Week 2: we talked about problems and unfairness in schools and workplaces. We discussed how it is more important to truly understand what we learn instead of only studying for grades. When students take time to understand and study the meaning of the material, they understand more then instantly on to a totally different topic the next day. But if students only memorize information to pass a class, they may forget it later and not know how to apply it outside of school. Another topic we discussed was the difference between public and private schools. Depending on the school system, students may receive different types of education and opportunities. Public…

this week we were talking, and reading about Venezuelan workers who owned a company all together, they made sure to always listen to each other, and make sure that everyone is ok with decisions being made. In English we were finding information for our research project and also making sure we had a good thesis.

I remeber that we talked about Venezuela and how factory workers are taking their factories back,turning into socialism and away from capitalism. They wanted change,they asked for board members.They hold elections and that every worker is invited to talk about the problems and how to solve it. Its kinda like a democracy. Alcasca (i dont know if I spelled it write) but their reaching for more freedom and that they help umeployed workers to work to do beter or give them full time jobs instead of contracts.They dont want a war,they want change. There’s another factory sells cotton directly because then everyone gets an eqaul pay and not that the…

During this week , we read a few articles that spoke about workers that were in Venezuela. How they operated in factories without bosses . We took turns reading the articles . How their work was and what was the experience like . How the situations were like during those times . It was very interesting reading it as a class . Just how everybody felt differently and had their own point of view

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In Composition II, we mostly went over how to structure an academic essay. I learned NOT to underline titles (which is honestly my first reflex) and how to actually build a thorough and consistent outline for my writing. Regarding an arguable claim that’s both specific and broad enough to explore without being incontrovertible. In Intro to Ethnography, I honestly enjoyed the class reading of the interviews of the workers from Idorca. Although ethnography is terrible, I did enjoy the concept of interviewing others to gain their individual perspectives on a matter. It let us see the heart and personalities behind the people subjected to the research.

in ethnographics class we watched a video about factories workers and how they worked and how much they cooperate with each other and have unions together.

on Monday and Wednesday in COMP 2, we talked about essay writing and the way that we used the format to use on our essays , and the met gala. In ethnographics uhm I wasn’t here for class on Monday but I read about how the factories owners had to work together under president Chavez and how hard it was to be factory owners underneath such conditions. on Wednesday we talked about interviewing questions and the types of interview questions. To be honest I’m feeling overwhelmed by this semester. I’m not feeling all that great but at least I did my blog

In this week’s English Composition classes, we focused on our research assignment. We created an outline for our essays and how to format them. The outline was a little hard because its time consuming finding evidence from sources that would best fit my thesis statement. Creating my thesis statement was pretty easy because I had searched up examples of how to create a good thesis statement. It is expected that there are 4-5 body paragraphs, one of which includes a rebuttal. Professor Rachel further helped me improve my thesis to be as clear as possible. I found many sources that could help support my essay, as well as non-scholarly sources.…

Article 149 helped factory workers fight for democracy and this resulted in unions being formed to strengthen work production without a hierarchy. This was a stepping stone workers having power over their hours and how they operate. This was in Venezuela at the time under President Chavez. Craziest thing about it is that there are unions formed all around the world and it stems from the idea that workers want to have some sort of power instead of being controlled and forced to work for profit.