Are hollywoods films realistic?

I believe that Hollywood's first priority when making a film is for entertainment value. Truth comes second hand along side facts and realism. I don't think Hollywood tries to exaggerate truths, but its just something that needs to be done when making films in order to play over well with its audience. Can we learn things from films? Of course we can, However there are limitations to what we can take away from films. Films like "A Beautiful mind" can help us to understand the very basics of schizophrenia however Hollywood can distort some very important elements of schizophrenia, for examples the symptoms.

-Isabel Herndon

"Final Reflection"

Isabel Herndon

For this research paper class Ive learned better ways to research by using things like Gale virtual library, LexisNexis,and Jtor. Ive also learned to utilize tools like, MLA (modern language association) citation helper, to properly and adequately cite in my paper. If I had the chance to give a  future student advice about taking this class, I would tell them that, it is so important to begin research as soon as you pick your topic, and to not waste time with switching topics due to lack of research and not exploring the topics fully, before choosing. When you decide which topic you want to do, begin researching and build a repertoire of sources and citations to use, so that when you are ready to begin, you can pick and choose what sources you would like to use. If I could go back and do something differently it would be, to really invest more time on the 5th milestone, so that I could take full advantage of Professor Dragan's feedback.

For the paper I chose to do the topic Portrayal of human minds on film using the film A beautiful mind. I loved the movie first of all, it was a really good movie, very emotional, it really plays on the feelings while watching it. I learned a lot about schizophrenia, while researching the the disease it has helped a lot with my other classes since I am in the human services field, taking many Psychology classes.

Blog Assignment #1

Isabel Herndon

Source #1
"A Beautiful Mind." VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever. Ed. Jim Craddock. 2013 ed. Detroit: Gale, 2013. 116. Gale Virtual General Reference Collection. Web. 6 Apr. 2014.Document URLhttp://go.galegroup.com.rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX4014002047&v=2.1&u=cuny_laguardia&it=r&p=GVRL.general&sw=w&asid=587fcaf6bb6e95384efb5562e67747e2This is a movie review on gale virtual libraries. The movie review is for "A beautiful mind".The author of this movie is Jim Craddock (2013). He was basically giving a brief overview of the movie and common controversy of the film. This helps to see the inadequacies of the film in regards to schizophrenia."Director Howard manages to keep the inherent sentimentality and sensationalism generally under control thanks to some powerful performances from Crowe (as Nash), Connelly (as wife Alicia), and Harris (as a sinister government official). The usual controversies swirled about the accuracy of the biopic and what was left out. Ignore the petty carping."

Source#2
Friedrich, Sandra L. "Negative symptoms." The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders. Ed. Madeline Harris and Ellen Thackerey. Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 652-653. Gale Virtual General Reference Collection. Web. 6 Apr. 2014.Document URLhttp://go.galegroup.com.rpa.laguardia.edu:2048/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CCX3405700261&v=2.1&u=cuny_laguardia&it=r&p=GVRL.general&sw=w&asid=02e6668e7ba46a0665d7b3896436dbadThis source comes from gale virtual library.This source shows the symptoms of different types of schizophrenia ex: paranoid, ambivalent, negative symptoms, positive, symptoms

"They can be more difficult to diagnose than positive symptoms (hallucinations , delusions , bizarre behavior, or formal thought disorder) because they represent a lesser degree of normal, desirable activity rather than the presence of undesirable or bizarre behavior."

Welcome Post

                               
Hello ENG 103 class, My name is Isabel and my major is Human services - Mental health. I am planning on pursuing a career in social work after my two years here at LaGuardia. I would like to attend either Adelphi or Hunter in the near future. I prefer working with people where I can use my time and effort to help others all the while learning about people and there minds. I enjoy Psychology and have taken many courses like developmental psych. general psych. and intro to psych. This is also reflected in the books I like to read. I typically like to read books that are psychological thrillers, books about romance and deceit and books about teenage angst and our youth trying to make it in this society.  I like authors like Ted Dekker, who has written many psychological thrillers like Thr3e, Skin, and Blink of an eye which are three of my favorites. I like twisted paranormal  romance authors like Laurell K. Hamilton, Stephanie Meyers, L.a Banks, and Sherrilyn Kenyon. I have what my family calls a "small library" in my room of all my books that I have acquired into my personal collection over the years as my literary taste matured and I began dabbling in other genres. My film taste isn't much different, I love scary movies, movies that deal aspects of psychology and foreign movies with crazy plot twists. I love books and movies that shock me and have me thinking way after I've finished. I am a bit of a technology optimist because I do enjoy the quick an easy access to millions of books via my kindle. Technology has both positive and negative impacts on many things such as society, people. the way we live, how we communicate and how we teach. I do believe the positives out weigh the negatives because it bridges the gap between communities, allows access to information and creates an entire new world right at our fingertips.
                                    
                                          

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