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The style of argument and claim for all of the pieces are...
Transmissions from Campus Trans-Classical
All the women no matter who they are should be able to use the music festival to bond and enjoy.
Dark Webs Goth Subcultures Cyberspace-Toulmin
The internet can be used to find information about all kinds of subcultures like Gothic.
The Truck Stop as Community and Culture-Classical
The truckers are compared to cowboys in a way that makes their community.
House for the Homeless-Rogerian
Homeless people are people like people who are not homeless and should be respected just the same even though they live different lives.

My current process

Well as far as what I have done I have made a complete change of topic. After doing the much needed research I realized that my topic site could not be viewed. My topic was Prison subculture and after doing research there are lots of differences in a prison and a jail. I would be visiting a jail not a prison there are no prisons in my area.
With that said I have decided to do hood life. I have already visited my field site which is the Cascade are and interviewed a couple of people. I think thing will go a little bit better not, but I still have plenty of research to do.

Fieldsite Observation

This weekend I visited my field site. My fieldsite is the Dekalb County Jail located on Memorial Drive. This was an exciting exprence for me, I had never been to a jail before. Inside the jail every thing is organized in the way they go about doing things. Their were metal detectors, and plenty of security officers on board. I was a little disappointed in how limited my visit was. No interviews with inmates or anyone that works heavyly inside the jail. I was allowed to speak with one of the staff members who works in security to ask them some questions.
I ask the female security who's name was Jennie about the jail. She wasn't able to tell me the correct number of inmates but she did go on to say that their were more inmates then beds. I also learned that because of overcrowing that the county spends hundreds of thuosands of dollars to move inmates to other jails. This was something I didn't understand but really didn't get a clear answer. I ask Jennie about the inmates, but felt that my visit was incomplete because I didn't get to talk to inmates.
I ended up talking to people who have been inmates in the jail but so far I have only spoken to people that have spent a night or two their. Im hoping to get a clear vision on what goes on inside there from a second visit or from former inmates.

Act V

In this audio clip there are inmates discussing their views and feeling on their experience in the play hamlet. All of the inmates have a unique and very distinct reason for performing in the play.

What do the individuals in the subculture value?
The inmates that are a part of this subculture value the person they are now and not the person they once was.

What do they disdain or what is taboo?
Not taking their role serious. Being disrespectful to one another.

How do you attain group membership?
You gain membership by taking on a role in the play and portraying it to the fullest.

What activities are important to the subculture?
Practicing their parts and having group sessions talking about their past and how much they have changed (for the better).

What artifacts or behaviors are important to the subculture?
Being respectful to each other and taking guidance from the stage manager or coach.

Starting subcultures

Topic: Prison

Sources:
Dyer,Joel. The Perpetual Prisoner Machine: How America Profits from Crime. Colorado: Westview Press, 2001.

Rosenblatt, Elihu. Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prision Crisis. Massachusetts: South End Press, 1996.

Reflection:

I like the book,Criminal Injustice it has information on prision conditions and it explans how and why prisons got to be the why they are now. The book is composed of information from teachers, prisoners, death row inmates, and religious organizations. All of this would be vital information to consider if I dont get all the info I need from my research site. The book is infavor of inmates and activist that support prisioners. I will also need info from or about the people the work in the jails like parol officers. What is their day to day like not just the inmates. All of this needs to be considered as I move forward with this topic. I feel there is a lot of ground to cover I just need to make sure I can cover it.
The focus I would like to take on this project is still unclear to me. There is a lot to focus on I have to decide the best that will help tie in all of my resources, but im leaning more so to prision conditions.

Menudo

Menudo World under Bio

Menudo is a legendary Latina group that has sold millions, 40 million to be correct. Straight out of Puerto Rico Menudo was born in the 1970’s. (www.menudoworld.com) I did know a little about the group only because a reality show on MTV in search of new members for Menudo. If it had not been for that I may have been lost or in the wrong direction. I looked the word up in a dictionary and was giving a spicy Mexican soup made with tripe, onions, tomatoes, chilies, and hominy. (Webster dictionary)

Menudo has thousands of Latina fans. Its current members are Monti, Jose, Chris, Carlos, and Emmanual. They all competed on Making Menudo on MTV. I couldn’t find many sources on Galileo and the gsu research engine so I kind of stuck with menudoworld.com which was found through MTV. I did learn that Rickey Martin a come from a previous Menudo group that jump started his career. (www.menudoworld.com)

Exploring Hip-Hop

The Rap on Rap: Straight- up Talk on Hip-hop Culture is a book written by Adam Sexton it focuses on a collection of articles on Hip hop with varied topics and opinions about each one. Adam Sexton is the author of the nonfiction books Rap on Rap (Dell) and Desperately Seeking Madonna (Dell) and he is the creator/editor of the fiction collection Love Stories (Kensington). His novella Bed Time was a finalist in the Andre Dubus Novella Competition, and his short fiction has appeared in the Mississippi Review and the Bellevue Literary Review. His nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Details, the Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, and the Philadelphia City Paper. He wrote the CliffsNotes for A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises, and he is a contributor to Prentice-Hall's Grammar and Composition series. He has taught at New School University, NYU, SUNY, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Marymount Manhattan College, and Parsons School of Design. Adam holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. This bio information was obtained at writingclasses.com. (http://www.writingclasses.com/FacultyBios/facultyBioByInstructor.php/TeacherID/21367).
This book would be interesting to me for a number of reasons one being that even though I am a part of the hip-hop community, I don’t know very much about it. I lesson to hip-hop and enjoy it but if someone was to ask me about the music I’d be lost. The book would enlighten me about past issues and history about the music game and artists of the 90’s and past when the book was written. I believe this is important because this era of hip-hop is most important than it is now seeing that it has changed a lot in a couple of decades.

Hip Hop Culture: An introduction (shi 360 - "kmo hayot")

Shi 360 was born Shai Haddad on july 1976 in Israel. He began his caree by Djing at clubs in Canada where he later move to to obtain a degree at Concordia University. After watching the video from his song kmo hayot and the other videos I think his style of rap is more similar to the rap here in the United States. Even though his music is a different language and culture I hear similarities in the flow and the beats. I would definity take the time to leason to his music. I don't know what he is saying in the song but I cant tell by the title and of what is going on in the video that he is saying something about society and positive stuff.
Shai 360 released his first Hebrew language album under the TACT Records label. He is currently stiff with the labal now. Maybe I will buy the ablum. Their larger culture associations define hip hop culture in the form of clothing, movement, and speech. The clothing that he wears is very similar to what hip hop artist wear in the states and thire movement when rapping is also the same. I like how even though its a different language it still is resited in the same fashion.

A red herring stuck on the bandwaggon

Watching the PCU video I picked up on many logical fallacies, but the one that stood out the most was he the school dean went to the house where the people that lived in the pit stayed and told them they had to pays fees. The group of students were trying to think of ways to raise money. One guy suggested they all get jobs and then mad a joke saying like thats going to happen or something like that but anyway the logical fallacies was that college students don't like to get jobs and work.

Into the wild

The peace “into the wild” is so sensational in the fact that it doesn’t match the stereotype we usually see for college students. After reading this some might say Chris McCandless aka Alex Superstramp was a little nutty despite being very intelligent. Why would an honors graduate from a prestigious college, Emory University want to go on such a wild excursion?

McCandless would ask himself questions like how could people possibly be allowed to go hungry? Most college students would just start up an organization to help the unfortunate or give a little community service, but not McCandless. It is no doubt that he had the money to do it or something similar to it, having 20Gs left over from the money his parents had for him, thinking he might use it for law school, but no he give it away to charity. I would think for a college student who had just graduated 20Gs would be something wonderful to have going out into the world.

It was like he was on a mission to prove that he could be independent of any ones needs show himself that he is not ungrateful of what he has, but by doing what he did, leaving to prove this even if it was just to himself to me is kind of selfish. I say this because not only in the end did he waste his parents money and a great opportunity to do something great with his education he let the ones who loved him suffer. His parents were so worried about their son that they hired a private investigator to track him down. I don’t believe for one second that McCandless was a nutcase like the text says most Alaskans might think and that’s proven where it says “Chris McCandless came into the world with unusual gifts and a will not easily deflected from its trajectory. As early as third grade, a teacher was moved to pull Chris’s parents aside and inform them that their son “marched to a different drummer.” At the age, he entered his first running competition, a 10k road race, and finished 69^th, beating more than 1,000 adults. By high school he was effortlessly bringing home A’s” and it also goes on to say that his high school classmates were blown away by his talk of spiritual aspects to motivate them in track. He would tell them about the evil in the world, all the hatred, and that the evil was trying to keep them from running their best.

That being said I think McCandless just didn’t know what to do with the gifts that god has endowed him with. This man could have done many great things with his intelligence but he chose to go on this wild ride across the country that alone proves he was no ordinary college student. I also don’t believe he had any death wishes, I think he always planed of coming back home, why else would he do this after going to college and not before.

AIDS AND ADVERTISING

Although I don’t believe that this photograph is appealing for a clothing line, I do think that it will help consumers remember the brand. The United Colors of Benniton clothing company has nothing to do with AIDS. This ad is just a good way for the company to make some extra cash while gaining new customers that wouldn’t normally buy it. People might go into a store to buy another brands clothing, but end up buying a United Colors shirt only because it is for a good cause.

These are the only ways I believe that the clothing company will benefit from this ad; people will look in to AIDS awareness more in my opinion. When someone looks at this ad they will think about the disease, how many people die, how many have it, they may even want to do their own research. The ad is sad but I think people might be confused with the picture alone. If the ad didn’t run with a title I wouldn’t know what it was for. At first I thought the people in the ad were wearing the clothing company’s clothes, until I was given a little background information about the picture and company. This makes me wonder if at the time this ad was ran if people thought that the clothes the people in the picture are wearing their clothing line. I think the whole ad can be confusing. If the people in the ad were wearing the company’s clothes then I think that it would benefit the company a lot more.