3-31 In Class

If I had to choose a family member that is a little be crazy and always has these outlandish stories to share with the rest of the family I would have to say that it is my older brother, Brandon.  Brandon is one of those people who lives a very carefree and spontaneous life, since as long as I can remember he has always been testing limits and pushing forward to just about everything he has put his mind too......and sometimes this leads to his adventurous stories.  He is 22 and going to school to become a RN.  Whenever our family all gets together with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins this seems to be when he takes the stage.  Since he doesn't see everyone as much as he would like to, its like he waits for holidays to have all these ridiculous stories unfold. I can just picture us all sitting around the table after eating and my brother just talking about the most recent thing that has happened to him.  Sometimes I get annoyed by all of this because I have heard them numerous times before but then I remember how much I was laughing the first time he had told me, so it makes it alright.  Although not all of his stories are funny.....he has had is fair share of the unpleasant ones, which he tells anways!!

Inclass 3-19-03

If I was to re do this project I would keep how they traveled around and spoke to different people but I would have mixed it up more.  It seems like in the beginning they placed to much focus on the rural farmer when it came to language in these areas.  I would have talked to other kinds of people in the same areas to get a better understanding.  I though some flaws were that they talked to male participants more than they did females, it wasnt quite balanced on something that is being done as a study.  I would have looked into taking this study over seas and tried to find out if there are any similarities to language in other countries as there are in our own.  Language is very important in how we perceive other people.  When someone uses improper grammar and constant slang it tends to make them sound less intelligent.  When we speak alot is revealed to other people, especially where we are from but also out level of education.

In Class Writing- 3-19-08

When I did my first field site observation I attended a church service near my hometown.  It is a smaller church, probably only 150 people.  The church contained large windows with stained class and wooden pews with cushions on the seat and places to hold Bibles and Hymns book on the back.  When first coming in we were told to tell someone who we didnt know why we were thankful to be here and my first informant who I didn't know told me, "I am thankful anytime I am in the presence of God and people fulfilling his missions".  I then quickly replied, "Im thankful for getting research done on my project."  Our relationship was nothing more than someone who I hadnt met and was told to tell them why I was here.  The people and environment around us all influenced our  fixed positions, his was being a practicing Christian.  The power relationship between then man and myself is only that he knew what was going on more than I did.  In the way the man spoke I could tell that he was legitimately excited about being there at church that morning. 

Week 9-Posting

For me the hardest thing that I have encountered has been being able to keep a steady focus on trying to examine the Christian beliefs without getting frustrated at the flaws that are obvious if you look.  I keep getting sidetracked on what I am doing.  There are time that I get of on tangents about how the religion isn't real and loose focus on how I am just an observer taking notes of the ways Christian life is practiced.  If I could start over I would have chosen this topic in the beginning.  I started off with the homeless and put quite a bit of time into researching that topic when infact I could have been putting that effort into my topic now.  I also would have taken advantage of the time table we have been given, I seemed to have put things off.....and cant tell whether I am on track or need to buckle down.  

Keeping the Blog is an awesome tool and a great way to organize your thoughts and concerns throughout the process.  I think that when I actually start making the draft of my mini ethnography I will come back to my blog to look at my feelings and the direction that I was taking at that time.  It should help out a great deal with the construction of the paper.  

In Class Writing- Tuesday

My readers will care about this issue because it is something that people hold very close bonds to, Religion.  Both people who believe and those who do not. 

They will need to know that the foundation of which the Religion that Christianity was built was for political benefits more than anything.  That there is more to the story than what is just found in the bible.  

Readers will probably have heard something about the christian religion through a family member, friend, or school.  I expect many of them to not know the other side of the story just what they have been told and practice now as the only way.

I want my readers to open there eyes and think rationally for a few moments rather than trying to believe in events that are untrue.  If they can just take a minute to really question the validity of the people in the bible and those who compose it.  We are in an age where these events can be proven to have not happen....through science....and now people cover up that question with the word "faith."  You have to have faith it happened....thats all?  That is blind submission.

I am thinking that most people wont be persuaded, as that has been what i have seen through previous conversations about this topic.  What I am trying to do is offer "doubt" and not sell them certainty like the christian religion does.....

My writings could be used for as a guide to help people really Question the Answers......  We are a nation that is consumed with Jesus Christ, a person who didn't exist.  This is making us unable to progress as a whole world.  Religion enslaves people and causes war.