Status Update

“Transmissions from the Camp Trans”
The claim that was being made in this Rogerian style passage was that transsexual men should be able to attend the MWMF.

“Dark Webs Goth Subcultures in Cyberspace”
In this Toulmin style passage the writer is arguing that cyberspace has contributed to the survival of the Goth subculture.

“The Truck Stop as Community and Culture”
This passage uses its Toulmin approach in order to argue how the truckers are able to still form their own little subculture at the truck stop.

“House for the Homeless”
The writer of this passage uses a Classical approach in arguing their point about how homeless people are human also and should not be forgotten about.

Time is winding down and our rough draft for our final paper is due next week. I still have a couple more researching to do when it comes to my subculture. I am planning on visiting my field site again in order to get a better understanding and observations on my subculture. I will do one more interview in order to rap up my paper. I am pretty skeptical about this paper but where there is a will there is a way. One question that I would like answered during peer review is whether or not my claim is effective.

Fieldsite

*What is going on in the field site

Today when I visited Grady Hospital to observe the subculture of nursing I saw some interesting thing. Most of the nurses were attending to their patients. There are some nurses that are doing paper work it almost seems to be time consuming. There are two sides to the floor that I am on and one side has eight rooms while the other has almost ten rooms.

*How do the members of the subculture interact with each other?

The members of the subculture are friendly to each other and ask each other for help when needed. They joke with each other about their patients.

*Make a list of terminology used at the fieldsite with which you might be unfamiliar.
I hear words like iv, charge nurse, senior nurse,b.i.d, EKG
*What details, behaviors, surroundings did you have questions about?
I wanted to know what a charge nurse was because a lot of the nurses were talking about charge nurse. There was a lot of paper work in the break room and I wanted to know what that paper work was.

*Find at least one person at your fieldsite you can speak to and ask them a question about something you observed that you didn't understand.

I was able to talk to one of the new nurses and also the charge nurse on duty. She told that a charge nurse was the nurse that was in charge of the nurses on duty and also the nurses.

Starting Subcultures

Subculture: Nurses

Sources:
Archer,Ellen Sarah. “ Nurses a political force”.Wadsworth Health Sciences Division,1982

Hilton,Penny. “Fundamental Nursing Skills”. John Wiley&Sons

“Healthcare Career directory .Nurses and Physicians.” Gale Research

“Registered Nurse”. Nurses Organizing Committee, 2006

Worcester,Alfred. “Nurses and Nursing”. Harvard University Press, 1927

Reflection:
I really enjoyed “Fundamental Nursing Skills” because I was able to find out some interesting skills that are used in my subculture. This book gave a variety of skills needed and some terminology that is used in the nursing field. In order to really understand some of these terminologies I would have to do a lot of research prior to having read this book. I t would be a book that I would more likely use if I was in the subculture but since I am not it might be hard for me to understand some of the terms and skills that were presented. Next time I will need to look more into a book that actually talks about the field of nursing then just the skills/procedures.

Acting Prisoners

1. What makes this fieldsite good? It is a one on one interview with the prisoners (actors) themselves so the audience can have a better insight on how the prisoners are.

2. What observations the author makes gives better understanding of subculture? He sees how the prisoners have to get out of their prisoner mode and play the role of their characters. He realizes how they are normal people and why do we have to put them in prison. The author also sees how some of the prisoners change between the time span that he sees them.

3. What interview techniques does author use to work to help us in understanding this subculture? He asks the prisoners to relate their characters to themselves, and ask insight of how Hamlet relates to the prison world. The author also talks to the prisoners by themselves so he can individually get to know them.

4. What are norms/values of subculture? Some of the norms and the values shared is that the prisoners are that they prisoners are strip searched before coming to act, they engage in relaxation exercise, they are violent criminals playing men who have commited violent crime ,and most share an interested in acting.

Housewives

Topic: Housewives

Sources:
Cardozo,Arlene. “Women at Home”. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y., 1976.

Hekker,Terry. “Ever since Adam and Eve.” NewYork:Morrow,1979.

Lopata Znanieoka Helena. “Occupation:Housewife”. New York, Oxford University Press, 1971.

Miller,Maryann.“Careers inside the World of homemaking and parenting”. 1st ed. New York:Rosen Publisher Group,1995.

Steiner,Morgan. “Mommy wars: stay at home and career moms face off on their choices their families”. New York: Random House,2006

Reflection:
When I read "Mommy wars: stay at home and career moms face off on their choices their families" was really a good book when I read it. It had a lot of information in it that I knew would help me in my subculture of housewives. The book talked about the difference of the housewife and the career mom so that will really help me. Since the book had the comparison of both types of mothers I am starting to think if I should narrow my search to a book that is just about housewives. Even though this book was good it will be better to get a different book so I can better focus on my subculture.

Harlequin Romances

Harlequin Romance is what I decided to get more information on. It is ironic how I picked this topic because my older sister used to read these novels when I was younger but I never took any time to read any of them. When looking up this topic I had difficulty because I kept getting repeated errors saying that this topic did not exist but I did not give up and finally found my five sources needed to complete my research.

I was so tempted to go onto google.com since that is my favorite website but I had to resist. I first found out that harlequin was common during the eighteenth century in Italian comedy culture ( Delpiano 1). A harlequin was a supposed to be this poor character in comedy who wore colorful costumes that were costumes that were richer in culture (Delpiano 1). Harlequin is also a noun which is derived from the Italian language (Webster). It is also from the Middle French which it meant demon in the French language (Webster). A character that was in comedy who would wear tights, with a clean shaven head and a masked face was qualified as a harlequin (Webster).

The Harlequin Romance era came around after World War II in 1949 (Osborne 1). This period was the beginning of the romance fiction era (Osborne 1). The main audience was geared towards white Americans when these novels first came out (Osborne 1). Other races did not feel this was right particularly the African Americans and decided to publish their first novel in the 1960’s (Osborne 1). It is true that the typical Harlequin Romance reader is a middle aged woman that is married and who lives in a small town in the south (Marsh 2). Now society is trying to cater more to a younger crowd who is willing to spend money on these books (Marsh 2).

During the 1980s most of the romances that were on television were like traditional harlequin romances (Wagner). Most of these films had romances that were filled with romances that centered on exotic locations, glamorous characters, happy endings, and romantic adventures (Wagner). Now this kind of novels sound like the kind of books that I enjoy reading. I would mind reading one of these novels on my leisure time.

Make up Something..It is on the Net

In doing so much research throughout my entire education I have been able to rely on Google.com to help me in whatever that I needed to find. Google.com displays websites, pictures, or anything that is related to the topic that you are looking for. In my paper the artist’s song that I was doing was Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne is a well known artist in the hip hop industry so I knew that it would not be hard to find websites that dealt with him.

I first started off by looking on Google.com and was not disappointed by all the websites that had Lil Wayne on it. With the numerous websites that were displayed in front of me I decided to start off by looking at starpulse.com. It is funny why I decided to go on this website. The real reason that I decided to look on this website was because it said Lil Wayne biography, pictures, and lyrics. This seemed like it would help me out a lot if I was doing research on him. The advantage of looking on this website was that it had an extensive list of all his albums and all his guest album appearances. There was definitely a disadvantage with this website though because it really did not give a thorough biography of Wayne.

After I finished looking at starpulse.com I went back to google.com to see what other websites that I could look on. I saw eonline.com and thought this would be a good website to go on. I know the show “E” is well known for talking about artist so I knew that there would be some present information about him. Sure enough I found a lot of information about Wayne’s current standing. The next website that I went to was rollingstone.com which had a lot about his songs just like the first website that I first looked on. All of Wayne’s albums and songs were on here which was a great advantage if I wanted to know the names of his albums.