Summary Of Aids By Peter Redman

The AID’s epidemic began in 1981 and started with five young, previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles, and from there on the disease spread, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths. This crisis mainly happened amongst the LGBTA+ community, as the main recipients of AID’s were gay and bisexual men. This crisis sparked the Gay Right’s movement, increasing the demand for a higher education of STD’s and forcing the conservative government of the time to recognize organisations they had previously ignored. This is why this issue should be included in the time capsule. The disease caused global panic amongst Gen X, causing the field of medicine to advance and sparked a movement that is still prevalent in this day and age It was a major event in that generation that is still remembered, mourned and fought

Street-based adolescents in Ukraine are at significant risk of contracting HIV due to involvement in injecting drug use and unprotected sex (Busza et al., 2011). A Closer Walk illustrates that AIDS was spreading more rapidly in Ukraine as high as 15 folds in three years (Bilheimer, 2003). Adolescents have contracted AIDS by injecting heroin in their bloodstream as part of brotherhood tradition. In the movie, Ruslan represents an example of how AIDS infiltrates the society, as he will inject heroin and share the same needle with Katrina his partner (Bilheimer, 2003). Ruslan indicated that 40% of his generation (aged 15–19 years) tend to share the same needle as part of the culture. Ukraine experienced many of the social and economic disturbance that have a significant impact on population health (Busza et al., 2011). According to the movie, the price of heroin is very cheap (cost only one Ruble) and to avoid reality they tend to be drug users (Bilheimer, 2003). Lastly, globally, homeless and street-based adolescents are particularly vulnerable and experience multiple adverse health outcomes, high probabilities of HIV risk (Busza et al., 2011). As A Closer Walk Reveals; 70% of people who are infected with AIDS are drug users in China and Russia (Bilheimer,

African Americans have had a long history of oppression. They were forced to be slaved and kept under the white man’s control. They were segregated so that Blacks and Whites do not mix. Today, police brutality on the African American community led to the “Black Lives Matter” movement. The LGBTQ community has also been oppressed. They were described as ‘sinners’ by dominant groups. They were stereotyped to more likely molest and rape heterosexuals. There was also a devastating shooting in an Orlando LGBT night club, killing 49 individuals and injuring countless. Homosexual African Americans are denied access to resources due to their sexual orientation. Resources such as housing, employment, fostering, and other services. They also experience

Reading Disorders: Online Suicide and the Death of Hope by Debra Ferreday examines suicide in media. She starts her literary work by giving insight to the Abraham Biggs and “Bridgend suicide cult” cases. She then discusses the fears surrounding online suicide that could lead to “the death of hope” in media. Next, she criticizes Abigail Bray’s article that describes “reading disorders” and how online relationships connect with social media. Ferreday argues in her article that “reading disorders” inhibits our ways of hopeful thinking through media, which dismisses the potential of digital media on building connections. Most of Ferreday’s article is dense, which make it hard for readers to comprehend the main ideas of this literary work. Reading through this article was difficult due to the organization and diction of the article.

Steven Seidman’s Contested Knowledge (fifth edition) is a concise 365-page sociological theory textbook encompassing classical and contemporary sociology. It begins on a personal and autobiographical note in the preface with Seidman describing his emergence from the late sixties as an optimistic and bright-eyed undergraduate. He then expresses concern over witnessing sociological theory being isolated from its public purpose, as he himself felt when struck by the disillusionment of his “sterile and pointless” theoretical work, removed from his “original moral and political motives for becoming a sociologist”. The AIDS crisis in the 1980s shifted Seidman’s focus away from sociology and onto a myriad of other areas: feminism, post-structuralism, race theory and so on. Returning to sociology in later years, Seidman appears to have come to terms with the discipline of sociology, adopting a relativist stance. He aims to integrate a classic universalist theoretical past with a contemporary autonomous interdisciplinary present. Seidman appeals for a public sociology, in that social (or situated) knowledge should be a moral and political enterprise that makes a difference to our lives, and “to be part of the ongoing conversation and conflict over the present and future shape of the social world”. “A will to make a better world” is a very noble aim, and perhaps a futile one, but the sheer optimism of this does/might lure in a sociological newcomer.

Throughout this novel Go tell it on the Mountain; James Baldwin examines the different roles of his characters in the Christian church, in the lives of African-Americans. In the context of the biblical language, gender roles; masculinity and femininity are rendered in indubitable. Because John considers the man in the woman on Sundays through a lens he adopts from things he has “read of in the Bible,” he understands men to be, and become strong or “mighty” whereas he interprets the women’s strength as “patient” and “long suffering.” Just as Florence's use of skin creams makes the real racialized constructions of beauty, so do Elizabeth’s actions make real for John traditional oppositional gender roles; Baldwin again emphasizes the interconnections

“Masculinity as Homophobia” an article by S. Kimmel, that talks about how men these days have the fear of being judged and ranked based on their manhood. There are some arguments that the Professor mentions and uses in his article that supports his argument and some experiences from other people 's perspective in life of men over the years.

Society is shaped by a number of different forces and factors. Inevitably, these forces come together to construct the life of the individual. In this essay, C.W. Mills’ sociological imagination will be discussed. A personal problem,homosexuality, and a social issue, homosexuality, will be highlighted. In concluding the essay, a reflection on the usefulness of the sociological imagination will be offered.

C.J. Pascoe, in her book Dude, You’re a Fag, argues that heterosexuality and dominant masculinity are inextricably linked. In order for boys to assert their masculinity, they must comply with the social processes that Pascoe calls “compulsive heterosexuality.” Compulsive heterosexuality builds on the concept of compulsory heterosexuality, a theory coined by researcher Adrienne Rich which refers to heterosexuality as political institution that enforces heterosexuality on women as a means of ensuring male dominance through “physical, economic, and emotional access” (86), and constructs alternative sexualities as “the other.” Compulsive heterosexuality encompases a myriad of sexualilzed gender performances and rituals, not merely to affirm one’s

Haddijatou Kora Instructor Dr. Andrea Trapp Orientation to Honors 100-01 Media Analysis 13 February 2018 Teenage Pregnancy in Africa Teenage pregnancy remains an important and complex issue around the world, with reports indicating that Africa has higher rates than other

HIV/AIDS was considered to be most prominent in, although not contained to, Africa, south of the Sarah desert. It spread throughout the world quickly with different strands to release the unanswered question: how do we treat aids? Some countries were able to reduce the amount of victims taken in by

The movie did an excellent job on displaying how society responds to an emerging threat, in this case being the outbreak of an unknown virus, now known as HIV. The movie shows how when the break out of HIV first arose, the media and the CDC portrayed AIDS as solely being a virus that was transmitted among the homosexual community via sexual intercourse, so the straight community had no interest in the problem. As a result, heterosexual individuals were failing to see the emerging health threat from a sociological standpoint on how it reflected the society at large. Rather, heterosexuals viewed the outbreak of HIV as a personal problem that only affected the sexually active homosexual community. Consequently, the straight community began to discriminate homosexuals in a variety of ways,

Characters in films can portray impression of people and societies, which one experience in one way or another. These impressions may be positive or negative, depending on the filmmakers’ intentions. In The Imitation Game (2014) directed by Morten Tyldum, the protagonist Alan Turing is a little known but significant historical figure, who used his mathematical geniosity to end WWII and save millions of lives. Audience’s growing affection for this prickly, socially-awkward man creates a positive impression of genius. However, Turing’s hidden homosexuality, and the consequential government’s inhumane treatment towards him create a heartbreakingly negative impression of British Society in the mid-20th century. By peering back into the past,

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in her Epistemology of the Closet claims that “many of the major nodes of thought and knowledge in twentieth-century Western culture are structures—indeed, fractured—by a chronic, now endemic crisis of homo/heterosexual definition” (Sedgwick 2008, 1). Sedgwick argues that it is a crisis “indicatively male, dating from the end of the nineteenth century” (1). This is an interesting point since the male perspective is the pillar, of the Western Patriarchal model of gender role’s construction—and for our purpose sexual identity constraint. The author, in her book, says that “virtually any aspect of modern Western culture must be, not merely incomplete, but damaged in its central substance to the degree that it does not incorporate a critical analysis

In the 1980s, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome(AIDS) struck the United States and initially impacted the gay community the hardest. A homosexual man himself, Thom Gunn saw, firsthand, the effect AIDS had on the gay community when he lost many friends. An elegy to those taken too soon and an ode to those still fighting, Gunn wrote “The Man with Night Sweats.” In “The Man with Night Sweats,” Gunn utilizes tactile, visual, and kinesthetic imagery to convey the threefold progression of confusion, reflection, and helplessness those face when battling AIDS.