Covered Girls

The beginning of the short film "Covered Girls" caught me off guard. The girl wearing a hijab rapping was a great introduction to show that underneath the hijab they are just regular Americans. The girls story made me feel really bad about how they were treated after 9/11, because as someone who knows a lot of people who were lost in the World Trade Center I was definitely one of the people who harbored resentment for them. I realize now that the entire religion cannot be blamed for the actions of a few individuals. It is especially unfair tp blame the entire religion because a lot of the U.S's Islamic enemies are not even devoutly religious. I worked with the lead interrogator for Saadam Hussein this summer and he told us that Saadam isn't even religious he just acts religious in order to attract supporters in the middle east.

Deadly Inequality in the Health Care “Safety Net”: Uninsured Ethnic Minorities’ Struggle to Live with Life-Threatening Illnesses

I found the article "Deadly Inequality in the Health Care “Safety Net”: Uninsured Ethnic Minorities’ Struggle to Live with Life-Threatening Illnesses" to be very biased. Although it is unfortunate that some people are sick because of a lack of healthcare, I would disagreed with the author that "racism is structured
into the health care system," if anything the healthcare system is unfair to Caucasians because they recieve the least amount of government provided care and they provide the most funding for it. Medicaid and Medicare are paid for by taxpayers, AND Medicare and Medicaid raise the price of healthcare and insurance for those who actually pay for it.  If people neglect to seek Medicaid care than that is their own problem. Insured individuals are already paying for the uninsured to have health care, it's their own fault if they don't use it.

Number Our Days

The documentary "Number Our Days" was an anthropological study of a community of elderly Jews in Venice, California. I thought it was very interesting due to the fact that most of the time anthropological studies are about cultures which are immensely different then American culture. Listening to how this subset of American culture has struggled to maintain their identity and way of life throughout the years was heartbreaking. It was also a unique topic because it was a group of people that someday some of us are going to become. Although I am not Jewish, I have many friends who are, and who someday are going to be elderly Jews.