The other day in class Lacy was talking to us about our Ethnography projects and making sure we were keeping up with things. So in order to do that she had us do an activity where we wrote down how we were feeling about the project and how we were feeling about gathering information about our project.
So here is what I wrote about my feelings when it came to doing my interviews.......
"When I was getting ready to do my interview I was excited to see what people had to say. Whenever I would ask a question I was excited to hear the person's answer and see if their opinion was similar to mine."
I think being excited about doing interviews, or being excited about gathering information in any form is one of the keys to having a good project. You have to want to put in the work and be happy with what you are doing otherwise that negative attitude will show through when presenting.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
The Things They Carried Response
This past week we had to read "The Things They Carried" and to be completely honest I only read the words at face value. I didn't really read deeper into the text to really figure out what the story was about. I mean, I got the fact that they listed the weight of all the gear the men carried to show just how much physical weight a soldier carries everyday. I also understood the idea of an emotional weight on each soldier as well.
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That was the face value reading that I did but just last night the idea of an emotional weight really struck home with me when I was talking to a friend and they broke down because of the various stressful things that were going on in his life. While talking to him I realized that every single person on this planet has one or more things going on in their life which they have to "carry" with them everyday. Whether it be something happy or sad, a memory, a longing, everyone has something that no one else may know about. And I realized that wahtever the situation may be there needs to be people in each persons life that will be there to help share the weight of whatever their friend is having to "carry" just to make it a little bit easier on them.
I'm not really sure whether or not this would be considered a "good" blog post but it was just a thought that I could not get out of my mind since it happened so I figured "eh it kinda coincides with something we read, maybe I'll just talk it out". So there it is.
^^^
That was the face value reading that I did but just last night the idea of an emotional weight really struck home with me when I was talking to a friend and they broke down because of the various stressful things that were going on in his life. While talking to him I realized that every single person on this planet has one or more things going on in their life which they have to "carry" with them everyday. Whether it be something happy or sad, a memory, a longing, everyone has something that no one else may know about. And I realized that wahtever the situation may be there needs to be people in each persons life that will be there to help share the weight of whatever their friend is having to "carry" just to make it a little bit easier on them.
I'm not really sure whether or not this would be considered a "good" blog post but it was just a thought that I could not get out of my mind since it happened so I figured "eh it kinda coincides with something we read, maybe I'll just talk it out". So there it is.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Annotated Bibliography
Here are the citations for the two interviews and a picture that I need to use for my Ethnography project.
LaFuria, Nathan. Personal Interview. 30. Oct. 2012
My interview with Nathan is integral to the success of my project because my group as a whole decided to use interviews as our form of research. This interview also allowed me to understand what a person thinks of the sculpture that I have chosen to do. This will help when it comes time to discuss our interviews with the group.
Frommer, Elise. Personal Interview. 30. Oct. 2012
This interview was important because I got to get a girls point of view on the emerging man. This allowed me to get a more well rounded dynamic in the interviews I did so that I could look at both the male and female response to my sculpture. Although her answers were similar to Nathan's answers this provided me with a great deal of information about the underlife of my sculpture.
artist unknown, The Emerging Man, n.d, UNCC Campus, Charlotte,NC.
This is a picture of the sculpture that I chose to do this project on. The reason it is so important is because I used this picture during my interviews. It was cold and kinda rainy at the time I went out looking for interviews so I used this picture as a reference for the interviewees so that we didnt have to venture out into the rain just for a 5 minute interview.
LaFuria, Nathan. Personal Interview. 30. Oct. 2012
My interview with Nathan is integral to the success of my project because my group as a whole decided to use interviews as our form of research. This interview also allowed me to understand what a person thinks of the sculpture that I have chosen to do. This will help when it comes time to discuss our interviews with the group.
Frommer, Elise. Personal Interview. 30. Oct. 2012
This interview was important because I got to get a girls point of view on the emerging man. This allowed me to get a more well rounded dynamic in the interviews I did so that I could look at both the male and female response to my sculpture. Although her answers were similar to Nathan's answers this provided me with a great deal of information about the underlife of my sculpture.
This is a picture of the sculpture that I chose to do this project on. The reason it is so important is because I used this picture during my interviews. It was cold and kinda rainy at the time I went out looking for interviews so I used this picture as a reference for the interviewees so that we didnt have to venture out into the rain just for a 5 minute interview.
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