The final Showdown

For my final project, i will be making a movie and writting an essay about how women in the media.

The way in which the media portrays women in society could be an infringement upon their right to dignity. i am goin to try and attempt to demonstrate the ways in which the media achieves this.

I am also going to disscuss the effects that the media's representation of women can have on society.

Mystery Virus

After an extensive disscusion our group has decided to focus our third story on the "mystery virus" which has already taken the lives of four people. To help us accomplish a good story, we will be looking for information within the Mail & Guardian online, Sowetan, The Independent and The Sunday Tribune.

happy and gay on howard college

I have been conducting extensive research along with my other member with regards to the subject of homosexuals and their relationship with ukzn social environment and the campus structure. we have interviewed many students as well as a psychologist.

Degrading women in Hollywood

This story is about the way women are portrayed in the media and Hollywood, and the various ways in which the media can infringe upon women's rights to dignity.

"ALIENS" in S.A

Lately xenophobia has been a major crisis in South Africa. With the large amount of people in arriving from neighboring countries there has been abundance of violence and terror due to these foreigners filling up the employment sector. The press and media have been reporting the story to the public and in my opinion have dehumanized these people and in a way have encouraged the detachment of their basic human rights and dignity.

In many newspaper articles that I have read, I have noticed that the media has labeled these foreigners as aliens. Personally I believe the name is rather derogative and tends to perpetuate certain stereotypes. In my opinion headlines such as “alien terror’ and “war on aliens” is inappropriate and it has had an effect of supporting the recent violence outbreaks we have witnessed on the news.

This has been a major infringement on many peoples human dignity. What has our South Africa come to when they treat their brothers and sisters like something inhuman and “Alien”?

human dignity

we live in a society full of different indiviuals who are fo different race's, sex's and posses different cultures, and sexual orientaions. regardless of the differences we have fom each other we all deserve to be treated equally and with respect.

this concept is refered to human dignity.
to treat another indiviual differently in a negative manner would result in discrimination
and victomization.

south africa's laws opposed human diginty during the apartheid era with
regards to race.