Hey guys It’s KJ from GamersGuild
So I set up this blog just for fun and was hoping if anyone cared to write stuff and tell me stuff about games, news and other exciting stories you guys are more then welcome to do so.
Currently I am the only admin to this section of the page, excluding the admins for class so long as I am on campus and in school this page will be alive for another year and a half.
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The first episode of Survivor began by portraying the initial forming stage that newly formed groups experience. As the loved ones were separated from their partners and distributed into different tribes, each of the members were forced to acquaint themselves with complete strangers. Throughout the remainder of their stay, each of the contestants are forced to work alongside these new people in order to complete challenges and ultimately survive in the competition. Within the first one or two days, some behavior related to primary tension became identifiable. For example, Dale, a member or the Coyopa tribe, seemed introverted and exhibited more apprehension while other group members became more engaged with one another. He felt his age made him an outsider within the tribe. Therefore, when the group members banded together to try and form shelter and fire, Dale separated himself from the rest of the tribe and tried to accomplish the task on his own.
After Jeremy won the first challenge for his tribe Hunahpuh, it soon become clear that alliances were beginning to take form as the groups entered into the storming stage. Jeremy, in attempt to establish status among his group members, resolved to connect with the other contestants on an individual level. Through building one-on-one connections with the other tribe members, Jeremy was able to build trust as well as create his place within the tribe. In addition, Jeremy also established himself as a leader among the group.
On the other hand, the Coyopa tribe became more divided as time elapsed. The female members formed a subgroup within the tribe while the male members formed another. When it came time for the tribe to vote someone from the team out of the competition, members confided in one another in order to make the best decision. While the female group spoke of voting off Dale, the oldest member of the tribe, the male group discussed voting off Nadia. The men believed she was untrustworthy and suspected her of having a hidden agenda in other televised competitions she participated in. The male members felt her history would inhibit the group’s progress and ultimately become detrimental to the tribe later in the competition. In the end, previously undecided voter Josh appeared to also vote for Nadia, which ultimately led to her being sent home.
I feel that last’s week session was a little emotional. In the activity that we did we realized how must of have gone through many things in life to be where we are today. Some have suffer more than others. Most of us where in the back of the line during this activity, it touched me when i saw some of my class mates taking a step back when Jaimie said, “Take a step back if you were hungry because there was no food to eat”, i was sad because thank god my parents are hard workers and before anything they always provide me with something to eat every single day. I was able to see the difference between parents that have grown up in the U.S.A, with a college degree that are able to provide more to their children to those parents that have migrated to the U.S.A with no education and have had a hard time providing the necessary to their children like most of the Latinos parents. The way i saw this activity was to be thankful of our success in life that we have achieved. And also to be thankful for our parents who have gone through many things to get us where we stand today, because I saw that everyone took a step forward if our parents supported us to get an education. I feel that we are all standing in the same line because we are in school working hard for our future, and at the end it doesn’t matter what our ethnicity is or if people expect us not to achieve because we are all going to make it.
As for the readings, I found them a bit complicated. But i kept re-reading the articles over and over and making side notes to understand better. When i read ch.8 i was sad to read that Latinos and Blacks have a low rate of graduating. I feel that this reading relates to the activity we did in class and lasts weeks reading. I feel that these rates in Latinos and Blacks are low because that’s what they’re expected to be. Like i said before if they have no support and people have no hope in Latinos or Blacks than they do not try their best. Every ethnicity should be treated the same, and the color of your skin or background should have nothing to do with college acceptance, like the white guy who didn’t get accepted to the university he applied for because of his skin color. I feel that we have very much work to do in supporting our minority group to try their best and not let others tell them they cant because of their ethnicity. There shouldn’t be forecasting a change in 25 years, they should be forecasting a change staring today right away to eliminate the discrimination.
I don’t necessarily watch these kind of shows that often nor do I intend to. Though Survivor has its golden movements I would consider it yet another TV series. Most of them picked by Survivors are long running famous people or several handful of fans who were lucky to get into the series. Few of those of course have reasons to.
For the Group Communication part I saw trust, Friendship, Team Work, Collaboration. These basic logic and reason to survive in a survival situation were well flushed out. Few negative sides like back stabbing, mini alliances, doubts, and well individual arrogance got also the interesting twist to turn of events. I have seen several of these situations before and when they were voting dale vs Nadia I already knew it would be Nadia. And here are my reason or deduction why I knew and felt this was going to happen.
1.Old man= Target: This is always the case but there are parts that it should not be in a group survival situation.
2. Worth: Dale made the fire when his young teams did not know how to.
3. Sacrifices: Dale sacrificed his own value “sight” to give fire and life and warmth for his team.
4. Wisdom: my personal speculation tells me few if not all believe that even if Dale was old he had wisdom. When they couldn’t start the fire dale found a way which the rest never heard of.
5.Trust and Sharpness: Dale might be old but he wasn’t bad to notice Nadia making sharp changes with the group to make dale out. He also kept fighting to get into the group and show its worth which to few might have gotten that value.
6. Nadia: Worried about herself and always talking mostly about her sister she made several statements that she knows how to carry a group. However with in reason she also acted that she was the best and did not need to be cared for. And in her eyes Dale was just some old man who the team did not need disregarding age comes experience and wisdom.
7. Nadia: in the end my reflection to her action of trying to “put a smile” lost her peers. The sound not the words made it apparent that she did not want to be kicked out and was begging to stay in the group. In the end the group voted Nadia for it did not matter how much experience you had back stabbing is a No No in a group conglomerate.
-KJ
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This week’s reading was very interesting. I am still trying to process my thoughts about it. Before the reading I felt that Affirmative action, while not entirely fair, is necessary in America. I feel that it is needed because there are still many prejudice infrastructures in American companies that disqualify minorities from opportunities in the workforce. I am referring to situations where qualified individuals are rejected on the basis of gender and, or ethnicity. I am not referring to the caricature of affirmative action that gives a minority a whopping advantage over an equally qualified white male. I do not believe that in any situation the minority is given a huge advantage. I do have to recognize the fact that if two people are equally competent it is unfair to give that position to a minority simply because they are the minority. I recognize the problems with affirmative action, but still find it useful. I do not think that the reading has changed my opinion, but rather given me more to reflect on and opened my eyes to the complexity of this issue.
Is affirmative action unfair? I would argue no. I brought up the point that it is unfair to give someone a position for being a minority over a non minority, and it is, I am not contradicting myself. The problem is that while the scenario presented above may occur it most often does not, in fact the opposite is what realistically occurs, it is for this very reason that affirmative action was created. The intentions of affirmative action are to create an even opportunity, not an advantaged opportunity, for the minority.While there are scenarios such as the case of the Regents of The University Of California v. Baak (who was not admitted to the University of California at Davis in spite of his academics to leave room for minority applicants) we can not ignore the fact that in other scenarios, such as finding employment, the majority of the time Baak has and will be chosen over those very minorities that were admitted into UCD instead of him.
It is important to note that the largest beneficiaries are not people of color, but women. Also the second largest group of recipients of affirmative action are middle, and upper middle class people of color. The evidence of these two groups being largest beneficiaries of affirmative action is important for two reasons. Firstly because it deconstructs the argument that inept people of color are being handed opportunities that they are not fit for. People of middle and upper middle class status, and women in America are generally educated, so it is unfair to argue that they are given these opportunities without merit. Secondly this evidence tells us that affirmative action is not enough to create equal opportunity, education is. If minorities are not meeting the required academic results needed to receive higher education America needs to fix inequalities in education at a much earlier level and stop attempting to take shortcuts.
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In this 5-minute Ignite talk, CSUCI faculty member, Andrea Grove, reflects on the depth of her students’ learning in Univ. 392: Journey to South Africa. Andrea shares quotes from her students, presenting compelling evidence about the impact of experiential learning.
The readings this week were interesting for me considering I have been an opponent of affirmative action since the day I learned what it meant. I had heard the words, affirmative action, pop up here and there when i was a teenager. I couldn’t believe people were being denied jobs and admissions to universities because of the color of their skin, even after they prepared hard and earned it. That didn’t sound fair to me, it sounded like reverse discrimination. I understand today that some drastic, and probably unfair things, needed to be done in our society in order to break the “monopoly” of white males dominating some aspects of society, such as higher education and the desired jobs in our society. The readings this week helped reinforce those beliefs quite a bit. The Supreme Court has had a difficult time weighing the pros and cons of affirmative action and handing down decisions as well. Their most recent ruling, in 2003, was the University of Michigan cases, where they ruled with the university, and affirmative action, and against the university, and the affirmative action policy in the other case. For, and against, all at the same time? That is how tricky and controversial this issue is. Now that I have learned more about these famous Supreme Court cases, I like the way the UC-Davis Medical School implemented affirmative action in the 1970’s. They reserved 16 spots out of 100 for minority to students, in order for them to have a the opportunity to become doctors and possibly serve their home communities, where white doctors may be less inclined to practice. In addition these minority doctors can serve as a great inspiration to others in their community. Lets all hope affirmative action is a thing of the past in this country, as that could signal a good balance of diversity in all walks of life.
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