The underlife of eating

For my groups ethnography project my group (randy and drew) and I decided to look into the underlie of eating and see how it could relate to literacy. To do this we came up with a couple of questions that we would find the answers to. The questions we came up with were the following: Who are they eating with? What are they eating? Why are they eating this? When do they eat? where do they eat? How do they eat? So to answer these questions we decided to go to crown since all of us were hungry as well. So since all of us in the group had different backgrounds we decided to include our selves in the project. Here is a picture of what i ate:

and here is a picture of what randy and drew ate:

Here is a picture of our plates after eating:

At the end we got one of drews friend and conducted an interview here is the video:

At the end the group concluded that people eat the way they do due to multiple factors. One of them was where they are from. In the video you can see drews friend, Rob, is from the south, which is why he likes friend chicken and comfort food. From the video you can also tell he is social since he likes to eat with people. 

T-shirts

At uncc in front of the library they have made t-shirts with messages against violence on women. T-shirts are not typically associated with literacy. I think they can be strong ways to get messages across because people are always looking at each others clothes. This could be a good way of communicating a message such as that one. I didnt get a chance to take a picture of them so i cant attach a picture with this post, but they are in front of the library if anyone is interested to see them.

Police View point

A few weeks ago in class we did an activity where we read a story then had to choose a character from the story and narrate the story from the view point we thought that character would take. I chose the view point of the Police officer. I chose this view point because i really used to be into law enforcement. I still am actually but i dont think its a job i would want to do. I just really like the field its self though. I thought this was a good case of the Police actually helping someone and making sure the kid is safe instead of going around arresting people all the time which is what people think police do all the time. Anyways thats just the reason i chose the perspective of the cop.

English Midterm project!

So we first started this in class deciding on where we would meet up and what we would do. My group decided that we wanted to do a book by Dr. Seuss.

We met Monday at 5 PM at Atkins library. Since we all knew what book we wanted we went on the website of the atkins library to look up where all the Dr Seuess books were.

Once we located where the books were we all took the elevator up to the 5th floor and got all the dr Seuss books we found.

We decided the book "I can read with my eyes shut" was the book that matched most of our topics.

So from this book i chose the page that was most similar to my idea which was texting and how it has related to the way i write. I those this page because it was talking about how the more the reads the more he will know and the more places he will go. I thought this related because i text people all around the world. I text people going from canada all the way to Pakistan. I have learned a lot about texting people in all these countries. It doesnt just have to be books in which you read to learn about other places. You can directly contact people in other places and hear from them first hand about how that place is.

Once i got my page i just wrote about why i chose the page i chose and why it related to my topic. Its pretty much the same thing i wrote above. Below is a picture of me working on it.

After doing that the final state of the project was to document everything which is what i am doing right here on my blog. I had a good time doing the project i wont lie. My group had some pretty good conversations too while working.