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Chapter 8 Fieldwork

The channel that I chose to watch for this fieldwork assignment was Disney Channel.

While I watched Disney Channel, reruns of KC Undercover came on. While watching this show about there were about 5 commercials that stuck out to me.

Commercials aimed at boys:

1. The commercial was a “Spiderman Hero Gear” commercial. It featured one little boy dressed in a Spiderman costume playing with the gear and showing a “fake web” from his arm.

2. The commercial was for “NERF N- Strike Elite Firestrike, Disruptor and Retaliator” This commercial was for a Nerf Gun and it featured 3 boys running around in a fake forest shooting a nerf Gun

Commercials aimed at Girls:

1. This commercial was for the “Barbie Fashionista” Commercial and it features a barbie changing outfits and such. It does not feature any actual humans.

2. Shopkins Happy Places Moose Commercial and it was an animation of shopkins, again with no actual humans

3. Slime Factory Commercial was a commercial aimed at girls where 3 little girls played with a slime maker. It was obviously aimed towards girls because of th pink and purple colors used.

I think that society does place gender roles on girls and boys and that was shown in all pf these commercials. I did not even see one gender neutral commercial while watching this TV channel

Health Clinic in NY concept map 12/5

Chapter 15 Fieldwork

I visited an online video worship of a large church called Elevations church.

1. I think Marx’s critique of religion as “opiate of the masses” is relevant to this church because it was a large mega church. One that is based more off of money and the number of attendance than the actual word of God.

2. I think some symbols a that were in this church was the cross which was all over the church. The meaning of the cross is the object where Jesus died for the sins of his disciples. The cross is there for people to remember the sacrifice that Jesus made.

3. Power makes itself evident as the pastor holds the power over the crowd and the church and I think that many people feel that God holds the power over them.

4. I think globalization affects religious beliefs because when people migrate and move around their religious beliefs change and form to where they have moved and immigrated.

In Class Assignment

https://www.thenation.com/article/power-and-piety/

This article talks about how religion influences governments across the world. There are political parties across the world with religion based names i.e. the Christian Democratic Union in Germany or the Pakistan Muslim League. This shows how influential these religions can be when determining politics and even laws.

Assignment 13

For this interviewed my friends Father, Chima Oguayo.

My name is Chima Oguayo and I am originally from Lagos, Nigeria.

I came to America for a better life and to build my life and family. As a child in Nigeria, I became an orphan at age 12. I was mistreated and so I ran away. I did odd jobs and scrounged for money until I got old enough to do bigger jobs that would potentially pay more. I slept wherever I could and worked whatever jobs I could find to move here to America. Once I moved here I stayed with family that had already immigrated. I was fluent in british English as it’s a primary language of where I am from. Once I got on my feet here I moved to Virginia with my wife and then soon after to DC and the Prince George’s County area. I attended Howard University. I now have 4 children and work as the Chief of Security for the US Government.

Chapter 14 Fieldwork

For this field work assignment I watched a show called Greenleaf and that is where I view power dynamics in play. The show is about a family who owns a large super church in Tennessee. It deals with the Bishop and First Lady of the church having power of their children who are also involved in the church. 1. In the show, power is balanced with the Bishop having power over the church and the people in the church. Power is tested here when the Deacon board steps in to change decisions that the Bishop has made. 2. Power is mainly organized by age and gender in this show. The Bishop is an older male and is said to have more experience since he is older. 3. There aren't really any political negotiations that are present in this sense of power. The only thing that may count is the corruptness of money and how the people with the money could maybe control the church 4. These were started with experience but could change if there was some type of scandal in the church or if the church itself lost the power it has in the community 5. I encounter the state on a daily basis at school because this is a public state school 6. The state is the primary source of representation and it gets to us through almost everything we do every day.

Last Tuesday’s In class Assignment

(i kept forgetting to post this last week)

tuesday’s in class assignment

In Class Assignment

ALICE WALTON

Alice Walton donated $2.6 million to George Bush in 20004 and $200,000 to Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2012. She has been mainly republican yet in 2016 she donated to Hilary Clinton’s campaign. As the head stock owner of Walmart, one of the largest companies in the world her wealth contributes heavily to global economy. She focuses on art and art curating which can contribute to local economy as it is worth over $500 million dollars

My Family Tree

I think that my family tree shows that I do not have many cousins and that my parents siblings do not have many kids. It also shows that half of my parents have passed away. I believe that the older people in my family do more cultivating of the family tree. They also hold the family records and pictures to identify who is who.

Sexuality Concept Map

Holly Barker Response

Holly Barker worked for the Peace Corps and traveled to The Marshall islands as a teacher first before she was recruited to work there. She helped the Marshallese people communicate what they wanted to the US government. She believed that actually being hands on, working, speaking and living with the people would give her a better insight to their lives and she was right. She learned a lot about the people and the place she was in solely by interacting and living with the Marshallese people. She tried to stress that it was important to see things as more than what they look like to the naked eye. Many people see the Marshall Islands as pretty touristy islands but in reality rampant climate change is plaguing the people and environment there. Holly Barker believes this is the best type of anthropology.

ethnicity, race, state, nation

my ethnicity is black

my race is black

my state is united states

my nation is American

I think they work together and make me who I am. I think they could possibly contradict eachother because parts of my state do not support my race and ethnicity.

Components of Globalization: Uneven Development

In India, uneven development is very prominent. There can be a very nice city or area and right next it there are people living in the slums

Components of Globalization: Time Space Compression

The little boy in this comic is displaying that he can download the song quicker and cheaper than his grandmother can to watch and give the guy money

Components of Globalization: Increasing Migration

This photo shows hispanic migrant workers working in banana fields. The main reason for migration is for work.

Components of Globalization: Flexible Accumulation.

This photo shows a Nike factory in China. There are less regulations in China which means it is cheaper for Nike to make their products.

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