This week in Ethnography class we saw a movie called “5 Factories – Worker Control in Venezuela” basically it is about the control of workers who work in Venezuelan factories, they work in a union instead of being guided by individuals. The workers among them commented that the highest-ranking participants got much more money than them, the workers worked long hours and they were paid very little, they did not have health insurance, among other things. The capitalist system they had was only benefiting individuals and companies since they were the highest priority and not workers. In the Composition class we chose a symbol (object) and described it in different…

Blog #4No blog for Composition II; No classFollow up on Week 3 – For Intro to Ethnography, the pictures related to my FACIL Map are attached in the link to google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osGPemMn4XqHZr7DO6JaStoE3bAdRG3O/view?usp=drive_link Blog #5In Intro to Ethnography, we learned the definition of auto-ethnography, which is a form of research that uses experiences from your own life to relate, observe, and document the culture and life around you. It can take the form of music, food, clothing, or a particular group relative to your own experiences. I always thought research had to be black-and-white. Factual. I never truly appreciated the place subjectivity has in legitimate research, providing context and a…

This week for ethnographic class we watched a film about Worker Control in Venezuela, a film by Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler. In this film, workers who worked in factories spoke about working together as a union instead of being runned by private individuals. Factory workers spoke about private individuals making more money than the workers themselves. These workers work long hours with little pay and lack of health care benefits. The workers believe in money being distributed equally within the factories instead of working in a capitalist economic system. Carmen Ortiz quotes “Working collectively is much better than working for another–working for another is like being a slave to…

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In this week’s English Composition classes, we chose a symbol, wrote about what it meant, and found scholarly sources to support our interpretation. I chose the symbol, the dove, and I found sources to support the idea that a dove represents peace. On Wednesday, we started to write and find sources for our research essay. We also had to find a partner and find a relation between our topics in the essay. The topic I chose to base my research essay on is that zoos are abusive to animals. I have so far finished my introduction paragraph and found some good sources. My next step is to find which parts…

There were several factories in Venezuela, and they eventually became abandoned by those who were running them. Capitalist greed many the lives of many people difficult and hard to manage. When they realized that they had the opportunity to change their lives they didn’t waste any effort into establishing a new system. They made a deal with their government and changed their lifestyles to adjust with working in the factories but this time volunteering to do it willingly under a democratic system that is cooperative.

In Composition 2 on Monday, we wrote in our blue book about a symbol and did research on it And then we learned how to use the guttman library. On Wednesday we went over the MLA format and how to use “Work Cited” citations. What stuck out to me is how to do page numbers that really helped me so much. We continued to write about our research paper on the topic we chose. On Monday in Rachel’s class we discussed how unions work and how they are formed. We read an article about unions and how unions helped people. On Wednesday we watched a documentary about unions and factories…

The short story The Cask of Amontillado and the article Sociology’s Race Problem both deal with power, just in different ways. In the story, Montresor has full control over Fortunato and uses it to trick and kill him, even though we never really know if Fortunato actually did anything that serious. It shows how someone can abuse power just because they feel justified. In the article, the power is not physical but more intellectual, where sociology studies Black people in a way that can reduce them to data instead of seeing them as real individuals. It is not violent like the story, but it still has real effects on how…

After watching the “How to survive a Plague” documentary I ran into a sign about AIDS on the train while traveling back home from class. It reminded me of how much people with AIDS had to go through just to not die. It wasn’t just the matter of being seen, but it was being heard and considered. It’s inhuman like to dismiss people’s struggles and throw them to the side.

People’s Park gave me a weird feeling. It felt like I was intruding someone’s space because of the point of view the film is shot through. A lot of people turned to look to see what the camera was for because they felt uncomfortable in some sort of way. I think it would’ve been better to let people know they are being filmed and ask around and communicate the purpose of what you are doing.