Blog post #6 (So-Young Park)

It was my second time that I’ve watched American comedy; I watched ‘Friends’ series before I watched Roseanne video clip. The atmosphere and theme of the comedy was fun. The television show presents Roseanne family’s daily life, a family involved in the working class. While I watched the video, I was really surprised that Roseanne, the mother and the protagonist of the comedy, can treat her family members and think daily life in such a cool way. Furthermore, I realized and astonished that the perspective of Westerns’ point of view in “fun” and “laughing” is really different from Asians’. While I watched the video, I couldn’t laugh while the other classmates laugh and did laugh alone while the others didn’t laugh. By watching the video, I could learn that there is a cultural difference exists between the Western people and Asian. A fun fact is that, the realization tosses me tips in understanding why Western people often uses joke related to their families and broaden my perspective; I think it’s a good thing to watch several comedies to understand the cultures of U.S.

Blog Post #6

        So even though I wasn’t in class today, I watched the Roseanne episode on Youtube. I have seen this show a couple times in the past, but never really watched it that much. I actually enjoyed this episode though, the comedy was well done, and from what I hear that sticks around through the course of the show. After being in this class for over a month, my mind naturally wandered to how this show depicts the working class Americans. (I don’t know since I wasn’t there, but I’m sure this was prompted by you in class, so I think my mind was kind of thinking it was supposed to relate it to the class). This show relays how some families face a lot more struggles than others, in particular those in the lower working class. The challenges of getting by on a lower income can be stressful on all members of a family, from the working one/ones to the members that have to live off of less. This is also hard on kids. They see at school kids that have a lot of money and all the cool new gadgets, but they themselves don’t have these things. I’m from a family that has always been upper middle class, not wealthy, but we were pretty well off, so I can’t always relate, but I’m sure it’s not a fun feeling. This can cause tension in the home, as you saw in the episode of Roseanne, with the fighting and such between members of the family.

Blog Post #6

The Roseanne Clip that we watched today in class is pretty much an example of your typical family today. I wouldn't say they are poor, but they are getting by harshly. The two main characters showed an example of the struggles two parents go through when raising a family. However it is comical, it shows how they family struggles and that with kids it makes the family perspective much more competitive in a way. They have to work harder and they hav to make sure that everyone is getting by ok. In the clip it showed a moment when Roseanne said that she works a job and raises a family and that she doesn't have time for quality time, i don't think as much that she doesn't have time for quality time with her children, I think that it's because she's trying to make sure everyone has what they need. She is the only one that works a job and brings the money in. I think that deep down she wants to spend just quality time, but she is so used to working so that everyone one around her she loves gets what they need. I do however feel that it is going to be a big problem in the future that her kids will feel like they aren't important, but i think that will just be a phase. Working classes deal with this everyday in today's world and this Roseanne clip is just one example of a family on tv who goes through the same thing and face the same life obstacles. They have just added comedy to make it seem like it's not as tense, is what i believe. Families do go through this everyday and it's just our responsibilities that get in our way of the things we would actually want to be doing, like spending quality time with our families.

Post # 6

Pilot Episode of Roseanne

Roseanne is actually quite interesting show to watch. I watch the pilot episode of Roseanne today in class for the first time. The show was in fact comical, but serious. The show exposes the daily life of poor American working class families, and the way they usually communicate each others that jumbled up the mutual living in the household. The family used the rule of first come first serve basis for eating food etc... No one even cares and thinks back who ever lefts behind. The two family leaders were as well struggling to follow up family responsibilities and decided to give simple answers when ever their kids asked questions about living. The financial factors that lead the family from living peacefully together were the causes of family fight. The children had worse in health and education outcomes. They were more likely to face parental fights and more likely to experience violent crimes. Roseanne shows that children growing up in underprivileged families face significant obstacles in making successful transitions into adulthood. For Roseanne’s children, poverty in actual fact persist them into associate of a great risk of violating school laws and dropping out of school. In general, Roseanne conveys that how difficult is sometimes for poor and working class families to follow up family and community laws. Roseanne and Don were just blaming each other for just little mistakes that happened in the household.

So-Young Park Blog #5

The article that I chose is titled “ Japan’s Economic aftershock”, published by John Berthslsen. The article narrates that after two nuclear power plant were broken, the after effects not only rise the issue of global warming and earth pollution, but also both economically and financially affect people in the world. John labeled that as the aftershock of the accident, the industry of Japan has dropped drastically as in 1960s, the period when Japan experienced financial or economic panic resulting people to lose their jobs and suffer from. John adds numeral quotations such as “The hollowing out of Japanese industry was launched 15 years ago,” and “The recession has continued for 15 years and with the bad effect of the strong yen for these years. But, the earthquake was one of the triggers for Japanese companies to invest overseas. I expect that more companies will go out of Japan in the next three years.” from experts to support the phenomenon. However, although the author contributes several quotations from other sources to clarify Japan’s aftershock has affected the world, still, the sources John applies to strength the article is not valid. He doesn’t insert charts or graphs and put experiments, which evidently explain the influences of the disaster, happened in Japan, to clearly show the differences. Thus, the article shows that it possesses less power to convince the audience or the readers.

Blog Post # 5

The article that I founded interesting to read and relevant to our topic about class warfare is The New York Times article released in late September of this year to show whether capitalism is beneficial to the middle class or upper class families. The article questions that how the economic gaps between the poor and rich expanded out since the late 1980s. Those at the top of the class ranks in actual facts enjoyed to the new economic change, over time they used it as their own advantage. They own almost 30-40% of the nation’s wealth, while the middle class has become lost in the mid-ways. Since then the middle class has become the victims of different governmental and private loans such as, credit debt card and housing loans to live better and accomplish their economic dreams. To move up from middle class or even from the bottom of working class that nearly every poor American employee works hard to be in the comfort zone-the upper class which has great economic prosperity. The question that everyone feels to ask is that why the government officials let the economic gaps to grow faster even though they knew the growth factors were unbalanced tax cuts to the social classes? They let the riches to pay less tax rates then loaded the burden to middle class families. The unfair tax rate widened out the economic gaps between the very poor and rich that cannot easily get back to the early 1980s class structures. In addition, Chrystia depicted that the growing of technology and globalization has allowed the rich and big companies to send their jobs overseas and produce goods by paying a decant wages to skilled intercontinental workers in their companies. The rich has not been paying their share pair to the federal government because they are the job creators and believed that if we make them pay they can shut down big corporations and can cause dramatic job recessions. These can prove that capitalism is about voraciousness that results as the expansions of wealth competition and individual financial prosperity.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/19/do-taxes-narrow-the-wealth-gap/obama-is-right-to-be-concerned-about-justice

-On the above is website for The New York Times article if you guys want to read it.

Blog Post 5

http://www.alternet.org/economy/152512/6_ways_the_rich_are_waging_a_class_war_against_the_american_people?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternet

                This online article is about the war between the classes in our current society and covers what they claim are the 6 ways the rich are waging the war against the American people. This article was interesting to read because it goes over ways the upper class is causing problems and waging this “class war” with the lower classes. One of the problems I found with this source is that a lot of times it will report on statistics, numbers, facts, etc. without backing them up. We don’t know where they got these numbers or facts from, because for a lot of them it does not say, it just states the fact.  In defining what they deem the biggest ways the rich are waging a class war, they often use comical phrases, or phrases to dumb things down, to summarize a whole reason or section. I think this Is a good tool to use because they put things into terms that everyone can understand, and everyone can relate to in some way. The author uses sarcasm and other tools that could be considered light natured to point out flaws in the way the upper class speaks/acts that encourages the division of classes and the conflicts between the different classes.  A lot of the causes that the author points out is baseless claims made by the wealthy class that belittle the lower class. This causes harsh feelings between the two, thus encouraging class warfare. This article doesn’t assume its readers are very knowledgeable, as it takes the time to explain a lot of things as opposed to assuming we all know everything already, they just don’t back up some of their facts and numbers very well.

Blog Post #5

Since i am doing my paper on racism i came across this article that talked about a man who collected black memorabilias. All of them were of black people. He had them everywhere in his house and loved to look at them. Now this guy was a white guy, he had everything from topics on slavery, and discrimination. People made assumptions that it was racist. He just loved to collect them. People thought that these artifacts should be in the museums instead of in his house. They were worth something and people also tried to make him off to be someone who was just using it in a bad way. So what? The author wanted to show that it is just a simple guy who had a significannt hobby and that's not what everyone was assuming. He had little statues of black people as well. People just assumed the worse because of the past that we have all went through in the past with discrimination. He likes to collect them because they showed chracter of how people lived in those time of days and what it mean't to him. However that is not how everyone else saw them.

Blog Post #4 Kate Johnstone

The Justice system is a big deal when it comes to sexual abusers. In my show that i watch Law and Order, it talks a lot about sexual abuse and stories that have to do with children. My primary source has to deal with a clip from the show about sexual abuse. I think with the fact that i need to make an argument about class, i need to find more information about the justice system itself and figure out more about sexual abuse that goes on in the world. I think people would argue that it goes on unnoticed and that people just don't care as much or that they never used to care. However saying that, means that nobody really focuses on it like it's a priority. Another source i could use it to compare and contrast the ways that it is seen and handled in the clip compared to the real life situtaions. I can see how the justice system really works. Really analyze the clip that i have picked.

Blog post #4 (So-Young Park)

Q: What do I need to know more about in order to talk about how this site of cultural reproduction (your primary source) makes an argument about class?

Because the primary source that I chose is one of the social sensational problems happening in the world, most of people, especially women doing diet, have heard and achieved the basic term and effects of the disorder. Therefore, in order to talk about how this site of cultural reproduction makes an argument about the class, I am required to obtain expert information about the disorder, such as the long term effects and short term effects of the disorder, the specific reasons why people still follow the tendency although they already know the negative influences of the disorder and the methods to help people, who suffer from the disorder, out of the disorder. Furthermore, I also need to find social factors leading people to experience anorexia nervosa and social phenomena from both negative and positive sides to prevent public to judge whether people have anorexia nervosa are all lunatic in losing their weight.

Post #4

*What do I need to know more about in order to talk about how this site of cultural reproductions makes an argument about class?

I research out of my best to come across with an imperative primary source and favored to have a source that can instruct the audiences about the economy today and provide more thoughtful ideas about the bizarre values that are accessible to people in the United States of America. Since, my primary source is about economic disparity that is related to today’s economic recession in the United States; I should have first to know more about the different kinds of socioeconomic classes. How are these factors in reality different and what are the unique important living fascinations in these social classes or essential values that are available to individuals in these social classes and what factors compelled people who ended up staying on these different levels of social/economic classes? I have to put deep details in the picture with additional historical incident procedures that happened before few decades ago and imminently led to the formation of different levels of social classes that appeared in the late 1980s. In additions, I have to put up the answers how the economy dynamic changes tremendously increased the gaps between the rich and poor that impact to the economy and particularly to the working class families. In addition the more essential thing that can lead me to discover these inquiries can be by questioning more how the nation’s political parties are involving today to solve the economic problems and their view points and tasks to fix the socioeconomic discrepancies.

Blog Post 3 (10/4)

         I think in order to make a better discussion about how my source makes an argument about class I need to know more about the past tax rates and policies that are in question now. This would make it easier for me to compare what is happening now with the past, and how certain things worked in the past. Some of our most important lessons are learned from the past. Knowledge about the past can tell a lot about things that are happening now. Another thing that would be helpful to know is more specifics about speeches and quotes that both parties have made. This would give me the ability to be able to use more quotes and reference certain speeches/comments made. That gives more substance to the arguments/points that I am trying to make, if I can provide quotes from the figures, as opposed to just talking about how they each feel in general. These specifics would add credit to my claims, as opposed to just stating them, there would be evidence showing that my word is credible. The problem with using one speech is that you miss the opinion of the other man, so I’m looking for a good article that has some quotes from both, so that I can have something that shows quotes from both men as the main source. Then to add to the support of the claims, excerpts from different speeches can be used to show how the men think. And also to show how they say one thing, but really mean another.