Idk my BFF rose

So i am currently sitting next to Nicolette who pwns everyone at soulja boying. I know you are jealous! We were just laughing at the commercial with the old lady who texts too much. My throat itches from eating some grapes, I am not very happy about this. Okay i should work now.

Water Use Project

My group got our three choices down and i think that seeing the difference between bottled water and tap water will be an interesting topic. I think the majority of people will want to do what would life we like without water so we chose that as our second choice. I also think that would be a good topic to do since we are all dependant on our flushing toilets and our warm showers.

Also i though how we recorded how much water we use was pretty interesting. I didn't know i used so much water, but then again since my dad washes my cars it made the number of litters go up. I think the pre-numbers weren't really accurate. It messed up my numbers in my opinion and i thought it was cool to compare our usage to other peoples in our class.

Story Boards

Tomorrow our story boards are due. I think my group and I could have prevented starting today but we did finish them in class. We did not work on our script too much before this, like we should have, but I think we know what we need to do now. I'm not too worried about meeting any deadlines but i think we could prevent not starting the day before and turn in better quality work. With that said, i still think our story boards are fine we just didn't put much detail into them, we will most likely be doing them over. What we really need to work on is getting our interview done! Ahhh projects are so stressful!

Update on Flashh

So today in class we were told what we needed to improve on our flash. The class said that the beginning of our flash went too fast and they did not have enough time to read all the information. So we need to slow that down a bit. Also we were told that the text on our time card was not aligned, so we will also need to fix that as well. But besides that I think our flash is good to go.

scriptola!

ROUGH Draft of Script (1)
(Narration) Most people have a pre-formulated concept about the lives of migrant workers and illegal immigrants in the United States.(Mari) So, __________, what kind of lives do you think that illegal immigrants lead?(Three peer interviewees) _______________________________In reality, migrant workers have had, for hundreds of years, lead lives of discrimination and difficulty. Many people may think of migrant workers as being solely Mexican, but in reality, the history of immigrant labors stretches to many countries. Some early workers, from the 1800s, had roots in China and Japan, coming to California for a better life, but being met with poor conditions, low pay, and racism. Filipino workers, who came to the states in the 1890s after the Spanish occupation, were bound by unfair, discriminating laws that kept them in isolated, destitute conditions.Latin American workers, which will be the main focus of our segment, started coming to the states during the Great Depression. Due to the ruined financial state of the country, their wages were often extremely low, and the labor was time-intensive and rough. Conditions were unforgiving and workers were rarely able to better their lives, having to keep working to barely escape bankruptcy.In the last decade, the issue of illegal immigration has become more and more pressing, and more awareness has arisen towards the problems that occur with the increasing presence of a migrant labor force.We at Working Class Heroes Productions are going to discuss the problems that specifically affect those workers, such as housing, wages, and health issues.
(Narration) Economically, the united states is more dependant on the flow of migrant labor than many would imagine. According to the Inter-American Development Bank, migrant workers in the United States sent home a collective $62.3 billion dollars in 2006, which is a 14% increase from 2005. Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia have the highest receiving rate of remittances. With the pressing issue of illegal immigration however, the INDB estimates that the number of remittances will begin to decline, which could have negative effects on the economies of not only the recipients, but the United States as well.
Migrant farm workers as a whole do not have adequate housing, and the issue is often glossed over by the government.In some circumstances, employers are not required to provide housing for their workers, and thus, it is upon the migrant worker themselves to find shelter for their families, on a sub par minimum wage. Also, if the worker does not have legal status, housing seems an even bigger nuisance, as many land lords mandate that tenants provide proof of legal residence. Those who speak out against the assimilation of illegal immigrants into US society, such as groups like the minute men, argue that this is knowledge that all illegal immigrants choose to accept, and that should they obtain legal citizenship the proper way. However, the current legal process is a taxing and time consuming affair that can take several years. Meanwhile, outsourcing of work seems to be increasing at a rapid pace, and creates difficult situations for the people in countries of which many migrant workers originate from, creating a cyclical pattern of opportunity forming into exploitation.
(insert info here)Here, we interview ___person___ on the subject of migrant workers.(interview questions here).


This is not our whole script but we still need to fix parts on this piece of it, also i need to add my part, and Nicolette's chair thing, and the closing segment, and and the interview!!!!!

Flashhh!!!!

Today we are working on our flash. we have came to the idea that we are going to be called "Working Class Heroes Production" and are going to have a time card. This is still in the works so i am going to work on our script a bit.

Another Blog off a blog

I used a link from Nicolette's blog. http://americanhistory.si.edu/ONTHEMOVE/themes/story_51_5.html
I liked how she connected this to the encomienda issue which we were presented in class. I see how Hispanic works are much like the Indians and i think that this is what our goal is this project is. To connect history to what is happening now. I think it is unfair that just because these workers are migrants they aren't getting paid like a normal American. Even if they aren't Americans, they are still in America. I think it's sad how sometimes the bad things in history repeat themselves.

Looking Back

Looking back at my older blogs i have seen how adding some opinion or just not the URL makes a big difference on how the blog looks and even though i did read the articles i didn't reflect on them. i have forgotten what some of them were about so i think i am going to go back and re-read some of the sources i have already found so that they can be more useful for me and my group. Yay for three day weekends and being prodcutive with your time. :]

A Blog of a Blog!!!

This is off of Savannah's blog. I found this relevant to my topic, since my group's topic is on migrant workers. The website she said was quite useful was this one: http://www.proexport.com.co/vbecontent/NewsDetail.asp?ID=5520&IDCompany=22
which is on visas. This is on visas in Columbia and pretty much sums up the different kinds and how they work. This has made me want to look up visas in other Central American countries and see how they are similar and or different.

Coulumbia has different kinda of visas. Most fo them are based on if you have a job in America. Some cost more than others and I am a little confused on why some that are for less time to be able to go to America cost more than ones that you can be there longer. I think that if they pay they should be able to live there for the amount of time they payed for and that the more time should mean more money. I dont see why the government doesnt just simplelize things.

Blogging off of blogs

So I haven't been blogging lately. It's purely me being lazy but okay. I was looking at some other peoples blogs and then are saying what they did for their project that day. I am also seeing a lot of how they did nothing or something random like that. I thought we were supposed to be like taking notes and whatnot on here but I'm not sure anymore. So i am just going to sum up what this week looked like for my group.

So we had to turn in our first draft of our script this Friday. When the other group looked at our script they said we had too much information. I don't know if that's because they had little information or if we had a ton of it. I think that if we break it up a bit we should be fine. I'm not too worried about our script but one thing we are having trouble with is a name for our news segment. This is kinda bad since our flash is due on Wednesday. So i will talk to my group mates about a name tonight. That will make it so we can start on our flash tomorrow and somehow magically finish it but the next day.

My goals for today are two find two more good sources and see what from those things I can add to our script to make it better. Also i will fix up some of the questions i have came up with and make them so they could be answered quite well by our source.

script

Vanessa will be standing with a view of only her upper body. The shot will be a little bit out of a close up.

Vanessa: Today we will be going from deep into migrant worker territory to an interview with a member of Border Angels.

Questions for interview

Here are some questions we might be using for our interview

So what are some of the benefits that come with being a migrant worker?

Do you believe migrant workers a mistreated?

human rights

human rights of migrant workerssssssssss

http://www.pdhre.org/rights/migrants.html

migrant workers- health

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1424200

health stufff!!!!! wooo!

migrant workers

http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/102219246.html

i found this sight interesting due to the fact that it is a way to improve the knowledge of migrant workers

Mayan Tech.

http://worldmuseumofman.org/mayan1.htm

• had a written laguage
• thought to have lived in peace but the Lowland city-states were in warfare with eachother a lot and the gods never had enough human blood
• 2000 BC the earily Mayan days is when the first signs of farming was shown in the highlands and Pacific coastline of Guatemala
• corn, squash and beans were their basic diet which was brought from other places in mexico
• by 1000 BC the lowlands also improved as villages appeared
• the Mayans lived in the same places for centuries so it was easy from them to improve in architecture and for the cities to grow into the cities they are today
• 300 AD. is when cities really started to develope large cities with huge plazas, temples and pyramids that were 20 stories high
• "By 300 AD, the first inscriptions suddenly appeared in Maya sites. These early inscriptions were so beautiful it was as if the gods had delivered it to the Mayan themselves! Forward to 600 years later and the inscriptions cease. The first comprehensive writing system in Pre-Columbian America was invented by the Maya. Among the mysteries of the Maya are their amazing understanding of astronomy along with the development of an accurate calendar and mathematical system. Their number system was based on units of 20 and included a concept of 'zero'. "

Mayan Music

http://www.mayankids.com/mmkpeople/mkmusic2.htm

• there was no evidence of string instruments
• they used whistle flutes, Ocarinas (flutes shaped like animals) such as birds, armadillos, owls, bats tapirs, monkeys, and other rain forest creatures.
• their instuments were just ones you could blow into and cover holes to make a sound
• Rattles, scraper and drums were other instruments used by the Mayans

Mayan Art

http://www.crystalinks.com/mayanarch.html

Mayan text

http://www.religionfacts.com/mayan_religion/index.htm

• Mayans had a written hieroglyphic language that was carved into monuments and on stone and bones
• it was also painted on pottery or written in book or bark paper
• they describe religious rituals, astronomy, and divination
• Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices were the only codices that werent distroyed by the Spanish for their religious content
• The Dresden Codex had methods of solar eclipse
• Some of the Mayan hieroglyphics were later translated into Latin script and turned into books

Mayan Religion

http://www.religionfacts.com/mayan_religion/index.htm

• Itzamná was the most important god (the creator god, god of health and fire)
• Kukulcán was another important god (Feathered Serpent) appears on many temples and was adopted by Aztecs and Toltecs
• Chac was also an important god (rain and lightening) hooked-nose
• Bolon Tzacab last improtant god who appears quite often in Mayan art and is thought to have came from royal descent

http://www.clearleadinc.com/site/religion.html

• their religion was only practiced by a few other tribes near by
• they had temples where they went to worship and sacrifice
• praticed by priest or peasants
• strongly believed in the conection between humans and supernatural
• earily Mayans believed in human sacrifice
• the sacrifice was one priest holding the person down and another one would cute the heart out of the person
• blood from the sacrifice was offered to the gods in a bowl
• key aspects were agriculture and harvest
• "The Mayan religious calendar tzolkin comprised of only 260 days and two cycles each comprises of weeks spanning 30 days and 20 days. Another calendar called tun comprised of 360 days and five added unlucky days. There was another calendar that developed from it called katun- comprising of 20 tuns."
• thought that an advance in agriculture was a good sign from the gods and paid attention to rain and such as
• dance and prayed in honor of the gods
• also believed in animal sacrifice
• "The head of this hierarchy was called 'Ah Kin Mai', who was the chief of all the priests in the region. "

Mayan Art and Celtic Crosses

http://rainbowcrystal.com/atext/altar5.html

http://rainbowcrystal.com/atext/celticcross.html

http://rainbowcrystal.com/atext/precolumbian1.html

http://www.lost-civilizations.net/mayan-art.html

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects98/gaffordp/art.html

Mayan History

• http://www.mayaparadise.com/mayabege.htm

• 1500 BC to 300 AD <-- Pre-Classic period of Mayan culture
• During this time they developed language and their population grew. As well their started to develop towns.
• They liked to break down building and build over them. Most places in Maya today still have pieces of building from when the Mayans existed.
• The Mayans started to record important events. This was carved on stelae.
• The people of Maya adopted the Olmec's skills and practices which helped to make Mayan culture develop.

migrant workers links

http://www.culturediversity.org/mig.htm
!!!!! http://www.culturediversity.org/hisp.htm

http://www.aztlan.net/lynched.htm

http://www.ailf.org/ipc/ipf0902.asp

thoughts: migrant rights movements, and money issues, ect.