Thursday, April 4, 2013

After Tax Income:  40,000
Cash savings: 1000
Family members: 1 adult- female
                              1 child-3 years old
                              2 teenagers- 13 and 17

family lives in a (not-yet-paid-for) house in a small town outside city. the adult works full time at a non unionized refrigerator plant. Health insurance is not provided. There is a bus service available. The youngest child is autistic and requires constant supervision.

3,234 was our monthly expenses.
I felt like I was going cheep with everything, but we needed to, to make things work and not have to go into debt and still have a little bit left over. it was difficult to make some of the decisions like if we should get health insurance or what kind of day care should we put the youngest one in.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

The functionalist theory states that society is a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. Mean Girls show that the "plastics" are on the top and keep everyone else in line somewhat because they are the people that does everything right.  The relationships that the girls saw in the end was it doesn't matter how "cool" you are, being happy is good enough and with the right friends and people that make you happy. Being yourself.  a con about this that it does group people together like the jocks, plastics, athletes and ranks them. People should not be ranked on the social class.

Thursday, February 14, 2013

My highest level was the SF learner at 1.0. Then it was NT at .790. Those were my highest two. It says that I like to talk about what I am learning about and relate it to my life. I think this is true because I do that sometimes.
The recommended learning style for this is to take small steps and relate to the content. they build from the unknown with manipulative where possible. the students should built steps to go by.
some new techniques o take small steps in completing a task. don't do everything right away. take smaller steps and you will get stuff done easier.

Friday, February 1, 2013