My Ethnography Report

It was The Roaring Twenties and the lively beats of jazz music can be heard pouring out of venues and filled with people eager for the thrill of entertainment. Among this glamour and progress, the lives of Fernando Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti would intertwine irrevocably. The methods that were used to determine their culpability when insight nations in the years to come and reveal a dark side of America that

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;

Low, Taplin, and Lamb, Battery Park City An Ethnographic Field Study of the Community Impact

I have decided to study the Bangladesh Muslim Center, also known as the Jame Masjid/Mosque by the locals for my ethnographic fieldwork project. The mosque is located in the Kensington neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The place of worship may be found on the corner of McDonald Avenue and Cortelyou Road; and the F train runs right in front of the building. It is in such an area where at times the noise level is at a maximum due to several building supply and material warehouses nearby, trucks passing by, and construction on the subway line. At other times, one may hear a pin drop.

For my second week of my Ethnographic project. I have decided to meet up with the person who I would be interviewing, to talk about a few things regarding the kinds of different foods in Taiwan in relating to how Taiwan's foods are different or similar to American foods. In addition to us talking,I also wanted to know what were some of her favorite food in Taiwan and in America.

It may sound simple, but there is nothing more effective test than the humble push up their overall body strength. Balance your body held on the palms shoulder-width apart and toes. Now lower your body and lift it back up. Hip and shoulders should be in a straight line and the knees should not bend. In addition, the elbows should be directed to the rear, preferably at 4'o 8'o watch and clock positions. This come at least five times without breaking a sweat and feel good to go back the way! If not, it's time to start from scratch, or rather the

The ethnography I chose to read and write about is “How Musical is Man?” by John Blacking. John Blacking is a famous British anthropologist but he later got trained to be an ethnomusicologist and was a major influential musical figure in history. He often thought that music was “humanly organized sound” and that “no musical style has its own terms but more of the terms of its society and culture. Throughout the book, Blacking made many great points and teaches us in a nonbiased way. In this book, John Blacking discusses the nature of musicality, the role of music in society, learning, and the musical discourse. “How Musical is Man?” is an ethnography on the music of the Venda people of South Africa and how each society views and experiences it.

Ehnologue organization estimates that there are about 6,900 languages in the world today. However, most languages have fewer than 10,000 speakers and many are at risk of disappearing altogether. Languages death is increasingly common in the contemporary world. According to some estimate, 60 percent of the world’s languages are currently at risk. For example, 300 languages were spoken in the United States at the time of Columbus, there are now just 175. Also, ninety percent of Australia’s 250 Aboriginal languages are near extinction. With almost 7,000 languages in the world today and only 200 countries, the vast majority of the world’s language communities do not have the protection of a national government. In the class we discussed about Latin as one of the example of a dead language. In fact, Latin did not really die. It evolved over a period of centuries into French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and other modern-day Romance languages. In contrast, Manx, a Celtic language indigenous to the Isle of Man, a small island midway between Ireland and Great Britain. The language died with Ned Madrell, its last speaker, in 1974. Manx didn’t just change over time; it simply ceased to be spoken. In some case, languages die because the people who speak them perish as the result of war or disease. More commonly these days, they die because their speakers gradually use them less and less in favor

Throughout the Ethnographic research Project there have been many themes that have come and the first one that seems significant to this group of people, is communication and the idea of gossip. Throughout the observations, I have seen this at least every time because of the job they have and what they do, it even tends to build up sometimes also. For example, “Logan and Larissa were both working and they started talking about how the manager’s office was very messy at the moment, Larissa agreed with him, then she started commented about how most likely her hours will be cut into half of what they are right now.” However, this seems very insignificant, it is something actually very important because it seemed in this instance the gossip grew

Hamilton and Armstrong conducted a long term ethnography on a group of college women throughout their college years, assessing and analyzing their sexual experiences. The main objective of this study is how gender and class shape sexuality for young college students. The authors mention that the women in the studied found hookups problematic as men were able to hookup without negative criticism while women would be called ‘sluts’. Therefore, the fear of the ‘slut stigma’ constrained a majority of these women’s sexual behaviors. The author mentions that many of the women wanted to have intercourse but waited until they had boyfriends in order to prevent getting called a ‘slut’. Furthermore, the sexual double standard legitimized negative treatment

In the world, most societies, fermented food, beverages and condiments have a unique place because of their economic and cultural value and for the development of fermentation technologies that deeply rooted in their history. Indeed, gathering Africa's wild-cereal grains were probably the oldest tradition for the organized food production and had found anywhere in the world (Ruskin, 1993). The archaeological (McGovern, 1997), Ethnographic studies and historical documents (Haaland, 2007) evidenced for the beginnings of fermentation in Africa had consanguineous to ceramics, cattle and cereal domestication. In addition, the African pottery appeared around 2000 years earlier than cultivated cereals (Haaland, 2007).

Studies show that posture gives you more confidence. Glenn E. Weisfeld and Jody M. Beresford made an article Called “Erectness of Posture as an Indicator of Dominance or Success in Humans” talking all about it. They said that posture makes it look like you have more dominance. Good posture also helps you with passing an exam and receiving good grades. Most of all good posture is important for our health.

It is a good feeling when I am able to recall and use what I have learned to help my residents in my current work position. I feel like it will benefit me now more than later. Being a CNA in rehab and a manager for the girls’ basketball team has me working with elderly, which in most cases have weak muscles versus young adult athletics. When trying to build muscle or even doing common exercises, each individual’s muscles are able to withstand a different amount. Finding something that works well for everyone can be challenging. I would recommend the ABRET for the standard plank position. This position allows the muscle within the body to work together to reach a common goal. With the dorsal section of the body being as flat as possible all the muscles and able to use the strength of those around it to maintain posture, to prevent tears or injury. The measurements of the rating of perceived exertion (RPE) were taking to assure that the perceived effort was only on the plank assessment that was being tested at that given time. I feel like it was a good way to test the position but, I also feel like the data could be

For my first experience with ethnographic fieldwork, I observed a superbowl party that began at 5 p.m. on Sunday, February 5, at the VFW Hall, which is located on 1490 Hwy 594 in Monroe, LA. I started my observations at 6 p.m. when about 30 people arrived and ended at 7:30 p.m. I was not very lowkey due to the people being family, so they thought I was just doing homework. I observed a group of male and female African Americans between the ages 21 and 30 that consisted of seven people. During my observation, I saw the two-culture approach and the psychoanalytic theory comes into play while noticing the different conversational styles and altercasting performed between the members.

Due to these successes, I was elected to the New College Student Alliance as Food Service Representative to advocate for social justice, ecological consciousness and equity in the campus’ food supply. I attended weekly meetings with faculty, administrators, and food service staff to develop a call for campus dining service proposals that reflected our community’s values. During meetings and press releases, I was an active panel discussant that continuously had to negotiate multiple identities— student, teacher, staff, boss, colleague and subordinate.