Crazy WIse (work) - work done within the semester provided by A student - Assignment 1 Within the

Assignment 1

Within the film there are many ways in which the people resist and fight the stigma of mental

illness in their various cultures. Adam uses modern medicine in hopes that it would help him,

while Ekhaya uses spiritual methods to help heal her. This shows the different between the two,

when one culture emphasizes medicine and the other natural remedies. There is also a

connection to nature and ancestors in Ekhaya’s case while Adam is focused on the biological

causes. They both face a stigma in which something is making them different from others. They

have this is common, because society places a negative connotation on mental health and

getting help. They can still both live normal lives although the people around them may not

agree. This documentary really shows the difference between Western and other types of

medicine. In both of their cases either medicine may be effective in treating them through the

placebo effect in helping treat their mind and physical symptoms. I think watching this video

would help a lot of people see different sides of perspectives and feeling like they aren’t alone

in their culture. The same thing can happen in both cultures, but because of the different

cultures they can have different diagnoses. The stigma of mental illness continues in today’s

world which people can be scared to say something in fear they will be outcasted. When this

changes people are more likely to be helped because they do not fear the reactions of others.

Assignment 2

The author states that the correlation between school performance and the economy shows

within society. Taxes within the economy are placed heavily on the poor, and it affects them the

most, this is important, because the people that are needing the money most, are the people

being taxed the most. This can take money away that can be given to schools and make the

performance of school go down. Schools that need the money are not given it, as taxed are not

allocated to the best of their ability and not spread out evenly. There is evidence that is given in

which tests scores are compared not fund schools as much as they are not showing enough

results. This is where the public schools suffer the most because they cannot afford as good of

resources as others. The funding that schools receive rely on their performance. In other words,

the better scores a school gets, the more funding they receive.

The Gini Coefficient is a measure of distribution of income within a population. The author uses

this to compare and contrast Western and European countries. The European countries have

lower inequality when it comes to taxes than Western countries. This shows that there is

unequal distribution of taxes when looking within the United States. This makes it hard for

people living within poverty to get out of, because their money is being taken by the

government. Overall, the journal article shows that certain schools have an unfair disadvantage

due to how our economy is running and bring attention to the differences within the tax system.

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