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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Blog #3

Stephanie Pain wrote the article “The Borneo Hills Diet” in the New Scientist 2014 edition. This article is about how plants get their food in the desert and how they might be hunting a new unusual pray. In the highest part of the mountains is the lair in which the most awesome pitcher plants, with fearsome plants and a reputation to match. The plants get their enzymes to live off of the insects they eat, typically ants. The largest plant is named the Nepenthes rajah, and in the last century there have been spotted reports it catching rats. “So this has the “king” of carnivorous plants really evolved to catch small mammals?” Another large plant is called N. Iowii. They call this plant odd for two reasons, the first reason is the rim is unusually narrow and the mouth is unusually broad, along with the leafy lid that keeps the rain out. In 2008, a few scientist found the answer in the cloud forest of Gunung Mulu in another part of Borneo. They found that only one vertebrae visited them: the mountain tree shrew.

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I was totally wrong when I saw the title of this article. I thought this was going to be about what people eat in Borneo not how plants get their nutrients. Saying that, I still enjoyed this article. When I took biology I learned about this stuff so it was very easy for me to comprehend exactly what they were talking about. I thought it was so interesting that this little plant has possibly eaten rats. 

Blog #2

In the article “Haircuts or turbans: many young Sikhs are forgoing turbans and cutting their long hair leaving spiritual leaders dismayed” written by Amelia Gentleman in New York Times. This article talks about living in a culture of having a turban but when you turn fourteen you can abandon your turban and move on living in the culture your own way. For Jugraj Singh a typical Sikhs in India found his turban the most bothersome thing in the Sikhs faith. “It got in the way when we took judo classes, and washing his long hair was time-consuming, as was the morning ritual of winding seven yards of cloth around his head.” The Sikhs are hoping to reverse the trend of the turbans and offer a free turban-tying class to the guys, so they want to keep them as they get older as a fashion item.

This article was really interesting to me because I never knew there was an age limit to cut off their turbans, saying that if they allow that why do they want to change it now and make a class for how to tie it? Why is it just guys that they focus on? Nowhere in this article do they mention having a class on teaching girls how to tie turbans or having an age limit on when they can cut there turbans off. To me if girls are so good at tying turbans that they are not mentioned then the girls should just be able to help the guys tie their turbans only if they choose to keep them after the age of fourteen