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What is the family?

The family is a social institution that is universally composed of a Cooperative Group that takes care of one another Including Children

What is Marriage?

Marriage is a legal relationship normally involves the economic cooperation, sexual activity, and child bearing

Types of Family

      1. Extended family aka Consanguine

This family is made out of parents and children (Everyone outside your house hold) 

      2. Nuclear Family aka Conjugal 

This family traditionally consists of 1 or 2 parents and children

Types of Marriage ( Relationships )

      1. Endogamy

Marriage between people of different Social Categories, such as Ethnicity and Religion

      2. Exogamy 

Marriage between people of Similar Social Categories 

      3. Homogamy

Marriage between people of Similar Social Characteristics, such as Economic and social status( Including Ethnicity and Religion)

Marriage Trends

      1. Monogamy

Marriage that unites two people 

      2. Polygamy

“Marriage” between one person and more than one person

      3. Polygyny

Marriage between a man and multiple wives 

Marriage behaviours 

      1. Cohabitation

Sharing of a house between an unmarried couple

      2. Family Violence 

Emotional, Physical, or sexual abuse directed to one family member by another member or multiple

      3. Infidelity 

Sexual Activity outside one’s Marriage

      4. Matrilocality (Matrilineal residence) 

Husband lives with or near Wife’s Family

      5. Neolocality 

Couples live away from parents ( Industrial Society Introduced this )

      6. Patrilocality (Patrilineal Residence)

Wife lives with or near husband’s Family 

Descent and Kinship

Descent is a system that members of a society trace kinship over a series of generations.

Kinship is a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoptions.

3 Methods of Tracing descent ( kinship )  

      1. Bilateral descent 

Tracks kinship through both sides ( Industrial and Egalitarian societies introduced this ) 

      2. Matrilineal descent 

Tracks Kinship through woman ( Horticultural society introduced this )

      3. Patrilineal Descent 

Tracks Kinship through Men ( Agrarian and pastoral societies introduced this )

Textbook notes 

What does moving away for university mean?

It means you’re leaving the group of friends you grew up with. It means you’re saying bye to mum’s delicious home cooked meals. It means you’re playing for the last time in your high school band. It means you’re saying good-bye to your hockey team. It means there are no school bells, no lunch times, no little hug sessions between switching classes, and no spoon-feeding from your teachers.

The boy/girl you thought you loved in high school, now loves someone else. That group of girls who used to gossip about you in high school, will no longer matter. The people your mom told you to stay away from, you wish you did. The subject you once hated, now becomes your favourite. The type of people you thought you wouldn’t get along with, are now considered family. So many changes, in such little time.

This is first year. Getting readying for early morning lectures with little to no sleep. Working for hours on projects and only getting a C. Running back and forth from the library to your dorm room, only to realize you haven’t eaten all day. Making a group of friends out of strangers, and making strangers out of old friends. Trying things, you’ve never tried. Laughing with your new floormates all night.

First year is the most bittersweet experience. It’s the first step to reality. You realize your parents won’t always be there to cook or drive you. You realize your “bestie” for many years has moved on, and found a new group of friends. You realize that sometimes you can’t help your bad grades. You realize that your mental health is worse than ever, but most of all, you realize it will always work out at the end.  

This is a year for changes, self-realization, and a fresh new start. It’s a time to put your old self behind, and improve for the future. It’s a chance for you to realize a few C’s won’t kill you, and a few A’s doesn’t mean you can slack off. High school was great while it lasted, but it’s time to put the silly drama away and step into reality. Get some sleep, study hard, make good friends, explore around, and take care of yourself.

For this project I chose The Eatery to create a logo, website, menu and video for. I started of looking at lots of different food websites to give me some ideas on where to start. I then began to sketch out different ideas for logos, which then helped me to decide what type of food place I wanted The Eatery to be, which was a classy, high-end café. That is why I used the bow tie in my logo to give the image of a waiter. I wanted to keep the logo looking simple and tasteful.

  Next I had to create my website, I looked on site inspire to help me get ideas for the layout. Once I got the layout and colour scheme into place it became a lot easier to create the different pages, which where a homepage, menu, blog and a contact page. I then had to create my downloadable menu which was a lot easier because I had the website to fit it in with. The image that I was going for was basic yet stylish, and a lot more modern than most cafes.

  I then moved onto creating a motion piece to advertise The Eatery, again we started of looking at other videos and adverts to give us ideas and inspiration. We then created storyboards so we where more prepared and so that we knew what footage or pictures we would have to take. I decided to create a stop motion piece, which I have never done before, so the first time I did it, it didn’t work very well. It was good that I had a practice because I then knew what I had done wrong and how I would improve it. I retook all of my pictures so they where more steady and aligned and then used final cut to put them together. After adding in some text and sound and finalizing bits, my video was finished. 

The First Cut - Manchester Art Gallery

The first cut exhibition was an extraordinary show of work from 31 international artists who all work extremely well with paper whether they are cutting folding or sculpting it. It is amazing what they can create, for example an artist called Chris Jones managed to create an antique looking motorbike just from magazines and book images. Another artist called Beatrice Coron created beautiful story cuts that where so tiny and detailed, they were so precise and had so much meaning to them they could almost tell us a tale through the images that had been cut out of the paper. Claire Brewster is also a very skilled artist when it comes to creating something very beautiful and very detailed from something as simple as maps. Claire’s work was focused on birds which she managed to create such stunning pieces of work of, and the way she created them from maps worked really well adding some colour and patterns to the image which made it look like the odd and random colours and shapes birds normally have on their feathers and body, It also added movement and feeling to the birds.

All of these pieces of work around the room, on the walls or in the middle of the floor like Manabu Hangai’s large leaf trees create a whole atmosphere for the people when they walk into the exhibition, they want it to be a whole new experience and something that you will never forget.

  People’s History Museum

The people’s History Museum is extremely interesting and educational for all ages. It tells us the history from the past 200 years of people’s lives at home and work. It also gives us information on democracy in Great Britain.

They use lots of different techniques to get their information across some of these are printed materials, 3D objects and photographs. However as well as these examples, they also make their museum very stimulating and interactive for the public with different puzzles that need solving, old fashioned clothes to dress up in or just a simple juke box for the public to choose what music is played. This also helps to widen their target audience as it is making it interesting for not only adults but children also.

The museum is a great place to visit to learn about the history of working people in the UK, it is much more entertaining and engaging for the audience, rather than just reading books or looking on the internet. Seeing it all in front of you gives you the feeling that you are there, in the history participating which makes it not only more fun but also a lot more motivating.

  Biffy Clyro Mountains Single Cover

I have chosen to review this songs artwork as even though I don’t really listen to Biffy Clyro I do know this song by him and I love the image that has been used. I’m not too sure of the actual meaning of the song but the mood and tone definitely match the blue, cold cover. The song is called mountains yet the image is under water of two lions fighting. However even though it is not taken literally, as it is not an image of a mountain, there is still this feeling that they are present, the way they have captured the shadows under the water very rigid and triangular. Also lions are not known for being under water, they live either in grass lands, forests or sometimes mountains. They successfully make these connections very subtle so you see and think about them without realising.

The main subject of this picture is clearly the two lions as they are in the light, which almost looks as if it is a spotlight coming from above the water which is focused on them with the shadows around them getting darker and darker.  Even though the two lions have this unsettling image about them they still attract you and pull you in to the cover.

The cover overall has quite a dark, rebellious feel to it, with the two lions fighting and the darkness around them.  I think it works extremely well as it grabs your attention and also sticks in your mind so you don’t forget it, this would have been their main target to accomplish so that more singles are sold.

  Florence and the Machine Gig

Florence and the Machine is one of many gigs that I have been too, and even though some of the artists have been extremely different to one another their gigs are always pretty similar. This is because everything an artist does is linked to the atmosphere they want to create for their audience. It is not just about them singing it is about the whole performance and setting in the room.

One of the main parts of getting the atmosphere going is the build-up to the artist coming on the stage, Florence did this extremely well by playing the beat of the drum to her first song, with the stage in complete darkness makings us wait and wait, prolonging the start on her song until we hear her voice and then the lights come on and the whole audience is jumping up of the ground screaming or singing out her lyrics completely caught up in the atmosphere in the room.

Florence has a wide range of songs so she made sure they were all mixed in and that she wasn’t playing a lot of her slower songs one after the other, she wanted the audience always involved and alive with her music. Throughout her performance she managed to cover the whole stage, running back and to putting a lot of energy and excitement into her singing. She would shout and jump and raise her arms to get the adrenaline running through the audience to get us all back up jumping and dancing with her.

Retro - Retro is a culturally outdated or aged style, trend, mode, or fashion, from the overall post-modern past, that has since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again. It generally implies a vintage of at least 15 or 20 years.