3a World Cities

Contains a title using the format listed above .25 points
Yes

Contains a web link to your locations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland,_California
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego

Contains an explanation regarding how this component (any aspect of it; eg content of videos, content of websites) connects to your study of humanities. .25 point

How Oakland Connects to Humanities

The city of Oakland has many aspects to it. We see the poorer community and see how they live their lives. See what they do to benefit their lives. We can see the struggles of the lower class and how it connects to the minorities in California. We have to see how the other classes of California household lives and how they contribute to our society. We have to see all aspects; there are the wealthy families and how we see the poorest of the poor families living to survive when the economy is getting worse. We see people who are “just getting by” meaning they are just trying to survive. We see families working together trying to make it work; working as a team.

How San Diego Connects to Humanities

San Diego is a totally different life style then Oakland. San Diego is a major business area and people who are living there have seemed to make it in life. They’re fast paced life style gives us a different outlook of life, people who have careers and different things going for them. To me San Diego seems like a city for individuals to survive. Individuals go there to start a different live, moving away from suburbia and into San Diego trying to make something of their lives. We see individualism at work.

What are some assumptions/stereotypes you think people have of each location: 1 point

Everyone assumes that Oakland is one of the worst cities to live in California because of its crimes. Oakland may have a lot of crimes but it is a major city. There are good and bad parts of every city. Oakland has a great downtown area and has major sports organization. Just because it has a lot of crimes don’t make the whole city seem like the worst thing in the world. Not many know this about Oakland but it has one of the largest boat ports in the world and the city is recognizable for that.

Most people when they say they’re going to San Diego, everyone assumes beach town, but San Diego is a huge city as well. It may be by the water but there a whole downtown and intercity as well. There are highway structures, big sky scrapers and big business area. People also assume that people in San Diego all surf, tan, blond hair but its not like that at all.

List 3 things that make each location similar: 1 point

They sponsor major sports teams in baseball and in football; the Oakland Athletics and San Diego Padres and Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers. The cities border the Pacific Ocean. They both have large international airports that fly all over the world. They both have constant temperature because they are near the coast; there is no drastic change from during the day to the night. They both hold major California Universities.

List 3 things that make each location so different: 1 point

Oakland has one of the highest murder rates in California while San Diego has crime rates below the national average. Since the early 1990s crime rates has had a decline every year. San Diego’s economy has always been on the rise; in 2007 a median house in San Diego cost 612,000 dollars and Oakland has always been a redevelopment city. The culture is very different as well. San Diego is “SoCal” which means their lives are fast paced, beaches, tan, and the sun and has a lot of night life. While Oakland has been a working town, people trying to get by and the city hosts many minorities.

Questioning: What else would you like to know about these places? When completing the question section, lead your audience into the question by stating a fact you do know, yet you still have the related question. This way, both your audience and you will have an educational experience. .5 point

I know that San Diego has many clubs and bars and the night life culture, I wonder if the people of Oakland go out at night a lot to clubs and bars. I would like to know if people of Oakland go out to night extravaganzas a lot. Since the waters in Southern California is much warmer, I wonder if people in Oakland surf in the bay or on the coast, or if they surf at all?

Using your classmates work from last week, tell us one thing you learned from 1 student. Is this one thing some common experience you share or some experience that is completely different than what you experienced? Is this one thing related to our class theoretical foundation and if so, how? Is that one thing related to historical or cultural context of this country or a different one? Link that persons blog to this entry (eg cut paste that blog entry here) . .5 point

I learned that Meredith Porter chose the Exploratorium as one of her museums because it incorporates science and life together. We have something in common, i do believe that science is the future of everything and if we don't put everything into science, we wont' survive. She being a chemist major and I'm an engineering major makes us science geeks. I believe that science does relate to humanities because we have science everywhere in our lives; our computer, our tvs and our cars.

http://mer-human7.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html