Walking Around Barefoot

Part 1: To be perfectly honest, I’ve never had a time where I have felt very isolated or very included in a school setting, well not a time that is particularly memorable. But, from talking to my friend, Caroline, she remembers her senior year of high school she was had a writing class and the majority kids in that class were the “cool/popular kids.” She recalls many instances where her teacher, Mrs. Upadhyay, would mock or make fun of the questions she would ask or the comments she would make in class. There was one instance where there were a group of popular boys in class and they were insanely chatty. Her teacher never asked them to stop talking but when Caroline turned to her partner to ask a question she was immediately called out. Another instance was when Mrs. Upadhyay was lecturing and a lightbulb went off in Caroline’s head. She thought she would say something that would really impress the class and help them understand the lecture. She raised her hand, when her teacher saw it instead of calling on her she chose to ignore her. Caroline thought it was okay though, she would wait until Mrs. Upadhyay was finished. Shortly there after, a popular boy raised his hand and she stopped her lecture to call on him. Caroline was completely appalled by this. She immediately cut off the

Webster’s Dictionary defines an archetype as a “a perfect example of something.” Mrs. Pettus defines a questr as a character in literature who engages on a quest to ultimately find self-knowledge (Pettus Lecture). There are certain elements that must be present in literature for a quest to occur. There must be a questr, and the questr must have a place he or she is going. There will be a stated reason for going, and a real reason for going, which is always for the questr to gain self-knowledge. Finally, the questr must also face obstacles along the journey.

List at least 7 practical lessons that can be summarized in a sentence Provide an anecdote from the history of Barefoot Wines that illustrates each of the nuggets you identify.

Because nobody knew what role everybody in the class played, there were underlying tensions that lead to distrust. Personally, I could not trust anybody, not even my closest friends in the class. I felt like I was always being watched. Being worried

folkway, the face reactions I received were quite humorous. Some ignored which was pretty acceptable on account of mid-terms, but the majority stared followed by questioning and maybe laughter. Understanding my violation how could you blame them, walking backwards is not only a walking folkway it is also dangerous to myself as well as my fellow class mates. As childern we grew up learning to speak a certain language or dress a certain way. When natural motor skills come in to

Having to research each party, I found out that Republicans and Democrats are way farther apart than at any point in history. Each party such as the Republicans and Democrats express their point of view by giving negative views of the opposite party. The republicans want to end slavery for good making their symbol as an elephant. The Democrats were people who support slavery and disagree with it as well. The democrats have the donkey as a symbol, symbolizing “let the people rule”. Looking at the graph, the Democrat Party has jumped from 17% to 43% in the last 20 years. The Republican Party has also gained more people jumping from 16% to 38%.

My teacher still probably believes I suffer from the “problem” he originally thought I did, and the teachers that work at the school still probably believe the same. I still have issues in class discussions and in sharing my opinions that I have yet to fully recover from as well, and I predict that, as long as I am in school, the experience will still haunt me. I should have told him as soon as he brought up his concerns that he was incorrect, and he should have acted more professionally and either kept it to himself or confirmed it before telling other staff members. What a teacher says and implies in a classroom can drastically affect the lives of that teacher’s students, for better or for worse. Obviously, in this case, it was for worse. I am also aware that I should not let such a small event affect my life so severely, and I plan to work diligently on pushing myself to speak up in class more this year, and to increase the range of my comfort level. The Safe Space in the Classroom guidelines would have been helpful last year, if my teacher had followed them. That experience has shown me how damaging it can be to disregard the guidelines, and therefore I will be careful to make sure I follow them this year to avoid causing anyone else to feel like I

Twenty minutes in I decide to change my destination in the mall. I decided to go into stores specifically high end stores without shoes. I went into Armani Exchange. Inside the store, everything was very pricey with high quality. I believed that it would be a perfect place to test out how the employees and customers would react. In Armani Exchange, there were a couple of people that looked like there were in the upper class. One woman looked at me and scoffed whereas her husband was looked at me in curiosity. I felt like they were talking about me. They would casually whisper and look up and down at me while trying to give me direct eye contact. A few minutes later, an employee came up to me asked if I could leave the store. She asked me “Why I wasn’t wearing any shoes?”. But, what surprised me was that she was very kind to me. I assumed that she would be rude and snarky. But, I was wrong. She asked me if “I would like a pair of sandals in the back”. She told me that she had extra shoes. I immediately declined and explained to her that this was an experiment for an assignment. She later on laughed and told me that it was a good one. I proceeded to leave the store. I believe that this folkway worked well because it was something that wasn’t really ordinary in the public eye. I mean that because I went to a mall. Whereas, many people are aware that there are people who do not have shoes most people

The first 23 years of my life I resided in sunny California. Yes, sunny California, where the weather is beautiful all year round, and sandals, lightweight jackets are the norm. In contrast, I now live in the Midwest, and in this part of the country, we wear thick lined coats and boot type shoes in the winter.

It was my junior year of high school, I had just woken up. Unfortunately, I saw a baby blue room when I opened up my eyes instead of the off white walls I had grown so accustomed to. Getting up, taking a shower, and finding something to eat before shoving off to the school bus at the other end of the road was commonplace. The ride to school was as quiet as one would expect a school bus to be. The group in the back was being loud and obnoxious whiles the people up front, where I tended to sit, acted nerdy and making very offensive jokes.

The Supreme Court of the United States has produced many infamous cases in its existence as a part of the three branches of government. It has seen many cases pertaining in particular to the Voting Rights Act initially enacted in 1965. There are two sections of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that are of particular concern in most cases, sections 4 and 5. Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act requires certain states, districts, and localities to obtain federal preclearance before making any changes or alterations to their election laws or practices (Overby). Section 4 specifies a formula for determining whether a geographical area is subject to section 5 (Overby). When the Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965 it was originally restricted to five years. However, since then there have been multiple extensions. Congress extended it for the first time in 1970 for another five years, followed by another extension in 1975 for seven more years, and for another twenty-five years in 1982 (The Oyez Project). When the twenty-five year reauthorization came to expire in 2006, Congress yet again extended the 1965 Voting Rights Act for another twenty-five years (The Oyez Project). Since its passing and continuous reauthorizations, there have been many attempts to declare the Voting Rights Act, specifically sections 4 and 5 unconstitutional. A distinct case that warrants a closer look is the case of Shelby County v. Holder.

freshman year came. The first couple weeks were fine until it was brought up again and this time

Lastly, in June of 2015 I was on my way to Target to get graham cracker, marshmallows, and chocolate to make s’mores with my little cousins. As I walked into Target, I saw an elderly woman trying to get some of the shoppers to hand her money so she can buy herself a jacket. As I walked to get the things I needed, I heard each shopper tell her some words I would not rather put in my paper. While I gathered my things on my list, the woman had made it inside the store to ask many others for money for a jacket. Each shopper told her no or ignored her because of the way she had been dressed. I decided to do a social experiment to see if this was the case. I set the ingredients’ for the s’mores down and went up to the same shopper the woman had

Because of the deviant act us three students violated a norm, known as proscriptive. A proscriptive norm (Warehime, Proscriptive Norm, 2017) is a norm that is not prohibited and is against the rules such as, my friends and I rippling down the posters in the classroom. It happened in what I would say a micro-level element which was a small interaction inside of the classroom. I, personally, have never done a deviant act so for me to do this one small incident inside of a classroom was nerve- racking. Even if I were with two other people I and my friends still did not follow the rules of the classroom. At this point, to whomever is reading, is probably wondering, “I wonder if they got in trouble?” to answer the question, no we did not get in trouble. We only got looked at a little differently that day by our classmates.

Perhaps, it was because I did not realize that the actions they took were the form of discrimination. Prior to reading a chapter which discusses about discrimination, I always thought that discrimination only included extreme threats or violence towards a certain group of people. As none of the actions students and my teacher took were extreme form of discrimination, I chose not to include the word, “discrimination”, in my story. By having my peers commenting on my personal narrative, I reassured to myself that those actions students and teachers took were discriminatory. Additionally, as I read the textbook it gave a clear explanation of what discrimination means by stating,“[a]cts of discrimination can include ignoring, avoiding, excluding, ridicule, jokes, slander, threats, and violence” ( DiAngelo & Sensoy, 2012, p. 32). Looking back to the first incidence, where my peers were moving their tables away from mine due to the cultural food I brought, I now know that they were discriminating against the cultural food I ate by excluding me in their group. For the second incidence where they were ridiculing my name, it would also be a form of discrimination as students were name-calling, turning my name into an inappropriate