Extra Credit Assignment homework 11

 

This picture is important to me because of my strong love for hockey.  Growing up we had season tickets for the penguins and my dad being such a big fan obviously influenced me.  I think hockey is one of the most intense and stressful games to watch.  Playoffs are obviously an even more tense time, especially when one state has two teams and they go head to head.  Everyone on the Penguins team acts like one.  If someone goes after one Penguin then the whole team comes after you.

In 2009, Max Talbot, a Penguin at the time, go into a very big fight during playoffs with a Flyer.  This fight made history.  Talbot was a very good Penguin and his fame was going up during this season.  He alone made history during this game.  It became known as the “kiss of death”.  During this game the flyers had the game at 3-0 until the fight.  After the fight, Talbot was skating towards the penalty box and put his finger up to his mouth and said “shhh” after that, the Penguins were able to tie the game then won it.  This picture is important to me because that was obviously an awesome game.  It showed fans everywhere of Flyers and Penguins that they could pull it off in the last period of the game.

Then in the game 3 of the 2012 Penguin Flyers game, all hell broke out.  Fights were all over the ice.  It was like boxing and wrestling on ice.  Kris Letang and Max Talbot were both such good friends and players for the Penguins.  When everyone learned Talbot became a Flyer everyone is shocked.  It wasn’t until playoffs that everyone said it became evident Talbot was no longer a Penguin.  You could feel the tension through the TV between Talbot and Letang.  When Letang was skating off the ice, he pulled the same move, “shhh.”  It seemed to be made even more clear then that their friendship was no longer there.  This picture is important to me because like I said before my love for hockey and always being a Penguin fan.  Then obviously the fact that he pulled the infinite move right back a few years later.  Even though the Penguins did not win, it was a great game and hopefully is foreshadowing what is about to come.

 

 

Homework 10

One thing that is unique to American culture could easily be April Fools Day.  A day that is completely devoted to pranking someone.  On this day, you can easily find someone that is up to something in trying to prank someone.  It can all range from a banana peel on the floor to joking about someone dying.  It takes a unique person sometimes to always find the humor in the jokes.  It is unique because other cultures do not celebrate this.  Growing up I would always hear stories of my mom having a foreign exchange student.  She was from Sweden and had no idea about this day.  So my mom and sister sewed all of her clothes shut.  After the fact, she said she had never even heard of this and now as a mother, her family still try to prank each other on April 1^st.

Over Easter weekend, every year, as far back I can remember we would go to Seven Springs for a dance competition.  First it was always about my sister, then me, then my younger sister now.  We would go and spend days taking classes then competing.  It was unique to my family and other dancers families’ because normal families don’t spend Easter weekend watching hundreds of dances and it is usually a time for relaxation and it never has been for us.

            Individuality is expressed all the time.  The first thing I thought of was choice of clothing.  You are wearing what you want to wear, what you think looks good, it expresses yourself.  When you go out you’re not going to find twelve people wearing the same thing you are.  Another thing I thought of was hair color.  If you look at my hair I probably have seven different colors in it right now because I always dye parts, never the whole thing.  Not many people, at least where I am from dye parts of the hair.  It all people expressing themselves and that makes them different which express individuality.    

 

 

Homework 9

Americans find it rude to talk about one’s personal life, their economic status, and your religion in a conversation.  I think it is rude because all of those are very personal things.  It is your life and it does not affect anyone but you and your family.  To involve someone else in those private matters, I think would just cause drama and add more stress to your life.

A main difference is Thailand, they have such a focus on family.  They are very equal in roles and they all want to help and they’ll take care of each other.  In America, it is not like that.  We will have other people do it because we do not want the “bother” of helping out someone who needs it.  The buddhist philosophy, does not focus on wealth or money at all.  It seems almost frowned upon.  In America, you expect people to flaunt it when they have it.

I think individualism comes from experiences.  I know my junior year I got my first job.  My dad told me after my car accident (where I totaled my car) he would buy me a new car.  Even though that did not really happen, I liked having a job.  I spent my own money that I worked hard for instead of always asking my parents for money for this and that.  I think a different culture would find it strange because I was not helping my family, I was doing it for myself.

Homework 8

I think one thing that would be different would be a person’s home life.  I think that for the most part you see the kids go to school, the father goes to his business like job, and the mother stays home and cleans and does house work.  When in reality, there is not that many stay at home moms and dads are more willing to stay at home now.  I think another thing would be how people dress.  In TV everything is over glamourized so much.  No one ever looks like that when they go to school, work, wherever; people will go out not having make up of a clown on or dress down.

Time to us is how we live our lives.  Everything has a time, you have to leave at a certain time, and you have to be some place at a certain time.  Time is so important and we value it so much.

It is viewed that interruptions are rude and frowned upon.  It states that because it is supposed to be one person speaks then another one speaks.  I think they are more negative because I think people are so strong about speaking their opinion and their opinion is the only one that matters that they need to make it appoint of that.  If someone interrupts you then you can lose sight of what you were saying and it’s giving them a chance to be more dominant almost.

“In the United States, it is extremely important to extend the same courtesies and respect to all individuals, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, national origin, or sexual orientation.”  I think this stuck out to me the most because I don’t think many Americans feel this way at all.  I think we have so much racism and hate towards people that are different from us.  However I do not feel this way but many people are very anti gay marriage.  That right there is not respecting them.  There is a lot of hate in America and people I think always forget that.

 

 

 

Homework 7

Everything they have become to know is based off money.  They made the relationships between people terrible.  It has driven people away so much.  They have made it so money is the single handedly most important thing, even before their friends.  They do not think about what is actually happening, which is the relationships being torn apart by something so insignificant.

It is clearly a change for the worse for the line that says, “I hate it, but I have to…”  No, you don’t have to let money do this, you are choosing to let money have this much of an impact on your entire life that it taking over and manipulating everything.

I think the most important line is, “The world will not become America.”  I think this stuck out to me the most because obviously we live in a great country but I think other countries put America on a pedal stool.  We do have great things but people always forget the negatives too.  People don’t know everything about America before they put all the good things to it.  I am not anti-America in anyway.  Every country has their good and bad, I just think most people do not know all of the bad of America before they speak.

I think one negative would be the competition of cultures.  There would be some trying to be the best or the most powerful and just to “take over.”  I think another negative would be the misleading factor of things like “China Town” in cities.  Obviously, New Yorks’ China Town and Little Italy are actually nothing like either of those places and it could offend people that are from there when it represents something completely different here.

A positive would be growing up in this gives you experience.  Not necessarily accurately but you grow up knowing all different kinds of cultures which is something some places don’t know then are not used to a near area if they have to re locate.  I think another positive would be more or less branching off the other positive is you learn more.  Like in the article was saying you learn knew languages as well which you now often need in jobs and it is so much easier to grow up learning something than as an adult learning another language.

 

 

 

Homework 6

Man, strong, muscles.  I think of these because if you define the term strong and muscles fit right into that.  Then for the man part you obviously do not see very man woman that are ripped.  It always goes back to the guys.

I think television and society pressure males to be masculine.  They see on TV all these guys and how big and strong they are and obviously those are the guys “to be.”  They look good, they are popular, they have all the girls and etc.  Then society because they see guys like that in real life and want to be like them.  It starts with the television then goes into the society.

I think the main thing that influences me would just be myself.  I used to be a dancer and we had intense work outs so I was in shape from that.  Then after I quit I missed being in shape so I would just work out on my own.  I would remember what I looked like while dancing and would want to look like that again.  I realize that Hollywood people are edited and don’t actually look like that at all.  So why would I have something fake influence who I am?

I think so.  Guys are seen to be the big strong guys and girls are supposed to be small and skinny.  If you see one that doesn’t fit into those then they are looked at differently and maybe not as good.  America I think has built a society on what the human body is supposed to look like and everyone wants to fit into that.  People who don’t and are looked at differently.

 

 

 

Homework 4

 

I agree with what Schor was trying to argue.  People are always buying things that they don’t need, they just want.  I think people are trying more to fit in with a specific group so if they have the newest materialistic things then there is a better chance they will, in their minds.

It’s not like if you have more money your problems are solved.  It’s all in your head, I think.  If you want to be happy you will realize money will not get you there and neither will having the latest things.  If you want to fit in more and have the cooler stuff then money will get you there.  In a sense, it’s disgusting what money can get you.

I think one thing would be like when the IPhone 4S came out.  It has literally one more feature the IPhone 4 had and people feel the need to throw a few hundred dollars away so they can have it.  People will have the newer one and then their friends or family will feel the need to get it too.  Another one would be like IPods.  People will buy one, it will be in great condition, then in a year a newer one will come out and people will have it, so they will want to have it too.

I do not think competitive consumption really influences my identity at all.  Obviously every teenager wants the IPhone but I would be fine with a phone that could not go on the Internet and Facebook all the time.  I would save a lot more time if I did not have it.  I do not think I am the kind of person who has grown up with money meaning so much to me.  I had the same IPod for four years and it worked fine.  It could not take pictures but it played music, which was the whole point of it.  I know a few people that are “Apple Whores” and anytime a new item comes out they get it within a week later.  This girl has had more IPhones than I have had phones.  I think that she feels the pressure to display the money that her Dad makes and she thinks having the newest Apple things is what does it.

 

 

 

Homework 3

I do not think that incident is likely at all.  I thought that was the most ridiculous thing I had ever read in my life.  I can’t even think of a reaction because I think this is so absurd.  However, they would probably be angry that it had got to the point that it did.  If robots are going to be able to do all this you need to draw the line somewhere and it should not get that far.

I think in time it is likely but hopefully not in my lifetime.  I think it will take a long time before they (robots) would be able to do anything without the help of humans.  When it comes to human identities it will greatly change them.  If robots are able to do all this I think it will make humans feel less of themselves because robots, who aren’t even real, can do everything they can do.

I am clearly very much against this so I do not know of many pros.  I would say the big one is using robots to help the elderly and disabled.  Some elderly do not want help from family or strangers so perhaps a robot would make them feel better and still get the help that they need.  Some of the cons would be they will have glitches like everything does and you do not know what will happen.  If they are going to be able to do things without the help of humans we have no way of telling what will happen.  As more of a dramatic con, they could end up doing more harm then good and kill people.  I think it is just easier if we do not have Artificial Intelligence.

Yes, my computer that is back home as failed.  I was typing a paper for school that was due the next day and it crashed.  Luckily I had it saved on a flash drive so I just moved it to a different computer.  However, if I would not have had it on back up then I would have had to start over and lost everything that I had already worked really hard for.  I ended up losing a few paragraphs that were probably my best paragraphs which did end up giving me trouble but I was happy most was saved.

 

 

 

Homework 2: morality

1.  I have read this article before so I knew that Norman Borlaug was the most admirable.  However, when I read the article last year for the first time I think I thought that Mother Teresa was the most admirable.  Obviously then reading further on and getting the facts on everyone you change your mind.  To me, Bill Gates really is not that admirable but I do think that Borlaug did a lot more than Mother Teresa did, even though they both did incredible things.  Borlaug seemed to not want the attention for his work, it seems like he did it for the soul reason of it being the right thing to do.  Borlaug saved billions on lives and expected nothing in return.  Where as Mother Teresa has saved lives but expected something in return, fame.

2.  One person I think is most admirable is Lady Gaga.  I think music brings so many people together and Gaga does it to a different level.  Her music tells stories that help so many people.  She is a huge gay activist and does a lot of events speaking on that and bullying.  When you go to her concerts you forget everything that is bothering you and realize that her music is bringing everyone so close together.  Another person I think is most admirable is my sister.  She is a few years older than me and we never got along till I went to college.  She was always the “smart” one and did everything right.  When she went to college she broke down.  I think it showed that she was a real person and not this perfect daughter.  I don’t know if this says anything about moral judgments.  I think it is unfair in a sense to say Lady Gaga because I really do not know anything about her or of who she is where I know everything about my sister and have gone through so much with her.

3.  I do think universal mortality exists.  We are all human with the normal human brain.  We know what is moral and what is not.  Though, we do not always do the moral things we know the difference and try to always make the right decisions.

4.  The five groups are; harm, fairness, community, authority and purity.  I think that they are ranked like this because like what it is says that it all depends on your culture how things work.  However, these are five things that are somewhat universal everywhere.  They might not be exactly the same everywhere but they are everywhere.  I think Americans rank authority first.  I think everything depends on how much authority you have, especially when it comes to everything else in the list.  If you have authority things are not fair at all.  When you have authority things also come easier to you.

 

 

 

 

 

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