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My favorite source of information is my father. I love hearing about his past and all the crazy shit he use to do! He sounds like he was a lot like me, and think that is really cool. He has so much to say and tell me about my subculture. He has a very in depth look at Woodstock, and just hippies in general! and my fave piece of writing so far has been the first paper we did. it was fun!

six words

My life.... Have fun. get drunk. live life!

culture... live free. grateful dead. smoke pot.

post 13

This is a question I often asked my father and uncle, but they would always just laugh at me and tell me not to worry so much about it. Recently I sat down with my father to interview him for this project, and he told me something that I have wanted to hear my whole life… HE WENT TO WOODSTOCK! Now knowing that I have a firsthand resource to Woodstock, I knew that I could break this trend of not finding anything deep into the drug scene.

but there is one more that i keep close to me.

My father was hippie back when he was our age, and he would always try to explain his way of living to me. One night my dad called my sister and me down stairs so he could show us something. When we got into the basement he said “I know you two have grown up with a lot of people telling you that some for what you believe is wrong, but kids where we are from ALL WE NEED IS LOVE and we will never be wrong.” That night the three of us sat in our basement and listened to the entire Sergeant Peppers CD while he told us stories for his younger years. I never really understood until one night three years later when I actually sat down and had a long talk with my father about that night. After this talk, I was so intrigued to learn as much as a could about the hippie way of life, and from there on out I haven’t changed a thing about our beliefs. So when the mini-ethnography was presented to us I knew right from the start that this was the subculture I wanted to look into.

rhetoric

My definition of the word rhetoric would simply be the logic of a word. I feel like the way you speak, or just what you say constitutes the word rhetoric. I guess the other things that you listed could fall under that category, but in my eyes this is how i feel. I can honestly say that i never really here the word rhetoric used in everyday conversation, but i'm sure it is used somewhere not around me. Yes there is a rhetoric used in my subculture, and yes it will help me with this project. knowing this will help me with the final project, and the portfolio.

week 11

I feel like over the past 11 weeks there has been no change in the way i write or the way i approach a paper. its still all the same with me

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iv got nothin.... sorry not that creative i really have a hard time doing this kinda thing on the spot.

week 10- late

In starting my mint-ethnography i will point out all the major points, and the history of my culture. This is so just to kinda of give a better understanding of the subject. I may going to break my paper down into may parts, there are a lot of things to cover and i plan to pin point most of them. It will mostly be sections with main focal points. I feel like what i'm going to do is going to be best because it will give the reader a better look at the full sub-culture.

class blog... 3/17/09

well if the person is reading over my project then they obviously are wanting to know more about the hippie sub-culture. They will care because it will open there minds of how things are now and how they use to be back in the 60's and 70's. They will need to know the background and what the hippies stood for and still stand for. they will just need to know a lot of the past. most people probably know the stereotypes and thats it, and what they need to know is in my paper! I want the reads to learn whatever they are looking for, and the back round. With hippies i feel like its not hard to get persuaded to think a certain way. They could use them for research for other projects, or just to read for the hell of it. This is a very interesting subculture.

post over 3 questions.

A theme that i see with my research is that the hippies were all about love, and they loved to show it to the world! I feel like after my interviews and what not that love is shared though out the hippie world even in my town. I feel like i am in the same place with my sub culture just a little bit more knowledgeable about the full hippie way of life.

post 2...

As of night now my topic of interest is the hippie sub-culture. Some of the places i will use for my research are the library, interviews at head shops, and with my hippie father. With being an insider or outsider i feel like i could be either, but for the sake of this project i'm going to look at it as an outsider. I feel like doing that and going in with an open mind will help me with my research. I do know quite a bit about my culture, but i am looking to learn anything else i can.

blog 1....

The best piece of writing that i have done was written my first semester of college. We were told to write a paper about and big turning point in your life, or a moment close to you. So i thought about it for a long time, and the one that stood out the most most my senior year when my best friend was on the edge of graduation and how we got him through together. As our senior year died down we were all getting ready to start the newest chapters in our novels of life, and it was one of the hardest times of my life.

My best friend Matt was the big man on campus you might say, and he was a star athlete. The only thing that would hold him back would be his grades. All through high school i was there to help him, or with the little school environment teachers knew him and would just ease him by with a little help from our basketball coach. After our senior year basketball season the favors stopped happen for him, and he really started to slip. I was there the whole time to help him with our class (we had an identical schedule) again thanks to the school board for that! But with all my college looking and homework i couldn't help him all the time, and his grades were still on the decline. A week before school was out Matt was told that he needed to get a 86% on our English final or he would fail and not get to walk. We studied every night for a week to get ready for this test. Matt got a 85% and the teacher would not bump it up one percent, so i didn't get to walk beside my best friend on the big day. He eventually got his diploma taking a summer class.

The way i went at the paper was just write how i felt at the time, and how i felt now. I went home and talked to Matt AND the English teacher that he failed. i just did a lot of inner research and wrote what i felt.

give back?

To be honest i don't feel like i can or am giving anything back to the subculture? All i am doing is learning more about a culture. I must not understand this question, but i just feel like I'm not really giving anything back I'm just learning about the people of the culture.

survey

http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=o04d5rqeuhe3q22550091

box-18

My focal point of my research are the neo-hippies. Neo-hippies are the children and grandchildren of the "original hippies." I feel that this influences me in a way that i am sorta of a neo-hippie, but not to the extent of most. My father was very big into the lifestyle as he grew up, and his influence and view points effect me in a way that i kind of follow in his footsteps. I feel i do live my life as a free spirit, and music does have a big impact on my life. I follow the view that he lived by and still lives by about our government, and society. We have views that i don't really need to get into on this assignment haha. There are some things that would take me out of the neo category, such as i'm not into the drugs or the new age events as much as most. Though i still feel that I fit the script. I feel that i do have a good connection with this culture, and that is why i chose this topic

post 7

In the first article i read it was title "The Hippie Movement". The basis of it was just explaining the meaning of free spirit, and just what hippies live by. Music is a huge party of what they love and believe in. Something new to me in this article were something called "Yippies." They were a parody of a political party. It started when 61 people were protesting at Grand Central Station. They were lead my Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. At a war protest at the Pentagon they were actually trying to levitate it. haha weird i know... They were going to protest the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and nominate their own candidate. The candidate name was Lyndon Pigasus Pig. HE was an actual pig. The day the pig was nominated Rubin and six others were arrested. This article really just shows how anti establishment they really were. It was a bit ridiculous,but i guess they got there point across.

When writing my paper i feel like the "yippies" will play a pretty big role in the early years of my culture. With the start of their own political party, and nominating a pig to run just shows how anit-government they were and still are. I will write bout how they got stated and what impact they had on the movement.

Wikipedia.org.2007.16 February 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_hippie_movement#Yippies



The next one i read was from the same page, but this one was over "Neo-Hippies." Neo-Hippies are sons and daughters and grandchildren of original hippies. It says that drugs are still apart of it, but Neos don't make it an everyday event. they resort to much safer methods such as drumming circles, community singing, meditation, yoga and dance. They often refer to themselves as "rainbows" sports tie dye clothes. A big part of their lifestyle is their moto which is Peace, love, harmony, freedom, and community. I feel like this is were many of the people i have interviewed fall into this category.

With the neo-hippies, i feel that this is a HUGE part of my research and paper. Anything you see to do with this culture now a days most have neo-hippies running them. the younger generation also has a lot of the same traits and what not, and i will be pointing them out in my paper. This will be a huge part of my research.


Wikipedia.org.2007.16 February 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_hippie_movement#Neo-hippies

post 6

Okay so as This project goes on i find it is getting easier and easier to do my interviews and research. I plan on going back to my home town to talk to a group of "hippys" that have weekly rituals i guess one would call it. Just to see how after all these years they keep there traditions and what not strong. I do have a lot of questions still unanswered. For you I don't have much to ask. Really only what i have missed because of the events that have been going on in my family. I have missed three classes so i need to make an appointment with you to catch up if will allow it.

The cage

When I get out of my car in the gravel parking lot to the Cage I See 20 or 30 people running three full court games of basketball. there are also old men playing house shoes to my left. As a walk up to the courts i see a creek running by me to my right and roads with many cars on all other sides. There is a beautiful park just left of the creek.

As i look over into the park there are people just enjoying their day, walking dogs swinging, or just spending time with their loved ones. The is the public swimming pool at which i work at directly behind me, its my day off. Their are tons of people at the pool just enjoying the summer weather. When i get to the courts there are three full and two half courts painted with white lines. Across the road is "The South Pole" there are a few families enjoying meats under the summer sun.

dogtown

i feel like this was a work of entertainment in a way that they brought out the sport of skateboarding, and showed the ups and downs of what went on with there lives. The interviews r conducted with the insiders of the dogtown and z boys. They were the riders, and that is really helpful. yes they move the story along and they really help with the subculture. Some of the rituals were that they would surf there spots and on one else would be able to or they would get shit thrown at them. it is a documentary, and it really helps out the understanding of the subculture. There were a lot of facts and jus stories that i had no idea where accurate that this really helped with. i really have never thought to much about this subculture and the stereotypes so i really don't know.

post 4

Getting in touch with the hippie culture, and getting to know what it is about was a big change in pace for me. What I have learned is that hippies don’t take life to seriously. Hippies are free spirits, and just go with the flow. There have been many impacts on the hippie culture. The Beatles were one huge impact on the culture. Music revolutionized the hippie culture; music is basically what it is built on. As an outsider and an insider I see both sides of the culture. With my father and two of my good friends being a part of this culture at one point I feel like I had a good look into what is going on with the culture old and present.

Freedom
Youth
Good School systems
Upper-middle class
College Education
American Citizen
less hardships
No bills... yet
brotherhood
great family

The fact that i am young will help me relate to the younger age of the hippie culture, and the fact that i have so many resources will help out a lot as well. Maybe some from this culture didn't have a good education, or didn't come from upper class families. SO i can see how the other half lives. I will only be researching the American hippie culture so being an American citizen will help greatly.

hippy life

i have made had two interviews, and they have both been pretty damn good. The first male age 19, he is from my home town. He told me that he is looked down upon just because of the way he dress, or basically the way he lives his life. He also when into detail on how it is that he does live his life, and let me tell you it is a great way to get the most out of life i wont go into detail =]. Some other jus basic questions i asked him were like how do you spend your free time, what pattens or repetitive things do u do everyday, and when did u realize this is how u wanted to live your life. Other than my interviews i have visited a few head shops, and researched what they sell. I had a very long and useful convo with the story mang. from the head ship here in town, and again i wont go into much detail but it was a great talk. I have also asked some ppl their opinions on the "hippy" life style and boy have i had some damn interesting responces haha. One older lady told me that and i quote " All they do all day is sit on their dirty asses and smoke that illegal stuff" and my responce to that was "wow.... thanks..." but really this is all i can give ya for now! tune in next time for another sub par blog from THE Jake Sloan haha.