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Fieldwork #10

The history of goes back  to the ancient Mayans. The word chocolate may makes me think of  sweet candy bars, but the chocolate of today is little like the chocolate of the past. Throughout much of history, chocolate was a admired but bitter beverage, not a sweet, edible treat.

The ingredients of a chocolate bars today include sugar, chocolate liquor, cocoa and cocoa butter, milk products, and additives. Sugar is comes from the root of a sugar cane. It is produced from raw sugar, and then undergoes a refining process to get rid of molasses. Chocolate liquor is a pure cocoa mass in either solid or semi solid; it contains cocoa and cocoa butter. It is produced from cocoa beans that have been fermented, dried, roasted, and separated from their skins. The beans are grounded into a cocoa paste. Cocoa and cocoa butter both come from cocoa beans and is produced from whole cocoa beans. Which are fermented, roasted, and then separated from their hulls. The residue remaining is the cocoa butter. Milk products come from cows. Milk products are produced from animals, primary cattle, goats, and/or sheep that contain milk. Additives are derived from various places. The working conditions of the people who produce cocoa ae that majority of the people are children. It has been said that there has been a widespread use of child labor, and in other cases slavery in West African cocoa farms. The children make less than $2 per day. These children and their families live in extreme poverty. The children usually begin working at a really young age in order to help support their families. In my opinion, the working conditions are unrealistic. The work these children do deserves much that $2. The prices of these supplies are driven, by the supply market, which sets the price based on supply and demand levels and can result in unpredictable levels of impulsiveness on supply prices. As much money made from the selling of these chocolate bars, it is more than enough to pay those producing it way better.

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Solutions to Economic Justices

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In my kinship diagram I followed both my matrilineal and patrilineal descent groups. In the diagram I stated that my mother and father are divorced. And I included bother there mothers and fathers. My mother’s mother and father were married until my grandfather passed away. My fathers mother and father are still married. My grand parents on my fathers side have just two children (my father and his sister). My grand parents on my mothers side have 6 children ( 2 girls including my mother and 4 boys). My father had four daughters and my mother had two.

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Concept map from class on 4/3. “Machismo”

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Fieldwork #6: In this image it is displaying how whites will use African Americans as a crutch to get where they need or want to be. But will not help them or bring them alongside to help them be better or successful. Its unfair to get the help from a African American but to tell them well I thought of a way to use you to get here, but you must find your own way to get to where I am.

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Field Work #4:

The classroom I chose to observe for this assignment is my “Marriage and the Family” course. The class is fairly small, at most 20 students. The class has a majority African American students with a couple of other students of other nationalities. 

What I observed was that because the course was a 3 hour lecture, a lot of the younger students had body language that represented boredom or fatigue. They were slouched over, head down on the desk, or on their phones. Their were very few students engaged and focused in on the professors content. 

While on the other hand its about 4 to 5 older people in the class and they all were actively participating in the class lecture. They were sitting upright and focused and interested in what the teacher was speaking about.

In the second half of the class the professor split us into groups to discuss specific topics and in my group of four students (all females) 3 of the females, including myself participated in group discussion. The one other female was on her laptop, really disengaged and not participating. As I observed how the other students were working together I saw that some groups did not have participants that were doing other things like surfing the web or on their phones, but just simply not speaking. They were just listening to all that everyone else had to say.

It was very interesting to see that a lot of the younger students in the class were seen as simply uninterested while the older students were actively participating. 

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1.) The location I chose was my job, the Xfinity Store. I observed this location on a wednesday. I chose this location because besides school, this is where I spend majority of my time at. Watching the front of the store was actually interesting to watch. I saw some couples come in and the woman or wife was carrying the big boxes or bags of equipment while the man or husband followed behind. I saw a lot of that in the younger people. While on the other hand, older couples were coming in at the men were carrying the big boxes and bags and the woman was following them inside. 

2.) What was absent that I expected to see was the courtesy of the younger men to carry the heavy things for the women. 

3.) I revisited this location on Saturday morning and my observations changed because one I saw a long line while the customers were waiting for the store to open. I saw parents outside in the cold weather with there children about 30 mins before opening (craziness, why must the kids freeze?!). Another observation I made was because the door states they open at 10am, some customers were there very early. Some even banging on the doors to be let in early.

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In class activity. Breana & Jaedynn

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The object I chose is my television. It is a 50” Samsung Smart TV.

Samsung TVs are made in South Korea. It is South Korea’s number one multinational manufacturing company. Samsung Electric Industries were established as an industry called Samsung Group in 1969 in Suwon, South Korea. Its early products were electronic and electrical appliances including televisions, calculators, refrigerators, air conditioners and washing machines. Samsung is one of the world's largest manufacturers of LCD panels, and it claims to produce one out of every four in the world.

Working Conditions:

Samsung's two main facilities have dozens of 20-something year olds wandering around. The factory where Samsung TVs are produced have not been said to be filled with people working under harsh conditions. Many people are working and receiving a “good” pay.

This object is so important to me because it is apart of my everyday life. I watch the news, weather, my favorite tv shows, and movies! This object is an example of time space compression because it’s a faster way for me to stay connected through the news. As well as keeping me entertained with mass amounts of tv shows and movies.

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Heyyyy Class! My name is Breana, but everyone calls me Bree. I am a senior here at Morgan State Univ. I am graduating this Spring.