Ethnicity blog

1. The benefits for an insider perspective is you will see and participate in that culture firsthand. The benefits for an outsider perspective are you can see how it is compared to other cultures. It depends on what you are trying to do with the culture for one of the perspectives to be better than the other.
2. Those rules exist so ethnographers have the guidlines to abide by; so it helps them get the job sone quicker and not trying to get everything.

Mellencamp blog

1. This song is about his farm being taken and his land being foreclosed.
2. It might address the recession because Mellencamp said, "and the farmers bank foreclosed."

Love language

1. That the girl is listening to music and ignoring him.
2. Because it is between a deaf person and a person who can hear. The conflict is the guy doesn't know that the girl is deaf.

1984 Part 1

In 1984 the soceity tries to create a conformity by watching their actions so the people think that someone is always watching. They out pressure on society by using propoganda, and making them all hate a common cause. They've made everybody equal by monitoring everyone the same and giving everyone the same salary and housing. The society has taken away conflict by forcing everybody to hate a common cause, not letting individuals have individuality, by banning religion, and strictly restricting any borderline books. The society has attempted to force happiness by putting the name fantastic gin or happy adjectives on poor quality objects. The people living in this society do not remember of a time when they could be individual, and were not always being monitored

1984 Part 2

Winston is doubting what the State and Big Brother are selling because he knows what they are telling the public cannot be right. Winston knows that they are manipulating people and controlling their will, even though Winston was raised in that society he is beginning to think that it is not right. These small acts of defiance may be a form of protest in Oceania, but I do not think that they would be protests in real life. I think that because just questioning what someone is doing is not a form of protest. For example it's alot different to think of doing something, than to actually do it. His "protests" (if you can even call them that) are different than the protests going on in America today. His "protests were just thinking about doing something, while the protestors in America are marching, and organizing things to oppose. In a way Winston is talking the talk, while the Americans are walking the walk.