For this project, I chose to go to a concert with my parents at a bar they regularly attend. I chose this because I was interested in what they do on their nights out and they needed a designated driver. I borrowed a pair of boots from my mom and was set to boot-scoot and boogie. My method of observation was to ask questions, take notes and to participate. By participate I mean learning to two step and singing along to the few songs I knew. We were at a small to medium sized bar in Silsbee, Texas called Honky-Tonk Texas. There was a fairly sized dance floor and about 5 pool tables. There was medium sized window toward the middle of the bar, this was the restaurant. The bar was very loud, dark, and had a strong scent of smoke even though there were no smoking signs posted around. The …show more content…
Most women were wearing jeans embellished with rhinestones, a rhinestone belt, and boots. The people all seemed to be about middle class hard working people. Many men were sporting camo shirts and rubber boots, as they come in straight from the woods to enjoy the sweet sounds of country music and to have a refreshing beverage. I met one man in particular whom I asked some questions. He was a sixty-five-year-old man from Buna, Texas named, Roger. He and his wife have been going to Honky-Tonk Texas since it opened up. Roger could not remember how long it had been opened, but said that he has many plenty of great memories there. Roger also says him and his wife come here on week nights to enjoy some of the food served in the small restaurant inside of the bar. He claims the bar has the best burger in the area. Roger insisted upon buying me a burger, I did not refuse because I wanted to taste this excellent hamburger he had been telling me about for twenty minutes. I was not disappointed by the burger; it was by far one of the best I have ever had. After spending about forty-five minutes talking to Roger, I took to the dance
People had a lot of money to spend after the war, new fashion trends were popping up in every corner of the United States, and the nightlife became the center for social life. When the outlawing of alcohol started, the nightlife died but only for a short time. Many jazz clubs known as speakeasies kept the nightlife going and soon enough everybody was trying to get into one. What made these clubs grow so much in popularity was that it was a social place where people were able to both buy alcohol and dance. Both men and women alike were in the same crowded room and there was socializing, flirting, and dancing between the two sexes. Clubs during the 1920’s had played a major role in taking down the wall that separated men and women.”For the first time, women went out to drink too and occupied the same dark small, dark spaces as
Rednecks have been around for centuries, but what is a redneck? In today’s terminology, redneck is used as an insult towards many southerners. Originally, redneck was used to describe someone who has been outside working all day, and has developed sunburn on their neck. Due to modern day stereotypes, the word redneck has become an insult rather than a way to describe a hard worker. Through research and personal accounts, the history of the word redneck can be examined, the comparison of the “modern day” redneck and the old meaning, and the way it impacts certain groups, can be used to demolish modern day stereotypes. The word redneck should return to its original form and should not be used as an insult toward southerners.
On September 12, 2014, I observed two people; Person A and Person B. The observation took place at Applebee’s, a local restaurant, beginning at 7:21 p.m. and ending observation at 8:06 p.m. I was serving their table for the evening, enabling myself to observe them closely. The restaurant had died down from the dinner rush, leaving them one of three tables in the smoking section, normally filled with eight. Along with the outside light fading, the lighting indoors was dim, making the dining experience feel more quiet and intimate. The background noise was filled with a light roar of other group’s conversations, and a jazz station played quietly from the speakers overhead.
According to The Nashville Sound, markers that include “rural origins, stylized sets, seemingly spontaneous performance, accessible performers, and heartfelt songs can characterize country music’s authenticity” (13). The foundations of what country music has originated from are incorporated within these markers and are used to separate the real from the fake. Early country music was a means of coping with a life of work and worries; it also brought communities of the impoverished together in fellowship. The establishment of these markers glimpses into the culture and realities of many country music artists before their fame. Take for instance a family sitting huddled together on a porch on a cool summer evening listening to a family member play the banjo while another sings along. Everyone is enjoying and living in that moment and all worries are far from mind. Country music made people feel at ease and comfortable, it brought people back to their memories of the good old days. This is the way country music sh...
The goal of my observation was to observe if the resident students leaving or entering Robertshaw Hall prefered to use one side of the staircase, specifically if subjects prefered to use one side to go down or up. I was not looking for any particular variable other than the side they chose to go down or up. The staircase has two sections, one on the right side and one on the left side separated by a railing. (The left/right side is determined as if you are looking down the staircase from the top.) Several choices were made before I started my observation. First, I decided to do the observation outside of Robertshaw Hall from the picnic tables facing the staircase leading from the building to the lower parking lot toward Chambers Hall. My observation ran from the time of 2:20 PM to 2:50 PM. This time and place was chosen
An entire week before thursday rolled around so that i could go back to the ASL table with my Gardner-Webb people. I found Lian and was glad that she came to the table tonight. She was sitting with Rian and they allowed me to join them. I asked Rian what she had been up to because I had seen very little of her in the past two weeks and she told me that she was working on the set for the Little shop of Horrors production on the following week. While she was explaining her role in helping with the set, I noticed that she used classifiers to explain how the set was assembled and how she painted it. After she discussed her job painting the set, i asked her what her plans were for next year, and she said graduate school. I informed her that I was
Royal Melendy writes about a rising social culture taking place at the turn of the twentieth century. He depicts this culture as the ambiance emitted in early Chicago saloons. “Saloons served many roles for the working-class during this period of American history, and were labeled as the poor man’s social clubs” (summary of saloon culture, pg. 76).
Have you ever read the best book that was ever written. If not, then read The Upstairs Room It has everything that you ever wanted, it has great adventure, good action and it is really enjoyable to read. The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss, talks about a family that cannot live because the Germans are threatening them at every point. Once you read this book you'll wish they make a second one.
Eight minutes later, I face an unknown woman’s bedroom door, a shopping bag with three silk scarves dangling from one hand. On the trudge upstairs, I re-examined the wisdom of my decision. Being unresponsive to her generosity would seem suspicious. In contemporary Germany, jousting out of wedlock is an unconfessed national sport. Even in Munich.
" I ask you to describe me in three words for a job application and you choose those?!" snapped Rose
I slid down off of my barstool and picked my way across the room. Luckily, the women’s restroom wasn’t too far because it was a crowded night at the bar. I opened the large wooden door and was surprised to see that even though there appeared to be another girl waiting, one of the two stalls empty.
The moment I got to the Jam house in Scottsville Kentucky, I felt very comfortable. Sure the clothing was very dated, but nothing seemed to be abnormal about it. It felt like I walked onto the set of ‘Little House on the Prairie’. The people however, were actually very
For my project, I did many different activities. The first activity I completed was observing a Davidson County School Board meeting on the topic of an information breach that occurred. The next activity I completed was collecting trash around the Ledford High School campus on two different occasions. Then I was a buddy for a Special Olympics athlete when it was held at Ledford. Finally, I was a buddy for multiple athletes at the Miracle League of High Point.
I glanced around the dimly lit dining room of our neighborhood Jack-In-The-Box at the collection of adolescent girls and boys gossiping about their absent friends, urban families enjoying their weekly treat of chicken fingers with exotic dipping sauces, and a teenage employee attempting to grasp a carpet sweeper with her fry-greased hands. As each of their gazes wandered the room curiously observing the quaint surroundings, their eyes conveniently skipped over the socially unacceptable figure in the corner, but I saw him clearly.
E.M. Forster lived in a period of time where change was all around him. Through his novels, he attempted to call attention to the changes he really wished to see. At the time, social class played a big role in how people understood life. People married within their class and did not go against their elders. Forster emphasized this through Lucy Honeychurch, who goes along with what her cousin and mother tell her, and does not question too much. She obeys the rules and does not speak out of turn. The importance of social class is also a major reason as to why Lucy agrees to marry Cecil instead of following her confusing, yet real, feelings for George. However, the point of Forster’s writing is not to discuss the way things are, but to change them. E.M. Forster used his novel, A Room with a View, to challenge the importance of social class by showing extreme contrast with several characters, as well as using setting to help form Lucy’s transformation.