Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Im a criminal

in the article Im a criminal and so are you  talks about how there are a lot of reasons people go to jail everyday all around the world. so now that they are labeled as a criminal they don't have all their rights, such as to vote. its like your put aside from everything and everybody else. you might not be able to get a job, get access to education and other sorts of things. adding to that it says that everyone is a criminal in their own way. she states that you don't have to look like a criminal to be one. the differences between the people in jail and the people outside of jail is that they didn't get caught doing what they did. and because of that people often think that they didn't do anything wrong. Michelle Alexander says that the color, age, or gender doesn't even matter, but people think it happens in the ghettos mainly. she thinks it should be  aware that a lot of people did something that they shouldn't have did or broke they law at some point and time in their life. i think in some situations you shouldn't be punished as much. you should't be know and still have rights just like everybody else thats not a criminal. if you committed a crime such a robbery you should get punished because something like that is not needed. it you get caught driving while you are drunk, them it should not be that you have to a lot of time in jail for something little like that. people do it very often, they just don't get caught doing it.

Monday, February 6, 2012

In china, human costs are built into an ipad

In the article  "in china, costs are built into an ipad" it talks about the ipad factories, how they affect peoples lives, and the out come of everything. in the last decade, Apple has become one of the mightiest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. the workers that assemble iphones, ipads, and other devices often labor in harsh conditions.  Lai Xiaodong was a worker at the ipad factory in china, where he had got his face blown off. the employees work a lot of overtime, sometimes seven days a week. they live in crowded dorms. while they are working some say that their legs well swell up until they can hardly walk. two years ago 137 workers at a apple store supplier in eastern China were injured from using a poisonous chemical to clean iphones. current and former Apple executives say that the company has made significant strides in improving factories in recent years. i think that Apple factories in china were bad to start off with, because while producing these electronics people often got hurt, and got paid little money and they worked very long hours. i think that before they made these factories they should have more protection for the workers, such as getting chemicals into their body. i think Apple will perform better if more articles come out about the situation, so they can really understand. some of the buyers don't worry about these things. they don't always understand what the workers had to go through to produce these things. and the owners should put more effort into how they run their factories.