




Yesterday afternoon I visited my field site. My field site was a large gathering of donks held weekly called Stunt Sundays on Memorial Drive in Atlanta. Every Sunday, donk riders from all over the metro area gather to show off their rides. Since this was my first time going to this event, I was skeptical of the environment. My perception was that it would be lots of loud music, vulgar language, and arguing. Conversely, while it was some loud music, it was very nice and peaceful. Since I wasn’t familiar with the preceding or people for that matter, I had my friend, who also has a collection of donks and is familiar with the event, show me around and introduced me to some people. Because of this connection, I was able to net work, get sum valuable information about my paper and actually sit inside a few donks. The donk riders used terminology like shell to describe the beauty of a vehicle. Lockin’ it down was a term that is synonymous with a burn out. I asked questions like how you got started with your fascination with cars and how would I gain membership into this culture.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Stunt Sunday
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Hamlet Jail Culture
I believe that this was an excellent field site for him to use, because the members of this field site are so willing to participate. It is also a good site to use. because the environment is friendly and the members of this subculture are willing to share everything.
That the members of this play feel as if they have some type of significant connection with the character that they are showing to everyone. He shows that the audience reacts positively to the performance even if they don't understand what is going on. They react, because they can feel the emotion that the members are putting into the play.
The norms of this group is to help each other get father and father along. The group also is known for giving its all when preforming.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Donks
Topic: The Donk Subculture
Works Cited
Bobb, Maurice. "TRENDSPOTTING: DONKS AND HI-RISERS." Sema ENews. 21 June 2006. 13 Mar. 2008
Harris, Matthew. "Donk...Box and Bubble." RIDES. 23 Sept. 2006. 13 Mar. 2008
Krantz, Karl. "SEMA 2007 Wrap Up... 42s?" BOX-DONK-a-DONK. 19 Nov. 2007. 13 Mar. 2008
White, Samuel. "Hi Risers....What's the Big Deal." Car Domain. 14 May 2007. 13 Mar. 2008
Reflection:
I believe that this web post was the most helpful, because it really tells the most about the basis of the subculture that I have choosen. I really liked how the author went and described what the true meaning of a donk really was. They made it known that a donk was not just any car, but a Chevy(most preferably a Chevy Impala) set up on rims above 22 inches. What I found most interesting about the article was the part when they were saying that some people put their everything into making their car the best looking donk out there. It's like the people do all that just so they can show the world that they have the flashiest car around.
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Friday, February 29, 2008
The Heisenberg principle of uncertainty
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) was one of the inventors of quantum mechanics. Heisenberg was the leader of Hitler's atomic bomb project during World War II. After the war, he claimed that he had deliberately sabotaged the Nazi bomb effort. Heisenberg was an astonishing physicist. After World War II, he admitted to sabotaging the success of the atomic bomb for Germany. If he did indeed sabotage the bomb, it may have drastically altered the outcome of the war and history as we know it. However, the validity of his confession is a bit sketchy in that why would he sabotage the sabotage something that he dedicated years of blood, sweat, tears, and research to for the enemy? He announced his "uncertainty principle" at age 26. The Heisenberg is also known as the Heisenberg uncertainty principle or Indeterminacy principle. No matter how autodidactic a person is, it takes a superior mind to read between the lines of Heisenberg's mathematical non sequiturs.
"I have tried several times to read and although I think I understand quantum mechanics, I have never understood Heisenberg's motivations for the mathematical steps ..." acknowledged the Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg.
According to physist Thomson Gale, The Uncertainty principle is a fundamental postulate of quantum theory used to describe the behavior of energy and matter on atomic and subatomic scale that states that two complementary properties of a system (i.e., the position and momentum of an electron) can never both be measured exactly. In this regard the Uncertainty principle established a limit to the accuracy of measurement. Moreover, the Uncertainty principle specifies that the measurement of a system alters the system.
The affect of the Heisenberg Principle is the increasing of accuracy on measurements of an observable quantity, thereby amplifying the uncertainty with which another conjugate amount may be recognized.
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Friday, February 22, 2008
RAW REPORT RESEARCH
To find information about my topic I went to the source. I referenced you tube as well as viewed the Shawty Lo edition of Raw Report. On YouTube I searched Shawty Lo and his Raw Report edition immediately came up. Since I had already seen the DVD numerous times, I looked up information I did not already have prior knowledge of, mainly the directors. I then took notes and wrote down key points about the directors. I decided to look on YouTube because I deeply feel that there is no source greater than the direct foundation. It is most hard to find new information about something that you are already pretty well familiar with prior to doing an assignment. I also followed link after link until I found myself in the midst of a place I had never been, the official Raw Report web site. Here I found even more data which I took notes on. I took notes on the real purpose of the Raw Report DVD series which has been manipulated. The perception is that it puts forth a image of violence and illegal activity there by unconsciously permanently burning there still images into the heads of urban youth however, the site states that it was first made up to promote the business, legal , political, and social aspects of the Hip Hop world. The advantages in looking directly at the source you are making an argument about are that you get the greatest supply of information. I also used other sources to gather facts about my topic. I looked at other rapper’s Raw Report segments and compared and contrasted different things, such as environments, influences and methods of explaining past events. My research helps my ethos appeal because it strengthens my argument by gives my paper a foundation.
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Friday, February 15, 2008
The Author, Why He is credible, Why It Interests Me
The source that I chosen to explore was the phenomenal book under the title “Understanding African American Rhetoric: Classical Origins to Contemporary Innovations” which was a co- written book by the great Ronald L. Jackson and Elaine B. Richardson. I chose this book over all of the others because it offers a comprehensive survey of African American rhetoric within a broad historical context. It also explores the major cultural and theoretical issues that we face all throughout society. The authors of this incrediable book use great ethos by inputting the general thoughts of scholars on these certain topics such as Charles Hurst, Molefi Asante, Jack Daniel, Dorthy Pennington, Lucia Hawthorne and Lyndrey Niles, thereby increasing their credibility immensely. Throughout the few opening pages of the book, the authors tell about how the issue of African American rhetoric has long since been abandoned and is no longer taught to the younger generations. The counter to this alarming increasing problem according to Ronald L. Jackson and Elaine B. Richardson is to teach nommo to graduate students in the form of Malcolm X’s teachings and works. Nommo is the generative power of spoken word.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
PCU Fallicies
In PCU one of the many logical fallacies that I noticed was begging the claim. I noticed this when the student were outside the cafeteria and were protesting the eating of meat. This is an example of begging the claim, because they were saying that red meat was bad for you and then telling the general masses not to eat the red meat.
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