Introduction

Hey everyone, my name is Vanessa and I've never blogged before so this is awkward : / My major is Justice Studies and my goal is to achieve my transfer to San Jose State within the next couple of years. In Eng-1A I hope to learn how to better compose an essay by working on getting my thoughts onto paper effectively. I tend to get off track quite a bit... How this blog will help I'm still not sure?
Today's class was pretty easy going, talking about our consumer worksheets and the pro's/con's of "free trade." To learn that sweatshop workers in China and Indonesia make less than 50 cents an hour was an eyeopener. I always knew sweatshop workers made little money, but not that little. I can't say this will change what and how I buy products 100%, but it's food for thought. Knowing that these huge multi-million dollar corporations are exploiting the outsourced workers is depressing... Maybe that's why a lot of people don't talk about it? You don't hear about it on the news, its not in the papers or magazines, its like an accepted offense towards the human rights of others, that we have no control over... so it just goes on unattended to, as we attend to our own needs...