Feedback to "What is Power?"

Power is the ability to control something or someone, to understand anything, and to overcome obstacles. Being able to control things is kind of like globalization. In our world we are globalized a lot! Being able to out source things to get done in other countries is having power, being able to send factories to other parts of the world so its cheaper is having control, and being able to change culture which isn’t a good thing but that is still control. So control is definitely part of having power. Being able to understand things like people and problems and finding solutions is a big part of being powerful. Having the power to make things better and equal like in animal farm and having people be the same like in the giver is having power because you are making things better for the world. Being an adult would make power easier, because you usually understand more and how to make things better. Being able to overcome obstacles is the most important part of having power. To have power during conflict is definitely a sign of having power because you may win. In animal farm the animal that had the most power was the one that had more experience in conflicts, and understanding how to get through obstacles like war and arguments between people. There is good power and bad power. The good power is like philanthropy which is someone donating their time and money to causes that help people. Like princess Diana donated helped with literacy programs and education for the underprivileged. An act of bad power is slavery. When rich people who had money who could buy slaves they forced and made them work on their fields and treated them inhumane. Giving people right and freedom in certain cases but having rules and laws to follow which will keep everything in order.

Thinking about Globalization.

The main visual elements are the little girl with her homework spread on the floor and the businessman her dad telling her she can’t outsource her homework to India. How people get tired of their own work and send it to somewhere cheaper like India to get done. The cartoonist opinion is against outsourcing. The man doing his own reading and telling the little girl she can’t send her homework to be outsourced. Outsourcing is one of the globalization flatteners. He could have shown a person in India doing someone else’s work.

Feedback May 5.

During the population project I learned how to take information and write about it.
I also learned how to tell if the information was accurate or not. I learned the literacy rate and all the effects and the cycles. Those are the three most important things I learned. They will help me in the future. They will help me with understanding the culture of India. It will also help me with other projects I have to do in my life for high school, college, and in normal life. Gathering information, being able to translate and understand it, and knowing how to tell if sources are accurate or not.

sameness vs. equality

In the giver not everyone is equal they are just the same to be equal everyone should get their own rights and they are able to feel and have differences. To be equal is to have the same rights and freedom. To be the same is to feel and think the same to have very few rights and to be identical in feeling and opinions. Lois Lowry uses the her language more precisely because in the giver every person is the same not equal but in animal farm all the animals are supposed to be equal but end up lower than others.

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One becomes an adult when they are mature enough to make decision, to care for yourself and understand that people make mistakes. When a child needs help they ask their parents for help, or when they make a mistake they are scared that they will get into trouble and that everything revolves around there consequences of what they did that was wrong and they cant care for themselves. When you get mature and grow up you understand that everyone makes mistakes and that the consequences will not ruin everything in your life.

To be an adult you must understand all these things and be able to work and do your daily things. To be able to take care of others as well as yourself. I don’t think there is an age you can be useless when you are younger or when your old you may be minimized to what you can do but you are not useless.

feedback march 31

The main visual elements are the family at the table and the boy is still so small and young and he already has a blog in school. The issue in this cartoon is that the boy doesn’t want to explain how his day was and instead just want his parents to read his blog, but his parents want him to talk. The cartoonist opinion thinks the boy should talk and not depend on technology as much. On the saying under the cartoon the word tell is capitalized and underlined. The cartoon isn’t ironic because people do depend on technology to much and don’t do anything really for themselves. The cartoonist could have made the cartoon more persuasive by giving more facts and design a little more.

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I believe Vonnegut is right. The man who invented computers didn’t let technology do the work he did. Making the computer made him famous and that is what he became. I agree with him when he says nuclear submarines and missiles are newfangled contraptions. So Vonnegut is right and I do believe that it is yopu becoming and we should not let the computer do it for us. All the great inventors thought of the idea befor they made it. So that is them becoming.

End of Quarter 3 Goals.

I achieved only two of my goals I dint not achieve my AR goal which I am very disappointed at myself for that. I do believe that I got better at my oral communication and at finding research for projects. For next quarter and next year I have three goals for myself that I hope to achieve.

1. To get even better on my oral communication in class.

2. Be on top and on the right level for the population project as well as any other assignments.

3. To get my vocabulary and writing skills higher.

cold war debrief

1. Which country were you? What strategy did you use to try to win?
My group and i were the USA. We treied to buy as many allies as we could. As well as economic, food, and military points to bribe other contries. We also bought alot of weapon power and military to fight off the other contries in attacks.

2. Who won the game and why? Who won the “real” Cold War?
I really dont think anyone really won the game. The US got more points but the USSR got more allies which means more of the world wanted to be communists. In the real cold war the USA won. But the USA still got some of the major developing contries in this game that is why we got more points. But the USSR got more allies who have smaller econimic ponts with larger goals.
so no one actually won this war in the simmulation

VC Project

At first when we started to record, the computer kept dropping out and our VC kept closing. So we needed to use a new computer. Our process took a long time. We needed to learn our lines. And we were very worried because our computers stopped working.

The three tips I would give you when doing your VC presentation

1. make sure your mic. Is on.
2. make sure you and your group agree on everything.
3. memories your lines so you can look into the camera more.

The two worst aspects were

1. the computer stopped working
2. we didn’t memories our lines so we didn’t look into the camera as much.

The two best parts were

1. we learned new ways to do a presentation.
2. learned how to use a VC.

Animal farm, the movie : )

I think the movie is very different from the book. There are a lot of changes. In the movie old major got shot by Mr. Jones but in the book he died of old age. The changed the national anthem. Old major got chopped up and sold so man can eat him. Also Mr. Jones and Mrs. P slept together while Mr. P slept because he was drunk. Jessie the dog had babies in the movie but in the book the pigs had babies. Instead of the storm ruining the windmill Mr. Jones blew it up with dynamite. But snowball was still blamed. In the end napoleon dies and the animals are free and they get new owners but in the book napoleon just turns into a human and that’s the end of the book. In the movie the animals live happily ever after. So the movie and the book are very different. I personally like the book much better than the movie.

the animal im most like in animal farm

The animal I am most like would be clover. I would be clover because I just listen and do what I am told. She does not go against napoleon and what he says. She just follow along and don’t really rebel. When she feels something is not right the n she goes and checks over the rules. Like on page 45 it says clover , who thought she remembered a rule against beds she went to the barn to read the seven commandments. Another example from the book is on page 49 when it says only boxer and clover never lost heart. Which would be that they still followed with what napoleon said. This is why i am most like clover.

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In my country America it is not mandatory to join the military . It is a free decision. In the worst case possible i would fight for my country. For example, i would fight if i was forced. If i my family were being threatened i would fight. If people or my own life were being threatened i would defend them in all ways. To defend my country i will fight under any circumstances to save people.

The king is dead!

In the past week our experiences in the kingdom of M1 with king coyle was hard.
we had many diffuculties with the laws he made. We also had taxation without representation just like the 13 colonies. we had minimum religious freedom as the citizens of the 13 colonies had. we had to have a stamp on all paper that was bought by our money. This is called the stamp act. We had a curfue and could not speack what we had to say. If we did not follow these laws we had to go to georgia and were conflicted of treason. Just as the citizens of the 13 colonies. We planned on a decleration of indepandance treaty but got over rulled by the kings loyal citizens. Since we had to pay royal taxes and fees most of the people were poor.

where 43rd war was held

The 43rd war is based in El Salvador because in the "Nations of the World Atlas" It ways that El Salvador was torn by civil war. The main religion is Roman Catholic (Collins), like in the book, when the villagers died, it says that they put a cross on the grave. The cross is a Catholic sign, and the main language is Spanish. They speak Spanish a lot in the book. (43rd War). It says that there is a lot of guerilla warfare in El Salvador which agrees with the book because they use it a lot.

decleration of independance sumary

when the people in the community feel they are not being treated equally they need to break away from the government and they need to say why. The government needs to hold their responsibility if you believe they are not doing well it is the responsibility of all people to build a new government. They should only change the government when things start getting very bad. You need only to change the government with major things not small things






King George the third did many horrible things to the people he ruled over
For example he imposed taxes on the people without their say. The people who were very poor must have disagreed with this very strongly. He also took the people as captives to fight against their own country, friends and family. King George also cut off the trading from other parts of the world. He put huge bodies of armed troops with them. King George also brought the people to jury on cases that may not be true.






The people of America we now state you are free men. We take you away from the unjustful treatment from King George. We are enemies in war and friends in peace therefore we are all equal. As a new free country the document says we are now free from taxation without representation and treated equal.

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The main visual issues would be the words join or die the countries are all separated on the snake. The issues the political cartoon is about was there were argument, fighting, and disagreements in opinions and they all got separated.The cartoonists opinion on this issue would be the cartoonist compares the 13 colonies to a snake so maybe he doesn’t like the idea of the 13 colonies The evidence that supports my opinion would be the words join and die are in capitals and everyone is separated. To make the cartoon more persuasive the cartoonist could have supported the issue on join or die part.

To Be A Slave

To Be A Slave can be trusted. This is because there are so many experiences by different people and they all say something similar about slavery it is not a good way to treat humans. They all make a statement saying that slavery is not a very well thing and its like treating the slaves like dirt. As well as being trusted the book can not trusted. The reasons the book can not be trusted is because the author wasn’t there. The author wasn’t even alive.

Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. New York: Dell, 1971

Great PowersGame Debrief

My country was Japan. In the beginning of building our empire it felt very slow. Eventually, we started to get our empire more resources. At the start of the game, the country with the most advantages was the U.S. because they had the most resources. Japan was smaller than most of the other countries so we did not have as many resources such as allies, money, and armies. For my country I think it was important to buy armies and colonies. First, the armies in case another country decided to attack us. Second, I would buy the colonies because the more colonies you have the richer you are. We did very well in getting colonies. The one thing I would have done differently was to buy more armies and navies for the wars that went on against us. Instead of just using our allies’ armies and navies we could have used our own. Our alliances were powerful and helpful. The ally that helped us the most was the U.S. Most of our alliances could be trusted very well.

I learned many things about conflicts in the simulation but I will only write about a few. First, I would say that your allies can be a big help if you’re truthful to them they will return the favor and trust that you will help them. Secondly, I learned that most conflicts start by different empires when they both want the same thing. The final reason that conflicts arise is because of ideology. Peoples’ opinions can get in the way and cause disagreements. In conclusion, the three main things that I learned about conflicts from this simulation would be that you should always be true to you allies and the most common reasons war arose was because of different opinions and for ideological reasons.

Qaurter 3 goals

- This qaurter i woul like to improve my oral communication in all the class activities
- Get better resources for projects
- Catch up on the AR reading