What is Power?

Power is the strength of something. Some one or something that has power is having the ability and the strength to do something that other people cannot accomplish. By dictionary definition, power is the ability to do or act by political or national strength. All through out the year, we have experienced power. In animal farm, there was power. In animal farm Napoleon has power. He controlled everyone else that was apart of animal farm, he changed the way they thought, and he changed all the rules about animal farm. Napoleon was the only one that had the power to do that. He had other pigs that he would order, and they would put napoleon’s decisions to actions. Secondly, there was power also seen in Julius Caesar. The power was in the hands of Julius Caesar so every wanted to destroy him. There were many people that were on the side of Julius, but also there were people on the opposing too. Julius had some strength that others did not. There was also power in Industrial Revolution. However at one point, the stages of power changes. At first England had the power and they were the ones that could do everything. People wanted to come into England to work, because England first created factories. They started industries, and then competition began and brought in America. Power then changed to America that took the ideas of England and went beyond with England’s ideas. There is also Power in American industrial revolution. Also in the American Revolution, England had the power because the king of England was forcing unfair laws upon the communist, and getting everything to himself. He has the strength to keep the taxes because he said so.

Thinking about Globalization

This cartoon's main visual elements is the girl, and her dad saying "No, you may not outsource your homework to india." The girl seems to disagree with her dad, and you can tell from her facial expression and the scratch above her head, a way a cartoonist shows a character is mad. This cartoon is about one of the ten flatteners and definatly about globalization. The cartoonist's oppinion on this topic is negative. This is becuase globalization has gone very far and is getting better. In the cartoon, the father says to his daughter that her homework should not be outsource. In school, we get homework everyday, and everyday a piece of homework is due. It is apart of our everday schedule to do homework to be turned in the next day. The cartoonist's point in the topic is all said in the most important part of the cartoon, the speech bubble. The artists could have made this cartoon better by He could have added more items in the girls enviornment, as the topic is showing the rise in globalization, maybe adding more gadgets in the enviornment will highlight and strenghten the point more to make it more clear.

Population project importance

The three most valuable things that I learnt from the population project process were MLA citation, time management, and the ability to organize. To cite after visiting each website to get information came more into practice. Time management, because we were only given a few due dates and at the end, turning in the portfolio is what counted. And Organization, because if you couldn’t organize all the materials that we were given, we would not be able to put every material into a portfolio to turn in. You would need to organize all the facts from our research, into index cards, and putting them into a 5 paragraph research paper.

It will help us more in the future, because every time we get something from another site, we need to cite our sources. Otherwise it is known as plagiarism, which is being academically dishonest, which can lead to getting expelled from school. The skill to cite would be used a countless number of times in our future. Time management is also a skill that would help us in the future because as we grow into the future we are not going to be given due dates for every piece, or be told when we should have something done. We would only be given a date to turn in our work, and in the end turning it in is the only thing that counts.

Sameness and Equality

There are many differences in the two words, sameness and equality. Sameness is being the same, like everyone is exactly the same, in looks, what they wear, everything. Where as equality is more regarding equal rights. Having the right and to be able to do what everyone else does. A problem in equality is when one person has more rights than the other. But sameness can be similarity or likeness. Equality is an equal opportunity to everything. Lois Lowry uses the word sameness in her books alot becuase the book mainly heads towards appeareance, what they all do the same, they all have the same emotions and the same feelings. In Animal Farm, the author uses the word equality alot becuase it is more about race. The difference between the pigs and the dogs, and ducks and horses. It is about the pigs being more equal than the rest.
In conclusion equality and sameness are the different that may seem like they have the same meaning but they regard different issues.

Giver feedback

Being an adult has many start off points. One becomes an adult when you can support yourself, and take care of everything you do, by yourself. It means, the problems that happen to you, you fix them. Responsibility in ones actions, and the ability to own up to what you did.

The meaning of being an adult means to leave your childhood behind, and become apart of many things. That includes a family, and a job. Also it means responsibility, and the burden of many things. It means importance to take care of your family.

At one point in ones years, they become useless. As people grow in their ages, they are unable to help anyone else in the world anymore. They are not working, and their no help to the family. This is around the age of 70, when one is no more help to the rest of the people.

Priorities

M- Put data together for data analysis

T-follow up on data analysis

W-finish first draft

TH- get peer edited, and finish the final

F- Finish interview for independent investigation.

Blog cartoon

The main visual element in this cartoon is that there is the kid at the dinner table telling his parents about his Blogger from school and his parents saying “Well, yes, we could read your Blog…or you could just TELL us about your school day. This cartoon is an issue about all the kids that come home from school and not wanting to talk to their parents about the school day, so they just tell the parents to pop up the Blogger and read it. The cartoonist’s opinion is that a lot of the kids nowadays don’t want to chat about their school day at the dinner table. Simply, the quote is the evidence that tells me about what the cartoonist feels. Also the parents’ emotion seems pretty disappointed with the kid, probably because he never talks about school. But if the parents would like to know what we are learning at school, it is better that they go to Blogger and read what we wrote that we spent work time in class working on. This is ironic because this cartoon is showing how sites like Blogger and other newly created sites are decreasing talk about family, and we are writing on a Blog and all the readers are reading from Blogs. The cartoonist could have made this cartoon more persuasive by having the kid using technology, maybe texting on his phone.