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First major character with Down syndrome on a television series, portrayed by a person who also has Down syndrome. Chris Burke [113] 2018 Penny Stevenson: Doctors: She was born with a right arm that ends just below the elbow. Cerrie Burnell [114] 1994 Kerry Weaver: ER: Limp in her gait due to congenital hip dysplasia: Laura Innes [115] [116 ...
Maternal death in fiction is a common theme encountered in literature, movies, and other media. The death of a mother during pregnancy , childbirth or immediately afterwards is a tragic event. The chances of a child surviving such an extreme birth are compromised. [ 1 ]
Danny Wedding, Mary Ann Boyd and Ryan M. Niemiec, Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology, 2nd ed., Cambridge, MA, Hogrefe & Hufer Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-88937-292-6. Movies and Mental Illness – Hogrefe Publishing
The American cartoonist Alison Bechdel incorporated her friend's "test" into a strip in Dykes to Watch Out For.. The Bechdel test (/ ˈ b ɛ k d əl / BEK-dəl), [1] also known as the Bechdel-Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in film and other fiction.
The original meaning of "final girl", as described by Clover in 1987, is quite narrow. Clover studied slasher films from the 1970s and 1980s (which is considered the golden age of the genre) [7] and defined the final girl as a woman who is the sole survivor of the group of people (usually youths) who are chased by a villain and who gets a final confrontation with the villain (whether she kills ...
The death of a 17-year-old who appeared on "America's Got Talent" with her high school dance team has sparked a conversation on teens and mental health. Emily Gold, a varsity dance captain and ...
Examples of celebrities whose suicides have triggered suicide clusters include Ruan Lingyu, the Japanese musicians Yukiko Okada and hide, the South Korean actress Choi Jin-Sil, whose suicide caused suicide rates to rise by 162.3% [38] and Marilyn Monroe, whose death was followed by an increase of 200 more suicides than average for that August ...
When factoring in cost and other obstacles, however, 39.2% of teens selected playing video games as their favorite activity over watching TV or movies (33.3%) or scrolling on social media (27.5%).