Stressed

I wish that more classes could be open and I could get into the classes I want to be in. I did not want to take an 8:05 lab considering I can barely wake up for my 9:10 classes. Literally all the PE's I need to take are closed and I still can't register until Monday. NC State clearly does not have enough classes and teachers for the 30,000+ people that go here. I am also mad that I register on the the last day possible. It should be bases on grades or something, not just random. Every time I log into my pack portal, at least one more class on my wish list is closed. I just wish I could register already and get into the classes that I need to get into. If I can't get into a lot of the classes I need, I will be taking many hard classes at the same time my sophomore year. I like to spread out my harder classes, but apparently that's not possible because I am a freshmen.  I had all my classes planned out and now I have to change them to really bad times that don't fit my schedule because literally everything that is convenient to me is closed. NC State needs to revamp their registration policy.

Mapping Everyday

This article is about how we map out places based on their social statuses'. In the poor areas of DC, we choose to focus only on the crimes that are committed in this area. The media would focus only on the blacks that are committing these crimes. The students feel that this is a major problem because white people commit crimes too. One student says that, "As the media ignores the reality of poverty, crime, and delinquency in DC, it will only be delaying solving the problem and allow it to fester." I truly believe that he is right. If we keep focusing only on the negatives in the black regions, negative things will continue to come out of that area. There should be new ways of presenting information about these poor regions that also highlights any of the positive things that come from them.

180 South

I thought 180 South was a very effective documentary to show how much simpler ones life can be. Jeff gave up pretty much everything in pursuit of a dream. He want to climb Corcovado and did everything he took to get there. I do not know anyone who would give up that much time out of their life to pursue such a daring dream. Not only was climbing the mountain risky, so was everything he did along to way to get to the mountain. 180 South showed this inspiring adventure, but it showed did a great job portraying the beauty of nature. It gave me a new understanding of who and what is affected when a dam is put up in a remote area. It made me more and more grateful for the beautiful parts of the world that are still not affected by man. It made me think about simplifying my life and how much of a change that could make.

Indigenous Resistance

Washington State and British Columbia have tried to assimilate the Aboriginal communities into our own culture. They used education as a way to get rid of the traditions they have within their culture, and make them more like ours. The Coast Salish people resisted the assimilation that the United States and Canada tried to force them into. Marker says that, "Coast Salish students were, in the late twentieth century, still resisting the same oppressive categorisations of identity that their grandparents had struggled against in the nineteenth century." I find this very hard to believe because we were not able to realize by then that what we were doing was wrong. We should have given the aboriginal people the rights they deserve and should not have forced them into assimilation.