Read the article "Report says children are getting sick working on American tobacco farms" and watch the video "Fingers to the Bone: Child farmworkers in the US." Compare and contrast the article and the video. Both stories are about child farm workers. Here are some ideas you can include: How are the images, words and sounds arranged to get the audience's attention? Is the main subject portrayed objectively? Does each story represent multiple points of view? Does each story seemed to be designed to arouse a certain feeling or impression in its audience? Does it help you see how this subject fits into a bigger picture? Please use evidence from both the article and the video to support your response. Please respond to at least two other student entries.
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Tommy
3/5/2015 05:30:11 am
I think they are alike in many ways. One way that they are alike is that they are both about farming but one way they are different is that tobacco farms have many different chemicals but working in a regular farm does not. Another way they are alike is that they both have extreme sun and low pay. They also both have young workers that drop out of school and go to the farms or skip school.
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Tommy
3/5/2015 05:39:50 am
I forgot to say this. Each story represents a different point of view it tells how they feel and what is there job. I feel very bad for them instead of them going home and relaxing they have to work long hours in the fields but we do not have to and they do not have any other choice but to work in the fields.
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Cara
3/5/2015 06:26:15 am
I agree, Tommy. Children should not drop out of school just to do farm working. They need more education.
Ryan
3/5/2015 08:25:10 am
I agree Tommy. Each story has there own point of view of showing what is happening to children that have to work at farms.
Aidan
3/5/2015 11:13:35 am
I agree with you Tommy because education is more important to the kids they should not drop out of school just because they need to farm . It's not fair to the children to have to dedicate their lives to farm working. The farm working for these children should stop!!!!!!!!!
Justine
3/5/2015 10:08:38 am
I agree with you because both the video and the article talk about the bad weather.
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alex
3/5/2015 10:09:43 am
I agree with you Tommy. The video and the article are alike in many ways. The only way they are different is because that the article was just about Tabbaco and the video was about crops
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Jorden
3/5/2015 06:11:21 am
I think that the story and the article were alike in different ways.A way they were alike is that it talks about kids stuck in fields doing farm work instead of getting a good school education.A way they used images, words,and sounds to get peoples attention is by showing real-life kids in fields not getting caught up in school and interviewing them on camera with them telling what its like to be on a farm working.Working in fields will also force kids to drop out at early age for example at 11 years old.In the article they talked about kids saying that they got headaches and stomach cramps from a drug chemical called Green Tobacco sickness which causes side effects like the headaches and stomach cramps.
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nola
3/5/2015 08:50:21 am
Jorden I really like how you say that they are alike in different ways although I am a little confused, because do mean that they are a like or different. I also like your detail about the way that they used images, words, and sounds. I thought that, that detail really figure out the video a little more now that you say that.
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Gavin
3/5/2015 09:58:22 am
The story article was alike in different ways and one way is because the article and the video both talk about how kids 18 and under work in the farm rather than going to schools like Harvard or something. They are making their lives much more harder by working in the farm out in the very hot weather.Some ways they use sound images and words to communicate is by showing how kids are not going to school and that is bad for your future.Some 11 year olds have to drop out of school because of the farm working they have to do and it is bad because they will have no education.
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Benicio Curiel
3/5/2015 12:23:34 pm
I agree with you Jorden because the children do get sick from the Green Tabacco Sickness.
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Natasha
3/5/2015 12:23:46 pm
I agree with you, Jorden. These poor kids are suffering from stomach cramps and headaches every second. Yet they still keep working. When I have a headache or a stomach cramp, I usually spend the day in bed, and then I take some medicine. These kids can't take medicine or spend the day in bed. Instead, they have to work, suffering great pain.
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julian
3/5/2015 06:13:22 am
to compare and contrast the article and video, first, the information is mainly about children working in tobacco fields and many think that is not right. the difference is that the children in "fingers to the bone" think that them missing their childhood is wrong and they have reported that there are sicknesses at the fields. the article says that the law does not require a certain amount of age to work in the tobacco fields. both are about the same subject. this video and the article states about children working in tobacco fields.
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Arlon
3/5/2015 07:43:53 am
I agree with you Julian because the video and article do talk about children working in tobacco fields.They also say the children work at a young age like 7,8,10, or even 12 years old.
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Wolfvoelker6789
3/5/2015 12:13:58 pm
To compare and contrast the article and video, The first thing I noticed was that both clearly state that children working in farms is wrong. The articles are both about the children working in farms, they still have their difference, though. One difference is that children in the video say that they are young and they shouldn't be doing this, but the article states the law does not require a certain age for children to work in tobacco fields. And of course I also think that children working in tobacco fields, pickle fields etc. Is stupid and completely wrong.
Justine
3/5/2015 10:11:01 am
I agree with you because they are both about children working in the farms.
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Mrs. Chenu
3/5/2015 11:06:18 am
I agree with you Julian- both the article and the video agree that children working in agriculture is wrong. What does the video attribute to kids getting sick in the fields?
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Benicio Curiel
3/5/2015 12:18:27 pm
I agree with you Julian because both the article and video were talking about children working in tobacco fields.
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Ryan
3/5/2015 06:21:47 am
The article and the video have many similarities and differences. First of all one of the most main ideas for the two of them is that they are both about children who work in farms and how people think it's not right for the children to work at such a young age. The video and the article also talk about kids working in tobacco farms and about child labor. Although each story has differences. In the article it is mostly about kids working in tobacco farms and the video is mostly about how they think it is against the law for children to even be working in farms in such a young age. The video also has that it is one of the most dangerous jobs for kids because of the tools and the pesticides and chemicals around them.
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Cara
3/5/2015 06:24:43 am
I agree, Ryan. It is a very dangerous job for such young kids. They can get hurt easily with the sharp tools.
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Arlon
3/5/2015 07:40:33 am
I agree with you Ryan because the kids do get mistreated and have problems.They also get worked to hard at such a young age.
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nola
3/5/2015 08:55:16 am
Ryan I love your post and details, they really explained it more. I think that when you talk about how the video and article being different you didn't have any trouble writing or finding what you needed to say. I thought it was great how you said the main idea and you said a little bit about child labor. I LIKE YOUR POST!
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Ashley
3/5/2015 10:30:53 am
I agree with you Ryan because the jobs are really for adults not children. I think so because they might get a disease or something. In the article it said that some children got green tobacco sickness.
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Cara
3/5/2015 06:22:51 am
The story and the article were alike and different in many ways. They were alike because they both talked about how children were working in farms at young ages. The video talked about how kids were dropping out of school just to work in farms. The article talked about how kids got sick from the tobacco. The images, words and sounds are arranged by putting on some interviews with the older kids. Also, it shows some really young children working hard in the farms. This subject fitted into a bigger picture because we were mainly talking about farmworkers that were treated badly. This subject was about how children at young ages had to work in the farms. I think that education is more important than working in the farm. The little kids need to learn.
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jacob
3/5/2015 06:47:35 am
i agree the little kids need to learn instead of working in the farm and they get sick to. And they are treated very badly tough they are kids that work in the farm and i want it to stop!!!!!
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Ryan
3/5/2015 08:18:50 am
I agree Cara. The article and the video both talk about how children are working at a farm at such a young age. It is also true that they were treated badly.
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Connie
3/5/2015 08:45:50 am
I agree. Kids should not be in fields working. They should be in a school, learning subjects. Children could be very ill and sick when working on the farms, unlike the adults that have more protection.
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Sarah:)
3/5/2015 12:59:17 pm
I agree with you when you said," They were alike because they both talked about how children were working in farms at young ages." They were alike because they talked about the young farmers working at young ages.
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jacob
3/5/2015 06:44:56 am
The article and the video is alike and different . Why they are alike is they are both children working in the farm and they are not going to school. and they are not learning enough. Most of the kid got stomach ache and they were sick of green tobacco sickness i will prove it to you " Most likely, the children were affected by something called Green Tobacco Sickness. This occurs when nicotine is absorbed through the skin. Nicotine is a chemical found on the tobacco as well as in cigarettes." what is the different is that they work in different farm place. And they work in different subject one of them is tobacco picking and one of them is picking cucumber. And they are in different state like Michigan and California and if they do work in the farm the kids will not learn enough to teach there child and they will have to work like 16 hour a day.
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Ashley
3/5/2015 10:22:32 am
I agree with you Jacob because some children got sick because of the pesticides and nicotine. So we're really lucky that we are not like them. If we were we would be so far behind education.
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Mrs. Chenu
3/5/2015 11:07:43 am
I like the evidence you provided from the article.
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jacob
3/5/2015 01:23:04 pm
thanks mrs.chenu
Arlon
3/5/2015 07:37:31 am
Now the similarities between the article and video is that both of them said that there is pesticides and toxic chemicals,also it said that the children are young.The differences between them is that the children in the video is 12 while the article said that the children are 7,8,or 10 years old.Also the video said the children are super hot but the article said the children get stomach aches,head aches,and vomiting.
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alex
3/5/2015 10:18:45 am
I agree with you Arlon. the similarities are what you said about toxic and pesticides however the video was more about just plain sickness children get from farming and the article was only about tabacco and not crops, so the tabacco gives a way just the Green tabacco sickness wich is goes through your skin. You are still right. But I think it is interestting how there are difference in the similarities
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Elena
3/5/2015 07:56:24 am
The video is very alike because in both research things children have been skipping school for weeks, years or months! When they go back to school they do not know anything that the class has learned. In the article it said,"Most likely, the children were affected by something called Green Tobacco Sickness. This occurs when nicotine is absorbed through the skin. Nicotine is a chemical found on the tobacco as well as in cigarettes." But in the video they do not get sick but they do get hot and exausted from the heat. They do not vomit or get migranes and stomach pain! Children in Califonia can be twelve and up to work a job. I would think that would be to young. My sister who is twelve does not seem that ready for a 10 hour job in the burning sun.""The U.S. has failed America's families," said Margaret Wurth. She helped write the report. Our country is not "protecting child farm workers," Wurth said. Children "working on tobacco farms get so sick that they throw up." They are "covered by pesticides and have no real protective gear."" Grown ups have protective gear to cover faces up to protect. CHILDREN deserve school and education not that.
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Connie
3/5/2015 08:38:39 am
I agree with you. Children that are twelve or more are able to work in farms. That does seem like hard work. I also agree that children should go to school instead of being in the farm fields. But some children work in the fields because they want to help their family get enough money.
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Sarah:)
3/5/2015 01:03:08 pm
I agree with you when you said," That the video is very alike because in both research things children have been skipping school for weeks, years or months!" :)
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Gael
3/5/2015 02:09:37 pm
I agree too when you say that they skip some school time because thats what happens sometimes with child farmeorkers.
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Connie
3/5/2015 08:31:47 am
The video and article are alike, because they were both about many children farm workers that work for many hours in the field. In the video, a woman said that there are hundreds of children working on U.S. farms. Also, both resources interviewed children about how they felt about working in the tobacco farm. After all, in the text, the author wrote, "Children interviewed by the group said they sometimes felt sick while working on tobacco farms." They are different, since the video was more like kids worrying and wanting to be at school and how unfair it was. Though, the passage also included kids in the tobacco farm working and getting sick because of the Green Tobacco Sickness(not just education or stomach aches) Each story represents a different point of views, since in the video, they were interviewing different kids about how they felt.
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nola
3/5/2015 08:33:25 am
The video and the article have similarities and differences. Both main ideas are about children working in unsafe tobacco fields. They both talk about the conditions of the tobacco fields, and that there are many, many chemicals. In the video it showed a girl that was saying that this big airplane flue over spraying these chemicals, and she says that she didn't know what it contained or had in it she thought it was like water, because a drift was coming towards her field. In the article it says that these chemicals in the spray was pesticides. There is also nicotine on the leaves of tobacco. The children could get terribly sick. One last thing that was in the article was, that this group interviewed some children on the fields and they said that they would get headaches, upset stomaches, and vomiting. The video and the article are different in some ways though. For example the article had a lot of sub topics, but the video was more talking about just the main topic and the interview. The article didn't have any quotes from the children but the video was almost all talking to the kids, and not just because the video is a video. The article had a lot more details on each topic or idea, though the video had more of an idea about the kids, talking. I would like to say something that is not really related to compare and contrast. Which is that in the article it says "Republican Kentucky state Senator Paul Hornback said he does not believe new laws are needed. Hornback owns a tobacco farm himself.
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Minerva
3/5/2015 10:42:33 am
Great response. When i said in my response that I was amazed by the article, is was partly because: '"People get pretty extreme about trying to protect everybody from everything,' Hornback said. 'It's hard manual labor,' he admitted. 'But there's nothing wrong with hard manual labor.'" I agree with you that "I could argue with Hornback for as long as I want but I could never change his mind."
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Mrs. Chenu
3/5/2015 11:10:30 am
Great job distinguishing the multiple angles and points of view in both the film and the article.
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alex
3/5/2015 10:03:33 am
The video and the article we just read are alike in multiple and many ways and both destribute there main idea clearly also. they both want to let the United States know that children about at the age of twelve -adults are working many hours in the fields and are picking plants or crops and are being treated unfairly including not getting a FAIR amont of money. The only main difference are the article is only about picking tabacco and the video was more about crops such as fruits and vegetables. they are alike because both of them are about children in the field and not getting fair money and houses.In my own opinion I do not believe in the state senator, Paul Hornback. He thinks that no new laws are needed. He thinks that it is fine to not have them live a better life than they already have. they should do a suprise inspection on him to see of he is just saying this for his own benefit.
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Minerva
3/5/2015 10:45:26 am
I do not believe in the state senator, Paul Hornback's idea, either. "He thinks that no new laws are needed. He thinks that it is fine to not have them live a better life than they already have," you said. I think that he does not think it is fine, but he thinks it is unimportant.
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Mrs. Chenu
3/5/2015 11:12:16 am
Yes, I do that that is his view as well Minerva.
Justine
3/5/2015 10:07:04 am
Both the article and the video were talking about how people working in the farm didn't have good health and that they didn't have a choice - they did it for their family. The video only talked about the children and them not having an education. It was also only in the children's point of view. The article was also about the children, but it was also in the farm owner's point of view. The video showed pictures and clips of the children migrating to get people interested and to understand what was happening and to see what they have to go through. The main idea of the article and the story is migrating. They are supposed to make you aware of what is happening and to realize how lucky you are for having and education.
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Ashley
3/5/2015 10:11:14 am
I think that the video and the article are similar because the article and video both said that pesticide and nicotine are really getting children who farm sick. They vomit, have headaches and have upset stomachs. Also in the video, children has been left out of school because of farming. They are so far behind education. Unlike us. We are still in school and know a lot of things. Like multiplying, spelling, rhymes and lots of other stuff. But the children who are farming have poor education. They are not like us. We are lucky that we don't have to farm. I know that it doesn't happen to most of the farms but other children are still far behind in education. So we must help them!
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Ashley Continue ^
3/5/2015 10:17:16 am
In the article, it says about tobacco instead of any other crops. They also talk about the pesticide will make them sick or vomit. The second thing that says is that only 12 years and up can work in any farm of some sort. Big farms or small farms. 12 year olds can choose.
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Natasha
3/5/2015 12:18:28 pm
I agree with you, Ashley. But I have a question: But what can we do to help these children? We are just a group of children. I don't think that anyone will listen to us.
jacob
3/5/2015 01:18:11 pm
i agree they will vomit in the period and yeah if you are older or in the same age of 12 then you could work and i is not fair that they work and we dont no one should be slave and be treated badly i like your paragraph it was good.
Celeste
3/5/2015 10:26:40 am
I was unable to access the video... It said "You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly."though, thankfully, Wolf is my nextdoor neighbor and I went over to his house and was able to get the video.
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Mrs. Chenu
3/5/2015 11:26:11 am
There was another student who couldn't access the video. If this happens, I can always let you watch it in class the next day:).
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Leilah
3/5/2015 10:38:13 am
Both main ideas were explaining that it is really dangerous to have kids work in the fields .One girl in the video said she started working in the fields when she was 11 years old.Another kid said "IT FEELS LIKE YOU DONT GOT NO CHOICES.YOU DONT FEEL THE SAME AS OTHER KIDS ."Some kids dont get the same opportuitie
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Sasha
3/5/2015 01:03:10 pm
I agree with you leilah because these children should be treated the same way we are are treated. Fair and equal. They should have some equality.
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Minerva
3/5/2015 10:38:35 am
I think that the images, words and sounds are arranged to get the audience's attention because the picture on the Newsela article is at the beginning, which makes you want to read about it. The Fingers To The Bone video started with music to catch your attention. The main subject is portrayed subjectively because the author gives his/her opinion on the subject, not just observations. '"The conditions are inhumane," said 17-year-old Erick Garcia, of North Carolina. "They should improve them." Garcia has been working in tobacco field since he was 11.'' Even the workers do not agree with the way they are treated. Especially the workers. "It is very hard for me," said a boy in the video. The points of view are different in each story because the video talks about the worker's point of view and the article talks of Human Rights Watch's point of view. This subject fits into a bigger picture because the big picture is that farmworkers are mistreated. These articles/videos were about how children at young ages had to work in the farms, and that is a specific example of farmworkers being mistreated. Children working on tobacco farms get so sick that they throw up. "They are covered by pesticides and have no real protective gear." "I thought, oh, it's just, like, water or something," said a girl in the video. The article left me amazed, while the video, I didn't know what I was feeling. "Children interviewed by the group said they sometimes felt sick while working on tobacco farms. They reported various problems: headaches, upset stomachs and vomiting...The children also said they worked long hours in very hot weather. They were not given enough breaks. They did not have protection from the sun or from chemicals. They weren't even paid properly for the extra hours they put in." The article talks a lot about how kids get sick on tobacco farms. "The children work for long periods of time during school hours. It really hurts their education. Sometimes they miss months or hours of school. 'It was hard to catch up in school. It was not easy."' The video talks mainly about education and not health. Both are important. The article and the Human Rights Watch video were both the same and different.
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Leilah continue ^
3/5/2015 10:43:40 am
S as other people. This is one reason you should be happy for what you have and get.In the article it says that the law does not require a certain age number to work in the dangerous tabaco fields
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Keep Calm and don't take tobacco ( Aidan )
3/5/2015 11:08:57 am
I think that the images and the sad music makes you want to start to read it and really gets you interested. The Newsela image really gets you interested to start reading it. The title also get you interested to start reading it.The contrast part was that they both talk about nicotine and pesticides. The 2 articles both talk about the seriousness of kids working on tobacco fields, the issues are that the kids get headaches,stomachaches and barfing. The two different things about the video and the article is that the video only talked about the education of these kids that work on the farm.
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Jaya M. Chuan
3/5/2015 11:35:51 am
I think that the article and the video were alike and different in many different ways. The article was about children working in the tobacco fields, and getting very sick. The video was more about children working in the farms and fields, and working w/ sharp tools. They were both alike because children are still in the fields for many hours in the hot sun. Child labor is not a good thing. Yes, they have to if they are very poor and need the money for it. But it is also very unhealthy for the children's health. There are many chemicals in different fields that can make you very sick. It is very dangerous. Now they allow children as young as 7 years old work in the fields.
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Violet
3/5/2015 11:45:52 am
Both the article and the video are worried about child labor for farms."Human Rights Watch has met with many cigarette and tobacco companies. The group asked them to help prevent child labor," stated the article. But the article is about children getting sick because they have to work as a farmer in the Tabasco fields. Also the video is about how young kids are when they work . Also both have a part about children getting sick but for different reasons . "The airplane flew over the field and began spraying on the field and I didn't know what the spray pained , or what it was and the drift was coming towards our field , because it was winding , I'm thinking oh it is just water they are making the crops grow better ." But it is not water! Also both story's have multiple points of views . The article talks about how bad this is, but it has someone also speaking their own point of view = "People get pretty extreme about trying to protect everybody from everything," Hornback said. "It's hard manual labor," he admitted. "But there's nothing wrong with hard manual labor." Just like last article the main idea is how bad people are treating their farmers . But not all farm's are treating the workers badly . Just like what the video said some farms are just the family working together . 👍
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jay
3/5/2015 03:43:43 pm
I agree with you Violet because the article and video worried about child labor for farms
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Sarah:)
3/5/2015 12:00:03 pm
The article and video are alike and different. They are alike because they both talked about how children on many farms work when they are very young and how the work is hard. One way they are different is that the video only showed the point of view of the workers and their families. The article also talked about the cigarette companies and a senator's point of view. The tobacco companies say,"Growers have to follow child labor laws." But the laws say,"Children as young as 12 can be hired to work on a farm of any size, and children of any age can work on small farms." This law does not protect the children. Senator Paul Hornback does not think that new laws are needed. He said," But there's nothing wrong with hard manual labor." The video said there is a bill in congress called the Care Act. The Care Act will change the laws on child labor on farms.
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Mrs Chenu
3/5/2015 12:21:38 pm
Yes- I like how you addressed the different perspectives in the video and article.
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Sasha
3/5/2015 01:01:11 pm
I agree with you Sarah because the video and talked about child labor and the article. I think they deserve to be treated more fairly and enjoy their lives just like we do
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Natasha
3/5/2015 12:15:39 pm
I wasn't able to get the video on my iPad, so I went to the computer. This might not seem like a big deal, but I was really tired and I felt sick, so it took a lot of energy and effort just to focus my eyes, and then walk over to the computer. Then the computer wasn't working! I had to eat dinner and then try again. Lucky for me, the computer is now working. The article and the video are the same because they both talk about how wrong it is for children to be working in the fields. In the video, a plane sprayed chemicals on the crops while the children were working in the fields. The chemicals affected the our bodies, because our bodies are still developing and growing. We wouldn't be able to fight off the sickness as well as a grown up. They are also the same because no one is doing anything to stop this. People are aware of this, but aren't doing anything to help. They are just telling us about this, making us aware. I strongly disagree with the state Senator Paul Hornback, because there is a lot wrong with hard manual labor. I can't imagine how I would manage picking crops, because even strong 17 year olds complain. The article and the video are different because the video takes place on a pickle field, and the article takes place on a tobacco field. The article and the video made me cry, because it is just so sad to hear that children, some older and some younger than me, are suffering greatly. I wish that they would change the law.
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Brian
3/5/2015 12:28:30 pm
The sounds of the video make it sound like it is very sad and the kids are working because they need money and it is legal to employ them. I wish the kids were free to play like the other kids who has good lives.
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Benicio Curiel
3/5/2015 12:45:38 pm
The article and the video are very similar with the information that they give. One similarity is the fact that children are working in tabacco fieldsin both the article and the video. Tabacco can kill adults and kids are trying to handle this. These kids should get the education that they deserve. The article states "The conditions are inhamane,"said Erick Garcia. The conditions are over the top and this can be harmful to the children. A difference in the article and the video is that the point of view were not from the perspective of the person in the video. But the article was mainly about the perspective of the author. This is like a punishment to the children.
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Gael
3/5/2015 02:05:17 pm
I agree Ben because when you say thst the chemicals can kill you are correct and I agree alot I also agree when you say at the end its like the punishment for children cause its a painful job too.
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Jay
3/5/2015 03:41:20 pm
I agree with you Ben because tobacco can kill someone so the kids could die on the fields!
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Sasha
3/5/2015 12:57:34 pm
I guess that the article are almost the same because both the video and the article talk about child labor. In the article it is about Tabaco farms and the video talks about children as young as 7,8, or 9 working and harvesting on the farms. On the Tabaco fields these kids are getting horrible diseases and they ocasionally / usually throw up, have stomach aces, and headaches. These children sometimes don't even have normal shoes to wear during harvesting. That is a huge risk even by just getting bitten by something or getting thorned of hurt. In the video there are also young Children harvesting for money. They live in disturbing trailers and small house such as a little cottages. Those little shelters even don't have a proper toilet sometimes. In California you can be 12 to work. So these poor farmers make there children to go work on the fields with them. Most children drop out of school to do this. There trying to help there families with the money to pay some bills.
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Gael
3/5/2015 02:00:48 pm
This is the article that will compare and contrast the two things since I didn't get to see the video on her blog I'm going to do my best to remember what we saw in class I'll start out with what the video and article said then I'm going to compare them together. It is dangerous for kids to be out working in the fields lets talk about the chemicals. It says that they were working with the chemicals in the plants such as nicotine and something else but when the chemicals came through them the kids started having headaches stomach aches and then throwing up(nausea) Now let's talk about age some kids were 7 as it says in the article and still worked as it says in the article some kids were 10,12,13,14,7,51,17,18,19 and working.Lets talk about the money they get. Some kids get to be a farm worker are sometimes poor and their family barely can afford anything and need to raise some money. I'm not saying that all kids who work in farms are poor. The money they give the familys is hardly enough.Now I'm going to talk about the video in the video I remember there being sad music in the background and I think that's good because it's sad for young people to be working out in the hot sun. Also they said it was dangerous for kids to be working because there is dangerous equipment they might hurt themselves by. In the video it shows quotes of kids who worked in the fields.One was a kid who says working in the sun makes me want to scream and cry but that would not do anything thing she says also there was a kid who talked about how the chemicals hurt on him. Im going to compare and contrast now. I pretty much think that they are sort of the same because they almost talk about the same things.
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Jay
3/5/2015 03:39:04 pm
The video and article can be compared because they both talk about how it is dangerous to work in the fields.They both say that kids are working when they are 7,8,9.Kids get really sick kike throwing up and having headaches.The video said that airplanes come and put tobacco and the fields.A girl said that she thought it was water.Some kids that are working are not wearing shoes!The story of the kids is sad.A boy said that he dropped out of school when he was 14.He felt embarassed when his friend knew stuff that he did't know.It is very hard for him to do the stuff he missed!
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