9th and 15th amendment

The 15th amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote (because at this time women did not have the right to vote yet) by declaring that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Although ratified on February 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th Amendment would not be fully realized for almost a century.

The 9th Amendment
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This basically states that citizens born in America have other rights that citizens that were born in other areas are limited to.

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IT'S ALL A GAME-OR SORT OF
BARNGA BLOG

BARNGA-Reflect on the card game we played in class.

If you could describe the game in one word, what would it be? Crazy

What did you expect at the beginning of the game? I felt like it would be fun but would eventually get out of hand.

When did you realize that something was wrong? when pennies began being grabbed at random from other players.

How did you deal with it? petry started playing solitaire with himself and I laughed and just sat back and watched

How did not being able to speak contribute to what you were feeling? it made it extremely frustrating

 Is my title above appropriate for the game of "culture."  Why or why not? it is because life is just a big game odds and different rules and it depends on how your rules effect the way you live it.

 Is a universal language and set of customs necessary for world peace and harmony? I believe that would help keep us at peace a lot easier than it is now.

 What can a simple card game teach us about our culture? that it is very different or unique compared to other cultures.

Bachi Bazi

I believe that raping those boys should be socially unacceptable. It is so wrong and I don’t even know how the men raping the boys can live with themselves after doing such horrible things to them. If I was over there I would not have only beat up that man but would have done enough to make sure he never touches one of those boys sexually ever again. I would definitely step in and risk losing my job over doing the right thing to save those boys from harm. I think we need to both step up and try to change their views or get out and not let our men get put in the risk of death or losing their job in the military over this matter.

From a sociological standpoint I believe it had to be incredibly hard for the men from the United States to just turn the other cheek. When they come from a society that sees this as an awful act it must be extremely difficult to look the other way. So, I do understand why they decided to beat up the man that they thought was leading this horrible idea and raping the little boys. It was all done in an effort to try and help these boys stay safe and give them dignity.

lord of the flies chapter 1-2

Dear Aunt Sally,

 

You will never guess what happened!!! We got in a plane crash and now I’m stuck on this island in the middle of nowhere. But I found a friend right away after we crashed his name is Ralph and was really nice to me right away but lately it seems, he has gotten meaner and meaner. It all started after I found a conch on the beach and showed it to him. He told me a story of how when someone blows through the conch and makes it sound that people will come, and sure enough after he did people began showing up out of the trees. Eventually the conch became a symbol of power but that wasn’t until after we met the choir that was also in the plane crash. The choir was split into altos and tenors with the leader being Jack a very arrogant tenor. You see when we were trying to turn our life into a civilization we started out with two things knowing we need fire so people can realize that we are here and the fact that we were all going to get hungry, so we needed food. So we went up to a large mountain and thought we would build the fire there but then a boy named Simon kept passing out and slowing us down but it was alright because he also seemed like the philosopher of our group. So we went up and started the fire and it was going great until it began dying out and it started more trees on fire and eventually it all went out. But you want to know the worst part!! Someone died in the fire!

After the fire we went out and decided to hunt. Jack went to kill a pig but hesitated and the pig ran away. But it was ok there would be more chances to kill more food. That night I became scared of the creepers and beasties and the beast of the jungle. The creepers is what we call the underbrush and aspects of the jungle and the beasties are the vines that look like snakes in the trees, and last is the beast which we are all scared of except for Simon who told us that the beast is always inside you and it is waiting to get out. All that it is, is the fear inside of your body just waiting to come out and scare you. But all in all I am meeting knew people and trying to have fun but I just want to be back at home with you. I love you Aunt Sally.

                                                                                                                        Sincerely,

                                                                                                                        Piggy

Macrosociology and Microsociology

How can I see macrosociology in my life? I see it on the level that I am a teenager that goes to school and I’m a male, and I live in a rural area. All of the things I listed are the aspects of my life that are macrosociological. They all show the large scale groups I could be categorized in. How can people view me or themselves in these categories? They need to look at all of the large groups they fit into and then figure out where they belong.  Another type of sociological breakdown is called microsociology. With this type of sociological outlook it searches deeper into the groups I may have mentioned earlier and it looks more into the detail aspect. Such as who has facial hair, who has white teeth, who has been injured in their life, and who has blue eyes, the list goes on and on but my point is it’s all a deeper type of thought other than the huge general macrosociological ideas of the big groups. Now I will show you an example of how these fit into the way we look at things in life.

So now I will relate this to our life boat worksheet. One of the macrosociological groups you could say was all the people included in the shipwreck; another group could be all of the shipwreck survivors, then on to a different group of the survivors that made it to the life boat. Now looking into the survivors on the life boat you can use your microsociological skills to look deeper into the group and notice the people that are hurt, the people that are weak, the people that are strong, and the people that seem ok but may not be much help. Now when it came to kicking people off the boat this is how we used the process of elimination to get rid of them, we looked deeper into microsociology and found out the little things to help us make our decision.

We may not always use these two types of sociologies for good most of the time it can be related to stereotyping and can be used as a harmful way to look at groups and classify them but whether you realize it or not it is the way we look at things in our everyday life, and it is the way we always will until the day we die.

Sociological Mindfulness

Today I watched a Ted video about how people in American tend to be self-centered. The video told me about how people in the world need to know how they fit into the world and how we need to stop stepping on other peoples feet and trying to force things onto other people. Years and years ago when the Chinese were using our coal we were angry because we were losing money and we ended up poor. But when we go over to the Middle East to take their oil we think it’s okay and it doesn’t bother us or make us angry. The problem is we don’t realize how much we are hurting those people and the kinds of hardships they face when we are taking their oil. They are scared to rebel because then we start a war and fight with them. The more they rebel the more of them die and we don’t see anything wrong with that, thus we keep taking oil and we leave them poor. The thing is we don’t know how to take the oil and leave them with money so they don’t rebel. We need to stop stepping on toes and trying to push things on people. One thing we push on people is religion people see the U.S. military as crusaders. Crusaders are warriors that push religion on people. That seems to be what we are doing to the people of the Middle East and they are angry with us. So we need to find a way to not push religion on people and leave them with some money for the oil we are taking and make sure they aren’t poor or feel like religion is being forced on people.

This essay was to tell you about the ted video that told about how people can step on other people’s feet and not realize it. I see myself fitting into society as a man that went to four years of college and ended up as a worker in the middle class.