1. Please type up 3-6 questions for interviews with other folks to illuminate your chosen research question.

2. Do the interviews (at least 3) and record the results on your blog.

3. Please add an additional paragraph analyzing the responses in terms of your own research question.

4. Write a very careful and precise SINGLE survey question that can be added to the second collective student survey.

Due Monday May 17, 8:30am.

Are there any differences between your relationships with your family and your friends?

I’m closer to my friends then my family because I see my friends more often. 

Are you more comfortable around your friends then you are with your family? Why or why not?

I’m more comfortable with friends because we are closer. I fell like they won’t judge me and I feel like my family would judge me. 

Where do you see yourself in your family? Do you think you are excepted aka are you an equal?

I feel excepted because its family, they are supposed to be there for you.  But also in a way I don’t because theres a lot of drama and hatred. 

INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

lease create and share insights on the process of taking the survey. How did it feel to take it? Were there any questions that made you stop and think? Without necessarily listing those questions - what were some of the commonalities between the questions that made you think or feel deeply? If you decided not to take it, what was that like?


The quiz was fine, I didn't think it was as bad as it was portrayed to be. However, there were a few questions that made me think twice, and they were mainly the ones that brought memories to mind. Some of them I felt insulted to ask because I felt like they were personal, but I remembered not to take it personally and that it is confidential. 

Since our class video is missing, I have watched Esther's video instead. I thought it was interesting that they chose a student to play the role of teacher. However, I do remember what my role in the film was. I was basically an extra; I was student acting rudely towards the teacher. I had no lines but I improvised what a bad student would do by texting, not doing work and talking to others during class. Our message shares the same message as Esther's film. It was basically that in a classroom, the students really have the power because we out number the teacher. We respect the teachers because that is what we have been raised to do, we are programmed to respect teachers since we are in preschool. But as we get older, we take advantage of weak teachers and over power them. In our film, we just kept disobeying the quite, unassertive teacher who was trying to make us open up to him. We continued to be rowdy until he gave up and left the class. In Esther's film, the teacher seems to be a struggling alcoholic. He gets distracted by drinking and texting while grading tests and just falls asleep. The next day, he can't control the class no mater how hard he tries so the next day he gives up and sleeps while the students continue to lose control. He then is sick of it and tells the students about themselves and also leave (or at least that’s what I think happened again the sound was off) 

a. your personal contribution

b. your analysis of the message and tone of your section's film

c. contrast the film with the savior/teacher films we watched clips of

d. theorize (explore thoughtfully and powerfully) the connection between salvation and education/schooling in our culture

Teacher: An ex sergeant who comes to a messed up school to straighten out the students. The students of Mulberry High are rowdy and troublesome, all the other teachers are scared of them and have given up on teaching them. The principle, who sees the children as delinquents has asked this new teacher to please work at their school to get the kids in order. Un like the movie cliché, the principle has hope for the students and wants them to succeed but he is frustrated that they choose not to do the work so he hires this new teacher to put them in line. The new teacher just sees this job as a pay check and is a bit power hungry so he is looking forward to bossing the children around, but when he arrives in class he realizes the job is much more challenging them he expected. The students are scared of him because he is a big man and he yells, but they are tough kids and continue to fight back. After the first few days the teacher see the kids won’t listen and he snaps at them. He says they wont amount to anything and that they wont make it in society, which causes the student so open up. They yell back at the teacher, e

"While a child is much more than only a well-stocked mind, and while the mind and heart are connected in every one of us, intellectual development is at the center of the work of schools."  http://www.essentialschools.org/pub/ces_docs/fforum/1997/speeches/sizer_speech.html

ideas so far

School paper ideas

The educational effects of school vs. the emotional effects

Educational: prepares us for life (in some ways)

But the emotional effects seem, to be deeper.

Ideas: the social effects of school

-Bullying

-Can make children unstable

- Columbine-watch bowling for columbine

Outline for big paper #2

Today, Cool has a strong effect on mainly teenagers. Has cool become a dangerous addiction? How is cool effecting teens negatively? 

Intro:

• Introduce mains forms of cool for teenagers. Drinking, smoking, drugs, tattoos, piercing, infatuation with the media etc...
• why teens wish to be cool, fitting in, gaining popularity, friends, 
• the dangers cool can lead up too

Body paragraphs

Cool substances teens do

• Drinking, smoking, drugs,
• Negative effects Drinking liver failure, alcoholism, smoking lung cancer, variety of health problems, drugs addiction, variety of health problems, death 
• Add statistics on teenage drug abuse

Altering appearance

• Tattoos, piercing
• Ridiculous tattoos with no meaning, getting tribal piercing like gauges.
• state permanent effects that are being ignored for the sake of cool

obsession with the media 

• wanting to be like celebrities, buying their clothes, following their trends, collecting their products etc...
• quotes from article about how we are never individuals, look through notes. 

Conclusion

• restate the thesis
• These views on cool have been brought upon by society
• only way to change them is if we revolt against the stereotypes of cool
• its time we realize we are destroying our bodies
• live life in moderation, the damage can build up and become irreversible

Note: look through your notes for quotes from articles we looked at in class

Tattoo's

A reason why tattoos are so popular in our community is that they are considered cool. Tattoos are another way of making ourselves stick out in society and making a name for ourselves, its a way of making ourselves look unique. The need to be different is one of the ways people become cool and is especially practiced by teenagers, which is why many of us have tattoos. However, many teenagers  get tattoos for the sake of having them. To me, tattoos are only acceptable when you have a good reason for them or you have thought out what you want. They aren’t the type of things you get to fit a fad or for the fun of it. They are permanent, yet still many teens end up with random images on their bodies of common shapes like a heart or stars or of stupid words like “love”. Some teens even go to the extreme to be different. For example, a recent scandal in the papers was about an 18 year old Belgian girl named Kimberley Vlaminck. She had claimed that she only wanted 3 stars tattooed onto her face but had fallen asleep while getting the tattoo done and woke up with 56 instead. It was released a few weeks later that she was lying and had not fallen asleep. She really did want 56 stars on her face but lied because the tattoo had made her father and boyfriend extremely furious. Kimberley said  “I asked for 56 stars and initially adored them. But when my father saw them, he was furious.” I personally feel that for her to go as far as to not only get a tattoo of 56 stars but on her face was just a desperate plea for attention. She says that once the tattoo artist was done she was satisfied and loved the tattoo, but when she had seen that people did not like it , it suddenly became uncool and life became challenging. “'It is terrible for me. I cannot go out on to the street. I look like a freak.” Now that it has drawn the wrong attention, she is suddenly ashamed of her facial tattoo and wants it removed. If she had really gotten the tattoo for herself and not to impress others then it would not have mattered if others liked it or not. But the peoples  opinions were so important to her that she lied about ever wanting the tattoo. She even went as far as suing the tattoo artist for 9000 euro so she could afford to remove it.  Many teenagers get pointless tattoo’s to fit in or get attention from others. What outrages me about them is that they don't realize it will be there forever, as you get older it will just look ridiculous. 

One of the reasons tattoos are so cool is because they are all over the media. A huge number of celebrities have tattoos, especially the ones that appeal the most to teenagers like Rihanna, Lil Wayne and even Miley Cirrus! So what people do is get tattoos that resemble theirs so others will think its cool. People even go as far as get celebrities faces tattooed onto their bodies. The reason for this is because all celebrities are considered cool, so if you have a tattoo resembling them in anyway, then it should be automatically seen as cool. I personally only think of a tattoo as cool depending on the quality of it. If an actually talented artist does the tattoo, then I can admire and respect it. It doesn’t mean I  will necessarily respect what it symbolizes or the person who got it, I respect the artists talents. 

I am one of the people who believe that our bodies are sacred and we shouldn't do anything to harm them, including getting a tattoo. However, I do feel that tattoos with a meaningful story behind them are acceptable. For example, Mr Fanning has several tattoos but all (or most) have a story to tell. The tattoos are like a timeline of important events in his life, they are almost like a scrap book. Each image shows a part of his life he wont forget like the the tattoo that says strength in Japanese for when he was about to go through surgery, or the tattoo of the woman he got in Italy for when his band was on tour. They are events he wont ever forget in his life, wether they be bad or good. They are a way for him to remember them artistically through what seems to be his favorite art styles, 50s art and traditional Japanese art. Another thing that makes his tattoos unique are the fact that they aren't just random images, they are works of art. Each tattoo is done very nicely and are obviously not just there to impress people, they are there because they are something that he really cherishes.