Friday, January 30, 2015

Categoies of Culture

  1. To help establish your culture, complete an A-Z categories of culture, in collaboration with a few other people.
A activities
B
C clothes 
D dances 
F families, food 
G games
H home 
J jobs
K
L looks, living style
M money
N names
P parents
Q
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

  1. For each of the following components of culture, write what you know about the Ibo beliefs and customs. Make sure to cite your evidence.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

The Danger of a Single Story: post

1. I've meet people and they talk about a certain group of people. and they say only one point of view, and they talk about the people like their aliens, but they don't know that the people their talking about is only a small percentage of the total population of that group of people.

2. I've noticed I have applied a "single story" when i don't know a lot about something, i don't always notice it at the time but once i learn more about something i notice what i knew was wrong and i feel bad about myself because I'm sure when some people see me they see one story and they don't think that i might have a story different from what they think i have.
3.
A single story has the power to create a stereotype and change how people look at something(which can be good and bad). But people should try and look deeper and get more information, not just listen to one story. A single story can inspire someone or give them new hope, but a single story can also break someone down and shatter their universe. So depending on the story and the person listening or reading the story it can have different affects. 

Friday, January 9, 2015

Poem #1: home

  • My home smells like old house mixed with the faint smell of dog, along with something cooking. 
  • People work on computer, a pencil and pen writing on a page, or a book in front of them.  
  • People gather in the kitchen or very back room on the bottom floor. 
  • Laurel ave. and prior 
  • somtimes you hear the yelling of people or frustrated noises of a french man and long sighs from his wife. 
  • 10pm on a Saturday night you hear the tv on some gory show and the growling and barking of a little dachshund worried that her owners will be taken away.  
  • important historical figures or events is 
  • slang you hear is mostly french or english and somtimes both mixed. 
  • i fear of not meeting my parents and my own goals. 
  • they hope for a good life for me. 
 
My home changes with her my family goes. 
When you enter there's the smell of old house mixed with the faint smell of dog and cooking. 
You will see people furiously typing away like their racing, the sound of pencil hitting paper, and pages of a school book turning. 
In the cold winter days you find people around the kitchen where the heat of the stove warms the room. 
Where you find all this is on Laurel ave and Prior, and the house with the red door. 
On days where it seems like a storm has decided to stay right above our house you hear a frustrated french man and the sighs of his wife. 
The fear in the house is like a cliff, where you hear the whispers about college and money all around.  But there's always someone to bring you away from the edge. 
If you look in on a Saturday night at 10pm you see a french man, his wife and his daughter in front of the TV watching some show while the wife comments about how weird it is. then tries and calms the nervous little dachshund who thinks something will taker her owners away. 
Like a map my family travels life pondering and wondering, so my home goes where my family goes. 

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

poetry

1. In my opinion poetry is like painting but in words. To some poetry might be hard but for others it comes as natural as walking or eating.
2. I have always liked reading poetry, even if i didn't understand certain words or the deeper meaning of the piece. My mother has been an english and art teacher. Even though she never really spoke about poetry some of the things I've learn from her and school have helped me to understand poetry and like it.
3. I think its survived for so long because all you need to create poetry is your own mind and possibly a way to write. You don't really need fancy tools to make poetry and its a simple but good way to put your feelings to life. There's also a lot of different types of poetry.