...Precious: A Case Study Use sociological concepts to make sense out of the life of 16 year old Clareece "Precious" Jones (an overweight, illiterate African-American teen in Harlem), as depicted in the 2009 film Precious. It’s based on the novel Push by Sapphire. Note: Precious (part 1) and Precious (part 2) are two separate assignments with different dues dates, even though both sections are presented in this single document. Please check the Course Calendar for the different due dates. Precious (part 1) consists of questions 1-11. Precious (part 2) covers questions 12-27. PART ONE Chapters 1 & 2: Review 1. How does rational choice theory help explain why some economically marginalized people, who feel caught in a cycle of poverty from which there is no escape, engage in risky behaviors, like having unprotected sex? Specifically, how can a fatalistic attitude inform choice? 2. Which research method would not be used to study sexual violence against Precious? Chapter 4 3. Discuss the socialization of Precious. Specifically, describe her primary socialization and her secondary socialization experiences. What values, norms and beliefs did she learn, and from whom? 4. Did Precious adopt her parent’s outlook without question? Please explain your answer. How common or unusual is this? 5. Discuss the social identity of Precious and also her self-identity. Did they match? 6. What was her social role? Did she passively take on this role or exercise agency? Please explain...
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...Precious Precious (Magness & Daniels, 2009) is a movie based on the novel “Push” by Saphire. It follows the life and struggles of sixteen-year-old Claireece Precious Jones who is living in Harlem’s low income housing neighborhood in, 1987. She is illiterate, obese, and severely emotionally disturbed due to the physical, sexual, and emotional abuse that she has endured from both her mother, Mary, and her father, Carl. The sexual abuse from her father has resulted in two pregnancies, one of which was born with Down Syndrome. Precious’ mother is unemployed and collecting welfare. After learning of her second pregnancy, Precious’ principal arranges for her to attend an alternative school in the hopes that it will help her turn her life around. In order to escape from her nightmare of a life, Precious escapes into daydreams where she is loved and cared for. After attending the alternative school, Precious is taken under the wing of her teacher, Blu Rain, and is eventually able to learn to read and write. After delivering her second child, Precious escapes from her abusive mother, and with the help of Ms. Rain, seeks shelter in a halfway house. Mary eventually seeks Precious out to inform her of the death of her father from AIDS. Precious later discovers that she too is HIV-positive. The film ends with Precious completely severing ties with her mother, and taking custody of her first child, Mongo and her baby, Abdul. She is focused on improving life for herself and her children...
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...Precious’ primary socialization was/experiences were Values Norms Beliefs she learned and from whom Precious’ secondary socialization experiences ??????????????????? Values Norms Beliefs she learned and from whom Precious did not adopt her parent’s outlook without question. She ?? Explain This is common or unusual Precious’ social identity (mark how people are similar-characteristics that other people give her- who she is and what is meaningful to her. – gender, sexual orientation, nationality or ethnicity and social class Prescious’ social role (socially defined expectations for Precious given her social position) was __________________________________________ Did she passively take on this social role or exercise agency? Explain primary socialization was/experiences were Values Norms Beliefs she learned and from whom Precious’ secondary socialization experiences ??????????????????? Values Norms Beliefs she learned and from whom Precious did not adopt her parent’s outlook without question. She ?? Explain This is common or unusual Precious’ social identity (mark how people are similar-characteristics that other people give her- who she is and what is meaningful to her. – gender, sexual orientation, nationality or ethnicity and social class Prescious’ social role (socially defined expectations for Precious given her social position) was __________________________________________ Did she passively...
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...There are many reasons to see the movie Precious. Rarely does a movie devastate and uplift you at the exact same moment. It will leave you reeling emotionally. In a nutshell, it is a movie set in 1987 Harlem about an overweight, illiterate, African American teenager who is a victim of incest. Among many things, it is a story of perseverance and survival. It also gives us a raw look at the connection between abuse and eating problems. Precious' excessive weight and eating plays a central role in the movie. Aspects of the story help illuminate many of the reasons emotional, physical, and particularly sexual abuse, are risk factors for eating disorders.* Abuse isn't a "cause." Instead, it puts someone at a higher likelihood of having eating issues (there are many biological and social factors that play a part as well). This includes anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder as well as emotional eating, obesity and body image dissatisfaction. Thus, it is no surprise that Precious, who was sexually abused by her father, struggles with her weight, body and eating. Sexual abuse violates a person's body and personal boundaries. Physical sensations, including sexual feelings and hunger, become severely disrupted. At times, Precious turns to food for soothing and comfort. For example, when hungry one morning, she seeks comfort food. She steals a 10 piece bucket of fried chicken, eats it all and then vomits it back up. Precious has lost of control over her body, particularly how to appropriately...
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...Maryland University College Media Paper Professor Thomas Harlow Psychology 100 Precious is a movie that can be viewed and scrutinize using basic motivation and emotion theories in psychology. The movie is about Claireece "Precious" Jones and how she becomes a strong, independent black woman who overcame the abuse of physical, emotional and sexual abuse that she endured since she was three months old. Precious can be compared to Robert, a young man discussed in chapter 12 who was dealing with emotional abused by his friends. Precious and Robert are two characters who were both emotional abused. Precious was emotional abused by her mother, her mother abused her emotionally with derogatory words that really affected her emotional state of being. Her mother often times said to her that she was fat, black, and ugly. Robert was also emotionally abused by his friends who often made fun of his physical appearance. Robert waned to change his physical appearance so that he would not be ashamed of how he looked. Both characters were not happy with their appearance and wanted to change their physical appeared so they could be loved. Precious mother often abused her in many psychological ways and Robert mother was a mother who wanted to help her son through his emotional state. Robert found himself trying to find ways to alter his appearance so that he would be accepted by his peers. Precious also wanted to be loved but she found pleasure in eating, this was her way of trying...
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...The movie Precious is based on the novel "Push" by Sapphire, which was written in 1996. The main character of this movie is Claireece Precious Jones but she is called Precious. She is an overweight teenage girl, who lives with her mother in a tenement in the slum of New York, many people call it the Bronx. Through out Precious's life she us experiencing psychically and sexually abuse from both her mother and father. She now had two children from her father at the age of sixteen. At home Precious's mother beats her on daily bases, and treat her with no respect at all. Precious is not only having trouble at home she is also having trouble at school. In the movie when she goes to see the principle, the principle says that she is still in junior high school when really should be in her last year of high school. Even though with all the stuff going on Precious still has big dreams for herself. Though out the movies you see clips of her dreams of being a famous singer or model and having a very good looking boyfriend. He imagination is very bright and has a lot of colors unlike the rest of the movie. I think that these fantasies are symbols of what Precious is hoping for her future. Also from watching this movie I feel like the way she acts in her imagination is how her real personality is but it's just hiding behind all the sadness and anger that her mother cause's her. Her life is fulled with sadness and anger, and when something bad happens in her life she dreams about...
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...Walker's The Color Purple about the oppression of black women in the Deep South, the need for sisterhood and the romance of Africa. In 1998, she produced and starred in Jonathan Demme's film of Toni Morrison's Beloved. In this ambitious failure, Winfrey played the runaway slave who kills her baby rather than see her recaptured by white pursuers and, a decade after the Civil War, is haunted by the child's ghost. Now she is the co-producer of Lee Daniels's Precious, adapted by Geoffrey Fletcher from Push, the bestselling 1996 novel by Ramona Lofton, the writer and performance poet who styles herself "Sapphire". Made on a much smaller budget, Precious is a simpler, tougher work than the two preceding films and altogether more effective. The setting is Harlem in 1987, the central character the obese 16-year-old black girl Claireece Jones, known as "Precious", unforgettably played in her first professional role by the vast, imposing Gabourey Sidibe, daughter of a New York gospel singer and a Senegalese father. Precious is illiterate, aggressive, constantly tormented by fellow high-school pupils and abused, both physically and verbally by her alcoholic mother and father. She has a daughter with Down's syndrome by her father, who constantly rapes her with the mother's connivance and is pregnant again by him. Later, it's revealed that the father has died of Aids. You might well ask who is in the market for such a film and one thinks of Eliot's smug statement: "Humankind cannot...
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...A Case Study of Precious Margaret Jensen SWK 6511 Professor’s William Ressl July 22, 2014 Abstract According to page 25 of the sixth edition of the APA publication manual, “an abstract is a brief, comprehensive summary of the contents of the article; it allows readers to survey the contents of an article quickly and, like a title, it enables persons interested in the document to retrieve it from abstracting and indexing databases.” The label Abstract should appear in uppercase and lowercase letters, centered at the top of the page (section 2.04). The abstract should be between 150 and 250 words. The abstract should be written after the paper is completed, as it outlines the content of the paper. A Case Study of Precious A CaseThe instructions and sample paragraphs on these pages are formatted as a paper would be. The first paragraph of the paper should begin here; the title serves as the first heading, so there is no need to write the word “Introduction” as a heading. This paragraph should introduce the topic. It should suggest what questions need to be asked and what problems need to be addressed. For most student papers, the introduction should also provide a clear thesis statement, one that makes a clear claim that the rest of the paper will go on to demonstrate. If you are writing more of a summary paper, then the thesis should be the idea or theme that holds the essay together. If you are presenting your own research, then this section should relate...
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...ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE PRECIOUS The movie Precious is based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire, which was written in 1996. The main character is Claireece Precious Jones called Precious. She is an overweight teenage girl, who lives with her mom in a tenement in the slum of New York, the Bronx. Precious suffers from both psychically and sexual abuse from both her father and mother, and she has had two children, both with her father at the age of 16. At home Precious mom beats her, and treats her terribly, but Precious is also having a hard time at school. She is stuck at 9th grade when she actually should be in 12th grade. After all Precious still has dreams for her life. She is fantasising about being a singer, model or just being a famous celebrity. During the movie, you see small clips of Precious imagination. The clips are very bright, happy and colourful compared to the rest of the movie. I believe these fantasies, and the light setting in them are a symbols for Precious hope for the future. But at the same time the happy bright dreams is a reflection of Precious true personality, hidden behind all of her anger and sadness. She is desperately hoping that one day someone will break trough to her, or she will break trough to someone. Her life is grey and sad, and these dreams are her way of holding on. When something bad happens, she dreams herself away to a better place, because the truth is too hard to handle. One of the times Precious dreams herself away is during...
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...November 7, 2014 Video Precious Precious Film really impacted me, after I saw this movie I felt sad thinking about that there are many girls going through the same hell. Sixteen year old Claireece Jones, who goes by her middle name Precious, is an overweight black girl who is pregnant with her second child. Both children fathered by her biological father, who has continually raped her since she was a child, but who she doesn't see otherwise. She lives with her mother Mary, who abuses Precious both physically and emotionally. Chapter six relates to precious story on preview of Horney’s theory and object relations theory table 6.1 under development it says that love and nurturance are key to a child’s development. In Horney’s theory, basic anxiety and hostility are fundamental emotions of childhood. Without adequate parental love, the child develops unhealthy interpersonal modes and a defensive sense of self. Precious never received love from her biological parents, she is abuse and not wanted. Precious feels basic anxiety she is always feeling isolated and helplessness resulting from inadequate parenting in her infancy. In addition parental neglect and rejection make the child angry, a conditions Horney called basic hostility. However precious is not able to express the hostility because it would result in punishment. To escape her life, Precious often daydreams of herself in glamorous situations by Idealized self, moving away from the real self. Precious wishes to be someone...
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...Precious used a self-presentation form of impression management in order to get other to react to her in a positive light. At home, Precious was used by her mother and her father. She had no control or power over them and the things they did to her. At school Precious had the freedom to be someone else. She had the power to not say or do anything, and she had the power to stick up for herself and for others. At her first school she got up from her desk and smacked a boy for being disrespectful when the teacher was talking. She did the same things at her new school when a girl called her fat. I personally feel that this was a way for Precious to feel in control and to stand up for herself and for others and to show people she wasn’t someone to be messed with. While this may seem negative, I think that it was done as a positively in the eyes of Precious because for her, power was something that she didn’t have over herself, but it was something she needed and wanted. Precious also told her classmates that she had a boyfriend in order to explain why she had a child and why she was currently pregnant. This shielded the reality that she was being raped and abused at home. It showed to her classmates that she had things in control as much as she could for being 16 and pregnant. Both of these things were said and done in order to show to others that she was okay, when deep down she was hurting and...
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... Harlem, 1987. Clarice Precious Jones (Gabourey Sildibe) is in a math class, daydreaming. She is wearing a red scarf. Much of the film is in first-person narration. She narrates, My name is Clarice Precious Jones. I want to be on the cover of a magazine. I wish I had a light-skinned boyfriend with good hair. But first I want to be in one of those BET videos, and we see a fantasy sequence of her dressed in a photo-shoot, accompanied with a light-skinned boyfriend (who will be in all her future movie sequences.) She also says I 'm gonna break through, someone is going to break through to me, ima be normal and sit in the front of the class. She has a crush on the math teacher Mr. Wicher (Bill Sage). She narrates that she likes math. The class is rowdy and when a student responds to Mr. Wicher with cuss word, Precious slaps that student and says to Mr. Wicher, I got your back. She narrates that she and Mr. Wicher will move away and live together in Westchester. A student comes in with a note saying that the principal wants to see Precious. In the principals office, the principal, Mrs. Lichtenstein asks if Precious is pregnant again and how could this happen. The principal lays out the facts for Precious: shes 16, pregnant again, and attends junior high. The principal wants to move Precious to an alternative school. The principal asks the mom to come to a meeting but when Precious protests, Mrs. Lichtenstein says that she can visit her mom. Precious is at home washing dishes...
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...I recently saw the movie Precious which tells the story of an African American teen living in Harlem. Through the movie, she is pregnant with her second child from being raped multiple times by her father. Her mother is abusive both emotionally and physically and does not support her desire for an education. While Precious endures countless acts of physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and domestic violence, she is resilient and goes to an alternative school to learn the basic skills of reading and writing. As many as one in four girls and one in six boys may suffer from sexual abuse by the time they are 18.1 This movie really made me realize that while this is a fictional story, there are people like Precious living in every community. My jaw was literally dropped throughout the movie and I almost felt guilty because I come from a good home and family who support and nurture me. Why should this amazingly strong and resilient girl go through such a devastating life? Why do people like Precious go unnoticed by social workers and community helpers? There were few people who actually helped Precious effectively throughout the movie and they only did at times of dire need. Precious’ successes came primarily from her ability to go to another, happier place in her mind as she lived in these traumatic conditions. There were several improvements to the community’s efforts to deal with child abuse that I think girls like Precious could benefit from. The biggest issue is the timing of...
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...نموذج طلب العضوية الاسم بالكامل ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- متزوج ------------------ غير متزوجه --------------- --------- عدد الأطفال ---------------------------------- الوزن KG------------------------------------------------- المهنه ----------------------------------------------- تاريخ الميلاد ----------------------------------------- تليفون ---------------------------------------------------- البريد الإلكتروني --------------------------- في حالة من حالات الطوارئ يرجى الاتصال ------------------------- نوع العضوية: عضوية اشتراك كامله صباحا "من 10:00 حتي 02:00" 1 سنة عضويه الكامله مع التدريب الشخصي "جيم + سباحة + كلاسات" ((تدريب شخصي للسباحة غير مدرج في هذه الباقه)) 1 سنة 6 أشهر 3 أشهر 1 شهر العضوية الكاملة "جيم + سباحة + كلاسات" 1 سنة 6 أشهر 3 أشهر 1 شهر عضوية الكلاسات فقط س 1 سنة س 6 أشهر س 3 أشهر س 1 شهر عضوية جيم فقط س 1 سنة س 6 أشهر س 3 أشهر س 1 شهر عضويه السباحه فقط س 1 سنة س 6 أشهر س 3 أشهر س 1 شهر كلاسات التدريب الشخصي الشخصية 12 حصه / 24 حصه /36 حصه الأحكام...
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...Curriculum Vitae of Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy GCSL NAME: Calliopa Pearlette Louisy DATE OF BIRTH: 8th June, 1946 NATIONALITY: Saint Lucian HOME ADDRESS: Government House, The Morne, Castries, Saint Lucia, West Indies POSTAL ADDRESS : Government House, The Morne, Castries, Saint Lucia, West Indies Appointed GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF SAINT LUCIA on 17th September, 1997 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: 1994 PH.D.(Higher Education) University of Bristol, Bristol, UK 1975 M.A. (Linguistics) Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada 1969 B.A. (English and French) University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. 1965 Cambridge G.C.E. "A" Levels French, Geography - St.Joseph's Convent, Castries 1963 Senior Cambridge Certificate St.Joseph's Convent, Castries (First Grade) PROFESSIONAL CAREER: 1996 - 1997 Principal, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, Castries, St.Lucia 1994 - 1995 Vice Principal, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, Castries, St.Lucia. 1986 - 1994 Dean, Division of Arts, Science and General Studies, Sir Arthur Lewis Community College. 1981 - 1986 Principal, St.Lucia 'A' Level College, Castries, St.Lucia. 1980 - 1986 Tutor of French, OCODTeacher Training Summer Workshops, Dominica 1976 - 1981 Graduate Tutor, St.Lucia 'A' Level College, Castries, St.Lucia. 1975 - 1976 Graduate Teacher, St.Joseph's Convent Secondary School, Castries, St.Lucia. 1969 - 1972 Graduate Teacher, St.Joseph's Convent Secondary School, Castries, St.Lucia. 1965 - 1966 Non-Graduate Teacher, St.Joseph's...
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