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-