For this blog i interviewed 3 people who are close in age to my own, my younger brother sammy (11), my younger sister Nadia (14), and my friend dean (16). I interviewed them in ascending order by age. My younger brother knew basically what you would assume an 11 year old boy would know, i asked various questions that he didn't really understand like "what is abortion?, or What is the birthing process like for women and what roles do men play in those processes?" however something i found interesting was that he referred to a T.V. show, where the female actress gave birth to a baby, which is when i began thinking about a common theme between the people i interviewed. I then interviewed my who surprisingly answered my questions with some depth. An example of a question i asked her was "how do women usually prepare for the process of giving birth?" and "What do you think maternal instinct is?" she responded with this, "usually women prepare for birth by going to classes where they practice breathing techniques, i saw it on a T.V. show one time, for some reason the guy really iddnt want to go even though it was his baby too." Now that this theme of T.V. came up again i had noticed a pattern, which may have just been coincidence because they both live in the same house and may have seen this show together.
The next person i interviewed was my friend dean who was able to answer my questions with some thought not just bubbles. I asked the same question i asked my younger sister which was "What do you think maternal instinct is?" to which he responded as "the way a mother connects with her child". I then asked "what do you think the birthing process is like for a woman?" to which he responded as "painful" but then posed the question "why isnt it as painful for the father, are they not as important to the birth." i asked him what makes him think that? to which he responded "well, i saw on T.V. once this women giving birth and the husband feeling emotional pain but nothing physical and why is it that women always give birth so quickly on T.V.? I saw on another show during my health class that sometimes giving birth can take hours."
Dean mentioning Television helped me reach the realization that most of our generation get our ideas from electronic screens like T.V.'s and computers. All 3 of Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
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e people i interviewed mentioned it and when i think about it the first thing that comes to mind when i think about birth is the mental image of some women on T.V. giving birth or the health class video i sawe last year. most of the knowledge that i have acquired comes from an electronic screen of some sort whether it is my phone, computer, or television. My question is why do we allow ourselves to gain this knowledge through the electronic screens we have, instead of watching a show on T.V. about a women giving birth why haven't i seen one in real life. I think that we explore too much of the world from our chairs or couches at home and yes, sometimes it is because of the fact that we can't all go to Egypt and see the revolution happen or go back in time and see the assasination of John F. Kennedy first hand so the only way to stay in contact is by watching it on T.V. or on the computer but maybe instead of watching basketball on our T.V.'s maybe we can go outside an play it instead and instead of watching that cooking show about how to make pasta you can try it yourself.
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