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Text Review: House

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House: Season One | Own & Watch House: Season One | Universal Pictures

 

For my text review I have chosen one of my favorite TV series I have watched since I was a kid. The show is called House, is a medical drama that stars Dr. Greg House as a famous infectious disease specialist who solves medical mysteries with his team of young diagnosticians. He can be hard to work for as he likes to play mind games.

This show began its fame in November of 2004 and ended in 2012. Dr. House clashes with many colleagues as he picks up on subtle hints to get a diagnosis. Though his views are controversial, he is determined to find the diagnosis of every patient no matter how difficult it may be.

This show conveys many topics from our class, especially in season one when we first meet all the characters. Many characters have different ethnicities, religious attributes, and political outlooks. These topics come up often as Dr. House likes to rag on their appearance, ethnicities, and viewpoints. Season one showcases 22 episodes that revile how the team copes with all the torture as well as helping others at the same time. Even with the rags and blatant abuse from their superior, they know he is a genius, and they want to learn from him.

We see many examples on how he displays his viewpoints on a vast majority of controversial topics with humor mixed in. Just because he means it like a joke, does not always make it better and can be offensive. We have learned in this class to be observant, and more able to identify ways of seeing differences. We can see and learn from this show, mainly on how not to approach someone of different ethnicities, religions, and political stands. Between religion, gender, injustices, and race, this show comes together to help many people.

Context Presentation: Black Panther

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The movie Black Panther is a film about challenging the power structures of a Nation. The film is about T’Challa and his new situation after his fathers death. His father was the king of Wakanda, and after he died T’Challa was the next in line to take his place. With this change up, there would be obvious challengers to the thrown.

Five African tribes were at war a long time ago fighting over a super metal called vibranium. When one person ingest this metal, he is bestowed with super-human powers and becomes the first Black Panther. He unites four of the five tribes and forms the Nation Wakanda. Wakanda wants to hide the metal from the rest of the world. With this secret and power, it makes the movie very interesting to say the least.

After Challas father dies and he takes over the throne, he has discovered that years ago someone wanted to take the vibranium and give it to people of African decent to help them over throw whoever was controlling them. With this kind of power being thrown out to whoever can be dangerous. After a battle or two, the metal is not distributed and kept away.

This is a very brief summary of the movie itself but the overall plot is there. People are oppressed and want to better them. With this story line, you can see that they depict Wakanda as a less fortunate place with poor people. This takes us back to the beginning of the semester when we watched a Ted Talk about the danger of single stories. They refer to peoples assumptions of places and the people that are there. Even though the world sees Wakanda as a third world country, they are very technologically advanced. At the end, they decide to help the rest of the world advance with its technology.

Diary of Systemic Injustice Showcase: BLM vs Masks

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Everyone here has heard of the Black Lives Matter movement that happened right in our campus community. It took over the summer of 2020, and still is an issue today. This movement was to make aware the injustice the black community faced in this unsegregated world. It was to bring to light what other may not know or choose to ignore. This was a country wide deal, and one person lost her job for expressing herself. With Covid-19 very prevalent at the time of the incident, masks are required to be worn by all staff members. One teacher named Lillian White, made her own masks that expressed her agreement with BLM. This caught the attention of many faculty members, and not in a good way. They did not want her beliefs to be reflected on the students or the parents. The staff expressed concerns to the head mistress. The head mistress explained that even though they were diversifying the curriculum and always want to promote equality, the masks were not allowed. White did not listen and wore the masks anyway because she wore them for knowledge, not for a political or violent reason. Despite the warnings from the head mistress, White did not comply. When addressed to the counsel of the school, they agreed she resigned by not complying with the school’s requests.

With all, standing up for what you believe in should not be a crime. I think the school was unfair in the decision made to “fire” Ms. White. They will refuse that they fired her, but it was a force quit in my eyes. BLM was to open people’s eyes and to give equal rights no matter the skin color. Discriminating against someone for wearing masks to help the issue, is wrong. The pictures attached are the ones Ms. White made for the school year that caused her to lose her job.

What do you guys think? Was the school right in their decision to have a teacher not wear these kinds of masks? Will a bigger challenge arise once the community gets all the details? What would you do in this situation?

Written By: Connor Wolford