Power

Power is what everyone wants, what everyone needs, yet, it is so hard to get. Power is when one person or a group of people is over ruling towards everyone else. The three main points that was looked at this year that show power was the American Revolution, Imperialism, and the Industrial Revolution.

Firstly, The American Revolution clearly showed power. The British sailed to the United States, and took over there lives. The Americans tried to fight back, but the British were more powerful and did not let them have their way. However, after five years of the British over ruling the Americans, the Americans finally became more powerful, using the Declaration of Independence, or in our class from, the fall of King Coyle.

Secondly, Imperialism is a great way to show power as well. According to my Africa Research Paper, the Europeans traveled to Africa and took over their. The Europeans were over ruling towards the Africans and that is why the slave trade happened. Many slave owners were also a sign of power as well.

Lastly, the Industrial Revolution showed power because it showed how some people were wealthier than others, or how some people were treated better than others. Jacob Riis, first suffered from lack of power in the illegal immigrant houses, but then he became powerful by becoming a journalist and writing about the other power citizens in New York, the police.

Power is a necessity to many people. It can be shown by wealth, reputation, or in some cases, a big fat belly. Power has been shown through out this year but it has mainly been shown in the Conflict, and Imperialism units. Power comes in many forms, but in the end, it shows one person, or a group of people over ruling another person or another group of people.

Equality or Sameness

You may think that sameness and equality mean the same thing, but they are not. Equality means that all people are treated the same. Sameness refers to how people act. Animal Farm is a good example of equality because it shows how all of the animals are treated with equal respect, or not. The Giver on the other hand was a great example of sameness. In The Giver all of the people are the same. They all have similar life styles, they all have the same birthday, and none of them have feelings.

Technology To Me

Technology is something that is invented to make life easier for people. I feel that the amount of technology used at our school is perfect because there is not too much technology, but not too little. All of my classes use technology but humanities is the only class that uses a lot of it.
These are the 5 most important technologies used today:
1. Computer
2. Mobile phone
3. Airplane
4. Car
5. Television
These are the 5 least important technologies used today:
1. Video player
2. Disk-man
3. Fountain tip pens
4. Onions as deodorant
5. Cheese knives

Population Project

During the Population Project, I learned many things. There were three however, which were the most valuable things I learned. One was that managing time is the most important necessity when it comes to working on a project. The only reason the Population Project was not tough for me was because I spaced out my work. I did not do everything at the last minute, and I did not stuff all my work for the first weekend after the project was introduced. The second thing was that connections make life a lot easier. You may laugh when someone says my brother’s friend’s mom’s secretary can help you, but having connections helped me during my project. I got the interview with Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, the founder of the most known NGO working towards sanitation facilities, through the seventh grade science teacher who told me about the toilet museum. Then, after talking to a worker at the toilet museum, I got the number of Ms. Anita. After meeting Ms. Anita, and talking to her, I finally got an appointment with Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak. The last thing is that paying attention in everyday classes is very important because there were many times during this project where I was stumped about how to do a task, but then I realized that I had to do through a certain formula from math class, or the Africa Research Paper from humanities class.
Though these three things have nothing to do with my Population Project topic, they will help me for the rest of my life.

Globalization

The main visual element in this cartoon is that there is a father and a daughter. The daughter is grumpy and she is asking if she can outsource her homework to India. Her father is annoyed and is not allowing his daughter to outsource her homework. The issue this cartoon is regarding is that there is too much outsourcing going on and businesses are taking advantage of how cheap labor is in developing countries like India or China. The cartoonist does not like the fact that there is too much outsourcing; this is due to the fact that the father is not allowing the girl to outsource her homework. This relates to our study of globalization because outsourcing is the action that is causing globalization to occur. The cartoonist could have made this cartoon more persuasive by keeping this cartoon as half of the picture and on the other half incorporate Indian children working very hard. Though globalization may seem to have a negative effect, our world has been sculptured around globalization.

AGE

After reading The Giver, I have noticed that the age of a person determines the person’s role in society. A person becomes an adult when he or she is capable of making the right choices and being responsible enough to realize the effects of each choice. Therefore, to become an adult, means that you are mature enough to make the choices that will end up determining your whole life. Consequently, since someone’s choices do affect the society greatly (what job they have), there is no real age that you are useless to the society. This can be determined however when a person is not capable of making the right choices. This usually happens twice in a person’s life; when they are very young, or very old. In The Giver, the Old are described to be useless people who just sit in a building all day, but in the real life, old people can be the richest person in the world, or even running a country. Age in years does not determine if you are useless or not in society, your capability of your mind determines it all.

Population Project Workplan

Monday- Finish 2^nd draft of research paper, edit and revise

Tuesday- Finish up data analysis, creative expression and independent investigation

Wednesday- Print all pieces of work and edit all

Thursday- Peer edits for research paper and make changes. Print out final pieces.

Friday- Glue all pieces of work on construction paper.