Blog #11 More Sources

Psychology & Sociology (2013). Fighting the 'dumb jocks' stereotype. e! Science News.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/04/22/fighting.dumb.jock.stereotype

This article is mainly about how researcher studied the concept of "stereotype threat." The theory of stereotype are self-fulfilling prophecies. How they can creates anxiety in the stereotyped group, causing them to behave in the expected way. Research tested 300 university athletes to prove if the theory is true or not.


Macsai D (2013). Play Without Stereotype. Time Ideas.
http://ideas.time.com/2013/03/14/10-big-ideas/slide/play-without-stereotypes/

This article is about how are kids being taught in the world of stereotypes. Boy don't born to know to be a tough man, girls aren't born to know wanting to be pretty. These knowledge are given from the child's parent, or peers to the child as the brain develops the understanding at the age of 3 to 4. The point of this article is to show, even parents itself taught their child stereotypes.



Psychology & Sociology (2009). Psyched out by steretpypes: IU research suggests thinking about the positive. e! Science News.
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/05/04/psyched.out.stereotypes.iu.research.suggests.thinking.about.positive

This article talked about cognitive scientist aware how of both the negative and positive related to performance of individuals. Robert J. Rydell, professor in the Department f Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University, focused of the topic of women and math ability affected by stereotype. Study had demonstrated how the negative stereotype encroached on working memory. As reading on to the article, it provides more detail on professor Rydell's study.

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Sources Blog Post #10

Stereotype:


Banks S.(2012). The Stereotype and the single mother. The Los Angeles Times.

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/nov/30/local/la-me-banks-singlemothers-20121201

An article about how a single mother raising three child by herself, because her husband died 19 years ago. People stereotype about how single mother can't take good care of their children, or single mother are weak,  and careless. This article talks about how a single mother can be tough and is able to handle things.

Paul A. (2012). It's Not Me, It's You. The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/opinion/sunday/intelligence-and-the-stereotype-threat.html?_r=0

An article from The New York Times, writing about why people in our society uses stereotype. Some do it just to be funny, or cool. But people don't know how it's has a powerful influence to the society. It can creates effects of social forces on academic achievement.

National Science Foundation (2010). Negative Sterrotypes Shown to Affect Learning, Not Just Performance. U.S. News Science

http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/07/28/negative-stereotypes-shown-to-affect-learning-not-just-performance

It talks about the negative impact and effects of stereotypes. How it can jeopardize how members of stigmatized groups might perform on test and other skill- based act. The effect on learning could be cumulative due to stereotype.

Kamal A. Stereotypes: Do They Affect You? Teen Ink.

http://www.teenink.com/opinion/all/article/82236/Stereotypes-Do-They-Affect-You/

How stereotype can affect you personally. You might stereotype on others, but does it also affects you. Stereotype can leads to depression or even violence. Who gives you the right to judge another person. 

Children and Media. Stereotypes. PBS Parents.

http://www.pbs.org/parents/childrenandmedia/article-stereotypes.html

Website that teach parents how to prevent child to stereotype. It gives ways they should do or tell children about the negative of stereotype, and how to fight stereotype.

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Blog #9 Participatory Action Research

Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a way of researcher collecting information or resource for organizing the honor, centers, and how it can reflects the experiences of people's most directly affected by the problems and issues in our community.

Reasons why people do Participatory Action Research are because people use this research method to learn more about the community and environment they are living in. The research helps to gather all the information of the environment easily. We also can use this research to question the social issues that we have, such as racism, sexism, and d violence in the community.

The strength of PAR is it helps to bring or units together people who are dealing with the same problem. PAR also helps to raise awareness of problems, than creates a better environment for everyone. The weakness of PAR would be creating bias ideas toward the subject that is addressing. People have different view on things, but PAR is creating people to think there is only one solution or one true to a problem.

Five most interesting example of PAR I read about:
1. All the media and justice films on blog post #8
2. New York Times newspaper
3. Legalizing gay marriage
4. "The White Man's Burden"
5. Ted Talk films

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Blog #8 Media & Justice Films

What do it mean to be African American Women Who Love Hip-Hop?

http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/12/african_american_woman_who_loves_hip_hop

The social issue that this film addressed is sexism on African American female. Through films and music videos, African American women are being used an sex object other than a human being. The purpose of this film is to tell all the young ladies out there to be careful with the video they watch and don't get easily influence by it. The most interest part of the film is when it shows music video of tons of ladies surrounding one rapper. The research method that are being used is interviews and videos. 

The data was presented throughout the film by using video examples and interviewing music producers on their thoughts for this topic. The film provide a influencing and convincing message. When the young African American talked about her experience, it persuaded me. This film is an example of using media, because it helps to address a social issue that we have in our world today that is needed to be change.


It's In Your Hands:
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/11/its_in_your_hands

Through the film, it's trying to spread the message of diarrhea disease happening in India. They film want to bring the message of as simple of washing your hand with soap can prevent you from getting diarrhea. I personally like this film a lot. It's a short 2 minute film, but it express a very powerful message. I didn't understand the film at all until the last 30 second of the film. It was very interesting to watch. The research method that is use in this film is through advertisement, it showed how two Indian is using really simple tool to make a fountain.

The data is present by using advertisement, showing the message of washing hand with soap in India can prevent the disease of diarrhea. The film provide a really convincing message. The part that spoke out to me is at the end of the film, it wrote how 1000 children die everyday from diarrhea, and just as simple of washing hand with soap in India can safe lives. The film is an example of using media because it's trying to create a social change.


No One Bothered:
http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/watch/10/no_one_bothered

This film is addressing the problem of struggling of the homeless people. The purpose of this film is to show how every homeless person had their own story and should never judge them from the way they look. The part when the homeless couple told us how they found true love in poverty. The research method used in the film is interviewing and storytelling.

The data of this film is presented by having two homeless couple told us stories of their past, and hoping to use they stories to create a change in social and bring the message out to the public. The film do have a really convincing message. It taught me I should never judge any homeless person, so of them could be fake, but most of them had their own really interesting story, and these homeless men are full with talents. The film is another example of using media because through the film, it's expressing an issue that we have now a days in social and one that needed to be change and adjust.

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Things that bother me in my community

Things that bother me in my community

Things that really do irritate me in our society is the fact that people these days rely on technology too much. The amount of people spending time indoor largely increase compare to ten years ago. This doesn't benefit our society in any way. It's just hurting ourselves. For example, with the technology of GPS, less and less people use map. And young children these days don't even know how to use a map correctly. All they need is to type in the location they want on their phone or devices, and it automatically takes you there. This might cause the paper map to be eventually be getting rid off.

Technology not only can hurt us mentally, but also physically. People spending too much time indoor, which cause the lack of exercise and leads to health problem. More and more young kids starting to wear glasses at a very young age. The radiation from device can slowly damage our eye sign, and slowly leads to a larger problem, such as cancer.

Having technology to help for upgrading our society can be a great thing, but there should be a limit of usage. We need to encourage young children to go outdoor more. Exercise and even taking a walk outside of the house can mean a lot. This can help to benefit and reduce the amount of young kids with bad eye sign and having a brighter future with a greater eyes. I would hope years later, there could be an invention that might helps to improve our eye sign or stop the hurting of our eye sign through technology.

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Scarlett Johansson: Back in Stride by Jason Gay

Scarlett Johansson: Back in Stride by Jason Gay

The article of Scarlett Johansson was being done interviewed by Jason Gay, who is also known for interviewing Rihanna. Gay started off the article with an great opening and strong attention grabber. He jumps into the topic of Johansson cutting onions, which is both humanistic and awkward at the same time. Gay focused on the how Johannsson was cutting an onion on a show, and her red-carpet looks.

Gay points out a lot of details from his interview, even little tiny action that Johannsson had done or said that might seem to be interesting. In the article, Gay point out how Johannsson, "one of the most glamorous actresses alive is pink-eyed and sniffling and looking like she's been asked to put a cat to sleep." Gay used metaphor in the article to compare exact action of Johansson. The article did started from the middle of action, it made it interesting to read. Once you read about how Johannsson was red-eyed, you would want to read along to see what happened. Jason Gay done a great job on both interviewing and publishing this article.

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No Need For Making Sense Poem

I believe while scratching head

concluded

 empty classrrom 

fine looking*

Chinese community    confortable careful

dangerous   point out

memories~   crazy rebellious age

- disagreement -

effect attention strict harsh understand own thoughts 

"responded"

important environment 

different kind life nobody figure out

period & choice

serious look  deciding  important  kind of 

supporting future

dead silence...................

guess?

important steps...

show seriousness of preparing

expanding  large 

difficult together   smoothly

appears

once             again

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Creating Portraits with Words

Capitalist Pig
Brandon Stanton

Brandon Stanton, our research or story writer met a old man sitting on the bench of Union Square in New York City. Brandon saw how this old man mismatched his cloth so he went up to the old man and ask for permission to take a photo of him. The old man rejected Brandon, but he asked Brandon if he mind to sit down and have a conversation. That's when the old man's storytelling begins. In Brandon Stanton's website of the Humans of New York, he focused the subject mainly on how the old man talked to him about the worse of Capitalism. How American people are full with the love of money and fame. Brandon point out the hate of Capitalism by the old man, and the way how the old man with a anger tone explain his reasoning.

Brandon Stanton point out some direct quote from the old man saying. "YouAmericans are sick. I listen to you and I realize how much I hate this damn country with your damn love of money and love of capitalism. You people make me so mad. And he was mad. He was riled up real good. (Didn’t he say he was in banking?) It would appear that I was falling victim to a guerilla hippie attack."  I think this usage of the direct quote is effective, because Brandon wants to show the reader how exactly mad the old man was, from word to word, we can feel the hatred of the old man. I do like this story, the story is pretty interesting and surprising. This is my first time hearing story of people's hate for capitalism. I find it interesting to read. Brandon Stanton did a great job of writing out this story and sharing it with the public.

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Radio Rookies

Radio Rookies

American Heaven
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/rookies/articles/radio-rookies/2012/dec/12/american-heaven/

Radio Rookies tells story of people who are struggling with their life, through Radio Rookies they express out their feeling out and tell the public how they feel and how they want things to be change. The story of American Heaven is about a young immigrant girl from Congo,telling a story of their family moving over to American, but things are not the way they expected for. Danielle moved to New York when she was 13. leaving her mother back in Congo, she came with her dad, stepmother, sisters. Later on, her dad left them with their stepmother, and Danielle start living in shelter. Life became a living hell for Danielle.

What is significant about this story is that Danielle have to lie to her mom, who is in Congo, about how everything is going fine in America with them, which is really the opposite. Danielle doesn't know families far away in hometown to worry about them. We can say that Danielle is grown up girl and she's tough. I learned from Danielle's story that money don't grow on trees, we have to work our way to earn the money.

I don't think Danielle felt compelled to tell her story. If she truly does, then why would she tell her story on the radio? By doing so, Danielle is willing to tell her story to the public and to encourage all the people out there who are having a problem, telling to always be brave, and have faith. What stuck out to me the most is when Danielle found a true friends who is willing to accept who Danielle is, and said she will always be there for Danielle when she needs help. That is what a true friend does. I'm glad Danielle accepts who herself is.

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Storycrops

http://storycorps.org/listen/gordon-bolar-and-dave-isay/

“He chose to volunteer and go back for a second tour.”

I listened to the  Isay giving the interview to his friend Gordan Bolar. The story is being told by Gordon Bolar, telling the story of his son, who served as two tours in the military and got killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb in 2007. Bolar talked about his memory of his son, things that happened few weeks before his son's death. Bolar is telling the story on the way how he wants people to remember his son. This story is very emotional and Bolar done a great job of telling stories of his dead son, because it takes lot of courage to do such thing.

When Isay gave the interview to Gordan Bolar, Isay was asking question about Bolar memory of his son Matthew. Bolar talked about when Matthew first talked to him about serving the military, Bolar said although inside of him, he is refusing to let his son go to army because he doesn't want to see his son living in dangerous condition, but Bolar still shows full support to his son's decision and let him go the way he want, so Matthew won't be regretting later on. Isay also asked about how Bolar wants people to remember his son, Bolar said he wants people to know Matthew was very caring, have a brave soul to serve his country, and he had done his job for the country.

I learned a lot from the story of Matthew, knowing we have a lot of brave soul in the country we are willing to serve the country although having to putting their life in risk. Everyone who are or had served in the military should be getting  great amount of respect from the we. Gordan Bolar is welling and feeling proud to tell his son's story. Bolar said how Matthew not only cares about his family, but also his own country. Something that stuck out to me about this story is the fact that Gordan Bolar is a very tough man and a great father. Telling story on his own died child is not an easy thing to do. I want to show my full respect to Bolar for telling this story and teaching me some life lesson.

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Representation

From this image, you can tell how much this person cares about basketball. From the shoes you can see how hard this player plays on the court. Even the socks are made for basketball. This person is a basketball player for the school team, he is the leading score player of the game, and he is very clutch on the court, and he is always the first one back on defends.

This person ball so hard that he mess up his shoes within few month. He have to buy at least few pairs of sneaker just for basketball. Someone once asked him who is his valentine, he answered, " who needs a valentine when you have basketball." He always come to school with gym clothes and I don't often he him in jeans. He could be a inspiration for many others to work harder on the things that you like, and you will always get a  positive return.

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LGBT Issues

www.itgetsbetter.org (U.S.) http://www.projectbolo.com/ (India)

The LGBT project is a project base on solving issues for the people who are going to harsh time in their life. LGBT or Life Gets Better is an organization created by volunteer who work to help people around the nation.  The story behind this project is focusing on people who had been bully, went to family issues, or had serious accidents that cause physical or mental harm to the person.

The story of LGBT is an improtant organization because, some people in our nation are suffering through pain, and don't have to the the advantage of living, they could have done something stupid as suicide or harming themselves. The LGBT sent to homes to talk to the patients who need help, give them support and try to save life or help to make life better for people.

The story of this project have such a terrified and sad tone. People talk about their life issue, how they don't want to face the reality and they want to be done with their life. They record people's stories by asking permissions for video-tapping, and taking photo to post it on their website and bring the message of this project out to the public. Photographer and videographer are getting involve by recording the stories of the patients or people who needed help. This project teaches me to never bully anyone, because it could really harm them, always go up to the people who are asking for help or looks like needing help. Never be judgmental on thing, and always try to hear stories from more than one point of view so you can see a clear view on the story and make you decision how to help the person. We are all equal, not one is better than the others.

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Studs Terkel Interview

Interview with Betty Rundle
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This interview is mainly about interviewing a Irish American Betty Rundle about her view on the racism issues happened in Chicago during 1970s. How her life changed, and what she had been through.

Terkel asked about the interviewee, Betty Rundle's own feeling on the racial problems she been through when she was in her 30s. They best question Terkel asked, is what problem did Betty been through in her own life that is cosider a racism problem, and asked her to provide an example. The tone in his interview is he have a query and questioning tone. Terkel's style of interview is that he loves to ask the interviewee for more detail to their answer,and he likes to rephrase things the interviewee said in the previous answers. The most interesting response I heard is when Betty said when she was still a teacher, she have no problem getting alone with the African American, they all like her and she said when she had a problem, that's when they are white and black student in the same room. I learned from the interview that sometime when I have a chance, I could try to rephrase some of the answers the interviewee to ask they if I got a clear idea of what they were telling me. They most interesting aspect in this interview would be knowing that sometime, you can be off topic for a moment and provide more background information on the question you are being ask for, so the interviewer can get idea from your point of view.

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Visual Ethnography Proposal

I would like to speak to my Sunday's school teacher, and his name is Mr.Oreal  His story interests me because he use be in one of the worse school in New York, as years past he started to realize how important education is. He worked his way to become one of the student in Columbia College.

I want to learn from Mr.Oreal how much effect and work he put to get into Columbia. Some interview question that I want to ask his would be: 
- Tell me about the time you started to realize education in important
- Who or what convince or reminds you of the important of education 
- I heard you use to be a really bad kid in school, what do you usually do as a kid in high school?
- You moved to New York when you were as a kid, how did you start learning English? Was it difficult for you?
- If you have a chance to move out of New York, would you do so? and why?

I will photograph and interview Mr.Oreal when I see him in Sunday school. I would take a picture of him standing next to the white board holding a marker and writing notes on the board. Since Mr.Oreal always dress professional in class, so he would look really nice in the picture.

I would  set up my interview by first introduce him why I'm interviewing him, all the information we discussed in class. Then try to ask questions that are not open-ended and ask follow up question for more detail as he answers my questions. I will take field notes as we talk through.

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