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In the Movie “The Price of Sugar” the story of borderline slavery is told. The story of the average Haitian working on the sugar cane fields of the Dominican Republic. These workers were smuggled here from Haiti with nothing and objectively coming from nothing as well. They came on the promise of work at a fair wage, which seemed like a miracle coming from the life they lived before. The problem of course was the life they were promised didn't exist. They had no life chances there, or opportunities to improve their lives or have any personal goals or chances of social mobility, to change their class position in their society or the one they were being brought into. All they knew in life was work to earn any money they could. Instead they were smuggled over and stripped of their identities and any sort of freewill. They came to the fields to find living conditions they could barely survive in, a dangerous living place to sleep, never enough to eat, and on top of this they could never leave. Everywhere other than these fields they were illegal immigrants. Their lives became horrible and slave-like as they were forced to work and didn't even know how much they were getting paid until payday. It was their only source of income, what they were supposed to earn from their work, and the reason they came in the first place. Now they were trapped with no rights and no identity just because they wanted to live a decent life.

The Haitian workers only hope was a man named Reverent Christopher Hatley. This man dedicated his life to helping others, whether it be the sick or the poor he made it his mission to try to make their lives better. So when he came to find the conditions of the Haitians workers he made it his mission to improve their lives as well. The Reverend had his own key informants to help learn the conditions of the workers. Key informants were haitian people people who guided him around the community and told him about their conditions. They had to have informed consent,knowing that what they said would be on camera and put them in danger for speaking out against their treatment. They told him about the average day of the workers, strenuous labor with almost no pay, the unsafe living conditions with armed guards around them in case they tried to escape, the malnutrition of all the people living there, and the owners of the fields, the Vinici family. The Vinici family would be considered the bourgeoisie of this society. They were one of the wealthiest and politically powerful families in the country and they abused this power to treat the Haitians as their slaves with no one to check them for the treatment, they could do as they pleased. As the bourgeoisie they also owned the means of production for the sugar cane. For them it was the fields, the equipment, and ofcourse their ill treated workers. The Haitians then would be the proletariat in this society, the poor working class that lacked all resources to have any type of stable life.

Karl Marx

https://www.google.com/amp/s/newrepublic.com/amp/article/155403/american-farming-runs-exploitation

This article represents Karl Marx theory because it is an example of the lower, working class being exploited by the companies they work for. The farmers talked about in this article received the exact same treatment of the working class Marx talked about. These farmers are going through struggles of not being paid fair and stable wages, not being about to join unions, and having unsafe living conditions for workers they hired. This of course all was happening while they were doing hard and potentially dangerous work.

Pierre Bourdieu

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/education/2017/nov/21/english-class-system-shaped-in-schools

This article represents bourdieu’s theory because it talks about the resources giving to the children of the working class. It was discovered that the children of the working class did not get an equal education to kids of parents in the upper class. The wealth and inclination of the child’s parents determined how good of an education they would get. They receive less resources and teachers that aren’t as qualified, thus making it much harder for them to have opportunities for social class mobility.

Max Weber

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/01/16/science/rich-people-longer-life-study.amp.html

This article repsrwdent weber’s therory because it talks about the advantages the wealthy have in order to live a healthy and happier life or better life chances. The article talks about how the wealthy not only have better healthcare and access to funds when they do get sick, they have the ability to have a healthier lifestyle and engage in activities that improve your health. The lower class may not have the access to healthier food options or out of school activities because of the amount of money you need to sustain these things or even get them in their area of living.

1. Race

This picture depicts race because it is a picture ofmany people of many races out together to form one human face. This is an example of how race is just a social construct because in the end we are all just human.

2. Racism

This picture depicts racism because it is a picture of a group of KKK members who are the face of racism against black people. This groups for years has shown there racism but not only speaking of there hatred of African Americans but are known for killing thousands of them all because of there hatred for this group.

3. nativism

https://youtu.be/JyVGHXlY5l8

This video about trumps wall on the border of Mexico shows nativism because it will be used to keep our immigrants from another country from the USA. This wall favors the native inhabitants because Trump wants the Mexican people out because he is convinced they are stealing American jobs.

4. Jim crow

This picture is an example of Jim Crow laws because this theatre was made because of those laws. Since colored people were not allowed by law to use any white facilities because of the Jim Crow law that forbids it, they had to build their own theatre just for colored people to use.

5.Microaggressions

This picture is an example of a microaggression because it depicts a hostile verbal message that had been recently used to attack people of asian descent. People have been blaming anyone that is asian for bringing the coronavirus to the U.S. and have been treating them with hostility and verbal assaults.

5. Colonialism

lego comersion for police services

star wars light saber

fruity pebbles commercials

koolaid commercial

marvel figures

michaels paint commercial

airhead commercial

frosted flakes

nerf ultra 2 gun

nintendo switch

baby alive

blue land cleaner

fios internet

sonic movie commercial

pop tarts

Summary

The location that I choose is the fireside lounge in Cummings house. What drew me to it was the amount of people that come in the dorm and how close it is to my dorm room so I can here what happens in the lounge from my dorm. I found that this room has a lot of different uses and is actually very busy most of the week.

I noticed that the room has actually been renovated since the dorm is so old. The dorm just got a new tv and has a lot of open space. The couches in the dorm are still very old but a lot of things in the room are new.

I think that I expected to find a printer station like in Blount.

One interesting thing is that during the day the room is actually very empty and open. The tv is usually not on and no one has touched the room. At night on the other hand a lot of different things occur. Not only do the residents start to use the dorm but the dorm is also used fun different organizations around campus for events including a dance organization that untilizes the open space in the dorm for practice. I’m

1.The popeyes chicken sandwich is made up of a potato bun, crispy chicken patty, mayonnaise , and pickles. Popeyes buys there chicken from many different chicken supplies such as Pilgrims Pride, Claxton Poultry, and Marshall Durbin. This product is made by frying a chicken patty putting it on a bun and adding mayonnaise, and pickles.

2.This product is made by the employes of popeyes all over the world. They can come from all walks of life and many different ages. They can be tenagers at their first job, or be elderly working for extra money. Popeyes also has chains in more than 40 states and 30 countries worldwide so there workers can also be of different ethnic backgrounds and cultures.

3.This product impact in my local community is negative because of the amount of violence and disturbance the sandwich causes. It is produced in local popeyes which there are generally more than one in a town and they are not too far apart. In the areas that people consume it there is a lot of disturbance because when the sandwich came out it was very hard to get. It made the area more violent and a lot more crowded.

4.The people that produce the product do also consume the product. The hourly pay at Popeyes is from 7.30 to 12.84 an hour. This product did affect the people in the community because of how popular it became so fast. The product causes disruption in many of the stores, including many violent attacks. Since this product can be consumed by all ages anyone who bought the product was affected the same. They had to stand in the lines and withstand the chaos that the sandwich causes.

5.The sandwich itself is 3.99. The social cost for this product is very high because of the amount of people driving their cars and polluting the air on the way to get the sandwich. There is a need for roads to get to the restaurant, then the pollution from the cars and from the restaurant itself. The restaurant also will use a lot of garbage in the process of making the sandwich, including the sandwich itself it they  have a surplus after closing.

- this is in result of globalization many areas of the world are either a highly devolved area or very low developed area

This is a picture of a poor neighborhood in Mexico vs

A very well developed neighborhood in Soho in New York City. This two cities are completely opposite in the amount that they are developed

- this is when people travel and move to countries that they are not from.

- this is when companies use different strategies to increase there profits

- an example is moving companies to countries where it is less money to produce to product or a country where u can oh the workers less money

- this is when communication and interactions become easy or change because of a change in technology

https://youtu.be/5XZ1EfyJ_fI

My name is Imani Vann. I am a freshman psychology major. I am from pg country, Maryland. I would like to learn about different cultures around the world and the differences between these cultures and mine. I would like to learn how to also respectly view these cultures and maybe find one that I would like to see in person.