Video Response Worksheet
Video Response Worksheet
“The Harvest/La Cosecha: The Children Who Feed America”
a. Social Location/p.3: The group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society. The corners in life that people occupy because of their place in society. How jobs, income, education, gender, race-ethnicity, and age affect people’s ideas and behavior.
This video displays how, because of their social location (such as their race-ethnicity, their level or lack of education, the kind of work they do, and the amount of little income that their family makes), the children of migrant families come to a, unfortunate, conclusion that whatever dreams or goals that they might have are impossible to bring to fruition. In fact, when asked what dreams are, 12-year old, Zulema Lopez replied that she doesn’t have time for dreams. At the beginning of the documentary, 14-year old, Perla Sanchez …show more content…
citizen. She continues, saying that because they are poor and are migrants people look at them as being “stupid.” Towards the end of the video, the documentary follows the Sanchez as they travel to a migrant rest center in Liberty, Ohio. It’s here that the video displays another example of how social location affects the migrant worker family. Eva Vega, a migrant worker and Sanchez family friend, tells of when she went to the food bank in seek of help and is turned away because her family doesn’t make enough money. She was told that she has to have a yearly income of $32,303.00 to qualify. I had always believed that a food bank was available to individuals and families who did not make enough money. Not for those who made “up to” a certain bracket of yearly income. Therefore, I did some research and found out that, according to the Cleveland Food Bank Website, for a family of five, the same family size as Eva Vega, to qualify for aid they must have
“The Harvest/La Cosecha: The Children Who Feed America”
a. Social Location/p.3: The group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society. The corners in life that people occupy because of their place in society. How jobs, income, education, gender, race-ethnicity, and age affect people’s ideas and behavior.
This video displays how, because of their social location (such as their race-ethnicity, their level or lack of education, the kind of work they do, and the amount of little income that their family makes), the children of migrant families come to a, unfortunate, conclusion that whatever dreams or goals that they might have are impossible to bring to fruition. In fact, when asked what dreams are, 12-year old, Zulema Lopez replied that she doesn’t have time for dreams. At the beginning of the documentary, 14-year old, Perla Sanchez …show more content…
citizen. She continues, saying that because they are poor and are migrants people look at them as being “stupid.” Towards the end of the video, the documentary follows the Sanchez as they travel to a migrant rest center in Liberty, Ohio. It’s here that the video displays another example of how social location affects the migrant worker family. Eva Vega, a migrant worker and Sanchez family friend, tells of when she went to the food bank in seek of help and is turned away because her family doesn’t make enough money. She was told that she has to have a yearly income of $32,303.00 to qualify. I had always believed that a food bank was available to individuals and families who did not make enough money. Not for those who made “up to” a certain bracket of yearly income. Therefore, I did some research and found out that, according to the Cleveland Food Bank Website, for a family of five, the same family size as Eva Vega, to qualify for aid they must have