Throughout the semester, I’ve focused the majority of my work on mental health, more precisely the stigma that is attached to this topic. I decided to target mental health stigma within four different main groups: Health care providers, youth, workplace and media.
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I moved to Canada when I was nine years old, from Brazil. The differences between these two countries are very prominent, and I think that's one of the reasons why I'm so interested in learning new languages and learning about different cultures. I'm also really fascinated by photography and shorts films, mainly social experiments.
In my free time, I like to spend time outside, whether it's swimming, hiking or going on a picnic. I really enjoy talking to people, topics can vary from their favourite colour to their opinions on recent events.
One thing that is really important to me is my faith. I am Christian. I feel like people often associate Christianism with being judgemental. However, I never want anyone to feel pre-judged around me. I want people to feel the most comfortable around me, like they did with Jesus.
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lulumgomes in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
December 9, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
December 9, 2017
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Hannah in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
December 6, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
December 6, 2017
On August 19, 2017, Sarah Maisey wrote about the impacts of fashion on the environment for the National. Notably, the industry, valued at US $2.4 trillion a year, is disastrous both environmentally and in terms of workers’ health and safety.
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DeborahLaroche in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
December 6, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
December 6, 2017
On October 17th, 2016, the CBC published an article entitled “Montreal's working poor on the rise, study finds,” talking about the fact that as prices are rising, salaries are not and many people are extremely affected by this. In fact, from 2001 to 2012, the working-poor population rose 30%. It is important to understand this isa crisis for the city of Montreal, and that somethings can be done to help those in need.
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lulumgomes in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
October 23, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
October 23, 2017
The article “The Silicon Valley Suicides”, written by Hanna Rosin and posted December 2015 on The Atlantic, investigates the high rate of suicide among teenagers in the city of Palo Alto in particular. The investigation started after a suicide cluster, that is numerous death occurred in close succession and proximity, followed the suicide of Cameron Lee.
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lulumgomes in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
October 21, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
October 21, 2017
A lot of stigma is attached to the term “mental health”, somehow when it comes to mental illness, society loses all empathy towards sufferers. However, mental health is as important as physical health and we must stop stigmatizing this disease and stop diminishing the people affected by it.
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lulumgomes in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
October 2, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
October 2, 2017
Every country struggles to take care of people with mental health problems. Now, in West Africa in particular “mental health is an incredible neglected issue […] [because] there are so many competing priorities”. In this article written by Carey Benedict, on October 11th 2015, the lack of resources to treat mental illnesses is very clear.
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lulumgomes in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
September 18, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
September 18, 2017
I decided to do a small throwback to last year’s Summer Olympics that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and talk about this article that was written by Hasani Gittens and published in NBC News, August 14th 2016. This article explains how Ryan Lochte, a member of the U.S. Olympic Swimming Team, was robbed in Brazil after a night-out with his other teammates.
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audreynoiseux in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
September 7, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
September 7, 2017
Published on Al Jazeera English website by Al Jazeera and news agencies, on September 6th, the article “US reacts to Trump's move to scrap the DACA programme” sums up the reactions to Trump government’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
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lulumgomes in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
September 5, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
September 5, 2017
Venezuela is undergoing a dramatic shift that is being caused by the regime of their president, Nicolás Maduro. This crisis of malnutrition is described in an article posted on April 18th 2017, in Americas Quarterly, by Rachelle Krygier. Krygier explains that this time of “scarcity and malnutrition are a direct consequence of [the fall of the Venezuelan economy]”.
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Nathalie in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
September 2, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
September 2, 2017
As if sexual assault victims weren’t silenced enough, the White House has reportedly removed their sexual assault reports “published in 2014 under the Obama administration” from the White House’s website. However, “the report can still be accessed on the Obama administration's archived website.” In an article published in the Huffington Post on Aug.
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lulumgomes in Flacks: Contemporary Issues-NewsActivist- Fall 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
August 30, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
August 30, 2017
Racism is often talked about using the past tense, however, in the past few years, this horrific ideology has resurfaced and is now being mentioned regularly in the news. In fact, less than a month ago, hundreds of right-wing protestors marched the streets of Charlottesville, in order, to protest the removal of Robert's E. Lee statue. For those who do not know, Robert E.
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B.Matthews in Contemporary Issues/NewsActivist Winter/ Spring 2017: Champlain, Saint-Lambert
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
May 14, 2017
Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
May 14, 2017
Throughout the whole semester my focus of my work has been surrounding the different aspects of mental health. In order to find new and creative ways to show the truth of mental health issues, I have found 2 sources of current events that have occurred within the last month. In addition, I have decided to challenge myself in creating a blog that discusses the issue of mental illnesses, featured on the site are; TedTalks, places to visit within Canada for help, photography, and much more. I created this blog to illustrate the stigma against mental health problems.
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Mental health is an issue that is becoming more and more popular in today’s society. The government has taken Mental Health very seriously pledging to give an extra 70 million dollars of the 1.2 billion dollars that the government budgets for Mental Health annually. “Mental health care should not be neglected,” Barrette said,(Minister of Health). According to the government, they’re plan is to raise awareness about mental health in many ways.
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I moved to Canada when I was nine years old, from Brazil. The differences between these two countries are very prominent, and I think that's one of the reasons why I'm so interested in learning new languages and learning about different cultures.
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