Research Blog 12

My research on the subculture of Harry Potter and the website mugglenet.com is a subculture.  This group of people think differently than other people.  Especially when it comes to Harry Potter.  They are completely submersed in what is going on in the wizarding world and they are engulfed in facts and unknowns of what the next Harry Potter movie is going to be about. There are discussions and postings from many different people and there is also a link to a facebook group with more people who are discussing Harry Potter and living in the subculture of Harry Potter.  These people come from all across the world and come from different backgrounds but they all have the same thing in common, their obsession with Harry Potter and the Harry Potter phenomenon.

Reading Blog 9

I live in a very small town 30 minutes west of Toledo. I have definately noticed that the smaller businesses here suffer in comparison to the larger more commercialized businesses in the larger towns next to mine.  The main thing I have noticed is that our grocery store suffers the most.  Our grocery store actually was shut down for a couple of years because business was bad.  The town next to ours had opened a Walmart and the goods were so much less expensive there than they were at the local small grocery store.  The grocery store did manage to get on its feet and open again but it has still be struggling comparet to Walmart.  I personally try to support the local store as much as possible because it gives people in my community jobs and it is much more convinent than drive 15 minutes to go to walmart.  I think saving in gas saves me the same amount that I would be saving in groceries anyways. 

This chapter talked about vacations of two locations.  One being in nature and one being the expensive route.  My family would definately choose the nature location.  We love to canoe and hike.  Generally when we go on vacation it is to a spot that is peaceful and quiet where we can enjoy leaisure activities with one another.  The atmostphere of being in nature would be the vacation that my family would enjoy the most.

Reading Blog 9 Member responses

Samantha Thompson and Eric.

Reasearch Blog 11

I have not yet acclimated myself to the website.  I am still a little unsure of what I am going to present to the website and how I am going to do so.  I will reblog once I have done this.  I also need to figure out how to go about being a member on my website.

Reading Blog 7 Replies

Sarah and Dustin

Reading Blog #7

When watching the movie Bamboozled I noticed that there was orientalism in it.  It was about Afican Americans only being treated as slaved to the entertainment industry.  They were made to dance and sing and perform for the people.  Representation was also used in this movie.  This movie represented African Americans as being used for one thing which was entertiainment.  They viewed them as being funny and unintelligent characters.