VHS Learning Circle

Project Responses

Fall 2008

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Friends

Friends are the most important thing in the world, besides family. If you have a bad or you don't want to talk about anything sometimes you can go to a friend before your family. Do you have a friend that cares so much about you that they won't let you do anything stupid. Have you ever lost a friend because you ere embarrassed of them? Do you have a friend that you would go to before your parents?

Fashion

Fashion is always an important factor to a teenager. No matter where you go through out the world, you will see people with brand labeled things and trying to look the best they can. The purpose of this writing proposal is to hear about the fashion away from here. Surely, there’s something we do not know about over here, and it will be very interesting to here. Also, it would be neat to hear about fashion that faded recently and went out of style. That happens everywhere, so everyone could relate.

Weekends

Regardless of location, people everywhere always find ways to kick back when they aren’t working or in school. For most of us, this comes during the weekends. After stressful weeks of work or school, there’s nothing better than time to have fun, whatever your idea of fun may be. We think that a lot can be learned about a different culture through a people’s favorite pastimes.  Our purpose is to really find out how teens (and adults) outside of the U.S. spend their weekends. Maybe we could even spread hobbies from country to country!

Vacations

This survey is meant to help us become more familiar with people from around the world. Specifically, we'd like to know where you enjoy going on vacation; whether you prefer traveling halfway around the world or staying closer to home. It would be interesting to hear of your own personal experiences.

Spring 2008

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Food

 The purpose of this writing proposal is find similarities and differences in teenager’s eating patterns across the world. It can teach us new foods that may be familiar to you, across the world, but unfamiliar to us. Hopefully, we can both learn something new.

Fashion

               Fashion is everywhere. It’s not just what you wear, its advertising, its media and you live in it. Even cheap buys from department store clearance, are impacted by high status pricey couture designers. No matter how much you may try to avoid it, the advertising is on your TV, your radio, your magazine, news paper, Internet... It's everywhere.

Music

                In each country around the world, people listen to music; it’s a part of their culture. Whether it is the tribal rituals with the natives, salsa dancing at a sweet 15, or country line dancing in the deep south, everyone dances to the music. Music is a big part of our culture in the United States. We listen to all different genres, sometimes depending on the geographical region. We would love to know what you guys are listening to. Some of our best artists come from overseas, so do you guys have people that you are listening to that we would like as well? This is a great way for us to interact, see our similarities and differences in culture and music.