Monday, February 18, 2013

The Promise and pitfalls of going into the field

In the  the article  The Promise and Pitfalls of going into the Field talks about some ways that ethrographies do their job and how effective some of them are and are not. An ethnographer studies an indevidual culture,observing social activities as an outsider. It talks about several ethnographies that some of the enthnographers wrote,how some of them have a lot of facts,and some missing a lot of informations. Ethnography can be into several important stages:data gathering,data analysis and data presentation. It takes years for an ethnographer to study an individul culture,or communities.So many books were written about different type of cultures,but yet not all of them have really a whole fact about the cultures..It is mostly about researching about   something that you are going thru in your community of relationship,and explain the scientific side of it. One of the books that was written by Anderson,Elijah. Code of the street.New York Norton,1999,it was an examination of inner city black America.It talks about the complicated parts or involvent governing violence in urban areas.There are many more ethnogrphies by different sets of people. It refers to the chapters that we have been going thru in class witch gave us the definitions of culture,witch is the collection of values,belief,knowledge,norms,language,behavior and material shared.

WHO AM I

i wrote this before but for some reason it got deleted,i dont know how that happened. Who am i? My name is Cedric Riche,i was born in July 21 1993,so that means im a summer babe. I was born in an island name Haiti,use to struggle a lot when i was a little kid,i use to street fight,use to steal,  use to give my mom a lot of problems. My mom struggled more then i use too,because she had hard times puttin food on the table,and she was feeding a whole family,aunti,uncle,cousin,and their son and doughters. The funny thing about it is that she only have two kids and thats me and my little sister Pamela. My dad wasn't around cause as soon that i was born he had to go to America. I was confuse about having a dad untill i reach the age of ten,he came to Haiti to see me,then went back to America. He made the decision to bring to America,so i came to America when i was 12.I didn't know no english,not even one word. Since i came here i saw that they  had a lot of opportunities for you to be whatever that you want to be in life,i decided to grab on every opportunity that comes my way. And thats why i am the way i am today. Im a christian believing in one GOD and following the Bible, i am a song writer,i am an actor,i am a musician, and i am highly motivated not conceded,calloborated to venerate the one who created. My goal is to be an FBI Agent,i will work as hard as i can to achieve that goal,also i am very athletic,i play many sports,but my favorite is football,because i made it to the all stars playing football,im also good at volleyball,soccer,track,basketball and some others.And two of my favorite instrument are the piano and the drums. I love to go the the beach,the movies,and anywhere that is fun to be, because i love to be happy and enjoy myself. One animal that i cant stand are snakes,i hate everything about snakes. And i love lions and white tigers,i dont know why but i would like to have one in my house as a little babe,because once it starts to get big i will give it away.And that's pretty much about me,and im fun to be around. Thats who i am. One historical event that shaped me is that most people has the same righ,but yet some doesn't even know what their right are.One thing that looks different in my life when i see it from a big picture is when my dream come true,and achieve all my goals in life,being successful.