Sunday, September 26, 2010

A Native American Outlook

As I look at this society with all its shinning glory and presentation, I feel as though it lacks some major aspects that my society back home holds center stage. We as a tribe seem to have very different customs when it comes to hospitality, manners, and treatment of others; when a starving person is on your streets, you either ignore them or give them small change, but in my village, if a starving person is on the road we bring them into our home and feed and cloth them as if they were our family. I think our standards and biefs on treating others is very differnt, we treat everyone with equal respect, while ive seen your people be hostile and even violent towards someone because of the color of their skin. This society might be much farther advanced in technology, but its people are regressed to the manners and personality of the earliest people.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Boot Camp to Survive the Past: Advice from the Colonial Era

I think if somehow a white male colonist was dropped into our time, he would give us a description of the colonial era that would beat any history textbook. This "living" evidence from the past could give a description about his time and life that would give it an actual "human" feel, not just a bunch of adjectives that mean very little to us.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

What did I do?

During this "project" I did the best I could to do to take the information james gave us and make it short and simple so that when people read our section of the study guide they aren't fighting through needless amounts of fluff to get the basics about one person. I also typed some things up, but Jenny did most of that, while either me and james told her what to write. Basically I bounced back ideas of what to write with james and wrote some of it down. I think for the most part we all did an equal share of all the work.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Website/studyguide

I think the way we broke up into groups will make our work go by faster, but I don't like the idea of splitting up the aspect about the colonial era. If the colonial era is the most broad and important aspect we should all have equal involvment so everyone understands, not just a select few. I like the idea of having an online study guide but if it gets to the point where we have to work on it on our own free time I'm sure most people will stop adding to it, so a few people who want to keep it up will have to do the most work.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Food Inc

After watching Food Inc my outlook on mass produced food has changed for the worse. While eating at Mcdonalds recently, the first thing that popped into my head as I looked at my hamburger was a image of cows being crammed together in a pen shoulder to shoulder, covered in flies, and standing in their waste, waiting for their turn to become my food. Even though I thought of this terrible image, my stomach and taste buds over rode my brain and I ate that hamburger. I'm trying to say that even though the facts are shown about our mass produced food, the facts are not disgusting enough to break our desire for fast and cheap food.

Sustainability and Freedom

The prompt for our essay was very vague as always, but this year I found a more indirect way to address it. I based my paper on saying that the prompt was incorrect by saying that freedom and sustainability were not compatible, so i said that the choice to be sustainable comes from freedom, but to succed one most sacrifice some luxeries from their freedom. I like this prompt, but a prompt with some detail would help to make a more concrete argument.

Anne Bradstreet: A Woman!!!

Anne Bradstreet writes as though she is just a mere woman writing poor quality slop that is no comparison  to the men poets of her time. Anne uses an amount of sarcasm, that is almost funny, to point out how unrecognized her potential and skill as a writer are, and how unrecognized all women are in society. I like how she refrences the Greeks and Romans and how they viewed women as virtually equal in most things, and even suppiorier in the arts; she also says that these people were the penicle of human achievment, so basically, "hint hint, nudge nudge" about womens' worth.

Christian Charity?

This essay about unconditional Christian love ended with a summery sentence that said to me that its possible, but most people only love to receive some sort of reward or benefit. I slightly agree, greed is part of human nature; it fuels our ambition and drive to be successful in life. From that one small section, Winthrop to me sounds very much like a realist.