Ethnographic Personal Statement

Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time. Why does it captivate you? What or who do you turn to when you want to learn more?

What is my current situation? I am a senior at CAT studying for the SAT and ACT with a great GPA,good grades and I am taking not one but two Art Classes during the year.Not only will these classes teach me new techniques in art but also prepare me for what I want to do in college.I plan on going to a great college that specializes in Animation,Architecture or engineering in hopes of someday changing the world into my own creation because ,as quoted by Henry David Thoreau,”This world is but a canvas to our

For as long as I can remember I have always had the drive and passion to create works of art in many ways, shapes and forms. My creativity and integrity that I share with art is on many levels ranging from 3D work, video game design, physical pieces of artwork as well as digital. I believe that there are very few schools that would not only help challenge my abilities but be able to utilize them in many ways I would've never imagined.

I have a confession: I used to be racist. It wasn’t intentional or conscious in any way; I didn’t even realize it. I was merely an impressionable little girl, and when my parents made sly comments that implied black people are somehow genetically predispositioned for a life of crime and drug addiction, or that Muslims are misogynists and terrorists, or when they spewed any other number of atrocious stereotypes, I considered it fact. At that point in my life, my parents had supreme authority over me. They fed me, clothed me, sheltered me, and so their word was law. If they said black people were criminals, then surely black people must be criminals. If they said Muslims were terrorists, then surely they all were. My parents were basically gods;

The caretaker first noticed that something was when her mother was cooking but continue to leave out ingredients in the food. The mother also would start rumors about the people in the neighborhood and family members. On one incident is when the mother lost her purse and blamed in on her grandson saying he stole her purse. She had everybody thinking he stole her purse and also tried to stab him with a knife when along the purse was at the church. In another incident the caretaker stated “mother say her daughter child’s father was sleeping with her cousin”.

Look in the past of many photographs that I was lived in a area of big country had most

I got my first camera at the age of eight; it was a blue Olympic digital camera. I used my camera whenever I could. Ever since I was little I noticed the little things in life. The main thing I want to do with my life is to be a world known photographer. I want to travel the world with my camera and show the world how beautiful earth is.

In the film “The Human Family Tree,” the Genographic Project traces the human journey throughout the world, from our origins from Africa. The Genographic Project is a genetic anthropology study. The project’s goal is to map historical human migration patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from people from around the world. In this specific film, with the help of science we can see how people from New York each have their own unique genetic history. To begin with, deep ancestry can be traced, based off of either your mitochondria or y-chromosome. Because women do not have a y-chromosome, it only shows the maternal line of descent when studying their mitochondrial DNA, while for men it shows both maternal and paternal. In the film we

In AP Language, Junior year, an ethnography paper was assigned. After significant deliberation on which subculture I was going to study, I landed on the Mormon seminary class at my school. Despite having many friends who have been taking seminary since ninth grade, I did not know much about it. Furthermore, not being raised in a religious family, means I do not hold many values associated with religion. I remember being scared that, when I arrived, I would catch on fire or be painfully awkward in some other way.

The article by Peter Benson (2008) takes place in North Carolina where there were 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in order to understand the agriculture workers who worked on tobacco farms. The purpose of the article is to expose farm labor conditions since the conditions have remained hidden from the public. The farmworkers of the fields experience low wages, poverty, limited access to healthcare, as well as a constant fear of deportation. Their migrant housing was in deplorable conditions. Farm labors are among the worst housed group in the U.S. The fact that farmworker camps were located in very rural and isolated areas basically invisible to the general public creates suffering, disease, and often times were overlooked because

Attending art school has always been a dream of mine, and Memphis College of Art just seems like the right school for me. I would love to attend Memphis College of Art, because of any of the art schools that I looked at, MCA is the only school that has kept my attention since my tenth grade year. MCA would come and visit my high school during the spring time and discuss the courses, and the cost of the college, and the person who would come and talk to my class would ensure that if you are admitted into the college, you will have a finance officer to help you. I am also interested in the college, because it is out of state, yet close to home. MCA offers many different art courses that would allow me to further my studies in art. Being at

I’m a white woman living in a white man’s world. I grew up around white men, I was taught by white men, I respect white men but I don’t understand white men as much as I understand women.

Art has inspired me immensely and it has influenced my life greatly. It has helped me with my struggles in life and has made my mind clearer. I’m going to pursue a career in Art because it is what I am most passionate about, illustration and design really spoke to me than any other major since you are learning about multiple areas in the art field rather than just focusing on one particular thing. I believe the Illinois Institute of Art(Schaumburg) will help me achieve my goals with the course selection they have for this major. I expect the school to help me attain more knowledge and skills about this field and to help me grow within myself and within my art. I will commit to my education by putting all of my time and effort into my work

I should attend an art school for many different reasons. One of the reasons I should attend is because art is part of my everyday life. Second I enjoy being taught about creative arts, I get very engaged in the lessons. Lastly I plan to do many things in my life with creative arts. This opportunity would greatly help me and my creative art skills.

I am a PhD student at the department of sociology at Loyola University Chicago. I am currently working on my qualification exams. I will take my exams at two subfields of sociology 1) sociology of religion and 2) social theory / qualitative research methods. I finish my first exam at Fall 2015, then the second exam at Spring 2016. I will defense my proposal at summer 2016.