Week 1

Last week our group wrote our proposal for the country that we wanted. Our first choice was Japan because we get a lot of things such as; cars, and electronics from them. The country that we ened up with was China which was our second choice. We picked China because we thought that this would be an interesting country to study. We also completed reading our articles of different class figures. The class figure I got was a farmer in China. I learned that farmers in China are poor, barely have enough food to survive, have little or no formal education, and our highly taxed by their goverment.Our group was succesful in completing reading to the text and writing our 5-point summaries for our articles. We were able to go around and take notes on each persons writing which we hope to turn in and get signed off at the begining of the next class. Some questions that I have about my social class figure are:
1. Why do farmers in China suffer so much?
2. Why are the farmers so poor they can barely afford to buy food and or education
3. How did the farmers feel about their goverment
4. Has the life of farmers changed in the last 2000 years and if so are they better or worse now?