1. How much more expensive is it to buy all organic?

2. How much money do you usually make at your business?
3. Is everything availiable organic?

4. Do you get a lot of customers?
5. Do many people lose weight by eating organic?

6. What are the health benefits?
7. Does organic food have a different taste then regular food?
8. What do your products come from?
9. Do you have customers that have a lot of questions about organic?

10. Is it possible to have allergies toward organic?

Erica and I are probably going to do some research on an organic food place.  My dad tries to cook all organic although fails.  We buy organic milk and organic crushed tomatos for our homemade spagetti sauce.  I'm looking forward to doing some research on these places.

    First, for "What is Oral History" I want to use this quote. "methods of eliciting and recording them were more or less rigorous in any given case, the absence of audio- and videotape recorders--or digital recording devices--necessitated reliance on human note-takers, thus raising questions about reliability and veracity."  This is a very good quote.  How can someone from this time agree with something said a long time ago, if they did not cover all aspects of an arguement?  Let me re-phrase.  If you do not do all research necessary do not expect someone to believe you.  It is just like when we write papers.  We have to be sure that all our information is 100% accurate.  That's why we should not use sources like Wikipedia or sources that only say one side of an arguement.  Oral History is really important and we want to be sure that all accounts of the past are 100% reliable.
    "Although the conversation takes the form of an interview, in which one person--the interviewer--asks questions of another person--variously referred to as the interviewee or narrator--oral history is, at its heart, a dialogue."  Before this quote was said there was information on how interviewers used tape recorders.  These interviewers had to be extremely careful doing interviews.  If there is one thing I learned from my Journalism classes it is to always make sure your recorder is fully charged or make sure you have extra batteries.  Also if you do a paper and pencil interview to make sure you have extra materials, and always you a pencil on a rainy day.  I think recorded interviews are very reliable for past accounts.

    I really like the part about accessing an interview.  The first step is to consider the reliablilty of the interviewer.  If the interviewer cannot be trusted the interview will be unsuccessful.  They have to be knowledgable about the subject they are interviewing on or the interview will fail.

 

"Like it Was"

And there it is.  The first words in Chapter 3 talks about batteries.  I guess my journalism teachers didn't lie.  Not that they would, I mean it only makes sense to have extra batteries and alkaline batteries (although expensive) seem to be the best bet.  The beginning of Chapter 3 talks about batteries running out even if you do not know it.  You could have a kick a** interview and when you get back to your station you have about a quarter of it.  Bring extra batteries!!    Also the chapter just refreshes the readers mind on what the different buttons do and how to work them.  The writer also talks about different types of tapes.  Thin tapes can cause an echo and you want tapes that you do not have to turn off often.  When doing an interview you should get one with a built in microphone.  This way the person being interviewed  will have less chance of being scared or not being able to answer a question.  The writer also talks about cleaning a recorder.  This should be done because your recorder needs to work properly.  There is a checklist that the writer talks about that you should have when going out to do an interview.   There is a lot of inforamtion on what kind of peice to write and what to ask.  You should also make a list of facts of the person you plan to interview.  You can go back to this list whenever you need to and for whatever reason you need to.  You need to ask "daring questions" to get to the surface answers.  "You may be rewarded for boldness.

    "they focus on the personal and the social in a balance appropriate to the inquiry; and they occur in specific places or sequence of places."  This is the first quote I pulled from the reading "Narrative Inquiry."  This quote stood out to me because we are talking about the importance of place in our "Twitterives." In the reading, place is talked about as a dimension within an inquiry or environment.  On page 54 the author states that Ming Fang experienced culture shock from moving from China to Canada.  We see that place is really important in narratives.  "In this response, our language was taken as representative of our present-day tellers' point of view. We have reworked the text to strengthen the narrative links between then and now" (61).  I think this means that we have to be careful how we phrase things about our past because it may be taken differently when we re-tell the story.  Language in a narrative is really important because how you say something and what you actually say can be two completly different things.  "What this response has highlighted for us is that as narrative inquirers we work within the space not only with our participants but also with ourselves" (61).  As we do this, our past shows through and we remember it, whether we want to or not.  With writing a narrative you can chose what the outcome was into what you wanted it to be.  Once you do this place and space become easy to explain.
    "Situating Narrative Inquiry" was plain awful.  I'm sorry but it was.  I did not understand it. "Concern with humans, experience, recognizing the power in understanding the particular, and broader conceptions of knowing coalesce in flashes of insight, and old ways of researching and strategies for research seem inadequate to the task of understanding humans and human interaction" (8).  This phrase looked interesting, so I put it down.  Coalesce according to dictionary.com means "to grow together or into one body." So I am going to take a shot at the meaning of this sentence. Maybe the more a person narratates their life the more the person reading can learn to understand and relate to that person.  Now I don't know if that's true, but for the sake of trying to understand this piece I decided to take a shot.  "During the research process, both the researcher and researched will be suspended in a static state, each uninfluenced by the other" (11).  "Static" means showing little or no change.  I don't agree with this statement.  If I am understanding this correctly, it means that after a researcher conducts research, their attitude remains unchanged.  I don't think this would happen.  If I am conducting research, I would want to find all kinds of research and something might shift the way I think

I am hoping to get my twitterive done on Sunday.  I am seeing my crazy friends who happen to be my main characters on Saturday.  We will probably go bowling then come home and drink some beer and jump on the new trampoline that they just got.  We might also be driving the 4-wheelers which are also new.  There is no telling what kind of shannigans we will get ourselves into, but it should make for a great story.  Im looking forward to pulli

I have to say that poetry is not my strong suite.  When given the assignment, I was overwhelmed.  I am usually good with coming up with a haiku that makes no sense at all, but I want my writing to make sense.  I like writing short stores (a lot!!) One of these Summer's I will put my mind to writing a short story.  When given the micro-fiction assignment...that was right up my alley.  I wrote that story for my Writing Children's Stories class that took two summer's ago.  It was a true story based on my mom and her older sister playing hide and seek.  They did in fact find a snake in the basement.  I thought "hey there's a story!" Found poetry was also difficult. Luckily I had my tweets to go off of and it seems like everyone liked a couple of the lines.  Twitter is something I never thought I would enjoy doing.  In fact I had to do it for another class and I deleted it as soon as the class ended.  Now that's not to say that I won't do the same

1. The Internet in this room hates me

2. Another day of class...one day closer to May 13th:)
3. I want to win the lottery
4. I hate when people come to my place of employment drunk of there ass to the point where I have to call the cops...
5. Got home from work at 1:30 am went to dennys with a bunch of crazy fools then walmart. Got back home around 4am ha
6. Unfamilar place-kinda check. Mile marker 38 on 55 on my way to work rocking out to aerosmith "dude looks like a lady"
7. I love Thursdays approximently 6:30pm cause my weekend starts:) although I work every weekend
8. Workinggggggg yup

9. I loveee snow days!!!
10. how have you never been to Five Guys??!!! Greatest place ever!!

Dude looks like a lady on Rt. 55 on my way to work
I sure will be happy on May 13
Getting done work at 1:30am is pretty crappy
Must be a Five Guys kinda day

However I do love snow days
Yup, and my job
If I could win the lottery
I wouldn't have to worry about the drunks that make me call the cops

6:30pm my weekend will start
 hopefully no drunks will show up for Justin Beiber
unless of course they are 12
in which case they will be "AHHHH ITS JUSTIN BEIBER"







 

Snake in my basement

You better not be lying

Really, this tiny thing?

There is a Snake in my Basement!

One afternoon Sydney and Savannah decided to play hide and seek in the basement of their house.  The basement was very dark because there were only two lights.  The steps to go down are very steep and you have to be careful when walking down there.  The girls had three other sisters, Tori, Emily, and Vanessa.  Sydney and Savannah loved their sisters but sometimes they just wanted to play by themselves.  Sydney was the oldest sister.  She was very bossy, but she was nice.  Savannah was second oldest.  She was sweet and innocent and never did anything wrong.  Their dad was the nicest man in the whole world.  People may view him as not approachable, but who can blame him?  He is outnumbered with five daughters and a wife.

Page 2

“I want to hide first,” said Savannah.  As she was looking for a spot to hide, her sister was counting to 15.

Page 3

“….13, 14, 15, ready or not here I come!” Sydney said.  She found Savannah very quick because of the sneeze she let out.  “Found ya!” she said.

Page 4

“Okay you hide now, Syd,” said Savannah.  Sydney looked and looked in the dark, scary basement for a spot to hide.  There were a few loose boards downstairs so she made sure not to step on them because she didn’t want a splinter or for them to creek.  She finally found a spot to hide.

Page 5

“….13, 14, 15, ready or not here I come,” Savannah said.  As she looked for her sister, she heard a loud screech.

“Savannah! There is a snake down here.  Sydney just kept screaming then Savannah saw it and she started screaming. (There will be a picture of the snake here)

Page 6

“Daddy! There is a snake down here,” she screamed.  The two girls ran into the corner as fast as they could to get away from the six inch snake.  (a picture of the snake moving pretty slowly)

Page 7

“Girls, said their Dad.  If I put on my boots and come downstairs and there is not a snake you will be in big trouble.  This is the third time you have said this.  The other two times there was no snake and I was really upset with you.”

“Dad there really is a snake, hurry!,” said Sydney.

Page 8

As their father came down the steps he was kept on going on about the girls lying and they were going to be in trouble if there was no snake.  “You have got to be kidding me, he said.  This is what you were afraid of.”  He picked up the snake, carried back up the steps, and threw it outside. (Dad picking up the snake and putting it outside)

Page 9

“It was scary, Daddy!” the girls screamed.  “It showed up out of no where.”

“It was a tiny snake, he said.  I was expecting a three foot snake that was slithering all around down here.”

“We didn’t lie to you, though.  So we aren’t in trouble, right,” said Savannah in a questioning voice.

Page 10

“No, but next time if there is a snake, do not scream like you are getting hurt.  The snake is outside now.  From now on if you want to play hide and seek you play upstairs where you will not get hurt and also include your sisters.  They want to play with you two and you should teach them how to play the games you play.

“Okay,” said the girls.

The last page will be a picture of another snake in the basement.