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Archive for May, 2011

Here are the videos I was going to post before. They are both from the Maury show the first shows women  body builders who are still feminine (people can be both touch and feminine at the same time). The second video show people who are men but look like women and women who are really […]

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real life

For the past 5 years (including this year) I have lifeguarded at a private pool. It is filled with many old people but we do get a few children coming through. One of the children that has been coming there even before I started working there is an autistic boy named Austin. I have watched […]

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Acceptance

After watching Kilbourne’s video I agree with her arguments. Throughout our lives we are tough that girls and guys have to act, look and respond in certain ways. In the past women have been seen as fragile and always taking care of the husband and kids and not getting anywhere in life because men were […]

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Every year for eighteen years, beginning when you’re about five or six years old, children go to school eight hours a day, five days a week.  Throughout fourteen of those years, while you’re going through grade school, you are learning some variation of something that was previously taught and learned; it’s just a little more […]

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Early gender development in children

The documentary “Our America with Lisa Ling: Transgendered Child,” discusses how children with gender issues know or feel that they are developing in the wrong body.  They learn how to associate themselves with the other sex just as a normal person would develop gender identity of their birth sex. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5P9kUz0yO0

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Childhood in Africa

Childhood in Africa is almost barbaric.  It resembles childhood when the concept  was first emerging in America.  A majority of the population in Africa are extremely poor and therefore in bad health.  Aids and other diseases leave many children parentless and surviving on their own.  African children begin working at a very early age just […]

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Gender Identity Disorder

                Until I saw the 20/20 special, My Secret Self: A Story of Transgender  Children, I never really knew or understand what being transgendered was. It was able to approach a very controversial topic with little bias and explain the mindset of someone who is diagnosed with gender identity disorder. As children grow up, they assume […]

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Educate to Innovate

Until hearing about the program in class, I was unaware of the initiative the administration of President Obama took to improve the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs in the United States. Although the school system in America is sufficient and successful, it is lacking in science and mathematics compared to various other countries. […]

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Childhood Depression

The article begins about a 4- year old boy, Kiran, who, according to his parents, rarely acts up and is often obedient.  His parent began to see worrying signs that concerned them. Kiran was not having fun and was often bored at everything. When they took him to Disneyland, he responded that “Mickey lies, dreams […]

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designer babies

It is very scary that this doctor says he might be able to do this within the next couple of years. I absolutely agree with what Arthur Caplan says in the second part of the video.

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