The True Ethnographer

Ethnography tells about a culture and the members that comprise this culture. A definition is the scientific description of the customs and individual people of a culture. The process of doing this assignment allowed me to explore another aspect of a cultural group. I was able to learn extensively about interactions between individuals and how see them as a culture. The group that comprises my ethnography is a cultural group very common to Utah. The culture I focused on was the LDS culture, to be more specific I studied a sub-culture of this group. My subculture was a group of 12 year old adolescents that are a Sunday school class in this culture.

Me: As I performed the posture test on myself I already knew that I would have proper posture. Due to the fact that when I was younger, I looked in the mirror and noticed that I had a slouchy posture. I had (Lordosis) and an anterior pelvic tilt, which made me look awful from a side point of view. I wanted to fix my posture and learned that I had weak abdominal muscles and tight hamstrings along with weak gluteus maximus muscles. As I learned how to fix my problem, I began doing exercises for those muscles for flexibility and strength gains. For my exercises in detail I began standing for a long period of time and would flex my gluteus maximus muscles and keep them tight for a period of time to strengthen them which would be for a few minutes. This fixed the slight curve in my lower back. The next step I performed was the same as with my gluteus maximus muscles but for my abs which helped keep a good posture naturally without thinking about my posture deviations and how to fix them. I could now begin to stand naturally with a good posture. The last step I did was stand against a wall with my back and neck flat against the wall and I would press my tongue against the top of my mouth to

Crewdson understood how to read images his interest is to understand and reveal secretes about life, his photographs helps establish order within chaos of everyday life.

The caretaker first noticed that something was when her mother was cooking but continue to leave out ingredients in the food. The mother also would start rumors about the people in the neighborhood and family members. On one incident is when the mother lost her purse and blamed in on her grandson saying he stole her purse. She had everybody thinking he stole her purse and also tried to stab him with a knife when along the purse was at the church. In another incident the caretaker stated “mother say her daughter child’s father was sleeping with her cousin”.

My major is Information Systems. When I first found out that I had to take another 100-level class, as a senior about to graduate, I was beyond a little upset. I then found out it was an art history class and it made it even worse. How am I ever going to use being able to distinguish between two paintings in my career? It might come in handy as a party trick. But fast forward six weeks into the class and I think I finally understand the relationship. We are learning and practicing to spot details, patterns, symbols, and visually compare works of art. Working with data requires me to do the same. Training the brain to observe and interpret those patterns, as well as being able to describe those patterns, is very important in my intended

Courtney was not available to meet in person due to the time constraints. This was unfortunate because I would have preferred to do the interview in person, as it is easier to talk to people and is an important way of getting information from someone. We decided on doing a Skype session to talk about Jimmy and his disability. We decided on talking at 7 P.M. on a Wednesday night and allowed one and a half hours to talk about Jimmy. Since I have known Jimmy for many years, I did not want to come in to the interview with a bias. I asked very straightforward, basic, probing questions, assuming I did not know anything about Jimmy or his disability. Courtney is very passionate about working with children with Autism; she also studies Neuroscience

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was driving to Mount Shasta with my friend, Marley, and her parents for the weekend. It was about a four-and-a-half-hour car ride full of two eight year olds giggling in the back of the car and two parents blasting Disney radio in the front seats. Marley’s mom’s phone rings and she picks it up as we continue to sing our young hearts out to the Jonas Brothers. All of a sudden my friend and I hear her mother shriek with a pain we have never heard before. Her mother cries out, with tears bursting uncontrollably from her eyes. Marley and I go silent and wide-eyed with shivers down our spines. We had never seen a grown up act this way. She hits her husband’s bicep repeatedly rocking back and forth in her passenger seat screaming, “WHY!” Her husband is in the driver’s seat and he is pale. He is repeatedly yelling at his wife “What happened?” getting louder and louder. We are swerving off the highway to pull over and she yells “Dean died!” My friend and I look at each other. We didn’t know a Dean. The father forces his weight on the brake as we enter the shoulder of the highway, we jolt forward as our seatbelts lock. Marley’s mother immediately gets out and crawls into a fetal position on the curb. Her husband gets out of the driver’s seat and walks onto the highway, unfazed by the cars passing him on the freeway. Her parents talk for what felt like hours to us children sitting silently in the back

Throughout the years of a child going into adulthood the child behaves the way they thoughtlessly choose. Poor decision making is a part of this transition which can eventually lead to things such as an increase in unprotected sex, destructive behavior and even substance abuse in some cases (“Jaeger”). In this article Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, also known as fMRI, studies have been “completed to divulge the certain mechanisms located in the brain that underlie the cause of this typical inhibitory control limitations with the developmental period” (“Jaeger”). The goal of this article was to get people to understand some of the features of a healthy brain in youth today and why there is a reduced inhibitory control capacity among these adolescents. The youth in this study had lower activity in numerous brain regions that were associated with inhibitory control. The activity that was found in these regions might underlie the lower inhibitory control that is related to the developmental period up until adulthood (“Jaeger”).

I took a trip to Greek town Casino in Detroit Michigan with my father, this trip was something of an unexpected trip but I figured it was a great place to observe the behaviors of many different cultures as Greek town casino is the home of a multicultural society. I wanted to observe the behaviors of those between African American’s and Caucasian persons. I wanted to see if one race over the other tended to gamble more or if one culture got more aggressive as the night went on.

The skill that I feel very confident that I do really well is photography. I have loved photography for as long as I can remember. I remember there was a photography photo of a man and a woman surrounded by beautiful flowers. When I was about 10 my parents got me my first camera for my birthday. I love my camera I got every time my family goes camping I take a lot of pictures.

The notion that we are all practicing geographers is one that proves to be quite correct in a rather practical sense. One of the vastest and uttermost discombobulating subjects our education system teaches us is Geography. When I was younger, about nine or ten, I always had the perception that Geography involved the study of volcanos and thunderstorms. However, as I became older I slowly came to the realization that it embodied a great deal more. At the time I was learning about Geography while not knowing it. Through my Social Studies class I noted the Aboriginal Peoples movements through summer and winter, all the while obtaining the information about why they moved. I was also at the time taught how humans are polluting the forests and waterways to the extent of animals dying. My family furthermore liked to do quite a bit of road travailing when I was younger. Little did I perceive that, when looking at a map and asking for directions with my

In conducting ethnographical fieldwork, anthropologists have selected few key consultants to gather exclusive details and information about a society’s custom ideas, values, and practices through participation in research of the Ju/ ‘haonsi people of Namibia. Through qualitative data and much fieldwork in Namibia, key consultants will have to lay out a formal outline in their research to be successful. By conducting ethnographical fieldwork, preparation, observances and many challenges will have to be faced during the duration of Namibia. As a key consultant I must endure all factors of this study including: funding, ethics, an ethnographical approach, and all barriers that might stand in my way while conducting field work.

Doing field work in a high risk environment would pose a threat to my safety, this would cause a lot of tension between myself and the people I am studying. Another element that would cause issues for me would be allowing myself emerge into an atmosphere knowing the people I am studying are committing illegal activities that are essentially hurting themselves and others around them. It would be extremely hard for me to turn a blind eye to someone’s “self-destruction” the more I ponder on the thought I realize I am not capable of submitting to the research.

The first five minutes I spent staring at the artwork, all I saw were lines, figures, and colors. Two hours pass and I started noticing details I had not seen before. Through these two artworks, I caught a glimpse into the artist 's mind and became the storyteller rather

In Rhacel Parreñas’ ethnography, Servants of Globalization, we analyse the life of the Filipina domestic worker who picks up from her home, moves to another country, and works as a nanny or house-keeper to make a simple wage to send back home. Throughout the ethnography, Parreñas writes about her encounters with numerous Filipina nationals around the world working to make a living. The goal of the ethnography is to publicize and allow people to analyze the injustices on domestic workers that come from the Philippines.