Barnga The Yez Game

If you could describe the game in one word, what would it be?

Answer: YEZ

What did you expect at the beginning of the game?

Answer : It would be a real game

When did you realize that something was wrong?

Answer: Immediately

How did you deal with it?

Answer: Just chilled

How did not being able to speak contribute to what you were feeling?

Answer: Couldn’t tell anyone off made me mad

 Is my title above appropriate for the game of "culture."  Why or why not?

Answer: Yes because sometimes you don’t understand other cultures like you didn’t understand this

 Is a universal language and set of customs necessary for world peace and harmony?

Answer: I think so

 What can a simple card game teach us about our culture?

Answer: It varies a lot from place to place

Freaks and Geeks

What are the groups and what functions do they serve? Are there negative influences from any of the groups (dysfunctions)? This is functional theory. It was developed by Emile Durkheim. 

Answer: There are freaks and there are geeks, the freaks that are the outcast rebels and then there are the geeks who are pretty much just trying to survive the bullying and highschool itself and for the freaksAll the straight and narrows think that they are burnouts 

Who has power in the episode? How or why do they have power? How do they use it? This is conflict theory. It was first developed by Karl Marx. 

Answer:  The bully has power in the episode because he can use his strength to control the geeks

What are the important symbols in the episode? Note that the symbols might be an object, but also might be an idea, an event or something else. How do the characters act based on the symbols they find important? This is symbolic interactionism. You can connect it to Max Weber.

Answer: The homecoming dance is a big symbol because it is the reason that people used to ask out other people in the episode

Can you relate any of these theories to your own life? How can the things you do be interpreted through one of these theories? For example why do you wear what you wear or why are you going to college or why do you stress yourself out to get "good" grades?

Answer: yes. i stress myself out to get good grades so that i can try to keep senior privileges