Point of View
Think about what it would be like to experience life through another's eyes (a different point of view).
It would be interesting to think about how this would affect people:
- understanding
- development
- social aspects
- open mindedness

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/9161/00s/BeingJohnMalkovich/beingjohnmalkovich.html

Mobility
The ever increasing dependency of/for/on mobile phones
-technology leading to 'cyborgs'
leads to "how did we suervive before, without it (the technology)?"
What happens when/if we lose these technologies that we have come to depond on?

http://www.shockandawe.us/walker/docs/entertainingknowledge.doc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyborg
using technology to add or enhance the abilities of a human - cyborg
enhancement turns into Dependence ...

Hegemony
Discourse of Resistance
- state sponsored resistance in order to control the resistance
(i.e) police blocking off a street for a protest march (in order to control it)

The ideological discourse of freedom enabled through the media and/or education.

Discourse - how language can guide our belief system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegemony

Maxist theory
Karl Marx
Capitalists (bourgeois) vs. workers (proletariat)

Workers' struggle continues? labour exploitation
Capitalist exploitation of resources may lead to future extinction.

Capital uses body to commodify nature:
Interaction between body (labour) and nature (resources) leading to extraction of profits fo the Capitalist System

http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Soci/SociWarr.htm

Environment
In a capitalistic society, you must show value in order to achieve environmental action. People have budgets...

(i.e.) to save downer woods from being developed there must be value of the woods show for people to desire the continuation of its current existence.

http://www.gmtoday.com/content/CLS/2004/June/25.asp

Ethrocentrism
In my Nations & Nationalities geography course I was shocked to hear people's opinions of Riverwest and the actual borders of the area of Milwaukee.

I live in Riverwest near Bremen Cafe, and feel that I have a completely different point of view than many of my peers living on the Eastside. I found it interesting later to realize how defensive I had become about the neighborhood that I now live in. It helped me realize that I should try to see the way things are through other people's eyes. By putting myself in other people's shoes I can begin to understand people's actions and thoughts better.

mental map
Image of boundaries
Riverwest: Holton (west) to Milwaukee River (east), Capitol (north) to Milwaukee River (south)
East Side: Milwaukee River (west) to Lake Michigan (east), Edgewood (north) to Brady (south)

Signifiers (from students in class)
Riverwest

• pot holes
• bars/windows
• neighborhood bars
• small bodegas
• diverse population
• family
• more crime
• African Americans
• Dense housing

East Side

• coffee shops
• white
• students
• single/ young/ married

http://www.riverwestcurrents.org/2003/February/000414.html

Harvest Fest 2005
Oak trees at Harmony Park, i love the nature...

http://www.wookiefoot.com/HarvestFest/main.cfm