Subculture BLOGG entry

My subculture is going to be on halo and call of duty games.

Summary of the Class

I actually enjoyed the assignments I think the fact that they weren't explained made them difficult. I did well on every assignment but not the last one. The biggest problem I had with all my papers was citation. I didn't use the correct citation on any of my papers mainly because I didn't know how to do it. I learned many new things from class for example how to make a website and a blog. I think the way the assignments were presented were poor if the assignments were presented better this would be a better class.

WHAT I KNOW ABOUT ETNOGEN TERMS

1. I have heard of the following words:
2. artifacts
3. assumptions
4. authority
5. context
6. culture
7. dialect
8. interviews
9. questionnaire
10. subculture
11. survey
12. theory
13. transcript
14. Informant
15. interactions
16. rituals

Words I have never heard of:

1. confessional tale
2. discourse community
3. ethnographic research
4. ethnography
5. field research
6. human subjects review board
7. impressionist tale
8. informed consent
9. marginalization
10. participant observer
11. positioning
12. proxemics
13. realist tale
14. research question
15. response rate
16. specialized vocabulary
17. structured observation
18. thick description
19. triangulation
20. underlife

Cyber-literacy-most useful parts/general readability

I didn't really enjoy reading this book I would have to say I enjoyed reading research matters more.

2nd chance Summary: Summary and Citation of "The Southpaw's Secret Semantics"

People who are left handed are not as closely related to those right handed as previously thought. Left hand users develop and process language different, they also suffer more when parts of the brain is injured, the main point is that left handed users are the complete opposite of right hand users.

Reaction to the "Guest Speaker" Steven Johnson on "Where Good Ideas Come From"

I thought the guest speaker was good he covered alot of good topics. The only thing I wasnt please with was how fast he presented information. I tryed to take notes but it was impossible to do with him talking so fast.

Progress Report:How do you feel about your topic and/ or overall research paper progress at this point

I feel my research proposal is going well so far today I checked books out of the library to help with the research because just article sources and websites from online weren't enough. So far Ive only skimmed one book and it broadened my horizon on what exactly global warming is and its effects on the effects.

Ideas I want to Brain-storm about for the Ethnographic Essay/Hyper-link Project

1. Classroom Website for third grade.
2. Write an essay about a subculture and after studying the culture for a few weeks.
3. Re-write my research paper after more research
4. Design a Website with all my English work hyper-linked to it.
5. Create a how to video on things that can help my research project.

Ways I draft a paper

1. write outlines.
2. Google example of paper similar to what I am writing.
3. take notes on books pertaining to my paper.
4. free write.
5. make brain storming webs with one main subject

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My Research Proposal

• My research topic is on Environmental Pollutants.
• My topic and why I'm interested in it.
• guilding research questions.
• Keywords and Keyword Contributions I am Using to Search.
• Preliminary Bibiliography.

Annotated Bibliography Summary of article

Since 1960 our earth has undergone extreme weather changes. It's been raining in parts of the world it never has, it's been snowing in parts of the world it never has, snow fall in many areas has even decreased. Natural disasters have been happening three times as much; with an even greater force. All of these things are caused mainly by Global Warming. Humans are the main cause of Global Warming. With that being said green house gases are being released into the earths atmosphere do to humans not fully caring about our environment of the planet earth. This is being done by two major things, coal factories and car emissions. The gases released are being trapped in a massive gas pocket, allowing the earths temperature to rise to record breaking levels. According to, National Geographic.com " The rapid rise in greenhouse gases is a problem because it is changing the climate, faster than some living things may be able to adapt". It is a fact that if we as a humans don't act quick this global problem we all caused can easily kill off the species of every living thing.


Author, Illustrator, National Geographic.com


What is Global Warming? The Planet is Heating Up, and Fast


Publisher, National Geographic.com


October 7th 2010


hyper-link to the National Geographic Website with Article-  http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-overview.html

Summary on College a Time Of Wonder by: Robert A. Bonfiglio

This story was about college and first year experience and how it effects students, ranging from different races, ages, genders, also commuters who commute to campus. The story goes into detail about how students may feel about the college campus. Programs discussing the trasition was also discussed in the paper I can relate to this because I was accepted into the Boro under the Edinboro Success Program. What I found really interested was that the story talked about danger warnings on campus something that wasn't addressed to myself when I did orientation. To sum this all up the story explained college life.

4th blog

Top 3 research ideas for research paper.

1. Global Warming
2. Deterioration of the Ozone Layer
3. Endangered species

influential people

Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela was the first president elected in South America he also was apart of the apartheid and forming a new an equal democracy for all races.

Barack Obama
Barack Obama was the first african american president of the united stated he broke the racial barrier that a president can only be white.

J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling is the author the popular childrens books harry potter. Her series of harry potter books sound over 400 million copies making her one of the most influence female authors in history.

Martin Luther King Jr.
MLKJR. was an important civil rights activist, who used nonviolence to promote equal oppertunity.

Excercise 1.1

Interest list

environmental problems

1. air pollution
2. land pollution
3. water pollution
4. global warming
5. waste/recycling
6. mining
7. intensive farming
8. conservation
9. over population

Education

1. number of teachers
2. spending
3. over populated schools
4. number of schools
5. transportation
6. school safety, violence, bullying-teasing

what is literacy?????????????

Literacy is the ability to understand what you read and write.