Government Assignment #4

      I feel like in the near future that some of the topics covered in the article will become true and like a few had in the title will become the new "norm". Yes people will more than likely wash their hands and practice better hygiene if they don't already and they will also be hesitant about socializing with new people or people they know but are not real close with.
     The impact that has come with Covid-19 is huge to senior classes around the world. Knowing that we might not be able to walk down the aisle with our class and graduate has put a lot of stress out on all the seniors. It has just had a big impact on schooling all together because of online schooling and like it said in the article about how it will be hard to go from online schooling back to actual school in the fall. This is probably going to be hard for everyone.
     It has also impacted people working. I got told that I didn't have to show up for any of my shifts along with everyone else that worked at Ponts. I have gained appreciation of actually having a job and being able to work. People might feel bad towards working because they don't like working but when they are out of a job and don't have money they actually miss working and having a job. One lesson that I have learned is that when something like this happens the oil and gas prices drop drastically. For me I am loving it because I drive around a lot. It is a bit easier on the bank account and my wallet money wise.
     I haven't really observed my parents that much of how this has affected them because my dad slipped a disc right before all of this had happened and is just getting better and will hopefully be able to go back to work on this following week. I keep up with things that go on at the foundry because that was suppose to be my summer job this coming summer like it was last year. I know that they are not getting that many orders because of this whole deal and their hours of working got cut back from 40 hours a week to 30 hours a week. My mom is still working her same hours and the only that I have noticed that has changed at her job is that she has to have a sheet of plastic up at her window for precautions.

I was almost a school shooter:(

I felt like this guy as he is talking is still very sensitive about the subject but he wants people to know what happens when someone is neglected and abused. He was pretty thorough about what he went through and how crappy of a life he had. His parents"weren't"here and he even lived on his own until he called social services. I felt really bad about what this guy went through but he was so lucky to have that one person in his life that eventually saved him from what he was about to do. Just a little bit of love and care could change someones life.

Barnga: Its all a game or sort of

·  If you could describe the game in one word, what would it be? I would describe it as confusing. 

·  What did you expect at the beginning of the game? I was expecting to win at the beginning because i had a really good hand. 

·  When did you realize that something was wrong? When Boston tried to say that aces were low. 

·  How did you deal with it? I sided with what I though was right and that was Ashley. 

·  How did not being able to speak contribute to what you were feeling? I felt like I was going to win it all. 

·   Is my title above appropriate for the game of "culture."  Why or why not? Yes because you don't know what to do when another person says something different. 

·   Is a universal language and set of customs necessary for world peace and harmony? No

·   What can a simple card game teach us about our culture? That we don't read everyone even if we think we do. 

Freaks and Geeks

Functional theory- things that make society work. Ex:When the athletes and bullies have a nerd to beat up.
Conflict theory- when one group exerts power over another group. Ex: When the school bullies pick on someone that is way smaller than them.
Symbolic theory- a symbol of something. Ex: Lindsay wearing the jacket that her grandma gave her.

There are some dysfunctions of the bully group. they are just mean and don't like anything or anyone. The bullies are the ones with the power in this episode in my eyes. They have power because everyone is afraid of them and no one wants to stand up for themselves. They use it because they know that they can get away with it and they enjoy doing it.

One very big symbol in here is the coat that Lindsay wears all the time because it was her grandmas and she was with her grandma when she had died. Or the drum set because that is what Ken Miller wanted and loved to do. Lindsay was wearing that because she missed her grandma and Ken finally found something that he loved to do.

I can relate to losing a grandma like Lindsay did. I don't have a jacket or anything to wear but i cant relate to how Lindsay was feeling in the pilot episode. I'm going to college because I want to make more money than what I would make if I just went right into the work field from high school. I don't really stress over getting good grades because I don't need to be a 4.0 student to go to a two year college.

Sociological Mindfulness/Imagination

This video I wasn't really able to put myself into one others shoes. So I wasn't really able to get a grasp on what this guy was saying. When the speaker was talking about thinking about how a family would feel if we came into their country and started going after oil. Then we tried telling them that they shouldn't be scared and stuff but when we see them as terrorists and rag heads and everyone always hates them. People feel like the Iraqis look at us the same.

I felt sociologically mindful when I had lost my grandpa and then dealt with other people losing their grandparents and I was able to help them get through the tough time and I was able to give them comfort and able to tell them that eventually everything was going to be alright.

I would put THE Donald Trump on the list because of the fact that he had sent bombs over to Iran and blew up one of their commanders and to me that is really ballsy and deserves to be given some props and thanks to. Like Mr. Reints said they should have gotten rid of the Iran Commander a long time ago.

I see myself fitting into the big picture of society by putting my sixty some odd years of work in as a diesel technologist and helping other people when their machines break down and they call whoever I will be working for in the future and my boss tells me to go out and fix whatever needs to be fixed. The customer is always right even when they are wrong. I will make the customer happy even if they are upset that they broke whatever machine that they were working on and I will try to fix it as fast as humanly possible without messing it up even worse for them. J

memory article

My memory article is about why we forget things and when we forget them. UC Davis psychologists Weiwei Zhang and Steven Luck did an experiment with colored squares flashed at intervals of 1,4, 10 seconds at a time. The participants either remembered all of them or none of them. They put a black square outlined in white up on a whiteboard and the participant got asked to recall one of the squares they saw. They didn't know which square they were going to have to say they remembered either.  Their short term memory would be wiped away gradually they might not be able to remember the colors the best but if they had a longer interval of looking at it then the whiteboard gets wiped all at once they will remember more precisely but once the interval gets to be longer there will be more random guesses. That is what the two psychologists found out was that the participants either guessed or they remembered it very well. Researchers at Harvard and MIT think that in order to remember things they have to have some meaning to them and not just a color block. So if you do an experiment with images that mean something to you, you might have more luck remembering the images and it will more likely keep it in your long term memory. If you keep having tests done with color blocks its almost like trying to copy down notes and having someone erase the board before you are done and you are trying to scramble to remember what was on the board.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-memory-so-good-bad/#

28th Amendment

28th Amendment- Male and Females shall get evaluated to see what they will get paid at any job. 

My Amendment would have to go along with Equal Rights. I would propose that men and women should have equal paying jobs no matter what kind of job it is. I believe that someone should be evaluated to see what kind of a worker they are in the field of work that they are in. That should determine how much you will get paid.

Unconditioned Stimulus: The PuppyMonkeyBaby dancing.
Conditioned Stimulus: Mtn Dew Kickstart
Unconditioned Response: People laughing to the PuppyMonkeyBaby dancing while looking at the Mtn Dew Kickstart.
Conditioned Response: You looking at the Mtn Dew Kickstart and thinking that you want some.

Asian Aushwitz

The article that you had the class read was just disturbing about what happened at unit 731. The Untied States wanted the biological warfare stuff for themselves and the Japanese didn't want to give it to us. the Unit 731 was going to destroy everything that they had ever done by blowing the place up and didn't want anyone or anything to get out about what had gone one there. Before the Japanese agreed on closing Unit 731 they had thought about sending balloon bombers over to the Untied States and having some type of biological bomb go off here and then have planes come over like a kamikaze mission. That never happened though. / This camp was worse then Auschwitz because of the experiments that they had done and what they did to the prisoners. At one point a little over 300 Americans had died within five days. The Japanese were testing things like syphilis, and how long it would take someone to freeze and then thaw out and how long it would take the flesh to start to decay and get gangrene. Most of the people that were at this camp were American. Our government once they had found out about this stuff wanted to take the biological weapons and use them for their own things to try help with the war.  When they were experimenting on these prisoners they would also cut them up in to different regions or they would cut off each limb and test how long it would take for them to bleed out or the blood loss in different regions of the body.  They would also take out a stomach, spleen, liver, or both a stomach and some of their esophagus and connect their esophagus to their small intestine. They also took out someones brain to be experimented on.

Bacha Bazi

My reaction to this article was honestly disgusted. Why would anyone do this to a young boy or just anyone in general. Having a boy become your own private sex slave and dancer is just morally wrong and if you did that in the Untied States you would most likely have people coming to your door and beating the crap out of you. When it said in the article that parents would take their sons to a doctor if they had got them back and the doctor would say that they had been raped and had to be stitched up, I cant imagine how that little boy must have felt when he heard that. That is the worst thing I have ever heard was that some kid who is between the ages of ten to like eighteen had to be stitched up because some one had raped them over and over. Then in the article it had said that most of the boys go back to prostitution if they ever get out. That is something that would probably be hard to get away from because that is all you would know how to do. Why would people even want to kidnap kids for sex slaves. That is just morally wrong and also very illegal where we live at. I feel bad for anyone that has been put through that and came out with things that they didn't have when they were kidnapped. there was nothing that they could do about it.

World War 1 Blog

The Preparedness Movement is the way we need to go in order to help aid our allies during wars if they need it. The United States also needs to prepare just in case they end up getting drug into this war. I think that since the war is growing very rapidly that the United States will end up getting drug into it no matter what.

                World War One had started with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife. This assassination quickly turned into a war that broke out between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. As Germany was an ally to Austria-Hungary, Germany had getting drug into the war. This had formed the central powers. After Germany had joined with Austria-Hungary it had started like a big domino effect. France helped Serbia. Russia helped France. Germany had attacked Belgium which then brought Great Britain into the war. When Germany and Austria-Hungary attack Great Britain the United States needs to be ready to help and have their back in this war. If we don’t have enough troops that are trained and ready to roll Great Britain could end up losing our trust and possibly the war. So, we need to start training troops and have them ready to send overseas. If we don’t have the Preparedness Movement, we might get ambushed by Central Powers and we won’t be able to protect ourselves and then we wont be able to turn around and fight back because we don’t have any troops that are trained.

My article was about four police officers in Baltimore who were allegedly accused of being in with the drug market. The article was written by Justin Fenton and was published on November 20th, 2018. 

       Catherine M. Filippou was being investigated by the FBI and had resigned before the police could prove her guilty and get as much evidence they could to stick her. The officer was twenty nine years old and her name was Officer Filippou. She was being investigated for helping with the sale and transportation of drugs. In the article it says that she had been stopped by an officer on her way back carrying over a half pound of marijuana and she flashed her badge and the officer said "Have a nice night.".  Why wouldn't you have some more in-depth look at why a police officer would have a half pound of marijuana in a car with them. She had worn a recording device one time when she had met up with a drug dealer and the drug dealer had said that "was doing this for big money and does runs for several connects in Bmore. Not just weed, but heroin as well, a few times coke." In 2015 Officer Filippou made the headlines for being involved in the shooting of Keith Davis Jr. Before this shooting no one had known about he investigation of being a corrupt officer. She had made so much money from doing this. He yearly income was 71,000 dollars and by the end of this, her yearly income that she had made was 106,000 dollars.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/109727460-132.html