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Chapter 16 Fieldwork

For this interview I interviewed my friend Malcolm. He doesn’t get sick very often because he takes vitamins and eats healthy, but when he does, he doesn’t call anyone. To get well, he tries to drink lots of water and rest as much as he can. Another strategy he likes to use is sweating out the sickness, so he sleeps with the heat on. Sometimes when he has a cold or a fever it’s not that noticeable because he already has allergies. When he has bad allergy symptoms, he takes Zyrtec. When he has a cold, he takes Mucinex to get I’m through the day and Benadryl at night. The reasoning for taking Benadryl at night is because it makes you tired and he doesn’t want to have to go through the day feeling too tired. His family is from the United States, so he only knows what he was raised around, so he doesn’t know any practices that are from outside the US. When he has stomach aches or pains, he will try to use the bathroom, or use a heating pad. His healing strategies are not specified from family or culture. “I just do what I think is best for me”, Is what he responded, when I asked. He doesn’t smoke or do any drugs or alcohol substances so none of his healing strategies are guided by that. When he is sick, he really is not sure what got him sick, unless he is around someone who he knows is sick. He washes his hands at necessary times, when using the bathroom, before dinner etc. His choice of drinking water doesn’t seem to be the problem ever, because he inly drinks bottled water. When he is sick, he just stays in his room, being that we are on campus with lots of people, he doesn’t want anyone to catch anything he has so he stays in his room. For necessities, he asks his roommate or any of his friends to help him out. He will only take medications for his symptoms but once the cold is over, he doesn’t take them anymore. When he gets sick it makes him angry. He is no longer allowed to move the way he wants to move. This meaning that he must cancel and rearrange his schedule to fit what’s more convenient for him in that state. If he has certain symptoms, he doesn’t automatically assume that he knows what he has, because that could put more stress on him and make his sickness worse. He always goes to get tested when he knows his body feels off. Nowadays we can’t have a regular cold without having the fear that it might be covid, so he always makes sure to get tested. When he is sick, he says that the last thing on his mind is the price it costs to get better. He doesn’t mind paying for medica bills if he knows its for a good cause.

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Chapter 4 Fieldwork

The class I chose to observe for this assignment is my intro to business class. In total there are 30 girls and 26 boys. I chose to do this assignment on presentation day to really see who talks more and who is more involved. Our presentation This week was on Careerpedia. Our class is split into 9 groups and each group has their own career path to look at. The presentations should be 5 minutes long so each person has a good amount of time to speak. After listening to all the groups present, and presenting myself, I tallied up 171 times a girl spoke and 63 times the males spoke. Women clearly spoke more often. A lot of the females were nervous to present but I noticed in their body language that as they were speaking, they tend to look out into the air or in the ceiling, not particularly into the camera. Most of the males would look to the ground when speaking. The men did tend to use their hands a lot more when speaking. The average length of speaking time for women was 1 minute, as for the males it rounded to about 32 seconds. Both genders kept their cameras on when presenting, but in general there were more males with their cameras on than females. The instructor of my class encourages communication greatly during presentation days. He loves when others ask questions and seem involved in what the presentations are about. The instructor of my class is a male and his body language is similar to some of the male students in my class. He speaks with his hands a lot. His gender doesn’t seem to get in the way of how he interacts with the class, he speaks in a stern but understandable tone and likes to make jokes here and there.

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Chapter 13 Fieldwork

The immigrant I chose to interview was my aunt. My auntie was inspired to move to the United States because of my father. My father moved here when he was 16. He was the first from his family to leave and came all by himself. Although it was a long process, he is no longer an immigrant, he is a US citizen.

        This young woman came to the United States from Puerto Prince, Haiti. Haiti is located in the Caribbean. In Haiti she lived with her parents and her two brothers. She has a lot of family in Haiti, but once my father made the move to the United States, she knew that she wanted to be next. They weren’t living in poverty, or in a struggle or anything like that in Haiti, but she felt that the United States had more opportunities for her. The only issue she had when trying to move to the United States were the decisions of her family. She was supposed to get married to a family friend and live with him in Haiti, but that is not what she had in mind for her future. The young man had not proposed, or taken her on dates, the family was just all talk and forced the thought of marriage in their heads. She came to the United States on a visa when she was 21 and she is still living off a green card to this day. Her parents followed shortly behind her 3 years after, in 2014. Moving out her allowed her to get an education in nursing and have a good job. She also met a nice man who was also an immigrant, but from Africa. They got married and had a girl and are now living happily. The only issue she has is that after all her family moved to the United States, they all did whatever they could to become a us citizen. She still has not started any of that process and her green card expires very soon.

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Chapter 11 Fieldwork

1. The ingredients in a snickers bar are:

· Sugar

· Peanuts

· glucose syrup

· skimmed milk powder

· cocoa butter

· cocoa mass

· sunflower oil

· palm fat

· milk lactose and protein

· whey powder

· milk fat

· emulsifier

· salt

· coconut oil

· egg white powder

· vanilla extract

2. The ingredients of a snicker bar come from all over the Americas. Ingredients like the sugar come from Brazil. The peanuts come from Argentina, and the vanilla comes from Mexico.

3. Making a snickers bar consists of melting most of the ingredients (chocolate, butterscotch chips, peanut butter, milk, sugar, butter, vanilla, and marshmallow cream). Once all the ingredients are melted together, peanuts are added. It is then placed into a mold and cooled to form the nougat that serves as the inside of the snickers bar. The caramel is made by mixing brown sugar, butter, vanilla extract, corn syrup, and milk and boiling it. Once the caramel is made its placed-on top of the nougat mixture and set to cool again. Once cooled, they’re dipped in chocolate and set aside to harden and be placed in their wrappers.

4. It is said that enslaved children are forced to work in horrible conditions, picking cocoa beans that are then imported to make the snickers bars. The farms that the cocoa beans are imported from are known for their abusive conditions.

5. Cocoa beans are picked from Cote d’Ivoire farms.

6. The prices of snickers all depend on how the internet reacts to the snickers bar advertisements. “The angrier the internet, the cheaper the sweet sweet candy”. The price is adjusted by the measure of range on the internet.

7. The Hershey company controls almost 44% of the U.S. chocolate market and Mars follows with 30%.

8. The Food and Drug Administration regulate the chocolate trade.

9. Chocolate is marketed differently depending on the consumer type. Although snickers is a chocolate bar, it is marketed as a snack bar.

10. I bought my chocolate bar at the Blount convenient store.

11. A store owner will margin about 55 to 75% off of a chocolate bar.

12. The hidden cost of buying a chocolate bar, is child labor.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/single-bar-chocolate/snickers-single-58g

https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/3067/SNICKER_BAR_COME_FROM.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://www.leaf.tv/13527334/easy-homemade-reeses-peanut-butter-bars/

https://www.bustle.com/articles/163575-the-price-of-snickers-bars-will-change-based-on-the-internets-mood

https://qz.com/1308004/mars-candy-bar-labels-dont-have-to-disclose-the-bitter-truth-about-child-labor-a-us-court-rules/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/629534/market-share-leading-chocolate-companies-worldwide/

https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/05/chocolate-candy-and-the-law/

https://ezinearticles.com/?Marketing-Chocolate&id=4423737

https://www.mbaskool.com/marketing-mix/products/17577-snickers.html

https://www.mvorganizing.org/how-much-profit-does-a-store-owner-make-on-a-bar-of-chocolate/

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Chapter 9 Fieldwork

My family Shares a story of a small family. My mom has two sisters, both had kids. My first aunt from my mothers side has a son and my second aunt has three kids, two boys and one girl. On my fathers side he has a brother and a sister. His brother has not kids, but his sister has one girl. My parents had four kids, including me. Three girls and one boy. 

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Chapter 2 Fieldwork

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Chapter 2 Fieldwork

After completing this assignment I realized that a lot of the items I own, are here because I wanted them. Half the stuff in my room I do not need. I can live without majority of the things in my room, I just choose to have them for my own purposes. While completing this assignment, I also learned that everyone has their own opinion on what a "want" and a "need" is. For example, I believe that a phone is a want, but others may feel like it is a need because in 2021 technology has replaced a majority of the way things work.

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Chapter 3 Fieldwork

The location I chose for this map is Central Park in Manhattan, New York. I chose this location because as a child my mother and I used to always take the train from home to Central Park for events they had going on, or even just to take a walk. Central Park is the largest park in Manhattan and is an extremely popular tourist attraction. Growing up, attending this park was always something I looked forward too, from the horses to even just the positive energy in the air.

When making this map, in my observations, I noticed that there are a lot more parts of Central Park that I've never noticed when actually being there. I was never aware that they had names for each section of trees and corner of the park. I was also never aware that Central Park was technically built. Millions of piles of dirt and soil were moved around and thousands of plants and trees were planted all over to create the foundation of Central Park.

One thing that was absent that I expected to find was the food trucks and ice cream trucks that are regularly parked near and throughout Central Park. From my knowledge there are always people selling food and/or desserts through out Central Park, on mobile carts or in trucks.

During Covid 19 Central Park was not impacted that much. The park is an open park on the outside, so it was not restricted or closed. Certain areas of the park were shut down, such as the buildings and the zoo. Masks were encouraged but not enforced, as well as social distancing. Theres not much that was really taken away from the public because it was still there as an attraction.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Central-Park-New-York-Cityhttps://centralpark.org/coronavirus-update/

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There are 3 inventors of crocs, Scott Seamans, Lyndon Hanson, and George Boedecker Jr. They all shared a love for sailing. While sailing, they came across a new boating clog made by a Canadian company and quickly took action to take the rights for the Canadian Company “Foam Creations”. In 2004 they completely gained the rights of Foam Creations and sailed off from there.

Crocs are manufactured in Mexico.

This item plays a big impact in my life, I own multiple pairs of crocs and they are the most comfortable pairs of shoes I own. They can be used for multiple things.

Crocs are made by machines; they are just rubber under high gas pressure.