Blog #10

The article “The Children Will Keep Coming” by Oscar Martinez published in Nation is the property of Nation Company which tells stories about kids on the border fighting violence that the U.S. helped create. It all started when David De La O disappeared while walking home from school. They didn’t find him until the next day, when his body remains were found in an abandoned field. He was only 11 years old and had been stabbed four time in the torso. The main reason this most likely happened was “he went to school in an area controlled by one gang and lived in a neighborhood dominated by another.” My question in that would by why would you do that? There is already enough going on in the gangs you live within, so why add another gang and more troubles into an 11 year olds life? Many children decided to flee Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador for the U.S. to not become victims of gang violence. There is no less violence in the north and west and at least 8 people are murdered every day

This article makes me think of changing schools when they talk about how David had two different gangs to deal with daily. It reminds me of starting a new school because you’re always going to have enemies at the school you left and will probably have some at the school you change to. The number of children being murdered everyday just amazes me. If I had to live in a situation like this I would try to escape to the U.S. like David did.

Blog #9

The article “High-Performance Corporate Culture” by Sadri Golnaz published in Industrial Management Nov/Dec. 2014 is about creating a high-performance culture in an organization. Corporate culture, also known as organizational culture, is considered a powerful tool for an organization to define itself, create high morale, uniformity among its employees, and brand recognition among its customers. Other information such as customer service and managerial maintenance is presented. This article really expresses how the attitudes of co-workers carry to everyone else from generation to generation and that’s part of being in a corporate culture. Also “employees hold strong beliefs on how they should behave and how that impacts how they operate.”



This article really breaks down the business and peoples person opinions in how corporate culture should be run and how to keep them fair. I agree with them that they should have their own opinions but on the corporation’s side, you can’t be too flexible or you will be having a ton of people in the corporation walk all over you and then you will no longer exist. I would never work in a corporation as big as google because it is constantly changing and I could never keep up with all the new things to keep the general public happy. This article made me think about why I really would have no desire to put myself in that industry.published in Industrial Management Nov/Dec. 2014 is about creating a high-performance culture in an organization. Corporate culture, also known as organizational culture, is considered a powerful tool for an organization to define itself, create high morale, uniformity among its employees, and brand recognition among its customers. Other information such as customer service and managerial maintenance is presented. This article really expresses how the attitudes of co-workers carry to everyone else from generation to generation and that’s part of being in a corporate culture. Also “employees hold strong beliefs on how they should behave and how that impacts how they operate.”


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Blog #8

In the article “Too Young to Wed” written by Gorney, Cynthia published in the National Geographic. In this article she talks about a 15 and 13 year old about to get married when they were just old enough to understand what was happening. The grooms were on their way from their own village and they were supposed to show up high-spirited and drunk. In India it was risky to marry that young because it is illegal to marry under the age of 18. When they become married they are then living with the husband’s family and basically abandons their own families. Every culture is a little different with all the rules of the marriages, for example some villages do it between two individuals but others do it between the whole family.

This article to me was very busy with all the detail about all the different cultures and ages of all the family members who also live in the village. Some of the information could have been left out but at the same time it was interesting to learn about everything then have some missing points that lead to questions later on. The only question I would have is why the parents want their children to marry so young? I would think they would want to wait for them to be a little older to maybe understand things better so they don’t have so many questions when there older and it would possibly even help save some marriages. I would not enjoy my parents picking the man I want to marry especially at the age of 15.

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Blog #7

Gourevitch, Phillip the author of “Remembering in Rwanda” published In the New Yorker 90.9(2014) talks about the ceremonies that the genocides have, and how the genocides were named. The ceremonies take place in a stadium that thousands of mourners trek to by midmorning when it is already hot. There is an Army band that walks to the center of the field and plays solemn hymns. In this article he talks about a man in a brown suit approaches the stage and states “I was a Fidel, a genocide survivor who was supposed to be killed.” Then it goes on talking about the people coming into the world after 1994 who have never heard of the genocides still have not been taught about it in history. Lastly, they state how the amount of people killed in a day.” At no other time in the history of our species were so many killed so fast or so intimately: roughly a million people in a hundred days, most of them butchered by hand, by their neighbors with household tools and homemade weapons.”

            This article really made me think about how bad the genocides were. When I read the book in class I got a picture in my head but then I read this article and it just all sinks in. when they talked about how the kids after 1994 have no idea about the genocides I immediately thought about the generation I am from and how true that statement is. I never learned about the genocides in history, this is the first time I am hearing about the horrific experiences those people faced.


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Blog #6

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“The New Face and Body of Plastic Surgery in L.A.” by Nancy Miller in the Los Angeles Magazine is about how people in Los Angeles look at plastic surgery today. There were some interesting point brought up in this article. It talks about what’s the finest line we will draw by using metaphors to describe our face. The finest line most of us will draw is the one that defines what we’re willing to do with ourselves “to stay attractive by either prolonging your youth, or enhancing our bodies.” There are many reasons stated by people on why you shouldn’t get plastic surgery. They say it’s scary, expensive, and the most important one to keep in mind is it doesn’t work. They also state that plastic surgery is at a turning point, it has become a shorthand term for modification of the face or body.

It was interesting to read what the people in Los Angeles had to stay about what they think about plastic surgery in the world today. I agree with a lot of what they had to say like how expensive plastic surgery is and how much of a line we want to draw depending on how we want to make ourselves look. I also agree that plastic surgery is very noticeable when someone has it done and most of the time it is not attractive. I think most people do it to look like someone they look up to.

blog #5

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The article “Permanent Irony” written by Daniel Genis published in Newsweek Global 2014. This article mainly talked about the different ways the generations of tattoos have changed and what stereotypes of people have them. It mentions how in the latest generation there have been breakthroughs in technology which changed some things about inking and introducing the liquid crystal designs, along with glow-in-the-dark imagines and also removing things with electromagnetic rays. It says “each artist has his own recipe,” and then it goes on talking about what else they use but the main ingredient they all use is carbon. They also use a chess piece or other plastic that is burned under cardboard and the soot is scraped into either a shampoo or saliva. They say that the beauty of a bad tat is when the letters are blurred, lines aren’t straight and infections are guaranteed but they are definitely permanent. Lastly it talks about how the prisoners either are tatted because their gangs require it or they do it for a tougher imagine.

I thought this article was really interesting because I knew there were always tattoos and they were not as cautious as they are today with the whole disease thing, but the thing that caught my attention the most was that they concentrated mostly on the prison aspect of tattoos. I would have never thought back in the 1890’s getting sent to prison and being tattooed was a thing. Also, I was shocked on how they stereotyped the men by what kind of tattoos they have on and that they just focus on me men. The thing I 100% agree with is that no matter how the tattoo looks and if it gets infected it is totally permanent.

Blog #4

In the article “Destroying a Culture” published by Pauline Bickford-Duane in the Cobblestone is about how the Indian boarding schools were shut down after the U.S. released a report called the Meriam Report. The report exposed
“the poor quality of life on reservations as well as the inhumane conditions at boarding schools.” Not long after the report was filed the U.S. fell into the Great Depression causing everywhere to live in rough conditions for most of the 1930’s. The children at the boarding schools were also treated very poorly, they were punished if they spoke their native language and were assigned different clothes than what they usually wore. They were use to long hair as part of their culture but it was forbidden at the schools. Not only were the boarding schools a concern, land was also another big problem. Every family got some land to manage but overall it was just too dry to farm. This was typically not a problem because most of them were used to hunting so farm tools were not known on a large scale. In 1887 the Dawes Act was passed and that claimed the right to protect native property, at that time there was 138 mission acres of land being owned but in 1900 that had dropped 78 million acres.

I seem to enjoy every article I read. I think the main reason I enjoy them so much is because we talk about some of it in class but then I have so many unanswered questions that when I read the articles I find some of those out. The thing in this article that surprises me the most is how much the children had to change just so they wouldn’t get punished in school such as the hair or the clothes they wear. If I were teaching in a boarding school I would want the kids to stay how they came so the students and I could learn more about that person’s background. The one and only question I have about the boarding schools is do the teachers also have to follow the same guidelines as the students?

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