News Media

The news media is something that is very controversial. This was an interesting topic because it talked about the many negative aspects of the news industry. How they portray black communities and are males is an issue that has been long debated. I think that the news media is responsible for a lot of negative thoughts that others have on our community but we do have the responsbility as an individual to be the very best that we can be. I liked how we discussed the difference between mediums such as Fox and CNN and between conservative and so called liberal. The News tells a lot of things but if you are looking for the truth open up the Bible and turn to John 8:32

Spending Habits

American Spending Habits is a topic that should be discussed in this class. This is especially a good topic for College Students who often make some mistakes that take them a while to fix. Credit is important in this life and you will need it someday if not now. Darren went on to talk about the affects of spending that his family dealt with in Jacksonville and now he plans to become an investor. I believe that we should generally save portions of our monies to God, ourselves, our children, our retirement, and for other purposes. In addition you should invest as well, but spend only wisely and sparingly. My father always told me that you can't ever make any money if you always owe money. I am beginning to see the bigger picture finally..........

Video Games

This was probably my second favorite topic and debate that was discussed this semester. Within this debate we discussed the many negative and positive aspects of the video game industry. The positive aspects that Marcus pointed out related to me personally. He told of a recent Playstation game called Medal of Honor in which I learned of battles, rifles, war time stories, and even a little cinema of World War II. Growing up I found this very educational personally. Another personal example of the positive aspects of videos games was that when I would play Fifa Soccer for Playstation each year I would learn of new club teams that played throughout Europe and all their players. This came very beneficial to me since they never show any Enlgish Football on American TV. The obvious negative aspects of video games are the introductions to drugs, cursing, gang violence, prostitution and the general notion of it taking up Bobby's time. My kids will have the butt outside doing recreational, physical labor, or competitive activities all the time. I probably will allow them a video game or two though!

American Language

The American Language is both extensive and explorative. Yet it has, of course many of its meaning from Germany and other countries such as France and the Spanish Language. The obvious is the spin off of proper English, but since America is a big melting pit we have words and interpretations from all across the globe. There are new words being added into the dictionary constantly. American Language and the debate of it in class was intersting because we also explored dialects in different regions of the country. I can remember the young lady from New Orleans and how she explained that many people were initially indifferent to her because of her accent. She later went on to explain that when your from where she is from you cannot hide it. It is very interesting note how people sound from different parts of the country. Despite popular belief, many of us are related to others who dont sound like us. We just dont know it.

Do Words Matter?

I believe that words do matter and that what you say is what another should person should get and interpret. I believe that word should be your bond and that someone should be able to credit your trust as much as they credit your cash. I remember watching Amistad in the scene where the leader of the slave revolt actually told the white lawyer that in his tribe ( I believe the Mende) in Sierra Leone they did not have interpretation for such terms as should and could because the men in his culture meant what they said and did what they said. This should be relayed in our culture where we have many debates and disbeliefs simply because they did not do what they said they would. Words can also hurt a persons feelings and the Bible teaches against idle talking such as ranking or riding on people. We are not suppossed to do that. Also the word Nigger has taken an infamous history over the centuries and been in the mouths of countless people with different meanings. This term should be stopped in my opinion. But I don't think Niggas will ever understand that.

Gender

The subject of Gender was a very interesting topic. This debate explored and deleved into topic about some of the main differences between males and females. I felt like I learned something about the cognitive and psychological aspects of reasoning for each gender. I found this profounding because David decided talk about how Men dominated over women and sparked a very intensive debate. I think they spent half the class period on that particular part of the debate and that overall was a waste of time. The subject itself was great however, and caused us to relate to one another. Women talked about how they were discriminated against. I feel that this is all something that is obvious to anyone walking righteous and if you are walking with God, you respect women hands down. Again this is what I believe to be true.

Genetics

Genetics is the study of the stuff that our body is made of, DNA. I felt that this debate was that similar to the debate of cultural identity. Many of the topics discussd in both debates seemed to intertwine. I personally do not believe in a string theory or a link theory as some may call it. I like I will always just believe that God created the Earth and that we can never understand everything. The science of Genetics, from my understanding can tell us about a lot of things about our internal selves and about how culture is formed period. Through this debate I learned about reproudction, mutation, and what DNA actually is. I learned that natural selection causes a segment of a population to have a higher percentage of reproducing over a given period of time.