The Scramble for Africa

To claim land, we used the strategy of starting from the coast line and building into the more land surface area so that we can have easy transportation and so that we can build into Africa and onto the places with natural resources toghether. Some of the factors we considered for claiming land was that the land should start from the coast line where there will be good natural resources and then go deep into the Congo area and into the Congo basin becuase the basin has alot of good resources. France won becuase from looking at the land that they claimed, you can tell that they are sticking to the coast and one side of Africa. I think staying toghether is the best strategy becuase transportation of import/export items can be sent easier when they are next to each other and also that most of their land branches out from the coast and builds into surface areas so ships can be a useful source of transportation as well. Spain lost becuase they did not have many places with good natural resources becuase some of their land went onto the Sahara which is a really dry dessert and there arn't any really good resources there. Also none of the land that they own start out from the coast and the land is extremely scattered which makes it very hard to travel. Also the fact that all of their land is surrounded by other countries makes it very hard becuase they have no access to the water to use ships as transportation.

five themes of geography

Movement
Region
Human Environmental
Location
Place
Mr Help is a mnemonic used to help us remember things like the five themes of geography easier.

Movement is anything that travels trough out the world, whether it'd be ideas, products, or people.

Region is a group of things that have things in common. A township is an example of a region.

Human Environmental are things like the weather and environment related things that lead people to what they are. If the weather was cold, you would see people from the region wearing sweaters. Also mosquito nets are an example of human environmental.

Location is where a place is located whether it is decided by describing the places or shops around the place and the exact area by latitude and longitude or addresses.

Place is what makes the place unique and special and different from other places.


There are the five themes of geography in the books we are reading now.
the book my group is reading; waiting for the rain.
Examples;

Movement; Tengo moving to Johannesburg is an example of movement. (pg88-89)
Region; The township that keeps the blacks and the whites separate. (pg 62-63)
Human Environmental; When Tengo was sitting outside with Emma on the steps and drinking lemonade which showed that it was hot outside. (pg 169)
Location; Outside of Emma's house when they sat on the footsteps. (pg 169)
Place; The house of the millers winchester drive number 77 (pg 90)

Analyzing cartoon

Some of the main visual elements are that it's an octopus grabbing on to all the other countries. This political cartoon is about how the man in the middle by the name of England is taking over all the other countries around the world with his octopus tentacles and taking over. The cartoonist's opinion is he thinks that England is extremely strong and they are trying to take over all the countries so they would be the richest country in the world. It shows that england is very rich because the man in the middle is wearing one of those hats and only people like bachelors wear those types of hats. For making this cartoon more persuasive, he could have made the hands like they were grabbing onto the countries instead of just laying a finger on it. Also to make it better, he could've made the countries names so that we could read them. In terms of CRAP, this cartoonist did a pretty good job. The cartoonist maybe could've made the colors contrast more, so that the picture grabs you. For repetition, it repeats a lot. The colors repeated in the countries and in the tentacles. How the tentacles all branch out from england is repetition also. The cartoonist did a very good job with alignment because there was an equal amount on the left to the right, and on the bottom and top. For proximity, everything related to one another because this cartoon is very straight to the point.

"Violence leads to more violence"

"Violence leads to more violence" is true because the only way you can get violent is because someone else is. So if someone is violent, the others will want to challenge them and revenge them back which will lead to more violence and more violence. Violence can be taken away with an agreement which is being able to work with others which leads to one word - peace. When both sides are peaceful about it, they can agree to one answer. In Caesar, the conspirators and Brutus decided to kill Caesar, that was violence. They might have thought that it was the right thing to do and that it brought them peace, thats not what others will think. This lead to Antony wanting revenge on them and winning the hearts of the other people. Violence ( killing Caesar) led to violence ( Antony saying the speech about the conspirators). In the outside world, wars for example. One country starts a war with the other. The other country will want to take revenge and fight back. This can only be stopped when both the countries decided to make an agreement. In Caesar, if the conspirators were to make an agreement with Caesar and Antony, Caesar might not have died.

So in conclusion,
Yes, i agree to the quote "Violence leads to more violence".