Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The Wire
In media class we viewed a clip from the HBO series THE WIRE. In this clip we viewed many stereotypes being perpretrated. For one, many young black males were being portrayed as criminals, drug dealers, and even robbers. Hispanics as well were portrayed the same way. We even seen the negative portrayal the media has given all inner city school kids. If your an inner city school kid your subjected to violent and disrespectful acts. Other then that we also saw how some of the kids interact with one another in such a negative environment. We looked at two girls in particular. One of those girls was being bullied and in retaliation to the bully she cut her face. This gives us a thought in the back of our minds whereas we have to think about how others feel before doing anything.
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To look at it at a different perspective, away from the violence, check the academic level of the student. What would come across as basic mathematics seems to confuse the children. Of the 30+ students in the classroom, mabye 1-2 can actual accomplish the work. Also, upon watching another episode of The Wire, the teachers realize that the children aren't keeping up with the curriculum and tell the new, ironically caucasian, teacher to just continue teaching.
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