Throughout the whole semester my focus of my work has been surrounding the different aspects of mental health. In order to find new and creative ways to show the truth of mental health issues, I have found 2 sources of current events that have occurred within the last month. In addition, I have decided to challenge myself in creating a blog that discusses the issue of mental illnesses, featured on the site are; TedTalks, places to visit within Canada for help, photography, and much more. I created this blog to illustrate the stigma against mental health problems.
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I'm Brianne, this is my final semester at Champlain College and I am currently studying social science: education option. On my past time, I enjoy learning musical instruments, and practicing the ones that I currently study. Since I was in high school, my dream career "you can say" has been to become a elementary teacher abroad. As I am currently applying for universities, I have looked into studying abroad.
The inauguration of the new president, doesn't affect me. With this being said, I do not fear anything but I hope that the Americans aren't greatly affected by what the new President Trump has to do for the next four years.
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
May 14, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
May 14, 2017
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
April 2, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
April 2, 2017
The Star has published an article called “Ban food and drink ads to fight childhood obesity.” This article summarizes a non-profit organization, “The Heart and Stroke Foundation”, talking about a call to action towards the federal government in passing a law that prohibits food and beverage marketing towards children. According to Diego Marchese, interim CEO and executive vice-president of the Heart and Stroke Foundation, Canadian children obesity rates have tripled since 1979 which places them at greater harm to developing heart problems, diabetes in their futures.
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
March 24, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
March 24, 2017
Positive body Image gives the right to both male and female to appreciate their appearances and is content with their bodies. Whereas people who suffer from negative body image treat their appearances to not be adequate enough for society, mass media or themselves. The three important idioms to look into body image are; public health, psychology and child/adolescent psychiatry. These three topics which will be later discussed are important to the subject of body image.
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
March 19, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
March 19, 2017
The article, “Body talks: Manitobans share how they feel about their bodies” written by Shannon Cuciz and published in Global News on March 15th, 2017 addresses citizens from Manitoba discussing their feelings about their bodies. For example, a young woman named, Lara Rae, transgender women and her transition at the age of 51. She states the many pressures that came along with her transition.
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Postmodern feminism is the advancement to feminist conjecture that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralism theory while distinguishing itself from all modernist views and radical feminists. Postmodernism is a concept from the arts dating back to the late 20th century. It represents a movement from modernism that is illustrated through ideologies and the constituting problems relating to the "arts". Do Postmodern Feminists believe in diversity and equality of rights?
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
March 2, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
March 2, 2017
The Born To Rise foundation is a non-profit organization that explores and brings awareness to self-confidence, acceptance of others, anti-bullying and other relevant issues. The founder of this organization, Aisha Robinson spreads her message of living with vitiligo, a disease that affects the pigmentation in the skin. Her message is spread around schools, camps, boys & girls club, etc. Her personal goal is to promote support towards the empowerment of youth.
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
February 14, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
February 14, 2017
In the CBC article “The worst thing you could do is stare: Raising awareness about vitiligo” the journalist Shari Okeke talks about Aiesha Robinson’s medical condition, known as ‘vitiligo’. Since her diagnosis with this medical condition, Aiesha has begun to accept this condition; she is now a model and runs a non-profit organization to help others and to raise awareness about her condition. Through her years of first discovering her disorder, she became afraid that no one would love her – she confided in her older brother.
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amaliatoma in Contemporary Issues Winter 2017 - Centennial College
Centennial College
February 10, 2017
Centennial College
February 10, 2017
Animal cruelty is a subject that is being disregarded by many but shouldn’t be. Numerous people take this subject very lightly and don’t really know or think about it. I guarantee that many readers reading this will be surprised to find out the amount of times a Canadian abuses an animal. This is why I’ve taken on this issue and have chosen to talk about it.
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
February 7, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
February 7, 2017
On September 9th, 2016, the Guardian published a story on, “Kaepernick’s anthem protest is the perfect way to highlight America’s race problems” written by Les Carpenter. On August 26th, Colin Kaepernick of the 49ers quarterback denied standing for the American National Anthem. This act raised a national dispute about ‘racial discrimination, police brutality and the significance of the American flag’. Les Carpenter states, Kaepernick’s sudden concern about racial discrimination; Carpenter compares Kaepernick to Muhammed Ali based on his denial to fight in the Vietnamese War.
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B.Matthews in The Humanist Tradition (Winter 2017)
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
February 4, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
February 4, 2017
Feminism and Humanism: What’s the difference?
Equal rights, self-determination, and integrity are all forms of rights feminists prove to highlight, but just how is this possible if society is so against regulating all of these controversies? Many people may have never thought about the similarities that go hand-in-hand between two terms that everyone is familiar about; humanism and feminism.
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
February 3, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
February 3, 2017
The article by Professor Piers Robinson, “Fake News, Propaganda and Threats to Journalism” talks about the effects of fake news within social media to the impact of journalism. To ensure the reliability of this article, Professor Robinson is chair of the politics, society and political journalism. This article was written on January 25th, 2017 at the center for research on globalization.
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Alexandre in Contemporary Issues Winter 2017 - Centennial College
Centennial College
January 31, 2017
Centennial College
January 31, 2017
The Zimmerman 911 tape made it big in the news and the internet. Its reason is shocking. The trust worthy NBC news has posted a fake tape demonstrating how racist Zimmerman was towards the victim. Here is a segment of the fake tape showed by the program and “said” by Zimmerman:
“He looks like he’s up to no good, he looks black.”
In reality, Zimmerman was not being racist towards the victim. He was only being careful and answered the dispatcher’s question. This is the real segment recorded:
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Mattevan in Contemporary Issues Winter 2017 - Centennial College
Centennial College
January 31, 2017
Centennial College
January 31, 2017
Article: “Fake News Fooling Millions!” by Carl Stoffers, The New York Times: Upfront, January 9th 2017, http://upfront.scholastic.com/issues/01_09_17/fake-news-fools-millions/
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
January 27, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
January 27, 2017
When will the government take action to relocate 60,000 missing family members?
‘Give Us Our Children Back’: Hunger Strikers in Sri Lanka Demand Answers
By Dharisha Bastians and Geeta Anand
Published on January 26th, 2017
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The role of societal privilege in the definitions and practices of inclusion by Karen Geiger and Cheryl Jordan (March 2014) study investigates the effects of inclusions upon those with societal privileges. The purpose of this study is to illustrate the societal privileges within the practice of inclusion. The authors do this to fully comprehend the meaning of privilege and to discuss the difficulties raised by this study.
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Do Social Services Matter for Child Maltreatment Prevention?: Interactions between Social Support and Parent's Knowledge of Available Local Social Services
In this article (Tori Negash and Kathryn Maguire-Jack 2015) looks at how general policies to give services to the community decreases the incidence of child abuse and neglect. In the article authors gives a way to think about decreasing child abuse and neglect that many people might not think about. Authors believes that adding efforts to increase connections between parents may be effective.
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Everybody knows that racism is still a very important and prominent issue in our society. Everyday, people of color or other ethnicities not white are mistreated by law enforcement for no apparent reason. Other than the color of their skin, the law enforcement mainly rely on the situational and community factors when contemplating if nonlethal force is needed or not to apprehend a suspect. This is a very important topic because all citizens should be treated equally by law enforcement no matter what race or community they may come from.
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Man allegedly shot and killed by police for holding a “gun” up and having drugs on him. Witnesses stated Mr.Scott did not have a gun in his hand , he was holding up a book.
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This advertisement of Natan Diamonds is particularly disturbing. It is a jewelry advertisement showing a girl with her legs crossed in the picture and a man holding a closed jewelry box on the left. In the picture on the right, the jewelry box is open with the diamond ring showing. Surprisingly, in the second image, the legs of the woman are open. Gender is very important in this ad. The focus in the advertisement should be specifically on the diamond but the diamond is barely visible.
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“Race: A sense of Identity”
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Students cheating their way through the learning and education system.
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Kate P in Red - Ethics (Fall 2012) - Flacks, Hawkins
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
October 11, 2012
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
October 11, 2012
Bullying is a worldwide issue that I feel strongly about. There is no exact cause as to why individuals become bullies because each case is different but there are some common reasons. One might be that an individual might have low self-esteem and bring others down to make themselves feel better. Another may be the satisfaction of having power over others. For what reason an individual might bully someone can vary but the consequences are still the same. The ones being bullied are still walking away with fear, stress and resentment inside them.
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I'm Brianne, this is my final semester at Champlain College and I am currently studying social science: education option. On my past time, I enjoy learning musical instruments, and practicing the ones that I currently study.
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