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.

SOC 370 #5 10-14-2013 Modernization

It was really interesting to learn modernization about but, I was a bit upset that it is modeled by the west. I do not think that having the west looked at as such a high standing place is a good thing. Don't get me wrong. I just think the idea that where the west or even Americans goes to our heads at times. Look at Neo colonialism with America and Okinawa and the army base. I do not believe that it is the best thing I don't want other nations to want to grow into that. Americans I think would like to believe it is a one way and it uses other countries but in reality it's a two way. America needs the other nations to be different from them. America could never stand to try and deal with another America. 
I would really like to see all nations be able to have a sense of self worth. That all nations could be together and have a connection but still respect each others traditions and way of doing things.  I believe all nations are working towards what they believe to be the perfect nation but I think we can't push other nations or say they are behind when everyone sees a perfect nation as something different. 
I picked the photo above not that I fully agree with the image. I do agree with the idea though that America was strong and had a set goal for what they wanted. Now though we have had this goal and we do not feel that strong about other things we do. We just go in with what we think other nations should do and think we help when we do not really have a passion into helping for it as much as we should. I would really like to see that passion come back for people to what the best for other people. Even if that means not helping at all other then giving support. 

soc 370 (sumblog McWorld 10-00-2013 #4)

To talk about the idea of McWorld was really interesting. It makes me think of how much we need each other. But with that how easy it is to get info on other nations. With that thought this of the AAA rules came to mind.
It is like a twist of good and bad. With knowing this info on other nations its good so that people can be hurt less through knowing more info. But on the other hand it's not very good to know all that info. For the fact that you make it easier to know the weak spots and where to hit to hurt them most.
This made me think of a TV show called 'Firefly'.


"The show explores the lives of a group of people who fought on the losing side of a civil war and others who now make a living on the outskirts of society, as part of the the pioneer culture that exists on the fringes of their star system. In this future, the only two surviving superpowers, the United States and China, fused to form the central federal government, called the Alliance, resulting in the fusion of the two cultures. According to Whedon's vision, "nothing will change in the future: technology will advance, but we will still have the same political, moral, and ethical problems as today" (Wikipedia) 


This show makes me think of of Jihad that feel to McWorld. That the two ideas fight with each other in the show throughout the one season and the movie. Maybe fundamentalists could be sometimes that the show 'Firefly'  has as its main part to show the class between all the sides.
To me this made my mind think of how to be aware of my actions  it's good to feed one's own desires and needs but too much feeding and it's hunger grows. When you run out of food to feed it. For the fact it's never learned to struggle how to pace itself with its basic needs for the fact it's never had too. The. Your desires and needs will turn on you and eat you. We all want to be strong and free like a wolf but if its not trained and obedient it will eat its owner.