Child of Rage is a film about how severely abused children can not love or accept love in the future years of living. It shows the devastating effects of abuse on a child. It is in a real phycological session between a little girl named Beth and her phycologist. There are no acted out scenes in this film only stories from the past told by Beth and her family. It also shows her transformation into feeling like a regular human-being again. It breaks my heart to think of the extreme abuse she was put through to have this out come in who she is today. She was molested and not fed at only one years old and after being adopted takes it out on her little brother and her mother and father. I looked more into where Beth is today. She is helping other children out who have been put through abusive situations overcome their mixed emotions.

Tonight I watched Children In Prison for Life Sentences. It is about Kenneth Young who committed an armed robbery when he was 15 years old and sentenced to life in prison on four accounts. He has already served 11 years and now is fighting during a re-trial to be released. This documentary film really makes you stop and think if the punishment that is given to children really does fit the crime that has been done. People evolve mature and change every single day. I have done further research since being appalled with this outcome at the end of the film. CANYONRANCH.COM states “Like the rest of your body, your brain changes with each passing year. From the time we are infants, our brains are adapting, learning, making memories and more. We become smarter and sharper, earning the wisdom that truly only comes with life experience. ” So what makes it right to in-prison someone with a undeveloped brain? Especially someone that needed to get money to feed his family at the age of 14 years old. Very sad film!

Democracy and Difference in the US

Here is another very moving response in an interview Marlon Riggs participated in. He speaks about how we all have to come together on a term of self acceptance and until we do we will have struggles. Self love is an underlying meaning in many aspects of Riggs life and I appreciate that. Not many care about others or the people revolting against them. He never had to. He puts things out there that he is passionate about whether other people like it or not. Riggs started his own revolution by expressing his own feelings and thoughts. This meant a lot to many people that never got to stand up for them selves or have that voice. Especially when it comes to diversity or change.

I found this old interview clip with Marlon Riggs on love, self-value, and profound change. The way he speaks is so inspirational and gives you such a different out look on who we are as people. He speaks about how we can not love someone else until we come to terms with ourselves. We need to learn how to love ourselves before we try to love someone else, learn who you are before learning who someone else is and so on. Everyone starts to pick themselves apart from a very young age and its hard to move on and feel content in life until you are comfortable in your own skin. That is the ultimate goal he is speaking on in this video.

This seems to come up a lot during class. Does human behavior change while being watched?Over 360 children have participated in a phycology experiment in 1976 on halloween. The phycologist put themselves into eighteen different homes. They would talk to the children for a little then ask them to take one piece of candy only after shutting the door and leaving them alone with the bowl. On some houses they put down a mirror in the corner and most kids seemed behave and not take more the one piece while looking at there own reflection. They felt as if they were being watched. Even being underneath there halloween masks and costumes. I cant find the specific film on it right now but i’m going to try and find it and link it to the page tonight.