i chose a bag that i use to go to school with to carry my materials i need for school

I remember feeling so free with unlimited choices, it felt so loud yet so quiet. In the silence of the void felt like forever how I was paralyzed. Turns out we don’t really want true absolute freedom. You know why? It’s because our brains don’t like to be overwhelmed by stuff it can’t contain or keep track of. And so, I set out for a new goal. I try to find smaller freedoms in the spaces I navigate and choose to engage with. If something doesn’t work for me then I’ll turn it into something that can or does. If you feel wrong then something is wrong, perhaps with you…

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In todays class we watched a documentary called ‘How to survive a plague’. This documentary was talking about the AIDS epidemic and what people were going through during that time. From what I’ve seen from the documentary, Gay and Lesbian people were seen as the enemy and a lot of people were angry and violent towards them and most importantly, blamed them for the cause of the epidemic. It is honestly sad to see people blame these groups and basically treat them as outcasts because of their choices. The group known as Act Up has helped so many people with HIV, helping them prolong their lives when people still choose…

This week we talked about autoethnography and biographies. We talked about how they are similar and chose a topic to write about, my topic was the history and future of snowboarding.

First in English class we started with a story that was about a haunted house, finishing the reading we discussed in class about the important points about the reading and what meanings there were since the way of expressing himself the author did it in a more different way, then we made a timeline of the most important points of our life and with that we will choose to write a moment of our lives in the genre that we want. For the ethnography class we started the class by telling what we did during the holidays, after that we watched a video about auto ethnography and finishing the video…

We read a book about a married couple and haunted house. We talked about autoethnography and how it connects people yet shows their differences. We made notes about random topics.

we read a short story about a haunted house. As we discussed it more, we realized the story actually had a deeper meaning about pain, trauma, and struggles in a relationship. Instead of directly explaining these hardships, the author used the horror genre to express them in a more symbolic way. Afterward, we created timelines of important moments in our lives. From that, we chose one meaningful event to write about, using any genre we prefer. In Ethnographic Methods at Work, we went around the classroom sharing what we did over spring break. Most people said they spent time relaxing or going out. We then watched a video about autoethnography…

this week we read a story revolving the haunting of a couple. They experienced extreme paranormal behavior which seemed to bring rifts into their relationships. Or did it…? It turned out that behind the paranormal activity lied something deeper. More sinister. Why lied beneath was a relationship on its last straw, a crack caused by uncertainty and fear of the unknown, and this story in my opinion correlated perfectly with our lesson about cultural objects in ethnography because it showed that some things are deeper than what it they are perceived in the surface. Cultural objects, a lot like this story share a more deeper meaning and significance. They represent…

The sparrow flew throughout the sky. He flew to great lengths, reaching the stars. And sunk to hang beneath the trees, he loved the forest almost as much as the forest loved him.. it was a mutually beneficial relationship, the bird caressed the sweetest part the tree hand to offer and in returned planted its seeds in far away lands in which new forests could take root, and of this forest a beautiful cherry blossom arose, a sign of mortality, renewal, and the transience of life.. this tree blossomed slowly, with the help of the sparrow who built nests to shelter the young tree, and the forest who gave the…