Ethnographic Personal Statement

Culture is defined as the traditions, customs, norms, beliefs, values and thought patterning passed down from generation to generation (Jandt 2010). The world consists of many different cultures. In this Ethnographic Interview, I was given the opportunity to explore and learn more about a culture different from my own. Through observation I’ve have seen how people of different cultures differ from mines. For example, the type of foods a person

I was born the fourth of December 1991 in Cranbrook British Columbia. I lived there for 18 years. Before joining the military I worked as a fry cook at a Burger King for three years and held part time jobs working for the College of the Rockies summer camp programs during the summer. My parents are currently living together in Cranbrook BC. My father works outside the province testing railway tracks for two months at a time, then returns home for two to three weeks. My mother acts as the main contact point of the family, she works as a financial clerk. I have a 22 year old sister who will be attending university in Calgary this September. I attended Mount Baker Secondary School in Cranbrook and graduated in 2009

College is something on the minds of students throughout their years in school, it offers new skills and experience in the career desired. Columbia College Chicago and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are great schools especially for those looking for art related programs. These two colleges are a great start for discovering the college right for you. Columbia College Chicago and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are both alike and different by their tuition costs, special programs, admission requirements and the housing offered. Columbia College Chicago and School of the Art Institute of Chicago vary in tuition costs.

What is my current situation? I am a senior at CAT studying for the SAT and ACT with a great GPA,good grades and I am taking not one but two Art Classes during the year.Not only will these classes teach me new techniques in art but also prepare me for what I want to do in college.I plan on going to a great college that specializes in Animation,Architecture or engineering in hopes of someday changing the world into my own creation because ,as quoted by Henry David Thoreau,”This world is but a canvas to our

The article by Peter Benson (2008) takes place in North Carolina where there were 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in order to understand the agriculture workers who worked on tobacco farms. The purpose of the article is to expose farm labor conditions since the conditions have remained hidden from the public. The farmworkers of the fields experience low wages, poverty, limited access to healthcare, as well as a constant fear of deportation. Their migrant housing was in deplorable conditions. Farm labors are among the worst housed group in the U.S. The fact that farmworker camps were located in very rural and isolated areas basically invisible to the general public creates suffering, disease, and often times were overlooked because

For as long as I can remember I have always had the drive and passion to create works of art in many ways, shapes and forms. My creativity and integrity that I share with art is on many levels ranging from 3D work, video game design, physical pieces of artwork as well as digital. I believe that there are very few schools that would not only help challenge my abilities but be able to utilize them in many ways I would've never imagined.

In the film “The Human Family Tree,” the Genographic Project traces the human journey throughout the world, from our origins from Africa. The Genographic Project is a genetic anthropology study. The project’s goal is to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from people from around the world. In this specific film, with the help of science we can see how people from New York each have their own unique genetic history. To begin with, deep ancestry can be traced, based off of either your mitochondria or y-chromosome. Because women do not have a y-chromosome, it only shows the maternal line of descent when studying their mitochondrial DNA, while for men it shows both maternal and paternal. In the film we

For this ethnography project, I analyzed two field situations with some of my close guy friends here in Bloomington in public and private settings. For the public field situation, we went to Denny’s in Bloomington late at night in order to get out of the house on a Friday. For the private situation, we got together to watch March Madness at my friend’s apartment. I analyzed these situations to determine how my friends and I interact public vs. private and how our behaviors differentiate. Our purpose for hanging out and going out to eat as friends were to build solidarity through common interests, story and joke telling, and through positive and negative face.

I have a confession: I used to be racist. It wasn’t intentional or conscious in any way; I didn’t even realize it. I was merely an impressionable little girl, and when my parents made sly comments that implied black people are somehow genetically predispositioned for a life of crime and drug addiction, or that Muslims are misogynists and terrorists, or when they spewed any other number of atrocious stereotypes, I considered it fact. At that point in my life, my parents had supreme authority over me. They fed me, clothed me, sheltered me, and so their word was law. If they said black people were criminals, then surely black people must be criminals. If they said Muslims were terrorists, then surely they all were. My parents were basically gods;

I set out to find a place to begin my observations, not knowing what to fully expect, what I may find. So I decided to look around at what is close to my home that isn’t a place I frequent or have even visited at all. Then it came to me, the Starbucks that is only about a mile away is a perfect place for me to observe subjects that I would consider different from myself, seeing as how I consider such obscene prices for coffee ridiculous. Starbucks is a very popular chain of coffee vendors that describe their product as more about quality than what Americans are used to in typical coffee joints.

Attending art school has always been a dream of mine, and Memphis College of Art just seems like the right school for me. I would love to attend Memphis College of Art, because of any of the art schools that I looked at, MCA is the only school that has kept my attention since my tenth grade year. MCA would come and visit my high school during the spring time and discuss the courses, and the cost of the college, and the person who would come and talk to my class would ensure that if you are admitted into the college, you will have a finance officer to help you. I am also interested in the college, because it is out of state, yet close to home. MCA offers many different art courses that would allow me to further my studies in art. Being at

I should attend an art school for many different reasons. One of the reasons I should attend is because art is part of my everyday life. Second I enjoy being taught about creative arts, I get very engaged in the lessons. Lastly I plan to do many things in my life with creative arts. This opportunity would greatly help me and my creative art skills.

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” I chose the School of Art Institute of Chicago because it seems like a really good school to go to for photography. I’ve always wanted to go to a school out of Texas and explore out of what I know. School of Art Institute of Chicago, largest accredited independent school of art and design is one of the top two graduate art programs in the nation and will help me build my skills in the photography field.

I got my first camera at the age of eight; it was a blue Olympic digital camera. I used my camera whenever I could. Ever since I was little I noticed the little things in life. The main thing I want to do with my life is to be a world known photographer. I want to travel the world with my camera and show the world how beautiful earth is.

I’m a white woman living in a white man’s world. I grew up around white men, I was taught by white men, I respect white men but I don’t understand white men as much as I understand women.