Louanne Johnson takes a job as a teacher at a poor, inner-city high school. On her first day, she is met with disrespect from her students. Though initially wanting to quit, she is convinced to stay and tries new teaching methods to engage the students. Throughout the year, she learns about their difficult lives outside of school and works to help them succeed, but is unable to save all of her students. When deciding to leave, the students convince her to stay and continue guiding them.

1. Reflection Of Dangerous Mind
Dangerous Minds is a film about an ex–marine woman by the name of Louanne Johnson that takes the opportunity to be a teacher at a high school in
a very poor area. Recently divorced, she is battling her own problems, but is excited about being able to teach. Little did she know what she was
getting herself into. Excited to start her first day in her classroom she is able to hear her students all the way to the hall. Curious she walks in, and is
not acknowledge by the students. She tries to introduce herself, and all she gets in return is disrespect from the students. Having enough of the
disrespect she grabs her stuff, and decides to walk out the classroom. As she is walking out the classroom she stops by her friend's classroom, and pulls
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Throughout the school year she gets to know more about her students' lives outside of school, and she comes to understand why they behave the way
they do. She tried her best to save her student's lives, and help them make someone out of themselves but for some of her students it was too late.
Depressed about not being able to save all her students she decide that she is leaving the school, and it will be her first and last year teaching at the high
school. When confronting her students with her decision they are upset, and tell her that she is being selfish for leaving them due to the student's lives
that she could not save. They start to use her teaching techniques against her, and tell her that they see her as being their light. Refusing to let her
leaved the high school they end up convincing her to stay, and guide them through their journey. In my opinion the teacher handled the diversity of
ethnicity in her classroom very properly. She treated all her students equal, and gave each one of them the chance to speak up no matter what their
background was. She made sure to challenge them at times, and made them realize that they could be smart. For example she gave all her students A's
in the beginning of the school year, and told all of them that their job was to keep the A. This brought hope to many of her students,
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2. Dangerous Minds Analysis
Dangerous Minds and the Ridiculous Twist Lurking Beneath the "Perfect Teacher Tale" Dangerous Minds follows the typical, uplifting, reliable
formula of a dedicated teacher, taming her rebellious students and winning them over with an approach that is quite unorthodox. It opens with Ms.
Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), an ex–marine lieutenant, who becomes the English teacher of an inner–city sophomore class, whom were considered
"at–risk" and described in the movie as, "the rejects from hell." These students had little or no academic or social skills, greeting their new teacher
with the undesirable name, "white bread." Ms. Johnson quickly becomes defeated and wants to give up the job after day one, however, she finds hope
after consulting a teacher's manual that evening and decides to try again. She returns the next day confident she would re–arrange their "dangerous
minds" and convert them into "literacy loving angels." She accomplishes just that by using questionable methods, such as, bribing them with
Butterfingers, flirting disdainfully, teaching them karate, and promising that the Board of Education would pay for their reward trip to an amusement
park.
Beneath the unreasonable, "feel good, save our students" drama, there is an undeniable, racial theme, which degrades African Americans and
Hispanics. The movie stereotypically eludes to the idea that, all African American children are raised by single mothers, all Hispanics are gangsters and
all black parents resent white
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3. Criminal Minds Sociology
CBS aired the television show "Criminal Minds" in 2005, involving a team of seven intelligent and unique individuals. It is running strong into its
seventh season and continues to gain popularity from people of all ages. This elite group of individuals makes up the leading team of profilers for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation Behavioral Analysis Unit. These men and women find themselves in violent and dangerous situations all the time in
their career with the FBI. The drama immerses viewers into the world of crime and violence that most people do not experience. The job of these FBI
agents is to profile criminals and figure out their next move so they can stop them from committing another crime to innocent people. This show not
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The episodes are dramatized slightly to attract viewers' each week but they are realistic to what actually happened in the past. The episode, "Our
Darkest Hour" from season 5 was based off a case that involved serial killer Richard Ramirez. In the episode, the team of agents is called to Los
Angeles, California to investigate a case involving killings that occurred only during blackouts. The unsub is given the nickname "Prince of
Darkness" because he kills at night when homes have no electricity. People of Los Angeles began to alter their behavior patterns at night, locking
doors, windows, and setting alarms in fear that they will be the next victims of the "Prince of Darkness." In the 1980s Richard Ramirez earned the
name the "Night Stalker" because he began killing people in the Los Angeles area at night causing people to fear for their life at night. By basing
episodes off of real crimes and criminals it makes "Criminal Minds" realistic and at the same time scary for viewers. Each episode does not always
have a happy ending, but viewers can take away the message that bad things can happen to good people and it is important to always be aware of your
surroundings and the things you do, because your life can change in an
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4. Dangerous Mind
Since I've chosen to major in psychology, I've chosen to do my paper on something that pertains to my major. In this case the mental disorder
schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severly disabilitating disease that has stricken the lives of almost two million people in the United States alone
(Keefe 20). Since this disease is so devastating the majority of people that suffer from it either live on the streets or in mental institutions.
In fact, forty percent of the beds in American mental hospitals are occupied by patients with schizophrenia (Hamilton 145). According to Hamilton the
overall chances of a person to develop the disease is one in a hundred (145). There are three distinct types of schizophrenia that are diagnosed in today's
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These include incoherent speech, quick shifts of ideas from one thing to a totally unrelared one, and off the wall thoughts and ideas.
The delusions that all schizophrenics encounter are false or inane beliefs that are believed by the schizophrenic and noone else. The delisions of
schoizophrenics go well beyond thinking that their being watched or something. They often are convinced that someone is controlling them by radio,
microchip, hypnosis, and so on. For instance a patient of Torrey, named Josh, believes that the FBI planted a small radio into his skull and is
controlling him through it, he even went as far as to cut his own scalp with a knife trying to get it out (44). Schizophrenic persons also have severe
disturbances in emotion and behavior.
This is the most worriesome symptom to family and friends of the patient. It is, because the person with schizophrenia is incapable of feeling any
empathy with anyome including themselves. That menas that they are incapable of putting themselves in other peoples places. The side effects can
range anywhere from laughing at a sad situation, to public masterbation, even to self mutilation. What makes schizophrenia so hard to understand and
frighteming is the faxt that all these symptoms can show up more in one person and less in another.
That is also what makes schizophrenia so hard to diagnose.The world is in the midst of an explosion of knowledge about the causes of schizophrenia.
There has
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5. Dangerous Mind
Since I've chosen to major in psychology, I've chosen to do my paper on something that pertains to my major. In this case the mental disorder
schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severely disabilitating disease that has stricken the lives of almost two million people in the United States alone
(Keefe 20). Since this disease is so devastating the majority of people that suffer from it either live on the streets or in mental institutions. In fact, forty
percent of the beds in American mental hospitals are occupied by patients with schizophrenia (Hamilton 145). According to Hamilton the overall
chances of a person to develop the disease is one in a hundred (145). There are three distinct types of schizophrenia that are diagnosed in today's...show
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Back in the early 1900's all psychoanlysists agreed that the source of psychic trauma theoretically responsible for schizophrenia was the relationship
between the child and the parents (Torrey 91). Within the last thirty years, though, considerable interest has been given to the thought of infectious
disease as the cause of schizophrenia. Since viruses can, and do, onlyb affect certain areas of the brain while living others unharmed, such as the
rabies virus and herpes zoster virus, it could account for the bizarre symptoms in schizophrenics (Bebbington 80). Viruses mat also change the function
of the brain cells without changing their structure (Bebbington 81). For example cell enzymes may be permantly disrupted by a viral infection and the
cell would continue to live and show no signs of damage. Which means thar viruses could cause schizophrenia and leave no sign of it. Another
intriguing fact about viruses as a possible cause of schizophrenia is the fact that they may remain latent for many years at a time, like the HIV virus
before it turns into AIDS. That would be a possible explanation for the reasons behind why schizophrenia doesn't show up until later on in a persons
life. Of all the thoeries that are present in today's society the one that most psychologists and psychiatrists stand by is that of biochemical facters. The
center of attention throughout the last decade has been the neurotrannsmitter dopamine. Dopamine is a protein in the brain that fits
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