I recently read a memoir by Scott Bolzan called My Life Deleted. I would recommend this book to everyone. It is about the author, who fell and hit his head, and then suffered from very severe and rare retrograde amnesia, meaning he couldn't remember anything at all from before his accident. He was a pro football player at one time and owned his own business. He was happily married with two kids. When he woke up he remembered none of this and didn't even know who his wife or kids were when they came to visit him.
Anyways, a lot from this book I saw relate to the class. He had to relearn everything. One of which was how to act as a man, father, husband, etc. He learned mostly everything from watching TV. For example, when he wanted to cry he said he couldn't because thats not manly as he saw on TV. He copiously stated he acted in ways based on what he watched. This shows that the message the media- TV for example is sending to individuals, especially males. They are expexted to act in certain ways and nothing against it. This just just how powerful TV really is and most people don't even realize it.
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