Sumblog 11

I really enjoyed watching the Solar Mammas documentary. I thought it was amazing that a man would want to find women in undeveloped countries and give them education to enhance their community. There were women from Africa and the Middle East that were asked to go to India to become educated about solar power. They were told that they would learn what they would need to come back and teach the people of their communities about solar power. It was great to see that a man would want to empower women.

It was amazing to see how well all the women got along, even with the language and culture barriers. They all came together and became friends. They would help one another when they could and they showed their culture. I couldn't imagine going from being able to talk to everyone to having a language barrier all-around me.

This documentary showed globalization in the way that the undeveloped countries where given the opportunity to learn more about how to be more like the developed countries. Many of the women and the communities that they came from didn’t have anything. These women were given the opportunity to go and learn and bring solar power to their communities. I couldn’t imagine having completely nothing and having the opportunity to help your community grow.

While Goggling images of globalization I found this cute little cartoon. I know that it doesn't have anything to do with the Solar Mammas but it does show how far western ideas have spread over the whole world.

Sumblog 10

In our society we have so many horrible events happen and have a hate for many that we are taught to live in fear. Our society is so full of ignorance that it has corrupted the whole system and puts people in their place. The fact that we have warning labels, for the silliest things, shows how much our society lives in fear.
It has been one year since the horrible incident of the Boston marathon bombing, I have found an article on how it has effected the politics.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/19/how-the-marathon-bombings-changed-everything-in-boston-politics/

The article talked about the experience of that day, how the mayor in office was at the hospital and many runners where in the race that were going to run for office since the mayor was retiring. After the first bomb went off people knew to come together and give any help that they could give. The amount of people who to came together in such short time was truly amazing; even with the amount of fear I’m sure was surging through their bodies. No one knew whether the incident was a terrorist attack or if it was planned specifically to take out some people that were known to be in the race. Between the bomb happening and till they found the bomber and even for some time after none of the canidents knew whether they could return to campaigns or not. After a few months campaigns were back up and running with many playing up the fear of the marathon Monday. The winner for new mayor made his speech and coined the phrase “Boston Strong”. This just goes to show how we can use fear to get a head in life. 

SumBlog 9

We as a society have always been sexualized; however it has been just recently that it is being talked about more often. In the mass media there is multiple underlying sex in anything from teen shows, family shows, basically anything on TV, and music. The majority of the time I pick up on the underlying sexually message in TV shows but music on the other hand that one gets past me. It amazed me in Wednesday’s class when we listened to “Blurred Lines: I never realized how bad that song was. We have people of all ages listening to music and not knowing what some of the undertones are.

The music that we listen to today would never pass as music years ago. We went from being classy to being trashy. Any genre of music is making their way into having sexually undertones. Now it isn’t every single song that you listen to but I would have to say that they majority of the music has some bit of underlying meaning. You wouldn’t think that country music would get on the band wagon. but yeap you guessed it they have.

When thinking about what song I would use it took me a little while but I decided to step away from rap and pop and look at a country song. The song that I have picked is “Something About a Truck” by Kip Moore. In this song it sounds so innocent talking about a truck and beer, but then it goes it to talking about a girl and not getting caught. Like the “Blurred Lines” song I didn’t pick up on the sexual undertone until my husband told me, which goes to show that when you don’t fully pay attention to lyrics you don’t really know what you are listening to. Now give this song a listen and see if you can pick up on the meaning.

Sum Blog 8

I really enjoyed coming to an 8 am class and to get to play Monopoly. Playing Monopoly was a great twist to add to the learning experience in the class room. In the group that I was in my partner and I were in the 3rd group, which we found out at the end of class represented single mothers. My partner and I started out with $895 and when we passed go we would receive $170(I think). On our first role we ended up landing on community chest and the card stated that we got to take a ride on the reading railroad (which was behind us) this was the only time that we got to go all the way around the board. However by landing on reading railroad we immediately had to pay the person who had bought it $25. Since we were in the third group we knew that we needed to avoid rolling any doubles, well with that said what was our next roll? Yeap you guessed it on the next roll we rolled a double putting us directly in jail. Once in jail we had a choice to make we could either sit out for 3 turns or pay in $100, this time we decided to just sit and wait. After the 3 turns were up and it was our turn again we rolled and got out of jail but immediately landed on someone’s property thus having to pay about $30. On our next turn we rolled another double and proceeded to sit in jail for the rest of the game. We paid to get out once or twice but after continually landing in jail my partner and I concluded that it would be best to save our money and sit in jail.

While talking about how the game was a comparison to real life we concluded that people would often sit in jail due to lack of opportunities and the bad choices that the make. In life it is often easier to do the time instead of paying the money for a lawyer and risking losing money and the case. Also in our game after finding out that we represented single mothers we decided that we were in jail for prostitution and were not good at not getting caught.