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.