post #5

i think that we are all a big part of the economy. i personally know that in one day alone: i rely on mta to get me to and back from school/ work. i buy food from many different restaurants/ fast food joints. at my job i collect payment for many of the products that we make which propels the econmy even furthert because it helps circulate the money and keeps the interchange of money constant.i am in a huge way connected to the issues brought up in the film. in the sense that i use many products (from the batteries i usee in my control, my cell phone, my clothes, etc...) that are made in these 3rd world countries by workers that are under paid and over worked. i feel that all though many of us know about the hardships that these people go through and how horribly they are treated we can simply not afford to or it would just be to difficult to not use their products and to avoid thinking about this we sort of put it in the back of our minds and turn a blind eye to it all.but the sad truth is that these workers are going to continue to be abused and mistreated as a result of our apathy.

post #4

One of my all time favorite songs is 8 mile road by eminem. its a song in which he basicalliy describes his life ( working, drama, more working) and his ambitions to move past all of it. he describes the day in and day out struggle of working a 9 to 5 job and how some day he hopes to not have to do that anymore. i often relate my life to this song because i feel it captures many of my hopes and desires. a line in the poem that i can also relate to is "who's not beside you or behind or ahead because he's home trying to sleep off a miserable night shift at Cadillac so he can get up before noon to study his German." i relate to this line because i often am in this same situation. i work til late and then wake up the next day to go to my classes and then back to work after that. but i know that im not the only person juggling school, work and other things. i guess all of us are just hoping that in the end it will all pay off and we wont have to work as hard.

post #3

Growing up in a spanish culture I noticed that most of the men had high laboring jobs such as: carpenter, electrician, construction worker, etc... I also noticed that most of the women were housewives and if they did have any jobs they were babysitters or something along those lines. I guess the predominant theory in my culture is for men to have laboring jobs and for women to have either no job at all or a small job that would still alllow her to take care of her family. I also think that this probably had a big role in shaping my own goals for work. By seeing all those men struggle day through day it made me want to have a nice office job with little to no labor.