Stunt Sunday

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Modern Day Perspective Of Chris McCandless

I believe that McCandless story is so different than all of the other stories about college students, because he didn't follow the usual route a college graduate follows after college. I mean McCandless didn't go out into the medical field as most graduates from Emory do, but he went out back packing in the world. It's like he did what really made him happy.
Stereotypically most college graduates move into high paying fields in the area in which they majored in, but McCandless didn't follow that route. While reading books he liked the lifestyle that the people in the book were living and decided to live like that, and that's exactly what he did after he ended his academic career. He went out and lived life exactly as he wanted to, he didn't let no outside forces influence what he did in life.
I think what made this story seem really out of the ordinary was that he was educated. It's liked we expected him to do better than what he did, because he went to a highly acclaimed school and he should know better to go off in the wilderness with less provisions than really needed. We just can't accept the simple fact that he made a mistake it's like he had to mean to kill himself, because he was educated. That's the one part of the story that makes everyone believe that he could have intentionally placed him self in that situation, when he knew of all of the dangers that he was getting into.
I see where the general masses can get the mistake of thinking that he commited suicide from. They are basically saying McCandless is supose to be this honor student who has done this kind of thing before, than why this time did such a fate by now. They see how many trips he has taken of this nature, and they think along the lines of that he's a proessional and that there's no way that he could mess up. They would believe that he brought rations to make sure that if some hardship did befall him then he would be able to survive in the wilderness long enough for someone to save him.
The question why didn't he make a signal to let people know of his location and that he was in distress. Some asked why didn't he make a fire, that would have caught some one's attention and he would have been saved when rescue crews came along to put out the fire. Others wonder why he decided to roam the way he did and not bring along some sort of communication device. If he would have had a cell phone or something of that sort, he could have called the police to come and get him before his grave faith swooped over him.
In today's society we can't see a college student falling to such a grim fate. It's like the modern day society believes that all college students have to have a certain amount of knowledge about themselves and what they do. I'm not saying that McCandless wasn't educated or something along those lines, I'm just saying that he made a big mistake by not taking along no type of way to communicate with the outside world. If he would have had a simple map or disposable cell phone than he would still be here today with us.

Benetton's Mixed Emotions

Some say that a picture is worth a thousand words; conversely the picture that we viewed in our class was worth a thousand questions. The image we viewed in our English 1102 class raised a profuse amount of controversy over its meaning. The biggest question it summoned was whether or not it was indeed an argument. The photo depicted a man in his very last moments in life dying of AIDS. Also shown in the photo were his father and sister by his side as he took in his last gasps of breath. The photo was a very sentimental picture. The picture was definitely an argument. The picture argued that we shouldn’t shy away from people with aids but comfort them as well as value their existence in their time of need. The photo was made public by the once very popular European clothing company United Colors of Benetton. The company used this photo not only to inform but for their own personal gain. There is nothing autodidactic about this particular photo. It takes more than two eyes to interpret this photo however I think I did a pretty good job. What can a clothing company gain from a picture of a man dying of aids? Publicity of course. In fact, the photo was so popular that it actually won a national photography award in 1992. Conveniently the company’s name is clearly seen on the bottom right corner of the photo.
The company preyed on the general public sense of compassion, grief and the innate reflex to feel sorrow in order to bring more attention to their business. They gained popularity by pouncing on people's grief, like a hungry vulture on a fresh caucus. I must praise the company for thinking outside the box in the area of advertising. I would have never pondered to use people's sense of compassion towards others to help for my own personal gains.
The portrait this picture that this painting portrayed to me was one focused on tapping into one's emotional side. You would have to have a heart of stone not to be touched by this particular picture. I was deeply touched by this picture because even though my grandfather didn't die from AIDS, I wish I could have been by his side in his last moments of life. While many may not know the pain of having a loved one passing away from AIDS, anyone old enough to understand this photo should know the pain of having a loved one die from AIDS.
It is apparent that the company uses a controversial picture to draw attention to the business. The Benetton picture was not only used to draw a lot of attention to their company, but also a lot of money to their business. The picture of course has no relevance to the clothing company itself, but it sure did make the people in the U.S. spend their money at Benetton's. Ironically, there are very little Benetton's stores left in the U.S. today.