My family lives in a (not yet paid for) house in a small town outside a large metropolitan area. The adult works full-time at a non-unionized refrigerator plant; health insurance is not provided. There is a metropolitan bus service available. The youngest child is autistic and requires constant supervision.
The family is very limited on how they spend their money, they have a budget of $3,300 per month. The family can not afford to buy a lot of new clothes and usually have to buy to food on sale. The kids must attend a public school because the single mom can not afford private schooling. Also the mother must pay for someone to be at the house taking care of her youngest child who is autistic, which costs $750 each month but can not let the child alone so this is a must. If she spends money on the bare minimums she will be able to save money to let her oldest child go to community college. She feels that it is important that her children attend some form of college so they won't end up like her, living pay check to pay check. Because the mom is also saving up for her kids to go to college, they can't not afford to get any cable, gym memberships, or going out to eat or the movies. They must conserve their money for what they feel is the essentials. Also the two teenagers must share a cell phone because the mom can not afford to pay for three cellphone bills. The family is very limited to their spendings but they survive.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Groupthink
My friend Daisha is the follower in the group. Especially when we are trying to make a decision on what to do or where to eat she usually doesn't put in a suggestion. She'll sit back and just agree with what everyone else wants to do. Sometimes it's kind of nice to have once less opinion to work with. But mostly it can get annoying because we never really know if she likes the final decision.
The encourager of the group would be Alison. Whenever one of us is down or is tired she'll try to pick us up. And she'll always know the right thing to say to make you feel better. That's why whenever one of our friends has a problem or just kind of down, we go to her to cheer us up.
Brady is the harmonizer of the group. For example when one of us is in a fight with another friend, he'll try to talk to each person and try to fix things. He's also a person you go to get advice with a relationship or friendship. He's a great person to have in a group because when you don't know what you should do, he's there for you to help you out.
The aggressor of the group is Parker. He's easily annoyed and isn't afraid to say what's on his mind. We usually don't like a lot of the comments he says but by now we are for the most part used to them. Even though he doesn't always hang with us all the he's still part of the group, he just tends to get mad easily and ignore us for awhile.
Now I'd say I'm probably the disrupter of the group. When were trying to be serious I will usually tell a joke or something because I'm not a fan of having a in death conversation all the time. I think it's kind of nice to have my joking around most of the time because it might lighten up the mood a little when there's tension or something.
The encourager of the group would be Alison. Whenever one of us is down or is tired she'll try to pick us up. And she'll always know the right thing to say to make you feel better. That's why whenever one of our friends has a problem or just kind of down, we go to her to cheer us up.
Brady is the harmonizer of the group. For example when one of us is in a fight with another friend, he'll try to talk to each person and try to fix things. He's also a person you go to get advice with a relationship or friendship. He's a great person to have in a group because when you don't know what you should do, he's there for you to help you out.
The aggressor of the group is Parker. He's easily annoyed and isn't afraid to say what's on his mind. We usually don't like a lot of the comments he says but by now we are for the most part used to them. Even though he doesn't always hang with us all the he's still part of the group, he just tends to get mad easily and ignore us for awhile.
Now I'd say I'm probably the disrupter of the group. When were trying to be serious I will usually tell a joke or something because I'm not a fan of having a in death conversation all the time. I think it's kind of nice to have my joking around most of the time because it might lighten up the mood a little when there's tension or something.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Mean Girl
You can use the conflict theory to analyze the movie mean girls. The conflict theory is a constant balancing act for powering, even between best friends and any change to the status quo causes tension. In the movie, once Cady joined the plastics it disrupted the status quo. Gretchen started having melt downs and the original plastics began hating each other. Once that status quo is changed there becomes a lot of tension and things in the school setting become unbalanced.
Friday, February 15, 2013
cognitive thinking
I'm mostly a sensor feeler learner that likes to talk things through, and wants to know how the material at hand effects my life. I generally learn best when working with another sensor feeler learner. I need to talk through the material. it's says if we study alone we should talk to our selfs, or the walls or a mirror. Which I actually do a lot of the times. When I'm doing my homework at night to solve the problem or to figure the homework out ill talk to myself, out load, until I understand it and can do it. A technique that may help me better is breaking the material into manageable pieces. This way I won't be overwhelmed by a big problem, if I break it down it should be easier to understand and solve. That should help me with homework in the future, by breaking down the material given.
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