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Chapter 13 Field Work

I chose to interview my mother who is an immigrant who came here with my father and myself in 2001. Her story was one of great luck since she had to win a visa lottery just for us to get here. She migrated from Nigeria and told me that it was very hard to come to America from where she was from because of immigration laws. When she first came to America she was very shocked because of the culture. Since she only came with two people she didn't have much family here, and didn't have many people to lean on. She told me that she had to work extra hard to get everything she has and doesn't like the laziness that comes with many American people. She was always guided by Nigerian media that living in America was the dream but she even revealed to me that sometimes she wish she never came, but is also happy she did so I could get many opportunities that she couldn't.  

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Chapter 12 Field work

Through thorough analysis of my home i found out it fits in the lower class tier. My apartment complex was made in the early 2000′s for college students navigating their way through life. Even though it is not a college dorm, it was made for younger people but yet I see families raising children in the complexes I live in. That shows the division between social classes. That would make sense to me because right now i see myself as the working class, still trying to make ends meet as a navigate college, and many people in their 30′s-40′s are actually still doin the same, but just aren't going to college while doing so. 

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Chapter 11 Fieldwork

1. There are alot of ingredients in Twix, but the main ones are Milk chocolate, sugar, and cocoa butter, skim mill, and enriched wheat flour

2. The ingredients come from smallholder farmers in west Africa, southeast Asia, and the Americas 

3. Similar to the commercials making a joke on how each side of a Twix bar are made in different factories, they are in fact made in factories. The whole bar in made in the same factory.

4. The conditions are not great for people working because they buy from the same markets all these other candy bars buy from. 

5.They shop the cocoa, that's how they get in the market 

6.The prices are set by the supply and demand of the market at the time. 

7.Hershey and Mars Wrigley dominates the chocolate trade 

8. The FDA regulates trade of cocoa 

9. Chocolate is marketed in commercials and to kids since its a beloved candy. 

10. I don't buy chocolate bars because I don't eat candy anymore, but when i did I got them from supermarkets or school 

11. A store owner can expect a profit of about 55-75 percent

12. I'm sure there are hidden cost since we don't know exactly how that chocolate bar got to the particular store. Not to mention Taxes as well.

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Field Work 9

I am an only child of my Mother and Father, My family is Very Very big, so much so i cant even fit in a diagram, but these are my immediate aunts and uncles. My tree shows Marriage and attempt to build a sustainable family. Once of my Aunts on my Fathers side has 2 children with her husband. While 2 people on my mothers side have children of their own 

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Field Work 7

1. Through a 30 min show I saw 7 Girl commercials and 4 Boy commercials 

2. I did see 3 Commercials that were unisex, not really appealing to any gender 

3. For boy commercials it was centered a lot of physical activities, or gaming. And for girls it was dolls and glittery images.

4. I believe we do create gender roles, not only that, I believe its part of American culture to so do, everything is about making money here and boys and girls have a better chance of asking their parents to buy something for them if they think its specifically for them. 

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Field Work 6

My Family just moved to America in 2001, I myself wasn't even born in America. My family came from Nigeria, in a particular place called Warri. My family are still very cultural which is good, since I came when I was 5 I assimilated a little more.  

I talked to my mother and asked her how she felt about American culture and similarities with her Nigerian culture, she said none lol. 

I've realized a lot of people who grew up in Nigerian and then Migrated here all feel the same way. They don't really mix the two cultures together, matter fact they are reluctant to embrace the American culture . Since I grew up here its a little different for me, but I also get where my mother is coming from. 

Since My I only came with my mother and Father and the rest of my family is still in Africa she is the only one I could talk to in my family directly about the mix of cultures 

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Chapter 5 Field Work

1. Racial Inequality https://www.apa.org/monitor/2016/11/cover-inequality-school

That link is to a article specifically talking about racial inequality in the school system. Why it started and steps to take to help

2. Individual Racism http://www.aclrc.com/forms-of-racism

The above link is an article about how individual racism runs rapid in todays society because people sometimes confuse it with their amendment right of freedom of speech. 

3. Systemic Racism http://www.aclrc.com/forms-of-racism

The link is the same for number two, part of the article also talks about systemic racism and how it manifest its way in 2 forms. Institutional Racism and Structural racism 

4.Miscegenation https://www.britannica.com/topic/miscegenation 

This article talks about the history around the world of miscegenation. it also tells us about how even many state in America had laws banning interracial marriage all the way up to the point the Supreme Court deemed it unlawful in 1967.

5. Race https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/04/race-genetics-science-africa/

This Article just completely debunks the whole idea of race and how just like we learned in this class, its a human made way of classifying people. 

6.Racial Ideology https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2332649219853309

This article describes white youth and how the early years are pivotal to the make up of racial bias and miss understanding 

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Chapter 4 Fieldwork

Since I dont have access to any recordings I will have to do this from memory. Grade with love lol.

1. The class I'm choosing is my Math 113. From my group chat I've accessed there are 14 girls in my class and 11 boys. I participate a lot and know the people that participate on my level and I can definitely say more Boys participate than girls, which really surprised me 

2. Now one thing I can say is when it comes to participating, particularly asking questions, girls use twice if not three times as much words as the boys in the class. Not saying they talk to much or anything, but they do articulate their thoughts with longer phrases and statements.

3. Barely anyone has their camera on but when they do they look directly into the camera. Outside of normal tone differences and longer statements there isn't any significant differences in how the boys and girls speak to the teacher. 

4. Men keep their camera on more 

5. The instructor is a women, she tries to be engaging but you can tell since she doesn't always get the response she might feel she deserves it starts to die off towards the end of the class

6. I think so because most men would probably not care to go above and beyond after the first couple classes didn't go as planned when it comes to student interaction.

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Field Work 3

1. I chose to draw one of my sites that I work at. What drew me to it was because it was a college atmosphere I noticed that this assignment is pretty much what I do all the time and that is observe my surroundings

2. One thing I didn't notice before was just how quiet things are around here 

3. I expected to find more comradery between the 2 housing dorms for the University

4. I think the reason my number 2 and number 3 responses were what they were was because of Covid. Since this pandemic a lot of people have been really reluctant to meet new people or simply socialize in public 

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1.  Glaceau Smartwater is a brand of bottled water owned by The Coca-Cola Company. Introduced in 1996 in the United States, by 2016 it was one of the top five brands of bottled water in that country with sales worth nearly $830 million in 2017.

2.  Glaceau Smartwater is made from British spring water which is vapor-distilled before electrolytes are added. It was manufactured in Morpeth, Northumberland.

3. This product has a big impact on my life because I started a water cleanse November 1st after my accident and I wanted to choose a purely balanced ph level water to drink while I embark on this journey  

4.  In 2017, the company built the largest food warehouse in Hungary and in 2018 acquired another 13 hectare property in Dunaharaszti, central Hungary, where the largest Central European production base of the Coca-Cola HBC group could be created. They are most likely under compensated for their work 

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