SOC 370 #12 Ecuadorian Tribe VS Oil Company 12-2-2013

I thought of this cases when I thought of the environmental worksheet that we had to do for class. I really interest me that we all feel that we care a lot. I wanted to then bring a large issue to your attention. The Yasuni National Park is in danger and everyday millions of people stand by and watch it go and do not do anything. I believe that each one of us knows that we have a right to do the right thing. We talked about human rights in class yet to me I feel that human rights are not all the same. I feel that at times we push what we think is right on to others without thinking if it is right for them and if they want it. I have to say that I have been asking myself if right is the right word to use. 
 I think they do have a right but I feel it is too easy for people to say that are not then they have a right to that and its not something they want. They should have the choice to the right I feel is better. At a point I think we have to see what we see as a basic need and a right is not always the same to people. There are many people in the world leaving with less than we do yet we see it as a right for them to have it even if they are happy with the way they are right now. I think in the case of the Yasuni National Park we have to be careful with the people that this is affecting and we are trying to help. What we think is right for them is not what they want and that is giving them a bad view of us and the way view the world. 

Blog soc 370 #11 11-25-13 Wanting to help...

I was really interested this week on the different way people view things. I mean even though day to day events people hold different views about the most common and at times simple idea that one might hold. I was really interested by this and the video we watched in class. So it is really cool how a lot of different political and economical things play into each other. I really makes me wonder about all the things I have done and though I was doing one thing when it was really going towards a goal I did not even know about or maybe did not even want to help. It upsets me that a lot of the programs or organizations that I like could also be doing the same thing. I guess I feel like a little kid when they find out something they thought was fake. It just kinda hurts your view of things for a bit until you find out how to act and fix what you did not like about it. So I used the image of a ink blot to get the idea across that we all see things differently but then after we but them tougher we start to see a larger image take shape that we might of not had any idea was forming. I think of me I see it that if race has some how taken off the world and we never had the idea of it that it would then fix a lot of the problems we see today. I mean race is a word and idea that was made by people so people should be able to get ride of it right. 

Soc 370 where are we?! 11-18-2013 #10

I though of the image at the top just to get a idea of the number of people in the world and then what that meant for different things. So then I went through listing the good and bad things about a higher population for the glob. Then we talked about brain gain and brain drain. I have to say that this theory upset me. Not that I do not understand what it is going or trying to say but my problem with is that we should not in my opinion base the population and the migration in it on what we gain or loss. To me that would mean that we judge a immigration what we think that would do for us before we let them in other wise it is a brain drain. It makes me upset that at times people think that by going to other countries and helping people and trying to teach them the western ways that it will make there life better. If you have never seen the videos called “cannibal tours” it would be really helpful for you to take a look at it on YouTube. I know for myself that I have to learn that not everyone can live like me or others that I know it would just not work for the world and the resources that the world has left. So when we go to other places in the world we have to keep in mind that there are other ways to live and to carry out ones life. “There is nothing so strange, in a strange land, as the stranger who comes to visit it.” (Dennis O'Rourke). So my kinda ending question here is does anyone have any idea of how we should go about accepting other cultures and trying to value them and they are and not help them change into a more western culture kinda state?

From the Cannibal Tours

Sum blog #9 soc 370 I'm not a kid anymore

I think at some point in life we have all said that to someone that is trying to dull down something so that they think we would understand them. We all like to think that we are bright and we know a lot about the world and how things work. But what if I told you day in and day out things are played down so that the general public can understand it. Take a look at how computers keep track of the websites that you go to so that you have less work to do next time you plan to go to that website. It has come more and more to peoples notice that more and more people want things right now. They are not willing to wait and see if they really needed or do the work to get it. They just plan want it because it is there.  I sued the image of Ender's game for the fact the story line reminded me of the theory. "Ender's Game(1985) is a military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled mankind after two conflicts with the "Bugguers", an insecticide alien species  In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are trained at a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity, where Ender's statistical genius is revealed."(Wikipedia). I though Ender's game fit really will for the fact that the theory in the book is that kids play use new games that there minds process things faster and as such they can learn more faster. They also have less of a emotional attachment to things from the interpersonal connections for technology.  
I do not think technology is all bad or good. I think it depends on who is using it and how it is being used. I do wish that more people would use it for good and I know it looks that way. We don't see the bad for the fact that it is hidden from us. That all the things we do is keeped on record and for what reason I have to ask. I wish I could know what it was for so that it did not seem so bad. Maybe I am a bit to positive and think that things are more good than bad. I though Ender's game was also a good thing for this its a mix of good and bad and it all depends on how you take the story. If you have not read the book I highly recommend it. 

Soc 350 #8 Mask 11/4/2013

So I thought of the song "Everybodys fool" by Eversense this song for the fact of the one line of lyrics that say " Without the mask where will you hide Can't find yourself lost in your lie" To me this makes me think of the fact that even though I like anatomice at points and some of the things they did to me they are still in themselves what they hate the most. I do not like the for them it was the fact that other people would say what could and could not be seen and put on the internet and that they would stock and harass people. They said that they did not like this about the Scientology  My problem was this if that is the case where they themselves not doing this also. Where they not going after people in the begging for not liking what they did or who they were. So they are the not any better than the ones that they went after and tried to fight against. I think to me at least at the end of the film that it started to turn out that they where helping people rather they just going after people to show they they could or didn't like what they were doing. 
For me I like to say that it is not right to just go after people just so that you can feel that you want to teach them something. I feel that everyone does wrong even if they believe it to be right. For me I find it best to be explained by the fallowing quotes. 

“Red like blood

White like bone

Red like solitude

White like silence

Red like the beastly instinct

White like a god's heart

Red like thawing hatred

White like a frozen, pained cry

Red like the night's hungry shadows

Like a sigh piercing the moon
it shines white and shatters red” 

-Tite Kubo-

“the constant shower of the sun's mane

erases the footprints on thin ice

do not fear deception for the world lies atop deception"

-Tite Kubo-

Soc 370 #7 sam old same old = too much pressure 10-28-2013

Classroom at Carthage College

So we all can be asked to imagine a classroom and even though we all view different things  they would still be really similar. Is sitting in the same style of room that looks so much like every other room a bad thing? If the class room was more informal and express full would we do better in class and in the workforce  I went to Carthage college for a year and one thing I really miss a lot is the class rooms. There where the typical class rooms but also glass window rooms. When the college would give campus tours they would tell us at he glass rooms to make faces and be distracting. The students in that room where learning a important lesson to be focused  I also find it really interesting we all learn the same things basic of things. Written, history, math, science   and so forth. I feel that that is a good thing for all students to learn basics that make them connected in their ideas and what they understand. It also puts a bit more pressure on me as a student to learn other things other people and students might not know to get ahead. So just for fun a few things I have learned that make me stand out. I have learned how to crack cried card codes. Before you jump to ideas it's not to brake into accounts or anything like that. What it really is a mathematical formula to use to see if a card is fake or real. The history behind it is interesting as well. I have also learned that the body can be drained of all blood in 8.6 seconds giving the right vacuuming system. I have learned how to socialize animals that have been abused and neglected. So after learning all odd facts and skill that interest me and I feel set me apart from other that already know all I know. Is it a good think I feel like all students feel like this that all other students in there know the same stuff and then feel the need to make themselves have sow thing to catch people's attention?So even though I think globalization is good could it be pushing students to have more pressure to make themselves stand out. 

Carthage College

Soc 370 #6 Why does it cost that much? 10-21-2013

So in class this week we have been talking about the economy and a capitalist sytel society. So I thought of this as a example for when one group pushes another group to be like them thinking it will make them better when in fact it has a mixed of good and bad. The video I picked show the cost of groceries in a store in Nunavut Canada. To me this video at first is funny to think that something like ice cream would cost $13.69 so to only see the cost here about $5.00 for it. It is really odd to think that it would ever cost that much. That got me thinking then as to why it would cost that much. This is what I came up with. A national world wide crises could make this up in price if the commodity is not being made anymore or the products used to make it are no longer available. It would also go up in cost the harder it was to store and transport.
That is where the high cost comes from. Nunavut is the farthest-north part of Canada. It is cold and remote. Most families make do with what they can hunt. But this is not getting them by as well with now living in towns with stories and new commodities. They are protesting to the government to help with the problem.  To think I am one college student eating and complaining about the cost that I spend on food just for myself when "Meanwhile, a family of four on social assistance in Nunavut would get about $275 to $325 a week for food."(http://worldtruth.tv/nunavut-canada-insane-food-prices/). It really makes me wonder if capitalism and the economy is really the best thing for us to use. It makes me want to change the system to fix and work better for everyone but I do not know how to do that.