HomeWork57: (edited)

Part 1: Your initial thoughts
* How should kids be parented?
I feel like i can't really give a correct answer to this question since my answers are probably based on how i was raised as a child. But looking at those thoughts i feel that a child should have room to explore on their own since they are their own individuals, and i shouldn't really control their lives of what to like and dislike. I think children should be introduced to many different things when they are still developing and on a equal amount so they would not favor one over another because they were influenced more by it.
Children should spend equal time with their children and not spoil the child so that he/she always get what they want. I feel like there should be a balance to how much love the parents give the child and how much restrictions a kid should have. They shouldn't have too much but they should have to little, i think being in the middle of the togetherness and the individuality pulls is the best thing for a child to have.

* What should be the social arrangements? An extended family, nuclear family, a village, corporate day care?
Kids should first get to acknowledge their parents first before and other social interactions since they are the ones they are closest to in this world and will spend most of their early life with. I disagree with and kind of day care because it roots the child's brain and influenced them to other in a early age, and will train them to be corporate robots. Children should be influenced little by their relatives and as they grow older they should start and expand their horizon and seek new friendships and bonds but not get to attached to them.

* What should be the guiding principles? Love? Obedience? Loving obedience? Humor? Empowerment? Subordination? Time outs? Separate cribs or co-sleeping? Breast feeding or bottle? Child-centered or parent-centered? etc.
I don't think their should be one guiding principle since in this world kids need to experience more than on main thing, they need to explore on their own and with others, they need to be taught and have room to self learn.
Stuff like timeouts are just a waste since their superiority don't last long, and beating a child hurts their bodies mentally in the long run. I think that

* What were the best parts of how you were parented (since the worst parts don't really belong in a public class blog)?
I don't really know the best parts of how i was parenting since i don't want to judge how my parents did it since i would start having doubts about how i was raised.
But if i had to pick one i would say that my parents didn't believe in that many punishments like physical or mental (like time outs)

* How do you think you'd parent if you're put in that position?
I think i would treat my child in the same way since i don't think that timeouts or physical punishments would do the child any good, i believe that there are better ways like telling the child and restricting them (not grounding) in some ways are the way to raise a kid.

* Do you think babies should be treated more like adults or like puppies?
I think babies shouldn't be treated in the middle between an a adult and a puppies since they are still humans but don't function and think like a corporate puppet like an adult.

* Do you think parenting will "come naturally" or do you think you'll have to research multiple perspectives and come up with a (possibly evolving) model in collaboration with other family members? Did your family read books about how to parent you or do informal research such as talking to other family members?
I believe that parenting doesn't come naturally since in this society we learn our parenting skills from our parents and would treat our kids like how we are treated and we would just exclude what we thought was good or bad. I don't think getting advice from books is a really good idea since those are corporate ways to raise a kid but ways to raise a kid should be from family and friends and not people you don't know.

HomeWork56:

Informal Research Continued -
Interview Questions: If there is a (1-5 next to the question 5=Yes Very often 1=Not very Often)
1. What is your definition of gossip?
2. When every your acquaintances(friends+daily interactions) talk about someone else do you become self conscious about it(whatever they were talking about) toward yourself?(1-5)
3. Do you make negative comments about others around you to your acquaintances? (1-5)
4. Have you ever felt a change in your personality around your acquaintances? (how?)

Interviews:
(to be continued)

Analysis:
(to be continued)

Survey Question:
*When every your acquaintances(friends+daily interactions) talk about someone else do you become self conscious about it(whatever they were talking about) toward yourself?(1-5)

HomeWork55:

Orignal Question: How do friends and acquaintances affect ones self happiness?
(OR) How do friends and acquaintances stimulate self depression?

-fixed in class- (Andy Snyder's suggestion) to write your questions over and over again in different ways till you get a exhibition type question. (pick a specif topic that has a probability to had studies done.)

New independent Research Topic: Does gossip create or caused by acquaintances create self depression?

Research:
Smith, Melinda, Joanna Saisan, Robert Segal, and Jeanne Segal. "Understanding Depression." HelpGuide.org (2009): n. pag. Web. 17 May 2010. .
This Website is a help page consist of basic knowledge to know about depression. It talks about the symptoms (that are commonly known)

If you identify with several of the following signs and symptoms, and they just won’t go away, you may be suffering from clinical depression.
* you can’t sleep or you sleep too much
* you can’t concentrate or find that previously easy tasks are now difficult
* you feel hopeless and helpless
* you can’t control your negative thoughts, no matter how much you try
* you have lost your appetite or you can’t stop eating
* you are much more irritable and short-tempered than usual
* you have thoughts that life is not worth living (Seek help immediately if this is the case)

HomeWork54: (EDITED)

INTP - "Architect". Greatest precision in thought and language. Can readily discern contradictions and inconsistencies. The world exists primarily to be understood. 3.3% of total population.

Link of what a INTP is like
I though this test was a very vague interpretation of me, since it doesn't cover all of my personalities, it only shows the outer layer that most people see. But there are many points that make my personality unique and similar to others. By classifying me into four categories it is better than using one or two since there are more possibilities to place people in to tell how other are similar or not and where the line stops between personalities.

Big5 Test results
I'm a O53-C35-E12-A8-N3 Big Five!!
Even though this is a different test than what andy had on his blog i still think that this shows a different side of my personality than the first personality test. Instead of labeling us into categories it shows percentages to how much of each category we are, so we have a more basic understanding about ourselves.
But the way they placed it shows that i am low on the score since in the other test it also shows that my personality only related to about 3.3% of the population.
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C.N.
Guess:
REAL: ESTJ:
organized, group oriented, focused, conventional, leader, emotionally stable, anal, attention seeking, planner, realistic, fearless, responsible, finisher, decisive, norm following, respects authority, punctual, hard working, stiff, self confident, thinks rules and regulations are important, follows the rules, clean, outgoing, social, content, does not like being alone, normal, regular, does not like weird or strange people / things - intolerant of differences, strict, disciplined, aggressive, assertive, content, happy, proper, formal, strict with self, meticulous, strong sense of purpose

HomeWork: 53

Part1:
survey done
Part2:
while i was taking this survey i needed a little bit of outside help with some questions since i knew i would not be 100% truthful so if i agree with another opinion about myself i would try and rationalize the answer. Since outside opinion affects everything we decide and do in this world it seem no harm to get some help to maybe new ideals that i have never thought about.

Taking the survey didn't make me feel self conscious about myself since there is nothing really to hide that know of. I felt this was a great was to see how i compare to other students in the grade, and if i would fall into the most popular response in number f people whom took the survey. i felt like some questions sounded like they repeated over and over again and my answer didn't change even though i might of contradicted myself now that i think about it.

I didn't talk about the survey with my family since i thought that there was no need to gather their opinion since they would be about the same with my friends, on what they think about each topic.

By thinking about my answers it didn't change my daily life at all since everything seemed normal even though i thought about my relationship with others and how close i am with them in this world. I didn't even think about the fact that all this thinking can be a lie and the truth is something i do not want to remember and experience.

There is so much to think about but no matter how much i want to change about how i feel i just can since it is apart of my normal life and it is the route i decided to take regarding my relationships with others and how i feel about them.
Part3:
An interesting thought by looking at the survey is that is they questions is asking about something good than the yes is a majority most of them time but if it is dealing with something else it varies, this shows some pattern to how we think about our lives and what truths and lies are hidden in those surveys results.
I am most surprised of how good our lives are but the sample size was only 51 comparing to the rest of the world or new york city. this sample size i feel is still insignificant to the real results or some people were lying, since it is highly unlikely that a majority of the people have good lives. Maybe with was just our perspective of what we consider good so the judgment was varied to different standards since different humans have different standard for different things.
Part4:
By comparing my thoughts to the data we collected and analysis, i feel like it is hard to make an assumptions to how our lives are like with relations to others and with ourselves. This is shown that our initial thoughts were somewhat off from what we see with how people lives are with their family and friends and to themselves. This experience shows how weird humans are thinking one thing and answering another. It also shows the complexity of how things are related in this world since everything has a certain level of significance in this world.

HomeWork: 52

in this society we have many different relationships with other people and when ever we look at friends and family usally many different people act differently alternating between the two sides and one will always ask is which is my real side, and which wsa just a creation. Wells i would say that all your relationships are a creations of a reactions to the certian social group.

There are so many different aspects in life that we do not take into account, since there is millions of ways that thing are connected, and so many thing that we all share in common.

On topic i really notice if the topic of gossip, since gossip some thing people call, their way to attack other people, or to make one self feel better. Since gossip is something that all humans do in some way or another to make others feel bad. When people are complaining about some thing or saying some thing negative about some thing or someone else, is a form of hate to make one feel more supuior. this is something most don't notice, since it is part of todays human nature to feel better than the rest.

This unit is connected with the human emotions which is a very complicated thing to define in this world. emotions are apart of our lives and pretty much run them from the sidelines and affecting the way we interact with others. if we didn't have emotion in this world than the world would be dull and more organized since emotions dive a human or animal in a way that the rational mind cannot function and think clearly. all out actions are kind of similar if you put different people into the same situation, they would all react and think almost the same way, even though they are thinking they are thinking rationally they will never know if they are run by rational or these little emotions.

Friends is another question in this world since what do you define as a friend, since there are borders everywhere that restrict one and one might never really know what a true friend it they can only be since the mind can play tricks against one self while each person will have to battle each other over who is on top and which social group they fall into. Each social group is like their own different family but even family is not perfect, each family can have different people they shut out of their lives even though they are related. Most people would think that a friend is defined by oneself but i feel there is a deeper meaning to what we feel as a friend. It is something that one cannot understand fully but instead follow it blindly thinking one is in control. We humans don't have any control over our lives, since we can't pick our parents, or our friends and in this world the definition of friends and family mike and get lost along the way.

Thinking about how other people interact with each other in confusing since the more i think about it the more things contradict each other and that in this world i do not know if these ideals are correct but i do not know if these ideas are connect with something and they ill someway help me find a deeper knowledge on how we interact with others.

HomeWork 51:

3. HW - 51 - A 3-5 page paper, drawing on your independent research, interviews, class materials, etc on a particular topic of interest to you related to schooling. This will be due Tuesday, April 27 at 9pm.

If you don't yet have a topic please consider the following - linked to what we've studied this unit:
1. School as salvation - what can schools realistically do to address the systematic problems of inequality, anti-intellectualism, and meaninglessness in our society? (Savior Teacher Films, Obama speech, Sizer, Freire, Hirsch, Delpit, interviews, own thoughts)

2. School as domination - How do schools train us to be sheep, to be dull, to be dumb, to be absurd? Is it possible/preferable to escape, to transform, or to understand the institution? (Dead Poets Society, Freire, Sizer, Delpit, interviews, own thoughts)

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