Comparison Between Precious And Push

The novel, The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, is the story of Taylor who just finished high school. She never had the easiest life, but she was determined not to end up like her other classmates, barefoot and pregnant. “Mama always said barefoot and pregnant was not my style. She knew. It was in this frame of mind that I made it to my last year of high school without event,” (Kingsolver, 3). Thinking like this she thought she would never end up with a baby, then Turtle came. An abused three year old girl was left with her at a bar without an explanation. Instead of leaving her behind, Taylor took her in and was raising her on her own without help. This was only one of the many hardships she went through, but her mother taught her well.

In the riveting documentary Audrie & Daisy, husband and wife director team Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk retrace the events leading up to the harrowing sexual assaults of three teenage girls; Audrie Pott, Daisy Coleman, and Paige Parkhurst, and expose the agonizing after effects and exploitation of the assaults. Subsequent interviews with family members, friends and law enforcement officials give important details about the aftermath of the events, and introduce viewers to possibly the biggest villain of all, Sherriff Darren White of Maryville, Missouri. Throughout the documentary White appears smug when he states that “as County Sheriff, “the buck stops here” (Darren White), and when asked about the crimes committed by Maryville’s football star, he rebuts with “was there a crime?” (Darren White). As the film moves through the twists and turns of the cases, the settings, conflicts, and tragedies are enhanced by the use of montage, long and subjective shots, close-ups and personal sketches that submerge the audience into the victim’s point of view. At the conclusion of the film, the viewer is left to decide what constitutes sexual assault and rape, and if society and law enforcement are to blame for today’s ‘rape culture’ acceptance and the continued victimization of young girls. It also reveals how much can be hidden from parents, and how disconnected they can become from their children in a social media world.

Leigh Anne leaves her Ordinary World by Crossing the Threshold into the Special World, where she must overcome a series of challenges. Leigh Anne’s journey begins when she helps out a juvenile in need. As a wife and a mom of two Mrs.

By applying both classical and strain theory to the crime problem of drug trafficking we can identify and compare their strengths to evaluate which theory is more useful in explaining this crime. Starting with Classical theory, this theory holds some strengths in relation to this crime problem, namely, it’s easy applicability/transferability and the clear definiteness of their answers. Classical theory is able to provide definite answers and solutions to drug trafficking (i.e. it was individual A who committed the crime, the law violated in response to this crime is this, and the violation of this law carries the pre-determined punishment of this) without having to apply consideration for such variables as mitigating circumstances since the

Lastly, Erica is an eleven year old girl who takes drugs to try to mask the pain from living her miserable life. Also, she has sex with a sixteen year old boy, and thinks she is in love and does not use any contraceptives and gets pregnant. After becoming pregnant, the father bails and wants nothing to

The film demonstrates the growth of a child through Maggie and several stages of her childhood years, while also showing us the characteristics and hardworking skills it takes for a single parent to step up and take responsibility over a child.

Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.

In the riveting documentary Audrie & Daisy, husband and wife director team Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk retrace the events leading up to the harrowing sexual assaults of three teenaged girls; Audrie Pott, Daisy Coleman, and Paige Parkhurst, and expose the agonizing after effects and exploitation of the assaults. Subsequent interviews with family members, friends and law enforcement officials give important details about the aftermath of the events, and introduce viewers to possibly the biggest villain of all, Sherriff Darren White of Maryville, Missouri. Throughout the documentary White appears smug while he states that “as County Sheriff, “the buck stops here” (Darren White), and when asked about the crimes committed by Maryville’s football star, he rebuts with “was there a crime?” (Darren White) As the film moves through the twists and turns of the cases, the settings, conflicts, and tragedies are enhanced by the use of montage, long and subjective shots, close-ups and personal sketches that submerge the audience into the victim’s point of view. At the conclusion of the film, the viewer is left to decide what constitutes sexual assault and rape, and if society and law enforcement are to blame for the today’s ‘rape culture’ acceptance and the continued victimization of young girls. It also reveals how much can be hidden from parents, and how disconnected parents become from their children in a social media world.

The film Precious directed by Lee Daniels is a solemn movie dealing with the unfortunate truths of everyday life for some individuals. The film staring Gabourey Sidibe who plays the main character Clarice “Precious” Jones along with co-stars Mariah Carey and Leni Kravitz is based in the Ghetto of Harlem in the year of 1987. Precious is a sixteen year-old illiterate morbidly obese teenager whom has grown up in the Ghetto of Harlem in a dysfunctional family. Her mother Mary verbally and physically abuses her and uses her as her personal servant while her father Carl also abuses her and has impregnated her twice. Early in the movie it is stated that Precious’s first child is named “Mongo” short for Mongoloid and suffers from

When you look in the mirror, do you like what you see? For most people the answer is no, we can always find something that is “wrong” with us. Why is it that we think very low of ourselves? Everyone has different reasons for feeling like this. It can come from within ourselves or something in our surrounding that makes us like that. In my essay I will talk about Precious Jones, the main character from the novel Push and the film Precious. I will talk about how different things happening in her life has caused her to have a low self-esteem and how it holds her back. In my essay I will also mention how those things are still going on in present day.

Precious, a movie based on the book Push written by Sapphire, is an interesting movie directed by Lee Daniels. Precious can be easily analyzed using basic motivation and emotion theories in psychology. The movie is about Claireece "Precious" Jones and how she becomes a strong, independent woman after breaking through her curse of physical and sexual abuse which she has endured since she was three months old. At the beginning, Precious is physically and verbally abused by her mother. In addition, Precious was raped by her father multiple times and impregnated twice. After being kicked out of her school because she was pregnant, Precious willingly joins the Each One Teach One alternative school so she can improve her reading and writing

The “girlchild” was given dolls that represented outer and superficial beauty and did things that society views as standards, like being pretty, thin, and wearing makeup all the time, and cooking in the kitchen. Therefore, she wasn’t taught how to be emotionally strong, and how to protect herself from all the harsh reality.

In Peru, Senna struggles to support her family after her father dies. Thirteen year old, Yasmin fights off her rapist and spares his life. These stories emphasise the fundamental importance of education for girls across the world and in their respective cultures. The girls’ individual stories are inherently moving. However, it is a shame that the documentary takes away from the girls’ most powerful weapon – their own voice - and gives it to other people. After viewing the film the audience is bound to support the notion of a girl’s right to education. This important message could have been conveyed in an even stronger way if the girls’ voices were central in the movie. The celebrity presence could have been used in other ways and should have been subservient in this portrayal. It would seem a rather shallow understanding of the intellect and values of the viewing audience, particularly young people, that the producers seem compelled to sell the message via Western celebrities. Why did Robbins feel so compelled to share the young girls’ complex lives from a celebrity’s

Precious eventually finds it best for her and her children to move away from her abusive mother and into a halfway house. While her life is starting to look positive, her mother notifies her one day that her father has died from AIDS, and Precious believes she is infected with the disease as well. Precious’ assumption turns out to be correct, but she continues on with her new life. Shortly after, the film concludes with Precious revealing her future plans to the audience, “I’m reading around 7th or 8th grade level now. High school level next. College after that” (Daniels, 2009). The film

It was interesting to look back at the movie “Precious” in order to relate Erikson, Jung, and Freud’s theories to both Precious and her mother Mary. Being able to identify the defense mechanisms, stages of development, anxiety, and persona gave me more insight as to why Precious and Mary act the way they do. In addition, exploring the role of nature versus nurture in their development helped to explain why Mary and Precious made certain life decisions.