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Documentary Worksheet Directions: Step 1: Log into your gmail account in another tab or window before attempting to copy this worksheet Step 2: Copy this worksheet Step 3: Read this full worksheet to get some guidance on what to take notes on. You don't have to just take notes on those topics because you should include anything that is important in the notes sections Also some of them might not apply to your documentary and if it doesn't just write and present on what's important. Presentation should take 7-10minutes. Also, This is a formal presentation so present that way. (In the past people had their legs in all different directions or laying and rambling on about how they felt about the movie without presenting on the video. Because you may be at home it can feel less formal but try to resist that temptation. Also, Be passionate and tell it to us so that other students can learn from you what you learned by watching the movie.) Step 4: Fill out the worksheet and notes while watching the video. Note: you may want to watch it twice to catch everything. Step 5: make a video presentation Step 6: upload the video to the discussion and the worksheet in the designated area for midterm credit. Later come back and watch other student’s presentations and write responses. Respond to at least 8 other students Questions and Notes for the Documentary Major points of 0-20 minutes: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Come to Jamaica as a tourist, land in Montego Bay Being a tourist, you don’t travel with boxes Few major powers Queens highway, when built was ruled over by queen Independence from Great Britain, had other things in mind When they became free, they have economic struggle; they weren’t able to build on their own Private banking system, cut back spending to get more money; generally comes to the IMF Jamaica, a country becoming to unravel because of the finances it needs Lend money in full interest rate, restrictions on what to spend it Finish repaying, going to be in bank altogether No new hospitals have been built in Jamaica for many years IMF wanted us to devalue our currency Expand exports, diminish imports Debt is rising Export is getting less Jamaica does not have a proper way of disappearing its sewage Everything you are eating, came off from a ship in Miami

● Jamaica that was previously here does not exist because of the global economy ● Everybody is involved in the production of this district ● Insult to our dignity of not being able to produce and sell in our country ● Government says no imports Major points of 20-40 minutes: ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Subside exports Jamaica is a very small country Wouldn’t thrive by producing by itself All foreign foods are hurting their business Export everything, nothing needed to be produced Problem is competing with a unfair situation Inflation is 18% Farming section is nearly wiped out Free enterprise - flows in one direction, doesn’t come to Jamaica 1992, entered into the bank for 60 million dollars IMF is lending to a developing country will be making loans New World Order means that there is no government trade agencies Powder became a normal consumption which fresh milk didn’t share Produced 3,000 pounds of imperial court of milk per day but decided to convert it ● In certain areas, Americas exported 137% milk powder ● Beauty of Jamaica sometimes seem staged ● Has a song about bananas

Major points of 40-60 minutes: ● Jamaica produces 90 tons of bananas which is drawn in from the UK ● Europe is guaranteed market for bananas ● WTO to agree that these preferential rates are unconstitutional : protest WTO which affect many ● pursuing WTO, target discriminatory European systems and not Caribbean for bananas ● Chiquita, Dole, and Del Monte in the US ● 1 US Dollar per day ● Chiquita banana workers went on strike, force back to work with a gun ● Aren’t able to do much pricing with Americans ● Two years ago, 150 workers now 15 workers in banana field ● WTO ruling, no one invest in bananas ● Every native would like to find the way out ● Most natives can’t go anywhere ● Average worker is working far less than ● Free zones came into America in the 1980s ● Give money in Jamacian

● Free zone is a separated entity ● NIS and Education, don’t get anything out of it; just reduced from paycheck Major points of 60-80 minutes: ● Getting influx of foreign workers from China which they paid U.S dollars and not Jamacian currency ● Free trade and impact agreement ● 1800 jobs lost ● Low wage jobs gravitate to low wage areas ● Garment factory thrown foreign workers out ● Laws from international agencies and forgein places ● Free zone is for the poor but don’t see it ● 500 workers added to unemployment line, Hanes closed its factory ● Private capital is not going to come and take chance ● US - 17.8 percent of votes, Japan, and Germany votes ● Collect money to pay interest of debt ● Those who control others do not have interest in others ● Consuming beef, exposing them to cancer ● Countries that come out is not like the one in ● High gas and fuel taxes ● Jamaica was discovered by Chirstopher Columbus in 1943 ● One slaves are free they are out there Give a short synopsis of the movie and what it is about. The movie starts off talking about visitors who come into Jamaica and what they see in their view. Their view of Jamaica being a place where there are beautiful oceans and delicious fresh fruit. It goes back and forth from a visitor's view of Jamaica to those who live there with the struggles that they go through. What are the commodatie/s that are being talked about in the movie? Bananas, Chicken, Milk, and Garments are commodities being talked about in the movie. Give the statistics listed in the movie ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

41 people have been arrested for civil unrest in Jamaica Inflation is 18% 1992 entered into the bank for 60 million dollars 3,000 pounds of imperial court milk per day Americas exported 137% milk powder Jamaica produces 90 tons of bananas Those who work in the banana plants make about 1 US dollar per day

● Two years ago, the banana field had 150 workers now they have 15 workers ● 1800 jobs lost in the free trade and impact agreement ● 500 workers added to the unemployment line when Hanes closed its factory What groups work together to make this happen? List the specific corporations or money makers involved if they are listed and how they have behaved around this issue. Chiquita - paying workers 1 US Dollar per day : many went on strike, pointed guns at people to make them go back to work Hanes - closed its factory and added 500 workers to the unemployment line when it closed the factory due to bringing workers from China which they paid US dollars Dole - not paying workers a decent salary Del Monte - not paying workers a decent salary What is being done about this? Many of the workers are going on strike demanding a better pay which has caused commotion of burning buildings and destruction. Was there any information that was outrageous or something that surprised you? In the beginning of the movie, showing the view of what foreigners see of Jamaica compared to the reality of many Jamacians who live there was very surprising. How were governments complicit? Governments were complicit by giving loans to those who needed it but made it hard to pay off. Is the International monetary fund (IMF), World Bank, or the World Trade Organization involved? If so how? ● IMF - many devaluations in funds, reverse fiscal deficit, key institution, have a bank they could turn to for short term borrowing, stabilization of world currency : private banking systems : devaluing our currency : making loans that are difficult to pay off ● WTO - preferential rates are unconstitutional, people protest : target discriminatory European systems : ruling that no one invests in bananas Critique good and bad.

Good critique is that it provides jobs to those in places which might have not had jobs. Bad critique is that lots of locals go out of business because of foreign countries importing products into Jamaica which leads to cheaper products compared to ones sold locally. How does capitalism create or exacerbates this problem? Capitalism creates this problem with bringing the work that requires little to no skills to a place with basically no regulations for workers. They pay the workers very poorly to do the work in which they are able to make lots of profit off of it. How do you feel watching this? After watching this movie, it makes me think about other countries that are typically not as wealthy and when foreigners come and visit it; they only see the “good” side of it where there are lots more happening behind that. It's common for many places that aren’t as wealthy as they use this method to bring others in....