Proposal and Interview Prep

• My critical question is why do people want the underdog to win?
• I plan to study Miranda Milivich. She has a degree from the UNL in marketing.
• I chose her because of her marking and journalism background
• She is paid to sell the story of the underdog, and the downfall of the enemy, so she should very well understand the dynamic.
• Her career in marketing and her understanding of mass media.
• She was my leader at summer camp. 
• I emailed her, and set up an interview/ observation time.

1. What made you interested in marketing?
2. Is there a lot of psychology involved in marketing?
3. How many hours do you spend of local media?
4. What does your job entail?
5. Who do you root for?
6. Who is harder to market? 
7. Do you think people want the underdog to win?
8. How would you market Stephan Curry?
9. How would you market LeBron James?
10. Do you study people's social media?
11. What does my social media say about me?
12. How would you market me?
13. Do you ever find it hard to advertise someone?
14. What is the hardest thing about adverting
15. How would you advertise yourself? 

I will be using an audio recording application on my phone.

Blog 4- Responding and Brainstorming

Summer camp is a great example of an ethnography because it interprets observed informations and goes chronologically. The questions about summer camp were simple easy to understand. When it comes to our critical questions however this has to be used by analyzing and interpreting all this observed information. It focuses on a wide range of people and their experiences at summer camp. I think that the so what is theme reflecting back on the lessons learned as children. They don’t realize that what they learned as a child was influential and useful later in life. I think that is the lesson they are trying to get across. That you learn things as a kid, such as right and wrong, and all these team building skills. They may seem dumb and that you would rather do something else, but they will come in handy later in life. During summer camp no one is worried about the big picture of life, however the experiences of summer camp taught and prepared them for the bigger picture! In the Batman podcast it really shows that you can do whatever you want with your own time. It is kinda crazy to think that someone who is blind is automatically written off and told that they can’t do anything. Who is someone else to tell you what you can and can’t do. The choice is always up to you, and you have to proactive about your life. You hear more from the subject that the journalist. They also have all these cool background noises that put you right there with them as they are telling their stories. Clearly when we write we won’t have the same ability to do that through audio but we can but them still there though they way we tell the other person's story!

My critical question is difficult. It has to do with why people want the underdog to win so much. I could do a group of people like a team or something. I could also do just one person who has possibly been on both sides of the token, It is a very interesting thing to look at psychologically I  believe. If I did a sports team for example  I would look at the team dynamic maybe upperclassmen and lower class-men. How the team and coaches gets excited when the lower class-men wins. If I did I single person I could have them reflect back on how they were once the underdog and how the transitioned out of that phase and the differences on they are reacted to now and before. This is actually a hard questions to study! I am up for the challenge though!  I think that it will be very interesting to hear from these people and what they have to say.

Blog 3- Artifact free write

I am not revising my critical question. I believe that my question fits all the criteria. My question has personal meaning to me as an athlete. It relates to society, because everyone has been in the position where the are either bigger, better, and stronger, or they need their will to overcome. You can also have multiple answers. It can be about sports or even related the workplace, or school. You can further ask questions and delve deeper into this and the societal meaning behind it. It is not too broad, and it’s not too specific because it can relate to everything and everyone. Also this question does not include my judgement and it’s open ended enough to answer however you would like.

1.  Barack Obama

2.  Bible

3. Steph Curry

4. Bill Gates

5. Lebron James

6. Batman

7. Sep Blatter- President of FIFA

8. Leonardo Messi

9. Trinidad James

10. Hitler

Since I have talked about when will can take over physicality. Let’s talk about when physicality wins. If we take the the example of Lebron James. Lebron is a physical specimen. He measures in at 6’8 and 250 pounds. He also was perfected the craft of basketball. Hailing at the league's MVP four times. He has also gotten to the NBA final 5 times in row. He is the best player in the world. However, during this NBA finals people are rooting against Lebron. They are rooting for Steph Curry. They in this case want will to overcome physicality. In this case and in many with Lebron this is not the case. Many people have a negative emotional reaction to him winning. Why? I believe that this is because people want will to win out. Lebron has both will and physicality. Why does this combination scare people so badly? Is it a natural human reaction to hate someone who is better than you? Why do people not use this hate as a positive thing to help defeat their enemy? To me this brings about many interesting psychological issues. Is the human mind automatically wired to hate physicality to win. I have so many questions about this. Many people react negatively to physically, but they also react positively as well. Lebron James is considered an idol by many. Some people know everything about Lebron and aspire to be him. So do people inherently want to be physical? Does it have to do with Darwin's theory? Why does this scare people so much? D0 we have something like an instinct to stay away from things that are bigger and stronger? Do we have natural tendency to fear the “villain.” It would be interesting to find out why we fear the villain and why some people idolize them.

Critical Thinking

Looking around the room all of these new people catch my eye. They catch my eye because how can a collection of all these people, from all these different places. They are all coming together to complete a common goal, unified in Husker red. It is truly amazing to be able to meet all these people in one place, at one time. Honestly, the last time I showered I was very concerned with the condition of the showers. Living in Cather hall, with communal restrooms is not my thing! As night had fallen, and I finally dragged myself to bed, I was reflecting on how awesome of an experience I am receiving. My mood was thankful, and also a bit somber. I won’t be able to have this opportunity if it wasn’t for my family. It seems odd that with that I have going on, I still find time to miss them. My favorite class in high school was my aiding period. Everyday I would  head down to the elementary and help in a first grade classroom. First grade is a very odd time in a child's life. They are old enough to know better, but cute enough that they can get away with most things. Being in the first grade classroom taught me so much. I had to exercise patience with them, on days when I had none left. I had to stop tears, but also stop bad habits. It also reminded me how much kids look up to the people in their lives. I would arrive everyday at 2:00, and everyday without fail they were waiting at the door. The most recent argument I had was with my mother. I was very upset with her for throwing  away all my shoe boxes. How am I supposed to keep my shoes nice if they aren’t in their boxes? I am currently thinking about all my loved ones. From my boyfriend, to the friends I left back home. It is interesting because I have been so busy, but my minds still drifts to them. A family’s love can heal anything. Imagining my home town is pretty boring. We have one stop light at the bridge over the interstate, but since no one is use to them they often run the light. There will be the usual trucks at the truck stop. Everyone from off the interstate getting coffee and fueling up. As your proceed past the fine dining selections of Runza and McDonalds you will then be stopped at the train tracks. Yes, we have trains that come every 7 and a half minutes without fail. Sometimes it makes me wonder how people end up there. Before I left a couple moved here from Chicago!  I couldn’t wait to get out when I had the chance. Living in a small town presents many difficulties. Everyone knows everything about everybody. It’s hard to keep something to yourself. The things I miss the most about being home are seeing my family. Waking up to my dog licking my hand to wake me up. Going and eating doughnuts while my family and I watch the news. I will miss the laid back attitude of small towns, the calmness of summer days. Even though I miss those things I take the hustle and bustle of my new life here as a blessing. This amazing opportunity has been sprung from small town roots. That town that I grew to dislike, made me into the person I am. It has made me aware of the person I strive to be. That town small town with more cows than people, created a Husker.

When, if ever, does will take over physicality?  I chose this as my critical question because I think it is a very relevant thing to me and to others. There are times in all of our lives where  brute strength will beat us out, but what about the silent underdog? That underdog is will. The person or thing who is willing to wake up earlier, and stay up later just to get the job done. So it brings me to the question when does will, if ever, take over physicality? My question happens to be very relevant to me and to my life. Especially as an athlete. There will always be people who will be smarter, faster, and stronger than me. So how do I overcome these things? How does anyone overcome these things? You see examples of these people whose will has seemed to win out. An example of this is Stephan Curry. He didn’t get looked at by any division one basketball school. Finally a very small division 1 school asked him to play. He is now the NBA’s most valuable player. This is only a minor example of times when I have seen will take over physicality. This question is relevant to everyone. No matter if it is related to sports or just general life. There is always some Goliath to overcome. However, the question does remain can will, if ever, take over physicality. I think it will fit in with all of the projects that were are doing. It can be interpreted many different ways based on perspectives. It will be interesting if people think that they can win. Many people often hope to win, but don’t want to win. I don’t have very many concerns with my question. I think that it is an opened ended question, that will change varying from person to person. I hope that it will be able to showcase the wide variety of views of our class. It believe that it will be able to be discussed in a respectable manner without people feeling offend. I think I will be good at the writing projects once I get started. I often have trouble deciding if my ideas are good or even make sense. Many of my ideas don’t translate well to paper, so it takes me awhile to get started. I like making my papers perfect at the beginning, so the draft writing process is hard for me. I took a very difficult writing class when I was in High school. I have no problem writing at this level, and we did many projects and had very limited time to do them. I am not at all worried about the course load because this moved just about as fast as my high school class. We have of course a lot more writing in this class, and much more reading in the other. I really enjoy writing, but I like to make sure that my ideas make sense. I think it goes for all saying that sometimes things sound better in your head. That is my main concern. I will probably be checking with you frequently about my ideas.

Introduction

Barack Obama stated in his State of the Union Address, “We should see our differences as a great gift.” I agree with him.  My name is Tiani Reeves and I lived in a small town in the middle of Nebraska. To be exact it was Gothenburg, Nebraska. The population 3,500. There is only one other Gothenburg in the world. That happens to be Gothenburg Sweden. How did a girl like me end up in Gothenburg, Nebraska? Well,   I was adopted into a multi-ethnic family.  My parents were unable to have children of their own. After learning of this news my parents turned towards the idea of adoption. They went to Nebraska Children's Home, and began the long process of adoption. They had to through hours of paperwork and meetings. They were given my eldest brother, Micah, in December of 1987. My brother Micah participated in speech, and music. His senior year of high school he had the lead role in the musical “Oklahoma”. He also was a state speech champion, and qualified for national speech. Micah is currently a lawyer in Chicago.  Four years later my other sibling, Patrick, was born. Patrick was the social butterfly. He participated in everything, He was winter ball king. He also made it to national speech in a duet. Then one cold, rainy, day my Father is who a cross country coach was approached by a man. This man happened to be the director of the children's home. On that fateful day, my parents learned of my existence. The world became a better place on January 19th, 1997. If you didn't guess already that was the day I was born.  

Living in western Nebraska, and being the only young woman of color everywhere I went was not always easy. I was the only African American girl in my school. Writing for me was a way of expressing myself, without the fear of other people not understanding. I am good at all sorts of writing and for it doesn't matter what I have to write. Writing for me helped me get out into the world beyond my city limits. This situation has made me quickly realize that accepting and understanding one’s differences is the start to accepting yourself.  Sports have helped me to accept who I am for my talents and my diversity. Through sports I have met various types of people, no one quite like myself.  Sports taught me so many life lessons. My diversity has helped also in many aspects of life. I am able to relate to a lot of people and inspire people of diversity-girls mostly-to do things that they might not have otherwise tried to do.  I have tried to embrace my diversity and treat it as the gift it is.  

 As a young girl I was a dedicated, talented athlete concentrating on volleyball and track and field. My dad was my coach from the time I was  6 to the time I was 18.  I was a national champion long jumper at the age of 10. I traveled all around the country competing at track meets. I thought for much of my life that I would be a collegiate track athlete, instead  I am be attending the University of Nebraska at Lincoln to play volleyball. I was not awarded a scholarship to play at UNL, but I have always wanted to be a Husker.  I’m on the All-State Volleyball Team in 2013, 2014, and  2015. I won the Class B State Long Jump and Triple Jump in 2012, 2014, and 2015.  My senior season was the last time at state track with my dad being my coach. I won the All-state gold medal and had my dad present it to me. I have always been one to push myself beyond what other people thought I was capable of doing. I write to empower others.