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