r example, in the USA, there has been increasing evidence of HIV spread among blacks and Hispanics in the inner cities, largely due to IV-drug use” (130

Chin and Mann, they were able to develop charts showing who was infected by AIDS using patterns to collect data from different countries, gend

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For this essay, I will be talking about the different types of stigma that arose because of AIDS and who they were against.

When AIDS was first discovered, the initial cases were a cluster of injecting drug users and homosexual men.

I began to mourn the death of someone that I know nothing about, no more than the fact that he was a victim of HIV/AIDS, and the quilt itself added little to my knowledge about the person.

There is no telltale indication of his family’s economic status before his death or how they’ll be affected in the future, if at all. However

In AIDS orphans this is even worse because of the stigmatism of AIDS that surrounds the family. Not only does the child have to take care of their parent but they also must protect their family from society.

I feel like I am not seeing the reason as to why people would even attempt to discriminate anyone based on their gender or sexuality. Is it because the majority should get more power? If so, why should popularity control what we do and don’t do? It’s not fair for the minority to get shoved around and become followers and not the leader. The minorities such as LGBTQ should get a say for this. 

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On another website I found called ‘verywellhealth’ founded by George Edward Barton who was an architect and a patient of tuberculosis stated that people who sit around who believe they are at risk of HIV/AIDS will increase their anxiety

More and more people today would rather sit and let the disease worsen rather to go and get help, and everyone finding out about them. 

If people are more knowledgeable about the factors of HIV/AIDS then they will be more understanding to people and what they are going through

A lot of times if left untreated  HIV can quickly turn into AIDS  and AIDS left untreated leads to a quicker death.

quicker death.

Stigma is disgrace and because of all the disgrace in the society it lead to people being “pushed into the margins of society”

I found out that 50% of the 35% of countries that have data of HIV/AIDS have reported that they have experienced discriminatory acts due to the fact of their HIV /AIDS status. A lot of people are denied the proper health care services due to the fact that they have HIV/AIDS. These types of behaviors are one of the factors that cause death among HIV/AIDS patient.

this scholarly website

According to The U.S. National Library it says that  moving on with your life after you learn that you have HIV it brings about depression.

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What i am trying to get out here is that what people have done towards people who have had AIDS has actually had an affect on them. I have even been guilty of doing this.

HIV/AIDS has always been a very touchy subject towards people those affected and unaffected.

Society Effects

I just want to properly explain what goes on inside the mind of people who are living with AIDS/HIV.

he didn’t actually think that Fletcher was going to die from this and he thought that he was going to overcome it.

As bad as this sounds when we first were shown the quilts I did not want to touch them

he was very conflicted about how he was feeling and did not know how to properly respond.

the mental ways that having HIV.

a close friend of Fletcher.

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We have the freedom to express ourselves, unlike other countries.

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Laura also mocked his ungrammaticaland unintelligible language.

The average citizen will experience stillness and uncertainties when in this state of silence, and every citizen will experienceactive silence more often than we expect.

This defines active silence as being opinionatedbut choosing not to voice it.

With the current issues and ongoingcontroversies, some followers seem to be in a state of tranquility.

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Evaluations of this element will reflect on how well you interpret the rhetoric and argument of a particular topic, as well as how well you are able to make and sustain those arguments.

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These activities are meant to creatively enact visual rhetoric in basic, low-stakes ways and will explore how each of us interprets visual concepts.

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Course Description, Goals, & Outcomes

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The class has 8 significant goals and outcomes:

First i will discuss one the of causation’s of social responses to people with HIV, and how it can contribute to the spread of the disease (Mawar, Nita, et al.). Next, i will detail why ignorance be can be a social hazard for those with HIV, especially gay men who experience a double stigma. (Mawar, Nita, et al.). Then i will address the social stigma that HIV positive people experience, and how even care givers were experiencing stigma for treating people with AIDS

Comedy has benefited people suffering from HIV/AIDS to ease suffering, spread awareness of the disease, and relieve “the stigma”, but it has also has been used to misrepresent those who suffer and perpetuate phobias against people with HIV/AIDS.

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 Now there are many more teens living with HIV/AIDS than that of those diagnosed before.

The time between 1988 and 1995 is really what is responsible for this decline, when there was increased education about sex in response to the HIV epidemic,” (Storrs, paragraph 11)

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idea of abstinence and no sex before marriage became something that was beaten into the youths head, so that this disease would in some ways “contained” by societal methods

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Serological studies of HIV infection, surveys of sexual

r than women

Teenage years are the years where a lot of experimenting goes on. It is the years where you begin to wonder how sex feels, what your sexual orientation is, how do drugs make you feel; simply figuring out who you are. These thoughts happen in both males and females.

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After Walt Disney died, the company got worse and fell into the Dark Ages.

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here is an official Disney fan club called D23. 

Disney fandom

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The Disney animation movies (including sequels), Disney Pixar movies, Disney live-action movies, Disney channel tv shows (including Disney xd and Disney junior to a lesser extent), and the Disney theme parks around the world.

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Gay men began to find themselves, once again rejected and despised

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Because during the 1970’s when aids were known to the masses gay men were disenfranchised sexual minorities

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Today shown by the high concentration of HIV positive men, the Castro shows the effects of the AIDS outbreak during the 1960’s.

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Because of the time period, Bobby Orr and others in the Aids Quilt, technology, and the sciences were not advanced enough to truly understand the cause of the disease and how to prevent it.

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The Names Project was created by a small group of strangers who came together in San Francisco there mission was to document the lives of those would die from aids.

All of this would be focused on what kind of material culture I’ve learned about within this research.

But before that, you must understand what the Names project and the aids epidemic is.

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The original enacting of this immigration restriction was not wholly justified and disallowed the further development of medical research

the United States, was a ban that prohibited entrance to the country if the individual in question was HIV positive and also required certain immigrants to be tested before entry

This mass hysteria and disdain for those living with the disease is associated with various negatively reinforced ideals and is a common view where the general populace mentally aligns the person with their disease.

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Quilts exhibited at the Names Project Center immortalize the names of those who they are dedicated to but they also serve a purpose beyond aiding us in remembering the deceased.

among the facility and the number steadily rises with the center coming into possession of a multitude of quilts as the year progresses

the guardians of all artifacts regarding those lost to the epidemic, constructed multiple chapters among the US.

Tony Fulkerson’s quilt panel depicted above resonates with many visitors when they visit the Names Project Center.

Peter Kuryla’s Biography on Brittanica states “Associate Professor, Department of History, Belmont University. His contributions to SAGE Publications’s Encyclopedia of African American Society (2009) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica”. This source details how “Pan-Africanism is the idea that people of African descent share common interests and should be unified,” and shows that “historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape of a political or cultural movement.”

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ACT UP and the Rhetoric of AIDS.eds.b.ebscohost.co

Similar to how the theater community encouraged individual to deal with their own struggle with AIDS in a positive manner and community to support and understand the lives that people living with the virus had to go through

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The problem within most people living with AIDS is their mental mindset.

An academic journal and study by Galia Boneh and Devan Jaganath

Then all the funding the funding that the performing arts did for the HIV/AIDS research and relief.

These loved ones embodied the special moments and the imprint that Glenn left on them through the quilt panel.

However, because how, as Gere phrases the dances, deep the “Speech Act-performance” were it sparked the spirit of activism to the public. It similar to how in the Civil Rights Movement used sit-ins, boycotts, and marches to relay a deeper message of equal rights to the government.

hese kind activisms

There were so many limitations with activism with words alone, Chamber-Leston even mentions that “Gere gestures to the impossible nature of writing a comprehensive analysis of a disease that has developed across racial, national, gender, and class boundaries (108)”.

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This dance instigated emotions in people’s hearts that made the audience that made them comprehend the pain and humility of those living with AIDS had to go throug

new way of focusing body and soul together

Joshua Chambers-Leston’s review of “How to make dance in an epidemic: tracking choreography in the age of AIDS by David Gere goes over how this new style came to be and the way it changed the lives of HIV infected victims. Chamber-Leston states how choreography changed “by focusing on how bodies were choreographed for political means (107)”.

The dancing community in particular did used the most original method to immerse themselves into that role of a struggling person with HIV/AIDS. What they did completely changed the style of dancing forever.

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nd Glenn took actions to show his love just as

he performing arts since the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s have been active contributors to the fight against HIV/AIDS. Major theater groups and dance studios have donated and raised significant funds to the AIDS movement and have actively advocated to the equal rights and care of infected people of AIDS in the United States. In theater entire plays have a dedicated to the struggle that people infected with HIV/AIDS have to live through and in dance culture a completely integrated style of contemporary dance was created to empower and inspire audiences. Today many of the same studios and theaters memorialize the struggles that the HIV/AIDS community had to go through in past by annual performances. The AIDS epidemic changed the course of style and play of these arts and in turn they have change the fate that these AIDS community would have faced without them.

The performing arts community in America became fully immersed with helping the AIDS movement, they gave heart and passion to the movement that they thought was worth fighting for. What these communities did for HIV/AIDS is more than just charitable giving but love and support that someone would give to family or loved ones. Just like the love and passion that Glenn gave to his family and loved one and that they gave to him.

n theater entire plays have a dedicated to the struggle that people infected with HIV/AIDS have to live through and in dance culture a completely integrated style of contemporary dance was created to empower and inspire audiences.

Major theater groups and dance studios have donated and raised significant funds to the AIDS movement and have actively advocated to the equal rights and care of infected people of AIDS in the United States.

lenn was and how loving and caring he was to those around him. Since most of the audience seeing the quilt will not see the letters that his Glenn family and friends wrote, making the relationship clear will allow the audience to be fully immersed with quilt and comprehend who Glenn S. Fox was.

Solidifying a clear relationship between the arts and AIDS as earnest and passionate to one another it will embody the type of person

This analysis is to solidify those relationship of the fine and performing arts and AIDS as a loving and embracing

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As the foundation started getting more and more quilt panels they started presenting them on display for the world to see at events, marches, and collaborations. Glenn S. Fox’s quilt has several patches aligned around a photo of him, like the two Greek muses mask, dancing shoes, paintings, and other works of art that his loved ones created in his memory.

. This particular quilt panel is just one of hundreds that are a part of the Atlanta NAMES project, a foundation that strives to memorialize the lives of people that lived with the HIV/AIDS virus In the 1980s the HIV/AIDS virus was out of control millions all over the country were getting infected by the virus and many did not even know why;

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“You gave us all your love and happiness. You will always be a part of us” … “You danced through life like a cool breeze on a hot summer day” … “We will always remember our yearly ventures to the theater.” …

This is analysis on the quilt of Glenn S. Fox and its embodiment to the performing art’s relations to the ongoing AIDS epidemic in America and how the arts has changed the public opinion on the AIDs virus and empower individual victims of the virus.

A research and analysis on theater and dance activism for AIDS awareness and support

enry J. Whittle who works for Global Health Sciences for the University of California helps insight a link between food insecurity and

ike Shriver and his team at the National Aids Memorial Grove in San Francisco California have helped make a 10-acre park dedicated to remembering the lives of people that have lived with HIV/Aids

Today I see that we are allowing transgender people in our military and that is a huge step in todays world just like it would have been back in the late 70’s

Marching for a cause is something we still do in todays world everyday, I have even done it many of times.

These groups usually were focused on the subject in their own hometown doing their own individual projects but when the time came for all of them to come together in Washing, they showed out and made the event very successful for promoting gay and lesbian rights.

openly gay politician named Harvey Milk

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ay men started turning their focus from sexual liberation to the disease that was killing friends and loved ones really fast without an explanation.

Writings like this in my research help me argue that yes life was very hard in times when Aids/Hiv first started to rise, even if you didn’t realize it because you might have been caught up in the celebrations.

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I enjoy writing about these topics because they have not always been implemented the same over the past years. Time and culture have kept changing and moving, showing evidence of success in the gay community today compared to past times. Finally I will be writing about the government and how social science and medicine play a role in this epidemic as well. Below are the sections of the quilt that I chose to research, and focused more on to see what kind of material culture I could pull out of it and learn more about.

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From Michaels friends and family to him they say, for your faith, acts of kindness, love for family, and forthrightness, We Celebrate.

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He has been described numerous times by peers that he has an uplifting spirit that has a passion for helping others through a church he is involved in.

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his post is about the different interpretations of the HIV/AIDS epidemic based off the different organized religions, particularly in America.

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