Self-Saving Princess: Feminism and Post-Play Narrative Modding

We have seen how the role of a female has always been less than a man. Females are seen as weak and are always portrayed so that they need to be rescued and never do anything to help themselves, because men are so pose to go to their rescue. You see a lot of invisible narrative in video games. Females are always used as an object to rescue or as a sex object. In the article, Self-Saving Princess:Feminism and Post-Play Narrative Modding, they talk about the video game Donkey Kong (Nintendo 1981), which Lady, the princess in the video game who also is on Mario games, is always portrayed as a victim and having to be rescued by donkey Kong and when he finds her he becomes the hero of the story and receives a prize for rescuing the princess. She is never seen as being able to escape hersels because she is weak and therefore needs to be rescued. 

 

Over the decades the role of a women has always been to serve males only as an object and not as equal to a man. Man are always the heroes, are always stronger, and always have to save the poor defend less women; yes things have changed an over the years and women are a little more equal to males, but they are still in the same role and not much has changed to make females equal to males.  

Females pretend that things have changed and that sexism no longer exist, but they are wrong and are only become blind and not doing anything to change how they are being portrayed. For example all those females that play video games and don’t realize that they rather choose a male figure to play rather than a female because they are seen as stronger and that by choosing a male they will have a higher chance of winning the game. Which is horrible because they are degrading themselves and they don’t even realize it.

     

In video games, females are never the heroes they are always just standing and seen as an object and not taking seriously. The mainstream media does a great job in portraying the sexism in video games. They never address the female audience or try and sell them the product, only because they believe video games are for males only and that females will not be interested in them. But that is false, since there are many females that love video games.

 In some video game if they do have female characters they are placed as the characteristics a male would see women as. Most of the times they are pretty, skinny, and have really tight clothes to show off their bodies. Female characters are mostly seen as sex objects in the video games and never play an important role in the game.

Videos need to start providing equality among both genders. Women need to been seen as equal as the male figure and not as less important or weak. They need to start promoting a gender blind awareness and expanding the diversity of the games. 

Blogging Assignment

To enact invisible narratives, or to play on cultural assumptions/metaphors is to behave and believe with a predisposed bias. Invisible Narratives are everywhere from history and biology class to football and magazines, and they subliminally manipulate the what people believe and how that people act. In the example we discussed in class, of the two articles where in one there is a white person “finding” resources in a grocery store after a natural disaster, and in the other one there is a colored person “looting” resources in a grocery store after the same natural disaster, it shows how by simply switching the words used to describe the actions of characters it creates a backstory for the individuals. In this situation the white person is being portrayed as heroic whereas the black person is being portrayed as a criminal. It is not right that people create invisible narratives or metaphors to stereotype and create social bias’ about groups of people. However assuming that all people play into all invisible narratives that society creates, and assuming that everyone allows them to influence the way they act or how they see the targeted subjects, is just as bad as targeting the subjects in the first place.

Not all people play into invisible narratives however. Biology books describe a sperm as being the dominant sex cell and an egg as being the passive cell in their reproductive relationship. However that should not lead anyone to believe that males are dominant, and females are passive. There are dominant men and dominant females. With my parents the stereotypical roles were reversed. My mother was dominant and my father was passive. It does not have to be a one or the other situation either. In all of my relationships I seek women who I see as an equal. I have never had the idea that one person should or should not be dominant because in order for two people to grow together they must both be dominant in their own lives with respect to each other. To be honest I have no clue where my ideas about relationships came from, However I have taken a lot of biology classes but I still treat the opposite sex with the same amount of respect that I would like to be treated with.

Developing biased preconceived notions about individuals and groups of individuals based on the metaphors and cultural assumptions that we encounter on an everyday basis is a sign of conformity that comes from blindly believing and not thinking for yourself. These unconscious judgements should be made conscious, and should be conquered within ourselves once they are noticed. If we don't consciously correct these bias’, the metaphors will change the way we act toward and judge each other. They will cause us to assume that every black person is a criminal, and every woman is just waiting for penetration. They will cause us to alienate ourselves, and they will cause us to keep people in the same roles that they have been cursed with without any room for improvement.

Empathy and humanity are two incredibly important traits that humans have been gifted with.

hu·man·i·ty

\hyü-ˈma-nə-tē, yü-\

noun

: the quality or state of being human

: the quality or state of being kind to other people or to animals

: all people

em·pa·thy

/empəTHē/

noun

: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

The ability to put yourself in another's shoes because you are both sharing a human experience allows you to treat everyone with the same respect that you would want for yourself. When one shuts themselves off to their empathy and humanity the easier it becomes to play into bias invisible narratives and bigotry. It is easier to say that all whites are criminals and all whites are successful when you believe in white supremacy, it is easier to believe that all males should be dominant over females if you believe that women are less than human. therefore in order to play into the roles cast upon social groups by society there needs to be a predisposed bias such as sexism or racism.

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Invisible Hands

Look around you. What do you see? Stuff! Where does it come from? From the picture frame on your wall to the rice in your pantry to the clothes on you back, where does it come from? The obvious answer would be, “Oh the store.” What many don’t take the time to think about is, where are these things coming from before we see them at the store. 

 We have all seen labels that indicate where the things we purchase are made: China, Vietnam, Mexico, India, Bangladesh or at times even smaller countries, cites or communities that are not recognized. We see these labels and associate it with a  foreign distant land but we don’t decipher what these labels mean. What it actually means to be “Made in China” or India, Etc. The reality of these labels is abuse of human rights that inlays our global economy. 

While we’re here, in America the land of abundance and opportunity other countries are not as fortunate as us. It is federal law to be paid a minimum wage and to have certain rights when in the workforce. In other third world countries there are no such laws the prohibits child labor and slavery. 

"Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions." -Kevin Bales author of Disposable People

 The working conditions in third world counties are brutal and dangerous with very little to no pay. Conditions consist of intensively chemically hazardous environments, scratching the earth with crude tools for minerals like gold or tantalum, mining deep in the amazon with soldiers pointing machine guns watching over, 16 or more hour days with no breaks in sweat shops, children being whipped to pick produce, among many other things that go on. This is wrong, inhumane and completely sickening but it is the reality of  how our global economy  functions and we participate in this cycle everyday by using commodities such as  coffee, cotton or spices to cook. Free to cheap labor means lower prices for people like you and me which then translates to a better economy because we spend our money.

 There is a lot of bad but you might be asking is EVERYTHING done by slaves? Is there any way around it. There is!  If you look hard enough there are products that are considered Fair Trade.  Fair trade is when the people working are treated ethically and have a justified pay. These products tend to be slightly more expensive but when put in perspective, is not having people slave and be tortured for you not worth a couple extra bucks?

So yes it is horrible and yes it is every where but how do we stop it? What can we do? This is a huge issue and there are many people trying to put a stop to it, but like in many other cases union is power. It is spreading the knowledge by word of mouth and true stories that one can really raise awareness. Talk about it. YOU can make a difference!

The Visible Yet Invisible

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At one point or another we have all seen or heard of the show Modern Family. For some it may be a really funny show, while for others it's a show that's not funny enough to watch. Personally I think Modern Family is a hilarious show, however there are a lot of invisible narratives or also known as stereotypes. On the show there have been times where we see, yet don't react to those stereotypes because of how funny they make it seem, that we let it slide, and don't give much importance to it.  

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The very first stereotype is that hispanic women, only succeeded, by marrying a old, rich, white man. Gloria Prichett played by Sofia Vergara, is a Colombian single mother, who migrated to the US for a better life. When Gloria came to the US she lived in a "ghetto" area (another stereotype; when hispanics migrate here they usually settle in low income areas) worked as a hair stylist then when she met husband Jay Prichett, she quite her job and moved into his big house and basically became a stay at home wife/mom. The stereotype here is that Gloria wouldn't have met or married Jay she would of still been working at the beauty salon, and living in a small apartment and would of never "improved her life." Many of us tend to ignore that stereotype because we see the better lifestyle she has now, that we accept it because she's not the only with a better lifestyle but also because her son now has a better future. 

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The second stereotype is that in a gay relationship there is always a feminine and male figure. Mitchell Prichett and Cameron Tucker are a gay couple who are displayed in the show as a couple where Mitchell has the masculine traits by being the one who works and provides for the house while Cameron has the feminine traits by being the stay at home, outgoing dad. I am 100% sure that not all gay couples take on the role of man and a women in the relationship. However as the viewers we accept the roles because their relationship is so funny and and it has this chemistry that works and make it's the "perfect" family. I say perfect in parenthesis because gay/lesbian couples is not a norm that is seen and accepted, there are always a lot of judgements towards them, like "they won't live a "normal" couple life" and by making them more like a heterosexual they are closer to the norm. Which isn't okay, gay couples don't need try to be like heterosexual families to be happy, however in the show they make the couple this way because its more accepting to the viewers.     

There are a lot more invisible narratives in the show that hide behind not only humor but by the viewers relating to certain situations, that we accept them rather than criticize them. As viewer should we blind ourselves from these stereotypes or should we acknowledge them and say it isn't okay? 

Kahn Souphanousinphone and The Typical Asian (Invisible Narrative)

Today in society Asians are one of the most forgotten minorities when it comes to talking about harmful stereotypes or prejudice in our society. Whenever people think about the word Asian or Asian American in general, the type of people that first comes to their head is Chinese, Japanese, and Korean who are the East Asians. Or they would think about people from the Middle East or India. Although they are not wrong about these people being Asian, they are forgetting the fact that there are a lot more Asian ethnicities than just the typical Asians that have been listed above.

This idea is being perpetuated into the mainstream media. In mainstream media although the directors in a film or a show would allow Asians of a different background or color to be shown on television, the way that they portray these Asians voice, behavior or interaction with other people will be shown as a typical Asian with typical Asian stereotypes that we constantly hear from other people or seen on t.v. People in control of media are putting all Asians into one category of what a real Asian is supposed to be through invisible narratives.

In this short clip from an animated cartoon called “King of The Hill” it shows of an Asian character named Kahn Souphanousinphone who immigrated to America from a Southeast Asian country called Laos. Although he comes from Laos his accent sounds more Chinese then a Laos accent. The Chinese accent is seen clearly when he is about to laugh at 0.32. The hidden narrative in this cartoon is the idea that all Asians sound like Chinese. Also at 0.21 when Kahn tries to get everyone`s attention by tapping on his cup and made a loud unpleasant cry to get everyone`s attention, the way he makes his cry is similar to a Cantonese word which is also pronounced as “waaay”. In Cantonese it is used in the same way as the clip in order to get people`s attention when you need to call out for someone. The meaning in Cantonese is hey. This shows that media is trying to group all Asians into one category and the fact that all Asians who immigrated to America has the same accent as Chinese people.

Kahn Souphanousinphone from "King of The Hill"
Source: "King of The Hill" Wiki

Additionally the way he is portrayed in his interactions and behavior seemed to display him as a typical ruff and gruff Asian person in certain parts of the clip such as at 0.10, 0.17, 0.21, and 0.30. This shows of the hidden narrative of the stereotype that all Asians who immigrated to America are always loud and rude. It also means that Asians are not polite and have no manners in America. This stereotype is constantly shown in mainstream t.v. 

           

Plus the fact that they used a Southeast Asian who has darker skin instead of a Chinese person who typically has lighter skin to match his accent seems to show the fact that he is being used as a comedic character who is not a nice person and is considered a joke based on his over the top interactions with people in the clip. At 0.30 when he points to Hank`s family not only does he laugh at them in a sinister Asian laughter but also the fact that he called them a “dumb redneck” shows that as a minority he is not a very good character at all.

Also Kahn is seen as a typical smart Asian who gets infuriated while teaching one of Hank`s friends how to use the computer at 0.43. The invisible narrative here is that all Asians are smart.

Not only that but Kahn is not voiced by an Asian voice actor but a white voice actor named Tony Huss. This tells us that people who are white has the power to shape and create what is appropriate and fitting for an Asian character.

Overall society has been fed with lots of misconceptions from the media and the people who are in power that creates these shows force a specific kind of stereotype of what an Asian is into our face. Asians are suffering from this and as a result a lot of other Asian ethnicities do not get the chance to voice out their experiences and let the world know that Asians are not the same and not all of us falls into the stereotypes that society has chosen to put us in. This also includes East Asians.

What's behind the Media?

Media shapes reality by making people believe that we have to buy what we see on TV. The advertisements are very interesting and eye catching that’s makes people feel like they need what they see in the advertisement. For example, lets say we are the producers and we want to make a commercial for beer. Our target audience for this example is young men in the need of attention. In the commercial we want the perfect man, a buff, tall with a nice smile man holding a beer. Next to him there is his perfect match, a young beautiful girl dressed very provocative trying to get his attention because there is also other girls holding on to him by his muscles. This particular commercial would make young men in the need of attention go buy a beer thinking that they will get girls attention just like the perfect man in the commercial.                                                                                       Now the question is, how do the researchers get society to follow the new trend? Market researchers study teen culture to find cutting edge trends leading advertisers to use those certain trends, which mean the trends, become part of mass culture. Back in the 1990’s Sprite was popular, MTV found a way to introduce hip hop to society by paying kids to dance and drink sprite to show how cool they are. Sprite became associated with the ‘coolness’ of hip-hop. Those are examples of how producers get us to buy their products to be part of the new trend. Now that we know how they catch our attention let’s talk about consumerism. Consumerism creates problems with how people spend their money, how teenagers and young adults get manipulated and how it creates an emotional connection to specific restaurants or brands, resulting in consumers to blindly follow marketers’ expectations.                                                                                                                                        Advertising makes individuals believe that it’s a positive outcome to keep buying their products and the promise ads make to teenagers is that spending money helps them fit in. It’s easy to catch teenagers’ attention as we see.                                                   The American culture can manipulate us by making us believe that we need to have the money moving from store to store. When in reality buying things we don’t need is a waste of our money. In the article called “ Debtor’s Prism,” the author shows that there are many contradictory messages about debt. In the article the author talks about how if you don’t spend your money you will be an unhappy person, but it’s a negative reality because if you spend too much money you will catch yourself borrowing money leaving you in debts that may have to be paid until death.  The author writes “It’s not whether you have it: its not even how you get it, exactly… it’s what you do with your riches that really counts”. The message behind that is that as long as the money moves you are good. The article also brought up Ebenezer Scrooge, a character that did not like to spend money on food nor does he liked to spend money on food for him. Even some ads had recognized that he would just sit on top of his money.

Invisible Narrative Of Adulthood

    Invisible narrative is a one - sided representation of any discussed story that aims to convert everything in ideologies. I have researched and read an article that in a way show some invisible narratives discussed in their own point of view.

    One of the text that I read was by an author named Vi that talked about childhood behavior can still be seen in adulthood. As Vi states in his article, “The creativity of it is stunning – the effortless conjuring up  of alternate existences for the purposes of exploration, understanding, and above all of these, sheer unadulterated fun”. Usually, as a kid Vi would do everything that they had taught him and that his friends also did but at the same time he enjoyed imagining and learning more about the world around him. He would imagine the world around him as his own perspective and he would create in his mind, usually what little kids do, a happy world with no problems. As well Vi states, “Adulthood is the culmination of development, the completeness, the crystallization of a full person. This is what is subtly taught in our culture. School trains us to think in terms of ‘work’ and ‘play’. Play is something children do, permitted because you are incomplete. It’s seen as a trial stage, a way of learning before the actual business of life begins”. Basically school teaches us the important facts of life when we are still kids but when we become adult and get to the final stage of our life we get to see how the world really. As adults now we get to use all the things we learned throughout life now in an everyday basis.

    Throughout the text Vi starts talking more about the real reason why we transitioned throughout life. We don’t transition to the peak of adulthood because of what our parents and teachers taught us, but we transition for what we see by ourselves throughout our life. As Vi states, “No, what we’re talking about and thinking about here, you and I, is the way there’s always another hoop to jump through, some illusion threshold held up.  Once you cross it, you’ll be OK. You’ll be there, you’ll be accepted. And to do that, to form yourself correctly, you accept certain things as true. It’s a social reciprocity”. This means that when you propose to yourself a certain goal you will be satisfied that you accomplished it and that you are on track with your lifelong goals. But at the same time you still want more, you want to do your best to be better than everyone because that’s what your own self and culture has taught you throughout life. Vi tries to end his article by discussing how he is now as a professional worker trying to do the same things that he did when he was a child. Vi states, “Kids know the game ends eventually, because their world is one of eternal incompleteness. That’s fine, because they fill in the gaps with will and imagination… I’m a trained philosopher – undergraduate and postgraduate too, and I’ve studied Aristotle… Really fun, playing with the fundamentals of the universe, chopping and changing premises like some maniac six-year old”. As a professional, Vi still feels like a kid that is still having fun by figuring things in his own way. This doesn’t happen only by being a philosopher, it can also happen with any other professional career. For example, if you are a lawyer you still feel like a kid, just like Vi, because you are thinking about how you will solve any case and you are investigating the case like when you were a little kid investigating the world around you.

    From the text that I have read I think it connects more to our cultural myth behavior. I consider it cultural because what Vi is discussing connects more to what your parents or your biggest role models have taught you during your entire life. You either go along with what those people in your life have taught you or you decide to go along with the lessons that you have experienced throughout your life. The unseen narrative in Vi’s article is that what people are trying to show you is that once you get a professional career there’s nothing else to aim for you just managed to get to the top. But what Vi is trying to tell us in this article is that even if you are in the stage of adulthood and just became a professional there is still more to learn and find about life. In a way, adulthood is not the final stage of life but you can still use your skills that you had as a child and, instead of exploring the world around you, now you need to explore the job around you and how is going to help you out in the future and long term goals.

The consequences of college's actions (Student Debt)

Money has changed the universities in devious ways. Most universities have increased their tuition costs along with general costs rapidly. It’s becoming the students’ main problem. The money they need but don’t have stresses many of the students, and these worry and seek for money to pay for a highly priced university. The objective of the schools are to avoid educating students about loans, increasing prices, and taking advantage of the lack of students’ awareness. These students apply thinking that they are getting free money not knowing that they are going to have to pay back and in most cases with lots of interests. The universities’ devious intentions of making money off students are interfering with the money cycle between education and students making student debt continuous.

            The universities main worries is their income and their reputation which is why they will do whatever to make these better even if it makes the students struggle economically. The schools have infinite ways of making a profit but their biggest income comes from the students. Unreasonably raising the cost enough to make students seek for loans is one of the many sneaky ways they contribute for the student debt crisis. It is a scam for schools to be having the same teaching systems and make no improvements but raising their prices for the heck of it. This is not the only technique schools make students struggle economically while they end up benefitting from it economically too. There is numerous ways schools are making profit off students and they are so sneaky with this that they get away with it easy.

These greedy actions make the currency go to waste. In an article published by Joanne Fritz, it was specified “[Universities] also sell products through its bookstore and tickets to artistic and athletic venues, while the hospital maintains a gift shop and likely provides community services for which it charges. According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, such income sources provided close to three-quarters of the income in the nonprofit sector.” This leads to think that almost all of the income a university needs is within the services and businesses and deals they make, but then again they still over charge the students. Most students pay their schools without realizing what they are actually paying for, including myself. It’s not just tuition that is paid to the school there are several other fees that are also being charged. Fees that cover necessities and activities that are not needed by most students or that are not frequently used but that are still counted when charging all the students. The point is schools are constantly making money from any situation they see profit in.

            The universities’ devious intentions of making money off students are interfering with the money cycle between education and students making student debt a never-ending routine that it’s only getting worse. The greediness of the universities make students desperate seeking for instant economic help blinding them of the situation also blinding them of what they are actually paying for then it all ends up resulting in debt that not only affects the students but the economy. Government has just started to take action on this because they see that it is affecting the economy in general. Money that is going to waste is causing big debts. This is a problem that is known by everyone but only a few individuals have taken the time to go deep into this cause. Universities are taking advantage of their students’ money to benefit their investments on their businesses, making lots of money having many unnoticed sources where their income progresses. I have stated my reasons and this is why I believe the universities are the ones to blame for the student debt crisis.

Here is a graph shown in a post by SeekAndFind from the web page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3148076/posts

Information from this editorial was found (Alex Gore. “Rise in tuition fees leads to 40% drop in university admissions.” Mail Online Associated Newspapers. Jan 19. 2013. Electronically Published).

According to statistics India is the first country to have open defecation

 

 

 

 

 

Open Defecation taking over India

 

Open defecation do to the lack of toilets is a big and strong issue taking place in India. Research indicates that it has caused the death of over 600 million kids a year, and placing woman at risk of attack.  However, India could finally be finding the solution to this problem after several years of taking place. Logically, an issue needs a person to be the head start of the solving part and in this case  Prime Minister Narenda Modi is the one the has all his focus on this issue, however, more than words are needed to solve this issue in India.

As I mention before open defecation causes the death of millions of kids and these deaths are cause because of the diseases cause by open defecation. Therefore,   The World Health Organization indicates that human excreta always contain large numbers of germs, some of which may cause diarrhea. When people become infected with diseases such as cholera, typhoid and hepatitis A, their excreta will contain large amounts of the germs which cause the disease.

The World Health Organization also mentions how if people defecate in the open, flies will feed on the excreta and can carry small amounts of the excreta away on their bodies and feet. When they touch food, the excreta and the germs in the excreta are passed onto the food, which may later be eaten by another person. Some germs can grow on food and in a few hours their numbers can increase very quickly.

Therefore, research concludes that kids and adults acquire those types of diseases mention before because India  has  626 million people who practice open defecation, has more than twice the number of the next 18 countries combined. India also accounts for 90 per cent of the 692 million people in South Asia who practice open defecation. India accounts for 59 per cent of the 1.1 billion people in the world who practice open defecation and last but not least India has 97 million people without access to improved sources of drinking water, second only to China.

              According to statistics India ends up paying around the same of what is needed to supply citizens with toilets.  

 

I believe that most of the people around the world who live in good situations would like to solve this type of problems or at least help solve the problems. But as my grandmother always said there is a big difference saying something than actually taking action for something. In India there have been attempts to solve the problem but the attempts take place when there is about to be a national election which throws every other effort away. 

Like I have mention and many of the political parties have said it will not be easy to solve the problem, since many Indians refuse to use toilets since they are not use to them, and also because around 12.9 million toilets are needed in order to solve the problem. However, with the courage and positivity of Mr Modi and the help of nonprofit groups they can achieve their goal.

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Is Depression Curable?

Depression

            There are 9 types of depressions. Those 9 types of depressions are major depression, dysthymia, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, atypical depression, psychotic depression, bipolar Disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and situational depression. People say that depression can be cured but it takes competence. I do not believe that depression can be cured whether or not they try.  It will disappear for a second, but it will always end up coming back.

A lot of people look really happy. However, majority of people are depressed and choose to keep their depression inside so no one will know that they have a problem. When people keep their problem to themselves, how can we help them?  When you are outside in the public walking and you pass by people that look like they are all happy, you do not really know if they are depressed deep inside because they are not showing it. People should tell at least one person that they are depress to avoid major depression.

Once a person is depress, they will always be depress throughout their life. One of the reason is because of how a person grew up not having attention from their parents, being alone all the time, or not having at least one person to be there whenever they need someone to be there. For example, my older brother had bipolar disorder and situational depression because he never really grew up having a mom and a dad. Same goes for my sister and I. We immigrated here in Philippines to start a new life without my dad. Since the year 2000, my mom has been working double job to fulfill her children’s needs. While my mom is working, my brother did not really have any attention from my mom so he ended up being depress and end up doing drugs and making friends with the wrong type of people. He had therapy sessions, he was arrested a lot of times, and done a lot of bad things that I would never think he would do. One moment, he looked like he was in a better situation but he ended up doing the same things he was doing. Seeing this while growing up, makes me believe that depression can’t be completely be cured. It can be cured momentarily, but the depression will end up eating you back up because you grew up with it.

A lot of people have at least one type of depression. Whether it is big or small, people still have it. Especially a lot of people nowadays have situational depression, the reason why I say that is because when people end up in a break up it suddenly gets them mentally. This rarely happens but if this depression doesn’t get treated, it can lead to a major depression. Also when a person is being unselfish it also leads to situational depression because that person wants someone to themselves. For example, my friend got into a break up last year and he is still thinking about his ex-girlfriend because he misses her. Every time he looks on Facebook or on any other social network and sees her post a picture he ends up getting angry. For example, he threw away a watch that she gave him for their anniversary because he saw a picture of his ex-girlfriend with a different guy. He then told me that he is over her, but when he sees a picture of her online he ends up being depress and does not know what to do. Seeing this happen to my friend, shows that depression can’t be cured.

            After seeing all these types of depression from my family members and friends, it made me think that depression will not be cured. In the article when depression can’t be cured, it talks about how depression is temporary and passes naturally or once the person has expressed the feelings and resolved the thoughts causing the depression. When I read that sentence, I suddenly want to believe that it is true because of my past. For example, Robin Williams, people didn’t know that he had a depression which caused him to kill himself. This also made me think that even celebrities have a depression. A lot of people have depression, I do not think it will be completely cured.