Ethno Update

So for my wonderful late blog post, and being that I am too lazy to get my day book out, I am going to do my blog post on my Ethnography Project.

So last week we decided to do an iMovie, or at least try  to. I never understood the concept of it but hey, you gotta take risks. We went over an outline again and feel fairly confident and ready to start shooting. I got some new ideas over the weekend that I am not going to share on here (I know you are all desperate to know) but I will give you a preview.

Random tangent: When I was typing confident, I want to type confidant which reminded me of Betty White and the Golden Girls (#teamBetty).

Now, I can't get that song out of my head.
I will give you a preview of my idea, and share some Betty with you. :)

Geography

So for my first reflective blog post in a long time, I decided to go way back to the Mapping UNCC project we had. I noticed that when people placed their marks on the map, they marked actual geography things like landmarks and buildings, conversations, and things that went beyond literacy. Like whoa. Yeah, I am kind of tired right now but my mark was the Belk Tower. Yup random. But I thought it was interesting because as I walked around it to go to the ~front~ of the library, not the back, I saw the First Amendment in a plaque. And I was like ~oooh~ bingo. This went beyond literacy because without the First Amendment, we would not have freedom of speech, basically any freedom to express ourselves. Without it, we would not have books, music, art, or anything.

Here is the link to our Google map: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212959646260677519898.0004ccbaff19a7fdd81d6&msa=0

Annotated Biblio

1) Prospector Café, Prospector Café, UNC Charlotte. Personal photograph by author. 2012.
I took this photo in Prospector Café at the Chick-fil-A express. Our Ethnography Project is based on food and this is a good picture because it shows students buying and eating food (not being a creep.) Food is one of those get-together kind of things. I know whenever I am with my friends, we always have to go get something to eat. I am fortunate and grateful that I can buy my own food and I always try to donate whatever I can around the holidays.

2) Cone Center, Cone Center, UNC Charlotte. Personal photograph by author. 2012.
This is another photograph taken by me. This time it was at the Cone Center. In the picture are a few of the places to eat inside.This is is significant and related to our Ethnography Project again, because it is centered around food. As a person, there are many different choice when it comes to food. For instances, you can get a quick snack, or a full meal. There are inexpensive options, and expensive options. People almost always take into account the type of food, the type of meal, and the price before making a decision on what to eat.

3) Cox, Jeff. "Record 46 Million Americans on Food Stamps." Yahoo! Finance. CNBC, 4 Sept. 2012. Web. 04 Nov. 2012. <http://finance.yahoo.com/news/record-46-million-americans-food-200000079.html>.

We did some research on Tuesday on the number of people in Mecklenburg County on food stamps and then I came across this: A record 46 MILLION people in the United States are on food stamps. This is unbelievable. Almost 1/6 of the country is on food stamps (as of June 2012.) We all know that the country is in a bad economy, but things are ever so slowly turning around. Factors like unemployment, and now even Superstorm Sandy have a major impact on this. I never knew that so many people were on food stamps. These people are our neighbors, friends, family members. Every person knows at least one person who is on food stamps. This has to change.