week 8

This week in sociology we watched the movie Tuesdays With Morrie and compared to american culture in general.Tuesdays With Morrie is about Mitch and how he Really used all his time for and never shows time for anyone else but when his favorite collage teacher Morrie is diagnosed with ALS he makes time to go see  him  and learns value lessons every time he sees him and helps Mitch beat some of his greatest fears.In the world today just like in Tuesdays With Morrie many people fear death.It is in our culture to not want people to die.We want them to live forever.We also fear for the one dying for what will happen after you die.It is just also hard to execpt that the person is gone but there teachings and memories live on in the world.

I also have fear of death.I was scared too abut what happens after you die.Just this past summer my great uncle died of cancer and knowing he was gone scared me.I really did not understand what will happen next now that he is gone.But I still have all the memories that we had togther.That is something death can never take away.

week 7

During this week in sociology we learned about cultural values and what they mean to people and how do others interpret them.We looked at a reading where it depicts the main thirteen American values that many people live buy.Like the first value that is listed is personal control over the environment. Look at use now because of how we depict this value. Long a go we use to gather and hunt what the earth gave us for food. They did not have the ability to choose whatever they wanted to eat.The took what we could get.But now look at us.We have the power to choose to eat what we want now because we have control over are environment. We make are own food now. We raise it are selves  and able to choose the best quality instead of just getting what is there.

I also can relate to these values that are depicted in this reading.Like number three which is time.I am very onetime type of person. I like to prepare so I can to be on time for things like projects and getting to school on time.It is just something that is always in my plan for most of the things I do.I just feel like being on my time and using my time well is an important value for me. 

week 6

This week in sociology we continued are studying of culture.During class this week we watched the movie "God Grew Tired of Us".This movie is about the refugees from the war in Sudan during the 1990's. How some of them got chosen to come to America to start a new life.It was really a huge culture shock to them tho experience the way people live in America. Like how they use to go to the river to get water and wash themselves.But When they came to the states They had to learn to use the shower to wash themselves, and to get water from a sink.They also got to experience different ways of celebrating things that people have in america that they don't.Like when it was Christmas, they did not have santa or Christmas trees.They did not the  concept or what they mean.It was hard to understand.

I had to adapt to new thing in my life but not as extreme situations like the refugees. When I started middle school i had to adapt to having 6 teachers instead of 1,and having to move from class to class.It was a difficult process to undergo because of the lithe expense of doing this i had.