in advertising. She is also a famed author, speaker and political advisor.

The movie Instructions Not Included is shown off as a Mexican, sweet and cheesy chick flick through its previews. This movie is not just comedy, cute, witty, funny, but also contains extremely powerful messages through a truly heart-warming story. The movie follows a resident playboy in Mexico named Valentine. Valentine's life is flipped upside down when his former girlfriend leaves her baby Maggie on his door step, making him believe it's his. He leaves Mexico in search of the baby's mother to a hotel where she is working as a lifeguard in Los Angeles. At the hotel there is no sight of Maggie's mother. An incident occurs where Maggie in drowning in the pool and Valentine jumps off a balcony on the second story, into the pool to save his daughter. There is where he is offered a job as a stuntman.

1.) What is one definition of culture from the sheet "What is Culture?" and what was an illustration/example of this definition that you found in the video?

After watching the two AAIDD videos, my perspective on self-determination has grown. I never realized before just how important self-determination was to a student who has intellectual or developmental disabilities’ ability to succeed. Teachers and parents should provide a supportive environment that will foster these self-determination skills such as goal setting. By setting their own goals, they are working on developing skills that will help them have a higher quality of life later as they transition into adulthood. Setting goals and working toward goals was just a normal part of my education, but I didn’t realize just exactly what they provide skills wise for students who have exceptionalities. It is important for these students to gain

Countries have the right to detain people to protect national security, as long as those people actually pose threats. “Harmony Off Key” is a video displaying the conditions and prejudice Japanese-Americans faced during World War 2. In the video, a man describes the experiences he had while held in Camp Harmony. As the video goes on, you also learn about Japanese-Americans being detained and sent off to camps.

In this video of TEDx, Anna Lappe, an author, explains how the food industries uses different marketing tactics to target children. Lappe’s main claim in this video is to tell food industries to leave the parenting to parents, and gives many reasons as to why. One of them is that the food industries are now using cartoon characters on their food such as Dora, Shrek, and many others in order to appeal to kids. By doing so, food industries have now created a brand loyalty among children, meaning that now kids will only buy the food just because of the cartoon character on the box cover, that brand loyalty may last years. In other words, kids are being brainwashed by the food industries. Another reason as to why the parenting should be left for

I found the signing statements the most interesting in Chapter Seven. A signing statement is an announcement made by the president at the time of signing a bill into law. This is used sometimes to show the presidents’ interpretation of the new law and their predictions of the many benefits of the new law. It also has been used to identify sections of the law that are considered improper or unconstitutional. There have been many signing statements throughout history but many of them were not recorded.

In the spring of 2015, I was a junior in high school. The day I initially heard about the “SAE” video, started like any other. I had gotten ready to leave for school when my mom stopped me to watch something on the news. This wasn’t abnormal at all so I looked to see what she was talking about. As we heard the story and what had happened we were both flabbergasted. Neither of us could believe that that had happened, much less at the University of Oklahoma. When I got to school, the video was the major talk considering we had people recently graduate from our high school and pledge to that fraternity. It seemed as if our school was in shock that people, specifically the people we knew, would say and participate in something so horrific.

Something I found particularly interesting in the “Mya Renaissance” video was the architecture that the Mayans created. The structures that they built were beautiful. The structures were the largest structures outside ancient Egypt at the time. It amazes me that they can build structures so vast without the equipment that we have today. It also is unbelievable that many of these structures are still standing today because of how well they were built. It was also interesting to me how the cities were laid out according to the cardinal directions of Mayan belief. The structures were created for specific events and used as markers for the Mayans. The “El Castillo pyramid at Chichen Itza” is particularly interesting because it catches the light

Set yourself, a white male, in a scenario. You are patrolling the streets in your squad car of Twentynine Palms, CA, when you spot a traffic infraction. You pull behind a car with your lights flashing. You get out of your vehicle and approach the car, making sure all the steps are taken such as pressing on the trunk to verify the trunk is secure and placing your prints on the car just in case the driver decides to leave the scene. Upon approach you realize you are dealing with someone of a different race; however, as a law enforcement officer race doesn’t cross your mind. You have way to many other things to think about such as does this guy have a gun, am I going to deal with someone who is going to be aggressive or will they be passive

This Ted talk elaborated on how prosecutors could change lives by taking positive action towards crime being committed, and how everybody could contribute to that positive action by making sure prosecutors we are voting for has the quality that can enhance lives instead of terrifying lives. It stressed much on prosecutors’ reform to keep our community safe and cut down on unnecessary spending.

The third video, Run, includes more symbolism. However, it is mostly focused on the relationships that the characters had with each other and their interactions together. Basically, the group can be paired off into Rap Monster and V, Suga and Jungkook, and J-Hope and Jimin. Jin does not have a partner in this. He is further differentiated from the group in this way, and in the video he still has his recording motif, as well as looking into the camera.

By watching Stelarc and Orlan’s videos, I gained two completely different views on the idea of western beauty. When I think about the definition of Western beauty, I think of the perfect body shape, perfect skin, perfect hair and makeup which then becomes the “ideal” look.

The TEDx Talks video, A Special Technique for our Health and Wellness, by Dr. Howard Chen, discusses how adults should use a special technique for physical play in order to improve physical, mental, and emotional health. To explain, the special technique is completely free and requires no specific equipment or cost. Moreover, it is something people already know how to do (Chen, 2014). Dr. Chen is stating people have been doing it for years and may have quit at some point in their life, however, it is a special technique that can be restarted. To illustrate, it is similar to riding a bicycle; once people learn how to ride a bicycle, they do not forget how to do it. In essence, Dr. Chen is talking about physical play. In other words, as people

After, watching the short video spoken by Jean Kilbourne; which she stated a lot of things that made you think deeper into reality. Watching the video; she made some good points that stood out to me; such as Brad Pitt, Linda Evangelista, Lorde, and men and women who are photo shopped; to make it seem like they are something that they are not. As you continue to watch the video; Jean Kilbourne made opinion about gender. She believes that the media makes celebrities look like something they are not; which is causing children that are growing up to want to be someone they are not because they see it in the Ad’s, magazines, and commercials. As, I stated previous in the paragraph; one of the points that was made about gender. Was the Chance Ad