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angelar1987
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13 years ago @ World In Conversation - What do you think abou... · 0 replies · +1 points
So, in the ending result, the last person said something about a dinosaur I remember, and the real answer was that the teacher told us all to have a happy thanksgiving and to make sure we eat as much as we could. So that just shows that it is that easy to mix up what people say, and how other people will project to other people about what they thought they heard. Overall, I really did enjoy this activity, and I really liked listening to it, and I learned once again that I should never believe everything that I hear, because as shown with the example done in class, no messages given to one person is exactly what is given to another.
13 years ago @ World In Conversation - What do you think abou... · 0 replies · +1 points
It is quite confusing. Also what I think is that when people are relaying information to others about something they are telling people what they want to tell, and the people who are getting this feedback are hearing what they want to hear, pretty much like selective hearing, which people only grasp a few important words of phrases and pretty much put in the missing pieces as they go along when they have to relay the message to someone else. The one example that I do remember when I was small, I believe I was in the 3rd grade, and we played this game telephone and I remember being so nervous because I did not want to forget what that person told to me nor did I want to mess it up. Well, I was like the 5th person to get the message to and by the time I had to whisper to someone else, I could barely remember it because one, the person whispered the message so quietly that I could barely hear them, so then by the time it was my turn, I pretty much just made something up.
13 years ago @ World In Conversation - What do you think abou... · 0 replies · +1 points
The telephone activity that was done in class today, I found totally interesting, yet with the ending results I was not completely surprised. I also thought it was entertaining, because not only was it was great demonstration, but everyone remembers playing the telephone game when they were younger so it brought us all back to our younger days. With the example today in class, I think everyone knew that the phrase that was told into the ears of people were going to get mixed up and transferred ear to ear completely different to each individual. Obviously it is impossible to remember everything that a person tell us, unless you are some kind of genius, but in reality it is definitely a hard thing to do, we are lucky if we can remember 50% of what someone had told us. After this activity had taken place, we can conclude that this is the exact way that gossip gets started. It is a simple as one person telling another person something and that person twisting that story around and adding more to it which has nothing to do with the initial story.
13 years ago @ World In Conversation - Do you think Sam was r... · 0 replies · +1 points
On a happier note, for Sam making such a huge deal out of this lecture, I have to give him mad props for being so enthusiastic, yet serious about what he was telling us about. He shows what a great professor he is, and how important all these issues are, and how we should never overlook anything, because in a way somehow or another it affects us all. For my 5 years in college, I will never, ever forget neither Sam Richards nor the ridiculous things he did/said in class, yet all the awesome things I learned in his class. Soc 119 is definitely going to be one of the things I miss most about PSU. So as Sam would say, rock on. I just hope I can find something that grabs my attention and gets my brain working like his class did, because it is going to be hard to come by.
13 years ago @ World In Conversation - Do you think Sam was r... · 0 replies · +1 points
It really scares me that after that video it makes me even more nervous because at any given moment something so traumatic can happen and ruin so many people’s lives. On a different note, in the beginning of class before Sam even started talking about the lecture I had absolutely not a clue as in what he was going to come up with, with the title “Christian Invaders,” who knows, I thought he was going to bash my religion and give us some statistics or something. I thought it was really cool when Sam told us to put ourselves in the shoes of Muslim person, and be in those shoes for the whole lecture. It definitely gave me a different look on things, because I am and was so used to being who I am. It was hard because of that factor too, that I am white and I only know to be white, so given this chance to pretend were in another person’s shoes for the class really opened my eyes to see what is going on with their culture.
13 years ago @ World In Conversation - Do you think Sam was r... · 0 replies · +1 points
The lecture that Sam said was going to the “best” was not my definition of best, but it did come with a lot of ways that got my brain to think in different ways. For the “Christian Invaders” lecture, I did enjoy how Sam showed us a bunch of videos, I feel like they definitely had a little bit of an impact on me, which is always a good thing. With the first video of Jihad, and all the bombings that occurred in the past years really frightened me. It made me think that at any given moment anything can happen to anyone, it is really scary. Me for one, I am afraid of a lot of things, which in reality you cannot be afraid of fear forever because then you will never become anything in life, in my own perspective anyway. You cannot run away forever, you have to grow and learn to deal with fear which I do think makes people strong. I truly feel everything we are scared of already happened to us, and we are all afraid of it happening again.
13 years ago @ World In Conversation - Women: What are your t... · 0 replies · +1 points
It just makes me sad sometimes these guys really have no idea what women go through just to look decent, even though most of us are dressed in high heels and are uncomfortable because our jeans are too tight and are feet are killing us. But on a happier note, I am proud to be a woman and happy I do get to dress up, but most of the time you will see me in a big sweatshirt and sweatpants, I love being comfortable, and pretty much the only times you will see me dressed up is out on the weekends or at something other than walking on campus or being class. If girls did not judge other girls and guys did not judge others so quickly we would not have to worry about looking our best all the time with all the makeup and hair products we use, I just wish that us being natural and plain would be enough and nobody had to compete.
13 years ago @ World In Conversation - Women: What are your t... · 0 replies · +1 points
For example, this weekend it was my friend’s birthday and he is a guy, he kept calling me and my friends to come up and pregame, but after 2 hours we were finally ready to party. It does suck honestly to take that long to get ready just to look good, we all have to either straighten our hair, or curl it and half the time once were done and by the time were leaving the house we pretty much fixing ourselves again. It makes me mad, well not mad but I guess you can say jealous that a guy can look his best in 15 minutes if he had too and for us girls it takes us hours to get ready. At times I do wish I was a guy for a day or two just so I could throw on whatever I wanted, throw some gel in my hair and walk out the door, they really do have it so easy.
13 years ago @ World In Conversation - Women: What are your t... · 0 replies · +1 points
This lecture really surprised me, not only was I laughing a bunch, but it really opened my eyes too. It is really hard to say that I don’t care what people think about me when I go out, I mean I guess it is more towards the guys because when girls go out all dressed up, all girls are checking out other girls for whose dressed slutty, who pretty, who had cute shoes, etc. As for me I do love being a girl and getting dressed up, I love buying new clothes and looking my best, I guess it is just in a girl’s nature. But on the other hand, I absolutely LOVE wearing huge sweatpants and huge hoodies, there is nothing that beats being comfy and cozy. Even when I go to class, the 5 days that I am on campus I can say 4 times out of the week I am in sweatpants, and a hoodie or a t-shirt. It is hard to compare people with how they are dressed on campus, because when you see people on the weekends all pampered and ready to party they are all completely transformed people.
13 years ago @ World In Conversation - For the white females:... · 0 replies · +1 points
. For example, my mother was born and raised Russian Orthodox and my father was Catholic as was his mother, and when my parents got together my grandmother absolutely hated my mother just because she was not Catholic, but she was white. After my parent’s got married, my mom had to convert over to Catholic because that was how my brother and I were baptized. I just think it is weird, that it did not matter that my mom had white skin just like my dad and his mother did, but just because they were a different religion they had some issues. As for me now, I am dating a white guy, and I am completely happy and content in this relationship, but I would be lying if I did not say that I always have my eyes open for cute guys, no matter what color you are. If you are good looking then I will definitely notice you, and if anything else evolves over your looks, then you must be something special because I am extremely picky when it comes to dating guys.
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