What is Power

Everyone dreams to have ultimate power, to reign over a kingdom, or be the absolute best at something… but one question remains… what is power? In this essay I will take a deep insight into that question, going back through the whole year in Humanities. Basically, in this year in Humanities power can be shown in the Industrial Revolution, American Revolution, and Imperialism.

First, I will talk about John D. Rockefeller. My Industrial Revolution project was focused on red barons, mainly John D. Rockefeller. John D. had so much power because o fall his wealth. In 1902, he was worth 200 million dollars. When someone has this much money, he is considered very powerful. Along with him, in modern day, Bill Gates is considered a very powerful man, mainly because of his wealth. During the industrial revolution, the rich people had a lot of power, because of the amount of capitalism

Secondly, the American Revolution clearly shows power. When the new Americans wanted their freedom, the stood against the British rule, which was the dominant power. It took a lot of work from the Americans, but then eventually got the command they wanted. They had to work to over through the King from Britain. An example of this we did in class was King Coyle. King Coyle had power over all of us because he had the ability to take away our basic necessities… and give us F’s. We had a fear of King Coyle because he was at a very high power. When someone has power, the people he is ruling over generally have a fear of him.

Lastly, Imperialism incorporated power a lot. The European countries went to Africa and starting claiming it because Europe was much more powerful than the developing countries in Africa. The European countries claimed the African countries because of the recourses and they wanted to spread their land. Since of how powerful Europe was at the time, it has the ability to go over to other countries and take control of them.

To conclude, power can be found everywhere, and in Humanities it is specifically in the IR, American Revolution, and Imperialism. Power is not always good, but has effected how we live today greatly.

Globalization Cartoon

This cartoon is talking about globalization. The main visual elements is a kid who doesn't want to do her homework, and an angry dad, telling the daughter to do it, instead of OUTSOURCING it. This is showing how that people outsource when they don't want to do work, and they want it to be done easier. It is using the example of a child because it is trying to represent what the companies are doing as child work. Instead of companies doing their own homework, they send it to other places to get it done cheaper and faster. The artist of this cartoon has a negative view on globalization because he uses a kid in it. This is also trying to show how kids are trying to do easier work, like globalization... showing how lazy America is. This relates to our study of globalazation because we learned that it is what companies do to get cheap and affordable labor, like what the little girl is trying to do. This cartoon is persuasive as it is... but maybe on the newspaper add some faint text about how bad globalization is or something along the lines of that.

UbD Feedback

There were many valuable lessons to be learned from UbD, but the three most important for me were, time management, organization, and precision. Time management was a key factor in getting the UbD project done. If you procrastinated a lot, there would be a price to pay. It was important that I spend equal time on each part of the project, but also made sure I knew when all the deadlines were. Without good management of time, it would be hard to complete the project. Time management also meant sacrifices. During the final few weeks of the project, I wouldn’t go to hang out with friends, or do stuff I normally would do, all in the sake of getting UbD done. The second thing I learned that was important to me was organization. It is important to not misplace things, even if you don’t think you need them. It is important to keep track of where you are in the process of the assignment. Using the calendar provided really helped. When you are going through the big hump near the end of the project, you have to have good organization. I laid out all my papers on the floor of my room, before I made it into an actual portfolio. Lastly, precision I learned precision. It helped me a lot that I read and re read each paper. UbD has taught me a lot of things.

Sameness Feedback

In The Giver Lois Lowry uses the word sameness a lot. Whenever the surroundings are described, Lois Lowry uses the word same or sameness to show it. The reason the word equality isn’t used is because people can be equal even if they don’t wear the same clothing. In sameness, they grow up the same, they wear the same things. If you’re equal, you can still dress differently and act differently depending on what type of person you are. Equality is when people are treated equal, and sameness is when people are the same in every way. In Animal Farm, equality is a more fitting word because it is describing more of a ruling then the way people act. Today, sameness doesn’t exist. There is no where in the world where there are people who are exactly the same in every way, there aren’t even people who are the same to the extent of The Giver. Lois Lowry uses language much more precious language because it really adds a lot to the story. Every time we read the word “sameness” we start to get a more bland feeling to the community. The word sameness really describes what life is like in the community.

Giver Feedback

The age that is considered adult in the book The Giver, is very different to the real world. In my opinion, the age that someone would become an adult is 18. At that age, a person would have enough responsibility to be able to live his/her life be their selves. To be an adult, you have to be able to manage your life and know how to sustain yourself without help from parents or guardians. At the age of twelve, like in The Giver, it isn’t a proper age to become an adult because they aren’t mature enough and they don’t know how to live without their parents. When someone is an adult, he or she has to be able to move out, away from their parents, start work, and make enough money for them to support themselves. The age of twelve is way too young for that.

There is no definite age for when an adult becomes un useful because it depends on what his job is. If a person is a basketball player, he will become useless at the age of 40 or so. If a person is a job like a doctor or a scientist, he will be useful for much longer. In The Giver, there is no age stated when a person becomes useless, but I would assume that it is about 60. The age of retirement really depends on the person, because some people would want to work longer than others.

My UbD Outline

Here is my outline for my work time in humanities…

Monday-Bilingual Brochure Work… Start editing HRP

Tuesday-Continue Editing of HRP

Wednesday-Editing Data Analysis

Thursday-Peer edit HRP in class… Star Editing Independent Investigation

Friday-Put final touches on DA, II, CE and go to 2^nd round of HRP edit

Feedback 24-28

The visual elements of this cartoon is the kid sitting at the table with his two parents. Normally families will chat about what they did at school or at work. The caption at the bottom says, "Well yes, we could read your blog... or you could just tell us about your day." The cartoon is talking about how much technology there is and how much sometimes it can be un-necessary. When technology stops verbal communication it has gone to far. The artist is using the blog to represent one thing but there is so much more that could happen. Walking could become out-dated, along with any other mode of communication. It shows how technology is effecting young kids and will make their lives a bit to easy. The cartoonist opinion that technology isn't all bad, but sometimes it ca be used to an excess. S/he probably knows a lot of people who are constantly blogging or on the phone. My evidence is that normal daily lives are going to start to change. Normally, the kid would just tell his parents what he did, but instead he is telling them to read his blog. This cartoon is ironic because we are posting it on our blog and also because the cite Coyle got it from was www.sandiegohomeBLOG.com. I think to make the cartoon more effective he could have had the sonn on the phone or on a laptop instead or something along the lines of that.