Change in syllabus...see my email. Health and Nutrition next week. Dream books in two weeks.
New refection topic for this week:
How does understanding the past trends, culture, history, etc such as was presented today in class help you to prepare for your own future? This can be considered in terms of career, lifestyle, social involvement, oral views etc. What were some things in today's presentations that stuck out for you? What decade would be the most interesting for you to work in and why?
I remember a photo with my whole family it was the last picture I took with my grandfather. A couple of minutes after this photo I remember that my parents were hurrying me and my siblings to leave because my grandpa was becoming more ill. So we had to leave as the stay-in nurse had to tend to him. I could remember being so confused at the time and my parents tried my best to keep us from seeing him looking so ill, because we we saw our grandpa we saw a man who was strong and didn't flinch at anything but at the same time cared for all of his family, he was very respectable and I looked up to him and he was one of the few people that my dad looked up to. The picutre showed the unity of a strong family and the lock that kept it together at the time.
ReplyDeleteI think that understanding past trends and and culture/history is an important thing because I read a quote once that said " To be ignorant of the past is to ignorant in the present." This holds true because we should from the past mistakes of the nation in order to live a brighter by taking out the kinks. I think of us now as an upgrade of the past because we've sort of...a little bit....sort of learned from what has been going on in the past. This will help me in the future because I can learn from the mistakes that were being made in the past and will help me focus on how to better myself based on the choices I didn't make because someone already made decisions that weren't good, in order for me to lear from them. The things that stood out to me were the things that talked about the civil rights and the women's rights because I can't believe that it took so long and they still don't get paid as much as men. Another things was the fashion because WOW has it changed a lot, but it is slowly starting to come back. I think for me the most interesting decade for me to work in would be the 60s because of all of the race problems going on and it was slowly the start of the change of the old traditional ways to the more of a free spirit type of way.
ReplyDeleteI love that quotes I to all was belive that if are " to be ignorant of the passes to be ignorant of the future," if you never learn from the mistakes of the people that came before you then you would just make the same mistake. Instead of growing as a person you'll just be always repeating the same cycle as the people that came before you.
DeleteI've always said that understanding your past is important that way you don't commit the same mistakes and work towards a brighter tomorrow.As for preparing for the future, I will continue to value and exercise the rights many people have fought to have. One big one to me is voting. People always bitch and complain about how they don't vote because it won't make a difference. I want to grab them and give them a history lesson on how many people have sacrificed so much to give people that freedom to choose. And those who don't vote can't complain when things are crap because they didn't even bother to raise their voice. But anyways, what stuck out to me if how much progress there has been when it comes to social equality. Yes we have a loooong way to go but at least we've taken multiple steps to help us become more equal. I also noticed how fast women have worked their way up the work-scale in a matter of such a short time. It was like in a matter of a couple of decades, women became the bread winners and everything. I would definitely love to work in the 60s or 70s because I know I would have been an activist and a total hippie/student. I would have been a student activist at Berkeley.
ReplyDeleteLearning about the different cultures in the past really makes me feel like I have been born into the wrong era. The only possible ways that I can personally prepare for my own future based on what my class mates has presented to me are my career paths and political views. I already feel that the society we live in today is messed up due to the corruption of the more recent generations. So the only thing I can really prepare myself is to change the way I live and set myself up for success in my future. For my career, I am not sure what I would like to do, but I know it will be an accomplishment to my liking. I will become a millionaire so I know my lifestyle will be very comfortable. I intend to have a career that I will love for what I do, not the money that I make. While that is going on, I plan on keeping the people who do not want to see me succeed out of my way; those are the ones that will keep you down. All my life growing up and “finding myself” I have surrounded myself with people that I now know are detrimental to my life. The unnecessary drama, unhappiness, and discontent with my wellbeing are over and forever will be over. I live my life with honesty; people can depend on me for anything and that is the way I will keep it. The decade that stuck out to me was the 1990s. I do not know if it was because that was the decade that I was born in, or for the simple fact that the music and the way people interacted with each other really caught my attention. I miss the days where people were not always talking about sex, drinking, smoking, disrespecting, etc. This is just something that I notice my generation does, and it sickens me. But other than that, I am not sure on what decade I would work in because there are always faults in one. I like the decade that I work in now, but I am biased because I have not been one of those people who have a hard time finding a job. Maybe in the future when it comes to finding a career I will feel that stress. But I enjoy being the independent women that I have become; relying on no man!
ReplyDeleteI think understanding the past cultures, past trends and history is very important. I think its important because our future revolve of our past history. If you look back into the older eras you can see that a lot has changed like the technology, language, fashion, laws etc. Understanding and being educated about the later eras can give you a sense of what the world is becoming. Culture is very important to me because it doesn't only represent somebodies language or race but more importantly it represent their identity. In the presentations I thought the 90's looked fun. The 90's looked fun because the music was cool, the fashion was very colorful and fun to me. What really stuck out to me was actually visualizing everybody go up and pretending it was that era, so much has changed in the positive side and also the negative side. One of the positives is how women have rights now and actually build their own careers now. One of the negative outcomes is how women are sex symbols now and feel like they have to show their butt cheeks for attention haha
ReplyDeleteI think understanding the past it helps me prepare for my own future by learning from common trends and mistakes, like the tendency to conform to the culture. Like Abdullahi. I've heard the same quotes about how it's necessary to learn from the past to prevent repetition of mistakes in history. Things that stuck out from the presentations were what little rights women used to have and how women are still being treated horribly, like through music (As Averill sang in class for how current music is portrayed as, "All I want is a big booty bitch") and in the work place with how women and men are paid. The 90's was the most interesting decade to me just because that's the generation I grew up with and I love everything to do with the fashion, TV shows, movies, etc.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding the past is key to succeed in the future because we can learn from events and things that happened in past years and improve what needs to be improved. Moreover, learning about the privileges people didn't have in the past made me appreciate the freedom and rights I have today and take advantage of the opportunity of having a better future. Something that caught my attention was learning about all the unrest people went through during the 60's; war, discrimination, racism, etc and how people fought for themselves and started to change the American culture to become the society we know today. I think I am in the right decade right now because I would love to work with all these technological advancements and new inventions we have today. Although it is more competitive, I think it is the right time for me because I like what I know, what I'm doing, and what I will do as a professional.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding the past allowed me to reflect on what I want and don't want for my future. The decade that makes me mad is the 50s; I hate to think that if I was to live in that era, I was going to be submissive and dependent. I can't imagine my life with that type of mentality. I am the type of person that doesn't like to stay in one place and that loves freedom, that is why I loved my decade, the 70s! The women in the 70s got to fight for what they wanted and even though many of them did not get to see the outcome of their actions, their family should be proud of them because we get to enjoy it. Well, going back to my future stuff, I am grateful that I am in this era because I get to go to school and prepare myself to be successful and independent. Just like any social worker like me should be!!! LOL
ReplyDeleteKnowing how the past was in any decade helped me to prepare for my own future because is good to understand that not all the things that we have today were the same as back in the days. Is good to know what kind of trends people would be using during a decade and what trends would become new once in the decade so that for some business people, like me, can sell the product or anything that people would use and not the old things that nobody would want to buy. Something that stuck out of me was the developing of the technology and how it has changed over the time, I cannot imagine what will be “the new technology”. The 80s would be a good decade for me to work in because I liked how people was so into music and all the hair product and clothes that people would bought just to look better than other people. Loved 80s music! :D
ReplyDeleteI think its crazy how much has changed in just a few years, it was also nice to learn about the past because its helped me see things in a whole new perspective. I see how the fashion is coming back. some people don't realize it but now that i seen the presentations i've noticed it. It's also letting me know how jobs are just getting harder to get and women are getting more independent each year and i love that ! the 80's caught my attention the most the music and fashion is great ! also technology is making it harder for people to communicate.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding the past trends, culture, and history helped me realize that I am the luckiest person who gets to live in the 90's in the U.S. Even though today's world is so crazy, women and men have equal rights and different races can live together in the same neighborhood, compared to 50's through 70's eras. However, I love 50's through 80's lifestyles. Women dressed appropriately and took good care of their children. Today, not many women take care of their children and do housekeeping. I've been in the U.S. for 5 years, and I haven't really learned much about American culture back in the 50's through 80's until my classmates gave all of the presentations about those eras. In all of the presentations, something that stuck out to me the most was racism. Even though the law decided that it's illegal to discriminate based on race, it took about a year for minorities to live in peace in the U.S. I think that 60's would be the most interested era to live in because jobs were easier to find and the cost of living and food were less expensive.
ReplyDeleteIt helped my perspective a lot because although wages raise every year or decade, the cost of living does too. In todays age, this is we are simply doing by experiment so who knows what will be available and wont be in 10 years. I always tell everyone that I should've been born in the 80s but something about that not happening tells me it was probably for the best ;) Probably would have pursued career in 'criminology' honestly. I think there was less resources and outlets then the way I was raised. I would love to have worked in the 90s because by this time I would've been ahead of my game ;) I learned a lot from this project
ReplyDeleteI've noticed, even outside of this class, that women hold much less value in culture when compared to a man. Even today, women are expected to stay at home, raise the children, do the house chores etc. It's actually really quite funny that even today women in certain types of jobs are frowned upon. I grew up in a very traditional Mexican home, my grandmother and great grandmother raised me, both from Guadalajara, and they would spend the day slaving over a clean house, making dinner for the family, and so forth. After dinner the women and children would start cleaning as the men relaxed on the back patio with a beer and a cigarette. Although I was raised this way, I do not believe that women should be frowned upon in the workplace; if they want to work, then they should have the opportunity to do so. I often talk about the differences between equality and equity, and really strive to make sure people know the difference. Equality means being treated as everyone else, equity on the other hand refers to being afforded the same opportunities; I'm sorry, but I do not want to be treated the way any one else is, however I would very much like to be given the same opportunities.
ReplyDeleteI would have loved to live in the '20's. I know it wasn't a decade that we covered, but I think that I can very closely relate to the values and culture of the 1920's.
Understanding our culture and history is important because we can learn from it. After each presentation, I thought every decade was interesting because each decade had something unique. The thing the stuck out the most for me was the inequality women face trough-out history.
ReplyDeleteI did not even realized that until I read yours. how much women has evolved with each decade. That they come from being housewives that only raises there children and take care of there husband. Today when are being CEO's of companies and have a family to. so learning from the past for me just showed that women can be the stay at home mom but we can have the care we want to. As for the men it seam unlike the women fashion changing theirs for the most stayed the same and the work they do to. Even know it is still a rare thing to see a stay at home Dad. that takes the place as the 50's Housewives.
DeleteIf we were to analyze the past trends of the decades, I believe we will understand our elders, learning there really were never really any 'back in the good ol' days' and that some jerk had only spun that phrase to get you to buy into their story buy pulling on some nostalgia that things use to be better and to sell you hope that it can return to how it was before, even though there was no real before time of better events. Then we can also analyze our own trends to better understand the next generation- why they would were there worst kind of clothes to the best and the kind of speaking that is carried on after ours. Just to understand what the next generation would be like will help bridge gaps to guiding them away from our own follies. And when I say to understand, it strictly means to understand. To know what signs there are in this generations actions and how to react to them. Not to try to communicate by getting to down to their level, which I find so degrading and insulting.
ReplyDeleteSomething I find interesting is the point Richard brought up, it's the cliché of no matter how much something changes it still stays the same. We live in the same politically correct / just as progressive society as the decades before us. All that's changed is the norms. If there is something wrong with you, and if you find the wrong place to be in there always will be something wrong with you, you will be put down just for the hell of it. People say we have social rules and laws that stops discrimination, this does nothing but to change how the discrimination is done. No more being told your worthless directly anymore, it's all discreet now, and most likely for the same reason- just for the hell of it. And because of this I do not believe equality or equity will ever fit with how this society is. And this may be wrong to say but what is life without the opposition of an uphill battle.
I would not want to change the decade I live in because even though they all have their own highlights that define them, they also have all their screw ups that I don't want to deal with, only reason I stick with this decade is because I'm comfortable with it and am a little interested in where it will lead.
What i understand from history in general, is that history always repeats itself if your steps that you make in your future not carefully looked after. It can relate to many different things like fashion, government and family related things and many more... As to keeping culture the same way older generations had it, the newer generations have to be taught the same exact way the older generation was taught. In the class last wednesday, i learned to not ever wear leg warmers, because they are so ugly... and also i learned that many things from the past comes back in the future and in decades things repeat itself. Mainly with fashion trends.
ReplyDeleteThe decade that stuck to me most was in the1970's because they seemed like the culture that did not loose all its morals yet, where a husband and wife was in the picture. I also liked how they said cursing defined your stature. I also remember how discrimination was being a big deal towards a lot of different ethnic races in stead of the whites; and now in the future we are being more diverse ( slowly but surely)
I see how much my family life’s has change from back in the days and I remember how much my family has struggle to get where they are at. I am preparing for my future by going to school and getting a education. I want to become with a nurse so I can help out my family and other. I want to live a lifestyle where I can make sure there is going to be a green world my my children in the future. I want to get myself involved with saving the earth. One decade I would like to learn more about is the 70’s when women rights were changing and more women became the change for each other today's presentations show me how to enjoy what happening around me and see how life has memorable moments we should all take in.
ReplyDeletePeople have always said that history trends to repeat itself, and we got a clear understanding of that with these presentations. As time continues, fashion trends and activities that happened in the past are coming back around. That just told me to be yourself no matter what, you may not be the same as those around you, but that's alright. One day, they're going to try to be just like you. My favorite era would have to be the fifties without a doubt. And that is of course because of the greasers ! Which they didn't cover. The greasers were the rebellious lower class subculture. While the rich white kits pretty much had their future set, the greasers for the most part were high school drop outs who couldn't afford to continue school. They went straight to work to pay the bills. I would have loved to be in the fifties group so that my peers could see who the greasers subculture really was and see past the leather jacket and greasy hair.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding the past trends, culture, history, etc. .. made me appreciate the era I am living in now. Because other era like the 50s and the 70s black people did not have the opportunities that I've today. If it wasn't for people like MLK, Rosa Park, Emily, Jesse Jackson, Pankhurst, Susan B. Anthony ..etc. that sacrifice there lives minorities people like me wouldn't have the liberty that we have today. I really like family value and how respectable children were to their elders in the 50s and 70s. I will be interested in working in the 2000 era because of the technology cause I don't think I could survive without my cell ad laptop.... I would like to change the No Child Left Behind policy because I think it's causing a lot of teens to drop out of school. Every year kids gets promoted even though they don't learn anything and when they're seniors they can't pass the state exam to graduate, so they get frustrated and discourage and drop out. I really like this Cultural diversity project because it made me see just how lucky I'm to be living in this era.:)
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding the past from all the presentstions is what helped me develop a sense of change and constant struggle in the world. As years passed on there was more progression. however there is still a long way to go considering equal rights are still not equal within women, within race, & economic status. What contributed to my own persoanl life was the lack of involvement in social and political controversy when it got closer to current years. The uproar of the 60's righteous protesting lead to our current years having less younger citizens (teenagers) become the next generation towards strong controversies. Which makes me glad to have the opportunity to have all my outlets of information and to determine my own personal political standpoints on everything I want to change in this world not only for me & my people but for everyone that's considered a "minority"
ReplyDeleteI believe that what I've saw and learn in last weeks class have opened my eyes in many ways. I came to realize that many of the things happening in the past decades ! Some of them can be bad but others can be good. Like the clothes and all type of styles, but yet our generation/year makes something completely different out of it. However many things that women fought for back in the days, have done nothing but helped us now... And I'm nothing but glad and thankful for that! Some of us have to make a difference and creat memorable things for the more decades to come. 2010-now interested me the most, since I came to the conclusion that this decade has many traditions/cloths/ etc from past decades. I would like to work in the 80-90s decades just to actually experience how they dress, and lived !
ReplyDeleteResearching into the past makes me realizes that without change there is no future. All this change that has happened has made this country what it is now, whether the reputation is good or bad. People either fall into the trend that is around them or they dont. I love the 60's though :) I wish I could visit that era!
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