My Writing As An Inquiry

The challenging component this semester was the transition from high school English reading and writing level to college level. It is mainly because High school writing did not have many expectations from students, its main focus was on the ideal five-paragraph essays. As compared to college, writing is mainly geared and focused on one’s ability to thoroughly answer the assigned prompt. Initially, I was not sure if I was capable of handling a fast-paced course, however, I quickly adjusted to the change and I am glad that I chose to stay. In English 10, I have learned many valuable elements that I can incorporate into my everyday writing. I have included my writing from project 2 a rhetorical analysis on, “Black Lives Matter”, which effectively demonstrates my growth as a reader, thinker, and writer.

Defining culture. One of the key points Crouch seeks to illustrate is that Christians have a warped or errant view of “culture” and the impact they should have on it. He recognizes that culture is a vague topic and begins his work by identifying what it is not. He lets the reader know that it is not just the arts, trends, demographics or “governing ideas, values and presuppositions of our society” (p. 18). To identify what culture is and why it matters, Crouch gleans from cultural critic, Ken Myers and defines culture as “what we make of the world,” (p. 23). He goes on to say, that culture is, how we make sense of the world by making something of the world. He blends meaning and making together and then says that culture is “the activity of making meaning,” (p. 24). In his assessment of culture, he addresses five key questions that he believes help in understanding how artifacts (taken from an architectural concept), fit into the broader cultural story (p. 29). The questions include:

Culture is defined as the traditions, customs, norms, beliefs, values and thought patterning passed down from generation to generation (Jandt 2010). The world consists of many different cultures. In this Ethnographic Interview, I was given the opportunity to explore and learn more about a culture different from my own. Through observation I’ve have seen how people of different cultures differ from mines. For example, the type of foods a person

Everyone on the planet has a goal set in life, but only a handful attempt to improve to obtain their goal by studying the subject their goal is in. In my English class, English 101 this quarter I was astonished by how much I had progressed as a writer sharpening my writing skills and also learned a lot about writing that I hadn’t learned before. In my writing portfolio for this quarter I had to write an autobiography essay, a research essay, and this reflection essay to develop my writing skills better. The writing assignments were fun to do because it challenged me to work on essays of different styles that were new to me. The essay assignments helped me grow as a better writer that gave me the self-confidence and skills to take on the world on my own.

Body of Speech: There are so many diverse cultures around the world that are different to us yet totally

A symbolic object is a powerful tool that helps communicate meaning. Symbolic objects are created and reused by us humans to help give value to our world. Creating culture and a sense of meaning for humans, a symbolic object is nothing without culture. In other words, culture is a sense of values created through history. This is important because symbolic objects can be used to explain untouched issues settlers of this land created with Indigenous people. Indigenous people are people whom originated from a land, such as Native Americans, that settlers from another country devalue. In the film “Smoke Signals” by Chris Eyre, he expresses how difficult it is being an Indigenous person in the 21st century. In this paper, I will explain how a

The material culture field of study allows for the examination of objects to reveal the culture which used them (Glassie, 1999; Woodward, 2007). Material culture is not a method but a collection of methods appropriate to its interdisciplinary nature of the field and its scholars, and I must indicate what approaches or methods guide my research and explain my findings (Woodward, 2007). The benefits of material culture are that it can reveal the daily lives, behaviors, and actions of average people that have otherwise been deemed

In the examination of an artifact, many things can be deduced from the society that used this object. For example, take the existence of a shirt—which will be referred to as an artifact for the purposes of this analysis. This particular shirt has a collar, buttons, and patches on its chest and sleeves. It is grey in color with red stitching, black accents, and red lining. With further exploration, the shirt is found to contain writing on one of the interior portions underneath the back side of the collar. It reads: “Chiliwear-100% Polyester M Made in China.” This writing, while seemingly meaningless at first, is highly enlightening on the sophistication of the shirt’s creators. A second piece of the shirt near the opening at the bottom contains a tag that reads: “MACHINE WASH COLD LIKE COLORS. DO NOT USE [SOFTENERS]. TUMBLE DRY LOW. DO NOT IRON. DO NOT BLEACH.” All of these things are inherently revealing about the civilization that produced it, but let us focus on a few of these qualities in particular: the tag, the label, the material, and the implications created.

This semester-long project helped me understand and interpret similarities and differences among and between individuals, cultures, or societies across space and time by having me go face to face with the individuals, with the cultures or societies, over a great period of time in my community. I was exposed to people of different cultures and saw how they could have similar opinions of the same subject. I also saw how people of the same culture had different opinions. I can tell by age how much today’s generation tends to have certain beliefs than those of a different generation. These experiences I would not have been able to gain while sitting in a classroom being lectured. Although I do enjoy it very much.

The influence of art, myth, sacred sites, and the paleolithic and neolithic eras on the development of culture helps explain how our modern society has origins from the past. The most interesting part of this chapter for me was learning how the development of early civilization through increased sedentary lifestyle helped influence the development of culture. This is the case for me due to the interesting connection between the past and the present through the changes in culture and survival throughout

My line of sight is one that sees “outside the box.” The natives living on the island Kaho’olawe located off the coast of Maui, Hawaii are often considered dangerous and uncollaborative; however, the dignified qualities of their colorful culture and spirited rituals were meticulously captured by the majestic, multicolored tiki attached to the chain. Being exposed to other cultures has brought out in me an increased appreciation for the distinctive qualities contained in each and every

To understand the people, you also must first understand their worldviews, their history, religion, economic conditions, how advanced their scientific knowledge was, etc. By learning about this one item used in Kongo culture, I have learned an enormous amount about the Kongo culture and the BaKongo, and have come to a new level of awareness about material culture.

This final paper will explain how my group members and I worked together. This ties into the final project for this class. My paper will show how I related to all the myths within a culture and tie them to the real world. Below I will explain how everything turned out and how we came up with out topic for the final project.

When one begins the discussion of cultural history that is, who we are as individuals, what experiences, beliefs, and factors that shape us into the individuals that we are today. It is important to have an understanding of what culture represents in our society. Exploring cultural history encompasses the combination of anthropology and history alike to further explore popular cultural interpretations and traditions as seen through historical experiences. Meaning, an examination of records, past knowledge, arts, and customs of a given group should be closely assessed in order to begin to understand the individual. In the world today, we see many variations of cultures. Many stand to the tests of time all there own, while others have begun to blend together with that of other cultures. I am a product of just that, being born into a family whose roots tie back to African, Indian, German, and Irish descents made for an interesting upbringing. In this paper, we will discuss how cultural history and family experiences have shaped what is now my own cultural beliefs and learning habits.

Our world is full of hundreds of cultures, scattered all over the place, but when we can’t travel to every country on earth, how can we find out about these cultures. We can learn a tremendous amount about a culture, just through studying their literature. First of all, we can learn a great amount about their basic culture; their everyday life. We can also learn what kind of society they live in now, and what kind they did live in hundreds of years ago. And finally we can learn about their history simply from studying their culture. Culture isn’t only defined as a country’s history or what kind of society they live in, it’s also about simple things like what you eat, or what kind of bed you have, or what you believe in.