Grief and The Headhunters Rage

In this reading, i could relate to Rosaldo, My best friend was murdured in 2003, and when he says, an alternate view ritual as a busy intersection, he is totally true. In a time of death, everyone has to come through this intersection, people in every culture. Some choose christianity, some repress the anger and rage, like i did at first. My friend Leo was shot by a meth addict and it wasnt more than a year later that I put myself through a self help group to help with rage that i was feeling, so i know how it is.
On another note, I thought it was interesting how he talked about how ethnographers enter the situation with a set of questions, and through the time of study, don't really come up with any answers just more direct questions. Kind of makes me want to be an ethnographer to a certain extent. I dont know how i would take witnessing a headhuting but i think i could do it well.
I liked it

Utopia Achieved

Hated every minute of this reading. The first paragraph, i must have read it like fifteen times. I couldn't figure out which side the author was talking about, the american or european. The big words were a big downer too. I do have one rant though. The top of page 111, going along with the whole americans are all the same crap. He says we're all wrong in the idyllic conviction that they are the "centre" of the world. If our society is so unbearable, then why does everyone want to come over here? I know we're not the best of worlds but it's a lot better than most.
I feel i would have been better off not reading this.

Panopticism

My first initial thought was, fiinally some thing interesting to read about. The words were easy to follow and not huge like some of the other readings.The flow also kept me entertained all the way through it, so that was a plus. The way writes about the town as if it were a prison was great, i almost thought i was reading the wrong pages; and when describes the people suffering in the houses, obeying every comand the intendent gave them, i could almost put myself i their shoes.
I also found the essay to be really educational, i dont think i would have gone and looked up the procedures a town goes through when a plague is formed; or the different ways to imprison people and what effect it has on them, so i enjoted it. When the author informs the reader on how the effects led to the change in how we encarserate and treat people for their actions now was also intersting too.
I thought its was weird that prisons resemble schools that resemble prisons. I guess it would make sence if they are trying to educate people on how to act in society.

The Rant

One might think in the moment they wake up that he or she is going to have a good day, but who knows. I never really know until the days is over. Five fifteen. This morning i lay in my bed wide awake and well before my alarm is supposed to start ringing. Relaxed, yet annoyed at the fact that i am wide awake while my girlfriend dreams of where we're going on spring break,but i dont do anything. Should i go run before work i ask myself, or should i try to get in those last little moments of sleep before i know if i dont get up ill be late for work? I dont know, thats just it, i dont know. I do know that five minutes of sleep really won't do anything but make me more tired, and if i do actually get up that means i have to start the day i dreaded on six hours earlier while getting read for bed. Frustrated and tired, i get up anyway. Anticipating the alarm, I shut it off before shreeking sounds of the little plastic box wakes up my other half, not that i dont like to hear her voice in the mornings, it's better that way. Lets just say I'm not a morning person and either is she, i just wake up earlier.

The Dynamo

A little tough for me to read for me at first but definately another good reading
I like how the auther described Adams at the beginning, almost like a drug addict waitng to reup.

The Dynamo

The Preface

I thought the preface was a good reading. I liked how th author compared the number one eduacator to a manikin and the students or followers as the clothes. I think thats an interesting way of looking at education. Then theres the tailor who says "ya that fits"