Here's the link to the group formerly known as INFACT... featured in "Making a Killing: Philip Morris, Kraft and Global Marketing of Tobacco"
CLICK HERE for Corporate Accountability International
Monday, November 2, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Arts and Health Paper -- Due November 3, 2009
Here is the outline for your paper due Tues November 3, 2009
CLICK HERE for outline
Arts and Health Paper
Health 27 -- Patrick Barresi
Due November 3, 2009
In this class we have spent a lot of time talking about how masculinity and manhood are portrayed in the media. Popular culture provides valuable clues as to how men are expected to dress, behave, and relate to others. A central premise of the class is that these expectations, supported by the media, reinforce either healthy attitudes and behaviors (such as working out, eating right, respecting women, condom use), unhealthy ones (gun violence, excessive drinking, risky-sex, partner violence, rape, smoking).
Bear in mind that the ‘pathways’ by which health is supported or undermined by manhood-related media may be either:
a. Direct – For example where cigarettes are directly marketed to young men during video games with ads or billboards in the virtual world
b. Indirect – For example, “Snake,” a popular game hero (Metal Gear Solid) uses cigarettes to actually aid his health (add points and protection) during the course of the game.
c. Both – Games may feature both characters that smoke AND advertising
Other indirect pathways may be media or arts such as those that glorify subjugation of women through force, glorify gun play and gangs, or permit anti-gay bias through slurs and jokes.
This paper asks you to choose a particular art form that you like or relate to. It does not have to be popular media – it can be ANY form of the arts:
Music
Poetry
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Painting
Sculpture
Performance Art
Video
Film
Television
Radio
Internet Audio or Video
Website
Once you’ve selected a form, choose one specific piece of work (like a song or a book) and write about it.
Describe, in your own words, how the piece of work depicts men – manhood, masculinity, etc. How does the way men are portrayed in the work either reinforce positive or negative (or both) attitudes and behaviors related to health? What makes the piece of work effective in promoting either healthy and unhealthy behaviors or attitudes? Why do you personally relate to the piece of work? What do you think it has to teach other men about health and wellness?
NO SPOILERS!!!!
Please do not reveal key plot points or endings to me, the reader. I may want to see the movie myself and don’t want to have the ending spoiled. If you must spoil, put a ‘spoiler alert’ adjacent to the spoiler so I can choose whether to read it or not. THANKS.
Not to exceed 2 to 3 pages typed double spaced.
CLICK HERE for outline
Arts and Health Paper
Health 27 -- Patrick Barresi
Due November 3, 2009
In this class we have spent a lot of time talking about how masculinity and manhood are portrayed in the media. Popular culture provides valuable clues as to how men are expected to dress, behave, and relate to others. A central premise of the class is that these expectations, supported by the media, reinforce either healthy attitudes and behaviors (such as working out, eating right, respecting women, condom use), unhealthy ones (gun violence, excessive drinking, risky-sex, partner violence, rape, smoking).
Bear in mind that the ‘pathways’ by which health is supported or undermined by manhood-related media may be either:
a. Direct – For example where cigarettes are directly marketed to young men during video games with ads or billboards in the virtual world
b. Indirect – For example, “Snake,” a popular game hero (Metal Gear Solid) uses cigarettes to actually aid his health (add points and protection) during the course of the game.
c. Both – Games may feature both characters that smoke AND advertising
Other indirect pathways may be media or arts such as those that glorify subjugation of women through force, glorify gun play and gangs, or permit anti-gay bias through slurs and jokes.
This paper asks you to choose a particular art form that you like or relate to. It does not have to be popular media – it can be ANY form of the arts:
Music
Poetry
Fiction
Non-Fiction
Painting
Sculpture
Performance Art
Video
Film
Television
Radio
Internet Audio or Video
Website
Once you’ve selected a form, choose one specific piece of work (like a song or a book) and write about it.
Describe, in your own words, how the piece of work depicts men – manhood, masculinity, etc. How does the way men are portrayed in the work either reinforce positive or negative (or both) attitudes and behaviors related to health? What makes the piece of work effective in promoting either healthy and unhealthy behaviors or attitudes? Why do you personally relate to the piece of work? What do you think it has to teach other men about health and wellness?
NO SPOILERS!!!!
Please do not reveal key plot points or endings to me, the reader. I may want to see the movie myself and don’t want to have the ending spoiled. If you must spoil, put a ‘spoiler alert’ adjacent to the spoiler so I can choose whether to read it or not. THANKS.
Not to exceed 2 to 3 pages typed double spaced.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Stress and Health: "Worried Sick" In-Class Video
Hi All
Time permitting, we will watch segments of this video in-class. Here's the link CLICK HERE for you to learn more on your own. I think it's the best thing I've seen yet that portrays the fundamental link between stress and illness...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Personal Health Report Part 1 -- Due October 8, 2009
Here is the outline for your paper, due October 8, 2009
Personal Health Report
First Half of Final Paper
Self - Assessment of Health Issue
The following is an outline for your paper. This paper is the FIRST HALF of the final paper due at the end of the semester. This half is worth 50 points.
The goal of this half of the paper is to explain why the health issue you chose as your topic is a concern for you. Further, it will demonstrate that you were able to find a suitable reference(s) to study your issue or concern in order to make further decisions about your next steps.
Address each of the following questions/areas. Write about 1 paragraph per question (or sub-question). The finished paper should be about 4 pages long (not including bibliography).
1. Introduce your topic.
What is the topic?
What do you hope to learn from doing research on it?
What kind of change do you hope to see in 10 weeks?
2. A. Write about your personal experience with this issue or concern.
Explain, in your own words, why you think this is a concern for you? Give a BRIEF history of this concern for yourself. Include any information about your family history, past experience, cultural background, gender, or other aspects of WHY this is an issue or concern for you.
B. Talk, briefly, about a recent example that shows why this issue or concern is important to you -- why you think you want to address it in this project
3. Compile at least five (5) references about your topic.
No more than 2 may be from the internet. None are allowed from your textbooks. Summarize what you learned from the sources. Attach a bibliography citing the sources.
4. Write a page or so on what you
A. learned about the issue or concern for yourself by doing the research
B. what are the key areas that you need to focus on? Why?
C. what are the most important ones for you to address first? Why?
D. What strengths do you possess that will help you? What personal barriers that could get in your way of change?
E. Any other ideas or insights you got from using the tool?
5. Action Plan
WHAT is your goal? (Keep it simple. One behavior that is OBSERVABLE and ACHIEVABLE)
HOW MUCH progress do you hope to make by Nov 24?
HOW will you TRACK your progress? A log?
WHAT will you do
HOW OFTEN
OTHER plans for coming 2 months...
Personal Health Report
First Half of Final Paper
Self - Assessment of Health Issue
The following is an outline for your paper. This paper is the FIRST HALF of the final paper due at the end of the semester. This half is worth 50 points.
The goal of this half of the paper is to explain why the health issue you chose as your topic is a concern for you. Further, it will demonstrate that you were able to find a suitable reference(s) to study your issue or concern in order to make further decisions about your next steps.
Address each of the following questions/areas. Write about 1 paragraph per question (or sub-question). The finished paper should be about 4 pages long (not including bibliography).
1. Introduce your topic.
What is the topic?
What do you hope to learn from doing research on it?
What kind of change do you hope to see in 10 weeks?
2. A. Write about your personal experience with this issue or concern.
Explain, in your own words, why you think this is a concern for you? Give a BRIEF history of this concern for yourself. Include any information about your family history, past experience, cultural background, gender, or other aspects of WHY this is an issue or concern for you.
B. Talk, briefly, about a recent example that shows why this issue or concern is important to you -- why you think you want to address it in this project
3. Compile at least five (5) references about your topic.
No more than 2 may be from the internet. None are allowed from your textbooks. Summarize what you learned from the sources. Attach a bibliography citing the sources.
4. Write a page or so on what you
A. learned about the issue or concern for yourself by doing the research
B. what are the key areas that you need to focus on? Why?
C. what are the most important ones for you to address first? Why?
D. What strengths do you possess that will help you? What personal barriers that could get in your way of change?
E. Any other ideas or insights you got from using the tool?
5. Action Plan
WHAT is your goal? (Keep it simple. One behavior that is OBSERVABLE and ACHIEVABLE)
HOW MUCH progress do you hope to make by Nov 24?
HOW will you TRACK your progress? A log?
WHAT will you do
HOW OFTEN
OTHER plans for coming 2 months...
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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