Blog 4

Part I

 The podcast about “Becoming Batman” and “Summer Camp” have similar ideas. Both are showing how people are trying to find their self in a group or how we assume that some people belong to a type of group. Therefore, some people assume that they are not good as other people. I think the main idea of this reading is to show for our next project the two type of writing that we can write, the ethnography, which describe as a group and the profile, which is a story of one person. For the “Becoming Batman” I think I heard more from the journalists. Since the podcast start by the journalist telling that a person with no vision are being their guild in the mountains, the journalist start to tell the story and sometimes it stopped to the interview to understand the real facts. On the other hand, “Summer Camp” It is more about the subject interviewed. In the “Summer Camp” I could feel the emotion of the kids being in the group and their passion of their teams. As I was listening I felt most of the describing scene in the “Summer Camp” sounds very familiar. “Now for me, for the first few weeks, what was tough about this was that I was really a nobody there. And I'd always be bringing up the rear, I'd always be kind of slow. And I wasn't showing myself to be macho, even though there were so many opportunities in a given day to prove yourself macho. I mean, we were always, for no apparent reason, running like crazy from one tree to another tree, or up some mountain. Every few minutes there was something you could be the best at. And I was never the best.” I think it is all boys in the world do when they are at some unknown place or out of the comfort zone. We try to catch attention for other people and mainly girls. It made me remember all camps that I have been. For the “ Becoming Batman” was very interesting for me because from the beginning I had no clue that what were spoken was something that I have already heard before. I have a blind friend from my high school and he told this story of the batman and how incredible he is. Therefore, I asked him if he would give a shot and learn that, but he said is too much for him. Therefore, after hearing the podcast I start to wonder if his parents gave him more expectation would he be different? The “Summer Camp” Is organized chronologically. I think is to show how times flies in the camp and every detail of the transition of hating the camp to loving the camp. For the “Becoming Batman” it is by the theme. It to show the difference between people, talk about what expectation can do to us humans, how a blind person can “see”, and etc. The idea of blind person can live as a normal person intrigued me a lot. I think the society has force to put us to think that people with deficiency has a role of someone who need help and support. Yes, they need that, but until what point? We have an amazing skills we are humans. I think the idea to take risk is very interesting and I hope I can gain the courage to do things that other people are afraid of.

Part ll

I would like to find a group of people who practice teamwork. I am a person who loves the feeling to fight together. Having people for my back and accomplishing tasks. Feel the glory and the joy together. However, if I find someone with an incredible background I may change my project to profile, instead of ethnography.

Mine main target might be one of mine classmate who is in a sport team, restaurant workers, people from the health center, cellphone store at union, and new student welcome team. I might want to know how is organized the team. Each person must have some sort of task and I want to know what this task it is and what he or she contributed to the team as a whole with his or her work. I think I have to pay a lot attention in how they interact to each other and mainly talk with the “boss” or leader to understand what everyone means to the company. In relation to my critical question I think that they could show me how the technology might have eliminated some of their co-workers or have made their work time much easier. In addition, what do they think about these changes?