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.