All of my readings, and finding during my process of futhering my paper.

We were asked to read the following passages: “Transmissions from Camp Trans” “Dark Webs Goth Subcultures in Cyberspace” “The Truck Stop as Community and Culture” and last but not least “House for the Homeless”.

Transmissions From Camp Trans:

The Claim- In this particular passage it explains how women should partake in the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, weather if they are in to each other, or transgender.

The Style- Clasical

Dark Webs Goth Subculture in Cyberspace:

The Claim- Even though Goths seem wierd to others that are outside of their culture, they are just like everyone else that use the internet. They are interested in some of the same things as others are.

The Style:Toulmin

The Truck Stop as Community and Culture:

The Claim- Truckers, or people that drive trucks have their own little community or district, i guess you can say that. Because in iowa, they have there own beauty shop and many things of that nature.

The Style- Toulmin


House for the Homeless:

The Claim- Now to me homelessness is real huge issue for me. Not everyone was on drugs or anything like that, many of them just fell on hard times, and not everyone that is homeless, just begs. Their are some that really do want to change, but some people just dont want to help them.

The Style - Classical

My Field Site Study

Before I begin telling you about my field site, I would like to share with you all on what my paper is about. First, I had to find something that was interesting to me, and with the help of my professor, Ms. Irving. We came up with traveling. Traveling is one of the most interesting, and most fun things I love to do. So my topic is traveling. Now to narrow it down, I picked backpacking, and when people back pack to different countries, they stay in Hostels. If you do not know what a hostel is, it is a very inexpensive hotel for backpackers.
Before I actually went to go visit my research, I was tremendously hesitant because if any of you have seen the movie Hostel it’s a life changing experience. In all truth, it scared the hell out of me. Now before I went to my field site, I had to find one of course, so I went to www.hostelworld.com, to find any hostels in the Atlanta area. And I found one, located in the midtown area. Now, I thought to myself, what in the world, I didn’t think any hostels would be directly in the city, but ok.
So I went to my location, and when you pull up on the property it looks like an old house, very quiet in this area. As I stood outside waiting and looking on the different type of people would show up, I didn’t see a soul. So I decided to knock on the door, and go in, of course not by myself, but with my brother. So as my brother and I entered the door, we saw at least 10 people just sitting at the table conversing amongst themselves, and it seemed as if, they were very friendly. Which in fact they were, the many faces that appeared in the hostel were Asian people, Blacks, and Caucasians.
As I went to go speak to one of the guest, they kindly got up from there sweat and greeted my brother and I, they asked where were we from, and were we staying there? Simultaneously, my brother and I said no. so I began asking one of the guest questions, as of, where are you from, and how do you like living in this hostel. She said, it is pretty good compared to the other hostels that she has stated in. she explained, how it is close to everything like bars, clubs, and its n the city. And she loved that.

Questions and answers for class

Q: What makes this field site a good field site in studying this culture?
A: In jail, there are alot of personalities portrayed in this area. And many people try to fake the funk, they portray the big tough guy which they really arent. And there in, that is where good actors come about.

Q: What observations does the author make that is useful in talking about this Subculture?
A: He compares the actors with characters of the play. Meaning if the character is big with a bald head, and has a nasty attitude, the author is going to find someone that fits that description.

Q: What are the norms and values of this subculture?
A: The norms are getting the imates, to portray and attitude of toughness.

Q:What interview techniques that work well to understand this subculture?
A: Talk with the imates before you make judgements, and then after you get to know them, do some background information on them. Because they are not stupid, they are just uneducated

Topic:Children with Parents that have died

Sources:
J. William Worden. "Children and Grief: When a Parent Dies."

Reflection:
In the book of Children and Grief, it explains, how children are, and there motive when a parent or close relative to them dies. The author William Worden really does his research by really looking on the inside of the children.
The different field sites that i will be going to would be probably a school, an subliminally asking questions and interviewing students that have lost close loved ones. My next field site would probably be a foster home, and speak to many children in there that has no place to go.

Who am I?

In the mix of me trying to find a topic on which to talk about, or write about, I came across the problem of the influence that hard gangsta rap or any kind of rap music that influences teenagers in a negative way. And I am going to contrast the actions with the rap music. So in finding information I went online and fount the definition of gangsta rap. Gangsta rap is a style of rap music associated with urban street gangs and characterized by violent, tough-talking, often misogynistic lyrics. But I didn’t stop there. I went a little further and listened to music by N.W.A, public enemy and many other gansta rap groups. Many songs that was published like F*** the Police, watch what you say to me etc. told stories of how they felt, but brutally told it in a nasty fashion. I also watched young people listen to the music and see how they felt about it. Many of them said that they loved it, and true “F” the police. On TV, a VH1 special came on, and it talked about the influence that rap and rap artist have on teenagers. And it stated that parents do not recognize some of the damage that their child is doing, or they might not understand why. But about 65 percent of children that listen to gangsta rap music will be in jail or would have done something illegal by the time they are 21. That kind of status is real, and it hurts because many of those kids are African American. And as a African American male, it is difficult to survive in this world if the music that is produced is with black men in it talking about ignorant issues.

Hip Hop

Hip Hop, is a theme that has hit each four corners of the United States.. if you listen to other countries and how their hip hop i, it is kind of the same, many artist have the same swagger, the same mentality, of sex, drugs and things of that nature. i believe the retrospective of music has evolved over time because in the eighties hip hop was about having fun and about how life was and how it was working out for them. then in the ninties, you had artist emerge like tupac, Nitorious BIG aka Big Papa, and N.W.A. with their song F*** The Police, and that is where Gangsta Rap started. Ice CUbe, Ice Tea wrote that song out of experience and what they went through. After tha point in time,many other artist started talking about really how they felt, and that lead to drugs, sex, and simple nothings.so as our hip hop culture brodens we will see what happens in the future

Peer Review

The Peer review was real good. I liked my group. The team members in the group were Veronica Woods, Leah Jones, and my self. What was ironic was that all of us wrote about the same thing. and we each had to do the same corrections. I like peer review because it shows me, what my peers think of my paper and show me how to make it pleasing.