Mini Ethnographic Essay

The qualitative research article that I chose is "Managing Patients With Heart Failure: A Qualitative Study of Multidisciplinary Teams with Specialist Heart Failure Nurses" conducted by Glogowska et al. (2015). This study utilized an ethnographic research which explored the perceptions and experiences of 24 health care practitioners working with heart failure nurse specialists and their impact on decreasing unplanned readmissions and improving patient outcomes. A qualitative in-depth interview was conducted across primary, secondary and community care with difficult to manage heart failure patients in 3 different locations in England.

For generations, Americans has been brainwashed by the media to believe that what is displayed on television is the ideal perception of what real beauty have manipulated American citizens of what style looks like. Furthermore, with their many brainwashing strategies, that means more and more consumers spending beyond their budget. Our perspectives have been heavily influenced by what they believe is nice, but can we afford it all? With unrealistic combination of goods in store, plazas, and mall, consuming has become a bad behavior of some. In support of my argument of the “Overspending”, author Gladwell’s article “The Science of Shopping” also argues that stores adjust to fit the needs and wants of the shopper are evidently presented. With that being said, we have no idea when we are being manipulated into unrealistic shopping behavior that is influenced by the way the advertisement is presented in visual sight. Author Gladwell gets a “retail anthropologist” and “urban geographer” named Paco Underhill to give breakdown points of how he helps brand name stores influence consumers into persuasion of buying more. However, most of us fall short of that discipline, while being persuaded to overspend during our store visits.

Make art, make a difference! I anticipate to learn more skills and become more experienced by going to college. Art Academy of Cincinnati, home of the Stinkers, is a private non-profit college, and offers the majors I am most interested in pursuing; photography and digital design.

Pointing and sprinting from store to store, bags in hand and wallet held tight. The sounds of screaming, laughing, and talking fill the space. Cash registers beaming and cards being swiped. There’s just no other place like this; a shopping mall. Today, buying clothes or items of interest is highly popular. All of one’s favorite stores feet away from each other, this ritual is composed of elements that might not seem very evident without looking close enough. At the International Plaza in beautiful Tampa Florida, I conducted observations and my own experiences as well to analysis this ritual as a cultural phenomenon. Through this research, we can understand the true meaning of a shopping mall.

One of the most exciting places to go is The Pyrenees in Europe. The converse, it is extreme with a bunch of amusing activities that residents And tourist like. With Nature, including its course, the landscapes bring tourist attraction. Most importantly, facts are important, like how many geologists know many different factors to this National Park, which is why it brings out the beauty, the prehistoric times that went on, including how the transformation of the park was made. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land,” (G.K. Chesterton) the Pyrenees is crossed by two rails, one from Spain, the other connecting France. So basically, Spain, France, and Europe are somewhat connected (Pyrenees Crossing).

My initial research question was whether grocery shopping is more common among males or females. In order to investigate this question, I chose the location of Jewel-Osco in Lake Forest, Illinois. This location, I felt, would provide me with a population that is representative of the common residents of the Lake Forest suburbs. On Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 at 7:00 pm, I began my observational research. After receiving permission from the manager of the grocery store to observe the customers, I positioned myself on a bench at the front of the store where all of the checkout lines were visible.

This article showcases an overview of the role technology can play in enhancing and improving how students learn statistics. It however underscore the point that as teachers we need to ensure that we use the technology that we understand rather than introducing new technology that we have no understanding of. In using technology that we understand we will be better able to help the students to improve their overall performances. Importantly the technology should also be chosen based on student’s ability to grasp, how interactive it is and how easy it is to be used as a tool for collaborative learning.

For my ethnographic report, I focused on my responses and those of the people I interacted with in person on 8 November 2016 upon willingly choosing to give up all gadgets and devices with internet capabilities for 24 hours. Ideally, the decision to disconnect on the 8th revolves around the recently concluded Presidential elections in the United States. The goal was to ascertain my responses towards every ongoing off-line aspect in my life without any forms of online interaction in order to gauge my personal understanding of socio-political events and debates related to the election. The twenty-four-hour disconnection began at midnight and ended on 9 November. The morning of the election was particularly difficult due to the excitement caused

"The average American woman makes 301 trips to the store annually, spending close to 400 hours a year shopping. This amounts to 8.5 years spent shopping during a typical lifespan " (www.becomingminimalist.com). Imagine how much time and money we waste. After reading "17 statistics About our Shopping Habits" and several different articles, by different authors, shopping seems to affect us differently. Consumerism is a huge part of our lives. We can spend hours and hours window shopping. We lose track of time .Sometimes we just walk around stores just looking at clothes or other materialistic things and we don't buy anything. Yet when we do it is usually something useless. "Americans spend more on shoes, jewelry, and watches ($100 billion) than on higher education " (www.becomingminimalist.com). This is just sad and disappointing that we

Anthropology is field where research plays the biggest part in dissecting and understanding a topic. Surveys and questionnaires, are not as effective in this field as it would have been in engineering is because, anthropology deals with people. According to me people would not be slight bit interested divulging the details of their life with a stranger, whom they just met on a piece of flimsy paper. Even if they are willing to do that, they may only give a vague sketch of their life or the worst case scenario, where the participants are illiterate. Thus Field work regardless how excruciatingly long and hard it is, it is very important because it gives the holistic view on a topic as an outsider as well as an insider.

In conclusion there are many types of shopping behaviors, some may include, bargain shoppers, dressing room junkies, or even the worst ones, the time-consuming shoppers.

I spotted this one girl I use to be in class with back when I went to Dunwoody High, I turned the corner to try to get away from her and that's when I noticed that I went to middle school with the cute cashier at dairy queen. I decided against going and making conversation with her and just went about my business. I start to notice a trend as people with Shopping bags seem to be the happiest ones at the mall making me start to suspect that this could be a direct causation. I began to think back on times when I would go shopping here and would find myself behaving a bit more friendly and eager to have a conversation. The case was the same for me even when I was younger, whenever I would buy something regardless of what It was I was often happier and open to buy something else. This all was something that I never noticed as a

For my ethnographic study I chose to interview my schoolmate about her language learning experiences which relate to her culture. The main focuses of this ethnographic study are to enhance the teaching quality and facilitate positive curriculum development through the interview.

1. Chapter 4 suggests that shopping at an outlet mall is work, rather than leisure, in several ways. First, Shell mentions that outlet malls are located well outside population centers. This causes would be shoppers to drive sometimes an hour or more to shop at an outlet mall. She mentions that “visiting the outlets demands an investment in time, deliberation, and energy beyond what we invest in most other leisure activities” (Shell 91). Furthermore, Shell also uses several images throughout the chapter that convey a sense of work at an outlet mall; she conjures up images of “all that time, all that gas” (Shell 91), and “most customer look exhausted and not what you’d call fashion forward” (Shell 97). This suggests that shopping in this form is a labor instead of a leisure activity. Apart from exercise, what activity that induces exhaustion is considered a leisure activity? Leisure activities are supposed to be enjoyable, and unlike exercising to exhaustion, shopping to exhaustion does little to improve one’s figure. However, the outlet mall experience has been marketed as cost saving even though its foundation is sunk costs.

There is an electrifying thrill associated with walking through a mall and purchasing a new personal item or simply window shopping. According to Dawson, Bloch, and Ridgeway, stores are often visited for personal enjoyment and not always with a particular item in mind (410). The reasons for shopping trips may often be to relieve stress, reward oneself for a job well-done, or to merely enjoy a day off. If a female has had a taxing day at work, she may visit one of her favorite retail stores to treat herself to a new top, pair of shoes, or a brand-new color of lipstick. Her emotional levels will change from frazzled too pleased in an instant, as she enters the mall and begins to shop. Similar, to how a child might spend hours watching tv to make themselves happy, several females spend hours looking at household pieces they fancy and multiple other material items that interest them. Individuals do certain activities that cause them to feel good about themselves; and for some that’s devoting their entire day to the mall or splurging on a new sofa. The excitement levels that come with finding a bargain or