week 12

Who Completes Which Task in Your Family?

 

Task	Mom	Dad	Kids	Other	No One
Cook Dinner	X
Pack School Lunches	X
Laundry	X
Drop Off/Pick Up Dry Cleaning	X
Shovel Snow		X
Mow the Lawn		X
Car Repairs & Maintenance		X
Give Kids a Bath	X
Put Kids to Bed	X
Get Kids Up and Dressed for School			X
Make Breakfast	X
Write and Send Holiday Cards	X
Pay Bills	X
Buy Birthday and Holiday Gifts for Kids	X
Feed Pets	X
Walk Dog	X
Buy Birthday and Holiday Gifts for Extended Family (Grandparents, etc.)	X
Plan Kids’ Birthday Parties	X
Plan Family Vacations	X
Drive During Family Outings		X
Vacuum	X
Sweep/Mop Floors	X
Clean Bathrooms	X
Straighten Up	X	X
Program VCR/TiVo	x	X
Schedule and Take Kids to Doctor Appts.	X
Set Table for Dinner	X
Do the Dishes	X
Pick Kids Up From School when Sick	X
Drive Kids to School/Day Care/Activities	X
Find Activities for Kids (Boy Scouts, etc.)	X
Talk to Kids’ Teachers	X
Talk to Parents of Kids’ Friends	X
Play with Kids	X	X
Comparison Shopping for Big Purchases	X
Grocery Shopping	X
Take Pets to Vet	X
Purchase New Clothes for Kids	X
Make/Monitor Financial Investments		X
Volunteer at Kids’ School	X
Coach/Run/Sponsor Kids’ Activity	X	x

Filling up the task chart and going through the book and the podcast . I think mom puts lot of effort in running the family smoother then dad because if we look at the chart examples such as cooking food for the family, washing dishes, taking kids to the school, set a dinner table, go shopping and so on are done by mom and things like grass mowing and snow shovel and car repairs are only the thing that dad does and still we have more option to do it whenever we want it to happen but mom has to do it at the same time because if she refuses to do so then the family have to suffer through sleeping hungry and many other problems. So I think moms are the ones running family smoothly.

Week 11

Well going through both the website I was surprised to see so many religions that I had never heard of. The most that I was taught in my religion class that I took last semester only mainly focused on Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islamic that’s were the most of all after going through the website and looking into the number of population following other religion were quite impressive. Some of the ones I never herds of are as follows:

1. Christianity: 2.1 billion
2. Islam: 1.5 billion
3. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion
4. Hinduism: 900 million
5. Chinese traditional religion: 394 million
6. Buddhism: 376 million
7. primal-indigenous: 300 million
8. African Traditional & Diasporic: 100 million
9. Sikhism: 23 million
10. Juche: 19 million
11. Spiritism: 15 million
12. Judaism: 14 million
13. Baha'i: 7 million
14. Jainism: 4.2 million
15. Shinto: 4 million
16. Cao Dai: 4 million
17. Zoroastrianism: 2.6 million
18. Tenrikyo: 2 million
19. Neo-Paganism: 1 million
20. Unitarian-Universalism: 800 thousand
21. Rastafarianism: 600 thousand
22. Scientology: 500 thousand

All this religions in this world that’s just great. Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion that’s a huge amount of number shows that there are people who do not believe in the religion.

Do you think that our society, and/or the world, is secularizing, or not?

Yes, I think that our society and world is secularizing because people are moving out from different religions and belief as scientists are doing more progress. Modernization is taking over religions. If we go back and look at the list of religions according to the followers 1.1 billion are those who doesn’t believe in the religion and some call it superstitious.

Week 10

 

The Densho website is mostly focused on their Japanese American families. This website provides information regarding how Japanese were treated and how they have been put imprisoned and lot of people were brutally killed some are still lost and could not found for a certain time of being. The site shows proof Newspapers in Education shows all the people that are found and relation to their life how they have survived and how they have suffered real people’s voice.

            The website also shows or tells us how the Japanese have gained their right and freedom under the world war and how they have fought for their right, they also stats so many dates that are imported to Japanese American such as “Students may be familiar with the case Brown v. Board of Education in which the Supreme Court ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. They may have learned the civil rights acts of 1957, 1964 and 1968.” It also tells us how US officials and other people look at all the Asian or Japanese Americans at that time period of WWII

week 8

"Why we should care about global inequality."

 

We should care about global inequality because it affects our daily life experience such as effecting on everything from products, size and strength of a country, world environment.  Global inequality affects products by reducing the value of the same product in different countries and controlling over price that will affect the countries income capital. Size and strength is also controlled by the global inequality for example country like Russia, Japan, Iran are coming from bottom to top and increasing the military power while U.S.A is working on to get back to the top of the all and country like Russia and japan have more control over other nation as then U.S.A as for the world environment is global inequality control how other countries use their natural resources. It also contributes negative or positive effect in the world and we need to understand the system, where and why and who are benefiting from this kind of things. So we need to care about global inequality.

 week seven

 

“People like us” is a great website that has different topics about the social class differentiation. The most thing I like about are the videos such as  “how to get married with a rich person”, “fitting in the social class group” and the most that I like about and will be talking about would be  “Most likely to Succeed” because this article and video talks about how people are sorted according to their social class starting from their school most likely high school where we have this one group full of high class students and friends to each other and on the other hand the lower and middle class people. It also describes that so many people try to fit into the higher class just by going through a lot just to become friends and to keep up with one another. The article and videos also tells that the higher class are the one to succeed the most in life because they could just get into any college and school they want to and make a better future. I think this is kind of true in a way because when I went to high school. I could see this kind of social class thing going on and is still going on in college and school. Rich and higher class people tend to go straight to university and people who are middle class and lower tends to stay back and work for their survival. Get their studies from community colleges and try to move up to university by getting some loans and struggle some just lose their hope and would give up.