research blog 13

My research topic is fantasy football.  I found a great journal on my topic that i can use.  In this journal they talk about the expectations of winning in fantasy football.  If you win one, than you are expected to win again.  The author goes on to talk about how popular fantasy football has gotten.  It has generated a lot of money as well.  Another thing that i could use in the journal is the graphs that they use.  They use them to show stats, and other ways people use there minds and what they need to play fantasy football.

reading blog 9

When reading the first part of the chapter, it talks a bit about brands.  I worked with Meijer for a short time, and they started as a small thrift store in Michigan.  Meijer was competing against other grocery stores like Wal-mart and Kroger, among others.  Meijer slowly gained in popularity and they have generated hundreds of stores in Michigan and Ohio alone. They have made themselves into there own brand.  They competed against all other giant brand names and they are still growing. 
stereotyping is another word that has come up in the chapter.  When you see someone in the store dressed in all black and has spiked hair, you automatically have a stereotype about them.  This is wrong for people to do but everyone does it.  My cousin is one of these people whom wear all black.  She asked me the other day if I knew of any place that was hiring.  I told her of a few places that i might know of.  But she said she has applied there but she said that cause she wears black, everyone already has a stereo type about her and what she is like.  She is a sweet girl and it is not right not to even interview her because she dresses different or not up to certain standards. 

research blog 11

When I put myself in a subcultre i started to interact with them right away.  I started fantasy football a long time ago and I have been pretty good with it so far.  Everybody that i played fantasy foot knows who i am.  But i joined a community league and i started to talk to them and introduced myself right away.  I got a lot of good responses on it and everybody seemed to talk back with me and enjoy a nice conversation with me.  I am a confident person at some things and fanstay football is one of them.  These guys did not cope with this to well and started to get  a little mad about it.  I tried to be as nice as possible but the way i was comes out different.

reading blog #7

In the film Bamboozled there are a lot of racial slurs that are said.  There are  also a lot of stereo types and generalizations as well.  The film is mostly to show how our world is today and portraits the racial aspect of life as we know it.  It shows how we as a audience views certain people and it shows of these people portraits themselves.  In the movie there are people who act a certain way and we may not like how they are acting or what they are saying but this happens more and more in our world today.
When you watch this film you have a certain perception in your mind.  When you see people in the streets or walking by you, you are stereotypical to how this person is.  Even if this person is the nicest person in the world, when you look at them you may not think this.  This movie shows that the creators of the show are somewhat stereotypical to what they think these people are.  When really on the inside, these people are nice and don't like to be portray the way they are when they are filming the TV show.

Activity 6.2

I assume that when i am in a college setting that they are trying to prepare me for what life is like with a big boy job.  They try and prepare you to the best they can with education and knowlege to help you be successful in the feature.  In the education world you are trying to get the best education possible to get ready for the real world and working 40 + hours a week.  education sucks and so does the real world.

research blog part 9

When i look at nikes web site they can sell something to almost every athlete and fan of any sport.  They have pretty much anything you can ask for.  Nike is a major corperation that everybody knows about.  You see athlete wears some type of Nike gear, and you think to your self that you have to have it.  There are other types of Nike look alikes like under armorn, but no body is as big as Nike.  They use anything from colleges to high schools to help advertise there gear.  I got connected to Nike right away because I loved the football cleates and track spikes that they had.  I always wore there gear and I like everything that they ahve to offer.

reasearch blog number 8

The nike website is very professional.  When you click on something it sends you to another part of the nike web site.  When you go to buy something they use it through pay pal or you could just put in your credit card info.  Everything on the web site is nike.  You do not see any other product from any other company.  I like this kind of web site because you do not have to go to any other web sites other than nikes to get what you are looking for.  The only other thing you might have to use is pay pal.  You dont have to use pay pal if you do not want to.  Only if you have an account to make it easyer for yourself this would be easier.  I would say that everybody else would be with me on this, that the web site is nice and easy to use.