Globalization Project
The Benefits of Sweatshops Imagine this, walking down the street you see a sweatshop. The sweatshop is about to be shut down. Great thing right? Not to others apparently. Looking at it for longer you see people walking out of the sweatshop, some have tears running down their faces and others are practically on their knees, begging to stay. You can hear a women sobbing, “Please, please don’t shut this place down.” In your head a single thought dances around, why do they want to stay?
To read the rest of the Op-Ed click here |
Project Reflection
When we first started this project we began by learning about Globalization. Globalization is the process of bringing the world together, mainly using economic markets and technology. However, globalization is a large topic to cover, there are many aspects to globalization. Once we learned about the broad topic we then chose a specific aspect to research and write an Op-Ed about. For my project I ended up doing how Sweatshops are beneficial for people who are trapped in poverty and how globalization plays a role in that. Along with the Op-Ed we had to create a political cartoon that is associated with our Op-Ed.
After completing this project I now understand that there is more than one thing that defines globalization. You cannot categorize globalization under one topic because it is a topic itself and it contains many different ideas. Also, not all the things that surround and are supported by globalization is necessarily good, there are dark sides within globalization, but at the same time there are bright things within the dark parts of globalization. Globalization is neither good nor bad, it is simple a mix of everything.
My first draft of my political cartoon was really, really rough. The drawing didn’t make any sense and left people with more confusion than clarity. However, my final draft was clear, simple, and concise. I took away the “extra” things from my first draft that cluttered the message and decided to keep it simple. I chose one aspect from my Op-Ed to focus on rather than trying to incorporate everything in my Op-Ed. I added more labels and dialog to make sure my message was clear. I took out the color because that had added to the confusion on my first draft. In my first draft I tried to keep things realistic because that is the way I am used to drawing but my idea could not be represented in a realistic fashion. So instead I took a metaphorical view and took the idea that sweatshops were pulling people out of poverty and created my cartoon around that.
The writing for my Op-Ed is very different than what I am used to. I am used to writing super long paragraphs filled with information but for my Op-Ed I had to have short paragraphs that focused on one part of my topic. Essentially I took the TEA (Topic, Evidence, and Analyze) paragraphs I am used to writing and split it up so that it was three paragraphs instead of one. Also for this writing I had to have my thoughts in an organized fashion which I can apply to any future writing assignment to make it stronger.
After completing this project I now understand that there is more than one thing that defines globalization. You cannot categorize globalization under one topic because it is a topic itself and it contains many different ideas. Also, not all the things that surround and are supported by globalization is necessarily good, there are dark sides within globalization, but at the same time there are bright things within the dark parts of globalization. Globalization is neither good nor bad, it is simple a mix of everything.
My first draft of my political cartoon was really, really rough. The drawing didn’t make any sense and left people with more confusion than clarity. However, my final draft was clear, simple, and concise. I took away the “extra” things from my first draft that cluttered the message and decided to keep it simple. I chose one aspect from my Op-Ed to focus on rather than trying to incorporate everything in my Op-Ed. I added more labels and dialog to make sure my message was clear. I took out the color because that had added to the confusion on my first draft. In my first draft I tried to keep things realistic because that is the way I am used to drawing but my idea could not be represented in a realistic fashion. So instead I took a metaphorical view and took the idea that sweatshops were pulling people out of poverty and created my cartoon around that.
The writing for my Op-Ed is very different than what I am used to. I am used to writing super long paragraphs filled with information but for my Op-Ed I had to have short paragraphs that focused on one part of my topic. Essentially I took the TEA (Topic, Evidence, and Analyze) paragraphs I am used to writing and split it up so that it was three paragraphs instead of one. Also for this writing I had to have my thoughts in an organized fashion which I can apply to any future writing assignment to make it stronger.