The Data Keeps Flying In

     After more asking more students my survey questions I have continued to get two extreme responses. Either the student has held on to their identity and persona or they have completely changed in the attempt to fit in or to be "better." Using the looking glass theory as my theory has fit perfectly well. It has been very interesting the reaction to the students own responses, especially if the student sees what I see and realizes that they have been changing. All in all the surveying part of the essay process is over and I will be drafting soon.

Beginning Surveys

This weekend I started to conduct research about my thesis regarding a social science theory. I am conducting research regarding how students transition from the lifestyle they lived back home surrounded by family and friends who know the pre college students for a long period of time to their current situation of being in college for about three months. Surrounded by new people who are still learning about the students personality, has the students personality from home changed based on what their new friends may or may not think about them? Has a new college students personality changed after leaving the norm of home life?

Since this past weekend was a large event at my college, I started off my survey with students from other campuses. This week I hope to have surveyed students of my college.

The survey was conducted through email asking to answer the questions under them. The survey varied but it clear that many students have noticed small changes in their behavior after the survey. It was important to most students to "start off on the right foot" with their new friends. It was clear that it was important to impress new friends and talk about what they would do back home.

Another interesting note that was made was almost all of the students that I talked to feel this awkward feeling when talking to their parents about their plans. Students still have an urge to ask for permission but at the same time state what they are doing because as college students living on their own they feel like they can do what they want. The urge to ask permission is interesting to point out.

Racist Schooling Response

     Education can really be a deadly tool when it comes to conforming others. The article" Indigenous resistance and racist schooling on the borders of empires:Coast Salish cultural survival." makes some serious references to this being a weapon. Indigenous people were washed of their culture and mindsets while in schools. the children would be taught what the dominating culture considered right and wrong. Most of the wrongs were things their culture thought. This was used a plethora in history, like the natives in the west. As America grew more room was needed and they natives had to either keep moving or join, fighting wasn't an option against the growing country. By joining the natives would have to walk and talk the way the average american would and also have to live they way they lived. The lifestyles completely changed for the natives.

     Education could be used as a serious tool and its very important to keep an eye on what schools are teaching the youth. Education could easily conform.

Food Sustainability

In upstate New York town of Worsbrough there aren't many options to where your food comes from. Choices are limited unless one would want to drive longer then 30 minutes to go to the "local" Target or other main names in the food business including Food Lion, Harris Teeter, etc. In the small town there are about two locally owned shops to buy groceries. The option of growing food for oneself would be near to impossible due to the freezing temperatures most of the year. Some food could be grown but not a variety, nor enough to sustain a family let alone a single person. If a citizen want to buy a specific type of food product or a specific food process done, then options are limited and there is a good chance that citizen will have to deal with it, or venture elsewhere including a minimum of an hour drive.

Environmental Ethics

When the Wilderness and the American Mind was published in 1967 the author Roderick Nash established himself as the head authority in American attitude towards nature. Nash wrote about the evolution of Americans relationship with the environment. Nash discusses the rights of nonhumans in nature and that those must be respected to keep a healthy balance. This respect was necessary to keep a balance between humans and their bioregion, they needed to respect nature in order to keep it healthy and also to sustain themselves. This published piece is also an important today in todays terms, the environment is not being respected as it once was.

What's Up With All This Fracking?

     The Environmental Protection Agency has found contamination in local ground water in Wyoming. The contaminated water was tested and studied and many of the pollutants were likely caused during drilling for gas. The chemicals involved with drilling and pumping gas is generally refereed to as fracking chemicals. This is a very big deal and will more then likely prove how dangerous this practice really is and how much more careful drillers have to be. This is simply the first case to come up, soon more will most likely be found and government officials will set new laws regarding this practice.
     This incident will only prove the point environmental activists have been making about the drilling dangers. Not only has it harmed the environment but now society. Researchers are currently investigating and testing the surrounding area of where the contaminated water has been found. Odd smells and dirty water were just the beginning and most testing will be done to test the true dangers of these spills. Researchers will be testing to see what other problems have been caused due to fracking and just how dangerous it is.
     The drilling company seriously needs to take into consideration how serious these side effects and and how society could be effected. It goes far beyond unclean water, the cement walls used for well monitors were falling apart. These chemicals are very powerful and could easily cause serious harm or death to humans or the environment as a whole. The drilling company is to blame and must be shown the severity of their actions and laws be made to avoid these kind of contaminations.

Animal Awareness

     The image shows a bear clearly trapped in the hands of a clock. The caption in the top left corner states that every sixty seconds a species dies out. The caption provides insight so that the images purpose is more clear. The bear is trapped in time and as the clock runs slowly the bear runs out of time and is killed. The bear is clearly struggling which can be seen by the blood on the bottom paws and claw marks by the bears front paws. As time runs out the bear is more then likely killed or dies by unnatural causes that message is clear the the struggling bear. The image was edited with technology to make a point and technology is also how the image is being spread around the world so that the message may be known. This blog would be one example of technology spreading awareness with technology..