For the creative project, I was going to do a literary analysis of a song by Taylor Swift and then link that to research about the Make-A-Wish Foundation. This came to mind because I was at a complete loss for a topic. The song I chose was called "The Best Day", and I chose that mainly because it reminds me of a vacation that I went on with my parents to NYC a couple of summers ago. That is somewhere that I have always wanted to go, and one day we got in the car and my parents said that we were going to New York! That is where the Make-A-Wish Foundation comes in, I was going to find out more about the foundation and also, find examples of some of the wishes that children have had in the past. For the creative aspect of it, I was going to make a slideshow of my vacation pictures with "The Best Day" playing in the background.
But after reading Jekyll and Hyde, I think I might want to do my creative project on alter egos and living a double life...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Social Distance
In class, we talked about traditions that needed to be changed or ended. I am going to talk about something that has changed a lot in the past decade or two. The acceptance of gays. I was not around when the general population was against this lifestyle, but I realize that people are now a lot more open to the idea than they used to be.
I asked 5 people yes or no questions about their opinions of gay people. (It is for a paper that I am writing in Sociology using the Bogardus Social Distance scale, a scale that measures how close you will let someone from a certain group get to you socially.) Here are the questions that I asked:
Would you be okay with having a homosexual as a close kin by marriage?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual in your club as a personal chum?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual on your street as a neighbor?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual working alongside you in your job?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual as a citizen in your country?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual as a visitor to your country?
Every single person answered 'Yes'. But there was one last question:
Would you exclude a homosexual from your country?
All five people answered 'No'.
Maybe this mini survey does not hold a lot of weight because it was only five people aged 18-22 that grew up in the same city. But I think it is really cool that people are starting to be more accepting of other's choices.
I asked 5 people yes or no questions about their opinions of gay people. (It is for a paper that I am writing in Sociology using the Bogardus Social Distance scale, a scale that measures how close you will let someone from a certain group get to you socially.) Here are the questions that I asked:
Would you be okay with having a homosexual as a close kin by marriage?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual in your club as a personal chum?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual on your street as a neighbor?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual working alongside you in your job?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual as a citizen in your country?
Would you be okay with having a homosexual as a visitor to your country?
Every single person answered 'Yes'. But there was one last question:
Would you exclude a homosexual from your country?
All five people answered 'No'.
Maybe this mini survey does not hold a lot of weight because it was only five people aged 18-22 that grew up in the same city. But I think it is really cool that people are starting to be more accepting of other's choices.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Papers Galore
I had a lot of writing to do in seven days; four separate papers for three different classes. Plus, two books to read.
The first paper was for my Sociology class. It was about deviance and breaking norms. I wrote about a two-year-old boy from Indonesia named Ardi Rizal that smokes 40 cigarettes a day. He weighs about 56 pounds and can barely move on his own.
The second paper was for my Theater class. I had to read a play and then summarize it and discuss how I would run the play. Basically just talk about what I would do the same, or different, than the author of the play. Then I had to find pictures to give a visual of how I saw the play in my head.
The last two papers were for English. I wrote down my idea for the creative project, but I don't think that I can make it a page long. Then the Frankenstein paper... Well, I went through the entire book and summarized everything, then I was going to go back in and add details. But then I realized that that is not a literary analysis, so I have to start all over again.
Not to mention, I had to write all of these while still going to class, working, babysitting, hanging out with friends, going out to dinner with the family, and attempting to sleep. Needless to say, I am so ready for Spring Break next week!
The first paper was for my Sociology class. It was about deviance and breaking norms. I wrote about a two-year-old boy from Indonesia named Ardi Rizal that smokes 40 cigarettes a day. He weighs about 56 pounds and can barely move on his own.
The second paper was for my Theater class. I had to read a play and then summarize it and discuss how I would run the play. Basically just talk about what I would do the same, or different, than the author of the play. Then I had to find pictures to give a visual of how I saw the play in my head.
The last two papers were for English. I wrote down my idea for the creative project, but I don't think that I can make it a page long. Then the Frankenstein paper... Well, I went through the entire book and summarized everything, then I was going to go back in and add details. But then I realized that that is not a literary analysis, so I have to start all over again.
Not to mention, I had to write all of these while still going to class, working, babysitting, hanging out with friends, going out to dinner with the family, and attempting to sleep. Needless to say, I am so ready for Spring Break next week!
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