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Yesterday we had a science field trip to West City park. It was so much fun. We walked down to the park right when school started. When we got down there we made boats. The boats we made had to be our of all natural materials and be eligible to float. My team's boat held three large weights. After we were done constructing our boats, we ate our lunch. I brought mine and I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. After we ate we got to have a little fun. I chose volleyball. While playing, we kind of got in trouble for spiking, oops! Well it was going good until the boys joined in. I have to admit, they knew what they were doing, but the hit the ball to hard. It was still fun, though.



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This weekend I found a Boston Terrier. He came up to our fence and wouldn't leave. After a couple minutes he started digging to try and get in. After that, I fell in love with him. He was the cutest little dog. So, long story short, my mom ended up letting us keep him. When my brother came home, the first thing he said was, Buster! The funny thing is, that is what I had been calling him the whole time. I really wanted to keep him, after all he got along with our other four dogs that we already had. Even tyhou8gh my mom said we could keep him, there was a catch. If my aunt didn't was him, then she promised we wouldn't give him a new home. The bad thing was, about two hours later, he escaped. I guess that's how he got out from his other home.

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Kid Nation 7

In Kid Nation 7 I see deviance when Jared pushed over  some one's snack stand. Deviance is behavior that doesn't follow society's norms. (expectations) Just because you're upset or think something is unfair, it doesn't mean it's right to sabotage some one else. It isn't fair to the other person or the town. After all, two wrongs don't make a right. Just because your jealous, which is the first wrong. Doesn't mean you do something to someone else, which is your second wrong.

The next word I see displayed is primary deviance when Greg got mad at Nathan. This is an example because Nathan wanted to put more water in the rinsing dishes water. Primary deviance is the occasional deviant behavior that is not part of the person's lifestyle and identity. It's not frequent and will stop. What Greg did wasn't okay and hopefully he won't do it again.

The next word I see displayed in this episode is social sanctions. Social sanctions are rewards or punishments to encourage conformity to norms. I see social sanctions as a punishment because when Divad didn't earn a gold star it was punishment because she wasn't ever working as hard as she was until the gold star was mentioned.  It would of been a reward if she would've been working good from the start.  But instead, Divad only worked hard when she knew she was eligible for the gold star.

Kid Nation 6

In this episode of Kid Nation I see coercion shown because the blue team are the laborers and they have to do all the labor. Coercion is the interaction in which individuals or groups are forced to behave or act a certain way and do specific things. the blue team earned the laboring job, but that still shows coercion because they have to do the labor. The town is disgusting, but I don't believe it's the blue team's job to clean the town up. Their job is to not clean the whole town, but to get water for the town and little things like that.

I now see cooperation displayed when the city council and a couple others clean up Bananza City. Cooperation is the interaction in which individuals or groups combine efforts to achieve a common goal. The goal of the town was to make the city better with no smelly old food. I see cooperation when the whole city works together to haul water from the water pump all the way to back to the water tank. To me, that takes a lot of cooperation.

During the group challenge conformity is shown. Conformity is adjusting behavior to match group expectations. I see conformity because the teams all came together and collected 75 cans and finished the group challenge. Together the whole city won a whole lot of fruits and vegetables. Hopefully now the city will now be more in listed with each other since they adjusted their behavior to match the rest of their team.

Kid Nation Episode 5

The whole Kid Nation is divided into groups. A group is two or more people that are in regular contact, share some ways of thinking/feeling/behaving, consider each other's behavior, and have some common interests and goals. There are four groups and they each have a leader. The leaders are the city council whom form the groups and take charge over Bananza City. The thing is the leaders may change, but that means the groups might change very soon too.

In this video I see group boundary shown because there is a boundary between each group. For example, each group wears different colors. Group boundary is a way far an in-group to separate itself from the out-group like slang or clothes. An example would be, "We wear pink on Wednesdays." Group boundaries are usually better ion a society because it's a way to separate groups of people.

I see conflict in this episode when part of the red team felt that Taylor needed to be out of the council. Their solution was to rip posters down and do the wrong. To me that is conflict and conflict isn't the solution. Conflict is the interaction aimed at defeating an opponent (competition) and increase dysfunction and working against each other. Another example of conflict would be at the beginning of the episode when Sanje got hit in the face with food.

Greg shows social aggregate when he made sure Layla was okay after her posters being ripped down. Social aggregate is people that happen to be in the same place, at the same time, but do not necessarily make a group. This works because they are in different groups, so that shows me social aggregation.