Humanities 8 Ashwan

Feedback: What is Power?

2008-05-19T14:23:00.009+05:30

Power can be a lot of things but they key thing to make all the other meanings of power true is Knowledge. You may have a large country with a lot of armies and respect from other countries, you have to have the knowledge to even get to make your country big, powerful, and respected, and you need the knowledge to know what to do with all that power. With all of this power, you can become more powerful by going to other places, taking it over and making it theirs. In addition you can take the resources there now that its yours and with all that, if you have knowledge, you can sell it and make more money off it or you can use it to make it more beneficial for your empire, like making weapons for the military or make a new industry.

Power can also be how you compare to others. If you are stronger or smarter than someone else, you have a power that the other person doesn't. Like in the real world, some countries have Nuclear weapons, some don't, and if you have some then you are considered to be powerful just because of the fact that you have them and the other countries don't.

Power can also be the rule that you control others and they can’t control you. You are the one if charge and everyone has to listen to you. You have the power to tell people what to do and how to do it. You can make everything they way you want it to be with nobody telling you different.

Making sure you know what to do with power is very important because you may have a lot of armies and industries in your country, but if you don’t know what to do with all of it then you don’t have power at all because you don’t use it and try to make your country better. If you are considered powerful, you use what you have to make it better and you also If you are a person with a lot of things and that you do what ever you need to that makes you benefit more off it then you are becoming more and more powerful.

Feedback: Thinking About Globalization

2008-05-09T13:45:00.003+05:30

The main elements are the father talking to the little girl about letting her outsource her homework to India. She has a big bag full of homework and she doesn't want to do it so she's trying to outsource it to India so she doesn't have to do it all.
It is about globalization and how it has changed us so much and we are using other countries to do our work, it just benefits us more.
The artists opinion to this cartoon is negative because a little girl that is supposed to learn from her education and use the resources she has to do it but she doesn't want to do it because it is easier and faster in another country.
The evidence is that the girl KNOWS she can outsource it to India and they will do it in India and she wont have to do it at all and she will just wait for it to come back.

Feedback: The Population Project

2008-05-05T08:32:00.002+05:30

The population project was a project to learn how to manage time well and putting our skills that we've learned from the middle school and combine them to make a whole portfolio.

I learned that when you are assigned a big project and it is to manage your time. You should really manage your time and make sure you really do that because on the last couple of weeks you will see a lot of people that have a lot of work to do and haven't started any of their pieces.

Also realizing what is happening to the earth and all the problems that come along with it. There are many ways try solve the problems but we're not using them enough. New technology is always something that makes our lives easier. If we put the time and effort in the technology making for something personal, think of what we can do to solve these issues that the world is facing.

Last, i learned to keep track of your plans and make sure that you follow those goals. Making gaols are useless unless you meet them. If you made goals then you will have to make sure you meet those goals otherwise you will not have a thing done until the last moment.

Feedback: Sameness vs. Equality

2008-04-28T12:50:00.002+05:30

Sameness is not the same as equality because sameness is the same thing that people share between each other. Equality is the amount of things people share with each other. Sameness can be equality in SOME ways. Like equality shows that people get the same amount for things, but the thing that they are is the same for everyone too. Also the amount. But overall Sameness is not the same as equality since equality means to split something evenly and in sameness, people can still get the same thing but not necessarily the same amount.

Feedback: To Be an Adult

2008-04-21T10:33:00.004+05:30

You will become an adult when you have moire responsibilities. When you have a job to take care of or a family to feed. When you are an adult you can start making more decisions for yourself without anyone changing them for you.

When you become an adult you are not a little kid anymore. You are much more mature and you have part to society. You have a chance to make change to the world and people can actually listen to your ideas.

When nobody will listen to you and that you have no job that makes a change to the world. You don't have the energy and you are not capable of doing much change. You can be helpful in other ways but in longer to your regular job.

2008-04-14T14:37:00.003+05:30

Monday -
Work an choosing the best graph for data Analysis and start formatting graph
Tuesday -
Finish formatting the graph for best accuracy to my question
Wednesday -
Write up all needed paragraphs for Data Analysis and work on using the words i need and all the information that is relevant
Thursday -
Edit scribbler article, make it as good as i can, fix every mistake to find, After that work on filling in gaps in research paper, get the right format for it, get all citations in0place with facts
Friday -
Finish citing each fact on paper and finish writing paper, edit as much as possible.

Feedback: Evaulate Cartoon

2008-03-31T10:41:00.002+05:30

The main visual elements are the parents sitting at a table with their son who wrote something that the parents want to read. The kid just says read my blog although the kid could just tell his parents what he wrote.

The issue is that technology has become useless and has made us do things a lot differently. The kid could have told the parents what he had wrote, but with the technology of blogs he just told them to go and read it on his blog.

The opinion is that it has changed and it is not good because it is just a waste of energy to go on a blog and see what someone wrote when the person who wrote what you wanted to see is in front of you and can tell you what he wrote.

The artist writes " Or you can just tell us what u did at school" he did say that we can go read the blog but the kid is right in front of him and can tell him what he did instead of making the parents go on his blog.

He can have a laptop behind the table, switched off. The parents just say the same thing.

Because we are doing the same thing right now, what we do in school we are writing on our blogs, what we set goals for we write on our blogs.

Feedback: Evaluate Kurt Vonnegut's Saying

2008-03-24T14:16:00.003+05:30

“Do you know what a Luddite is? That’s a person who doesn’t like newfangled contraptions. Contraptions like nuclear submarines armed with Poseidon missiles that have H-bombs in their warheads, and like computers that cheat you out of becoming. Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

He is somewhat wrong and somewhat right because not all "contraptions" are for evil, some contraptions do us a lot of work. Computers can be used in good and bad ways. We can use computer to get some work done and we can make computer hack people and take their stuff and see what they are doing. In some ways contraptions can be useless-like the Euphio. The Euphio makes people happy, to be happy is to do what you like best, not buying a machine that makes you happy. Machinery like these are making you stop "becoming" because if you wanted to develop your personality and be happy you'd go and do something fun. But with the Euphio you just have to buy it, your personality will not make you different, and the only way anybody would be happy is buy buying a machine that does it for you. Instead of buying a machine, you can go out and start an new adventure that you wold enjoy from and have fun. If we see what computers can do then what can we as humans do! We can do what ever we want to do to make ourselves happy and make a different day rather than other working days. Trying to make something of yourself is much better than seeing what a computer can do.

Technology and Me

2008-03-19T08:39:00.004+05:30

Technology is things that make our life easier that make doing things easier. Things like washing machines, computers, etc. They have a really big impact on our lives because without them, things would have been so much harder for us to do.

The amount of technology we use at school is good because we have a wide enough range of resources we can use to learn off. We have a big library with lots of encyclopedia's to use. On the internet the school has databases that we can use. We have computer labs and laptops that every student is allowed to use. The computers are regularly updated with new programs for us to use and learn from. We learn how to handle multimedia and robotics.

5 Most Important Technology:

Computer - It makes life a lot easier, we can use USB's to transfer our work. Play games to have fun. Using e-mails to keep in touch with your friends. Using msn to have fun and play games with your friends, talk to old friends. But most of all...the Internet! With the internet we have the freedom to browse and learn form what ever we want. There is a massive amount of resources we can learn from and use.
Gaming Consoles - It gives us a way to have fun! We don't have to run around screaming to have fun anymore, we can just get one of these and plug it in a TV and play. You just sit in one spot and wont cause any chaos.
Traveling - Cars, airplanes, trains, and buses. All of these help us get around we can get to places much faster than before and newer versions being thought of everyday.
Cell Phones - You're lost, you don't know where anyone is, BUT you have your cell phone, call up your parents tell them where you are and problem solved! With your cell phone you can call your friends and send text messages to your friends, its a great way to keep in touch with your friends.
Music - The way for us to enjoy music and relax. iPods and other mp3 players help us a lot. Big speakers to play out loud at parties or just for your self.

3 Least Important Technologies:
Technologies that make your life way too easy, like lifting a finger wont be necessary because of a certain technology.

An automatic vacuume cleaner - you should be happy that something cleans it up so fast you just have to drag it to the dirty spot. An automatic cleaner however, is just pushing it too far. It makes you a lot lazier.
Big fancy hummers - Hummers are nice cars with a very modern inside, but they waste way too much oil and it pollutes the environment a lot. Using the time an effort to make that technology, people could've made a much better piece of technology and that technology could have done the world a lot better than what the Hummer does.
She lights - When step on the floor a flashing light turns on for a little while. What is the point of that??? Its just a light that flashes when you step on the floor, thats all it does.

Quarter 4 Goals

2008-03-18T18:36:00.005+05:30

My first goal for quarter 3 was to have all my AR done. That goal was not met because I only finished one book, not enough for the amount of AR points needed. This means I should make more time to read and make sure I get another book done so I can get the AR points I need.

My Second Goal was to make sure I can catch up properly on my Population Project. Now I know what I'm supposed to do and where to get my information. I know when things are due and I know my high and low priorities.

My last goal was to improve my organizational skills. I met this goal because I hand in projects and assignments on time and I have my papers some where safe and easy to access.

Quarter 4 Goals:

My first goal is to make sure I keep up in the Population Project and make sure I don't fall behind and have to waste time dong something I had time to do but wasted it. I will do this by making clear to myself that when things are due and when there's time to work on it.

My second goal is to make sure I don't make everything on one day. I want to make sure all the work is spread out so i wont have to work hard on day and relax the other. I will do this by clearing out things on each day. Do a little part of it everyday.

My third goal is to be extra organized for the Population Project because if I one of the papers I'll have to do a lot more work that was already done. If it is too late then it just hurts my grade a lot. I will do this by keeping all of my papers in one place and make sure I have it backed up in at least 2 places that I access either through Home or School. Also have the paper done 2 days before its due so if I it there is still time to print another one.

Feedback: Why is "Holy War" an Oxymoron

2008-03-10T08:40:00.003+05:30

The term holy is to describe something sacred to a certain religion. War is to fight because of recent conflict in the area. Holy is to be sacred and to follow your religion and stay in your ethnic race. Usually in a religion it is followed that none shall kill another human. If Holy War is used together that means a religious conflict is being held and lots of people are killing other people. It is obvious why this is an oxymoron. Which is forbidden in religion. But if it keeps going that means the war is going on but for a reason: to gain freedom of practicing the religion, to make others join this religion, etc.
Some other religions don"t really agree with what the others say and try to make them believe in their religion. To make them stop believing in their religion and make them convert to another they have to stop them from practicing it and starting changing their lifestyles to make them the same as the religion they want them to convert to.

Cold War Game Debrief

2008-03-06T19:12:00.000+05:30

I was the USA. We had more econ points at the beginning so we could buy more. Our strategy was to buy some of each so we can buy allies and give what they asked us for it. We were aiming for the better more powerful colonies. We were looking for the best deals but both places wanted more money.

The USA won because we had the most econ points, we beat the USSR in every war we started against them and we had the powerful allies with more econ points. So every time we won the war the USSR would lose 20% of their econ points. We sent two atomic bombs to them every time there was a call for anyone to start a war.+

In the real Cold War,the USA won because they had the least military casualties and their form of government did not cause tension between the other countries. The communist countries did not have enough supplies for their people to live in, they just wanted t build on their military. They had to put up a wall called the Berlin Wall so people wouldn't leave the communist country. Their form of government caused them to lose a lot and start all over again. The USA however did not lose much but had a good benefit off it because once Russia opened trade they got some more profit.

Feedback : Using Visual Communicator

2008-03-03T12:52:00.000+05:30

Using visual communicator was not hard abut you had to get it all right and make sure that nothing will be wrong. First make sure that it is set properly and you have all punctuation and grammar mistakes in the scripts fixed. Second make sure that the people who are presenting are ready, make sure they practiced and they know what to say and if they read to fast they will know what to say if the part of the script they have read has already come up so you don't have to waste time doing it all over again. Third make sure each one of you make your own part. Don't film in one whole file, because if one person messes up you will have to start all over again. You don't want to put yourself in this situation if none of your group members haven't practiced any part of their scripts yet.

One of the good things is that its easy to use and there are many functions and nice deigns you can have to make it look like a real new report or what kind of project your doing. But you have to make sure that you know everything is set up properly so you wont have to go back and do it again.

Was the film anything like the book Animal Farm?

2008-03-02T13:54:00.000+05:30

First the song Beast of England was changed to another song. Old Major was shot. The seven commandments were not changed in the first 2 days of successful rebellion. Clover was not there. So these changed are made sure that the movie was not much like the book.
Although these main changes were made, the movie still stuck to the story line and did express the morals that it did in the book.

Script: Ashwan – Vietnam War Overview

2008-02-18T14:29:00.000+05:30

The Vietnam War was about the conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. It lasted from 1959 to 1975. North Vietnam supported a communist government. South Vietnam supported an anti-communist government. South Vietnam was supported by the USA, South Korea, Australia, Philippines, New Zealand, Khmer Republic, Thailand, and the Kingdom of Laos. North Vietnam was supported by China, Soviet Union, North Korea, and Pathet Lao. The war killed 1.4 million soldiers. 6% of which was a part of the American force. The civilian deaths were from 2 to 5.1 million people. North Vietnam had won the war making Vietnam a whole country so South Vietnam was not there anymore. Vietnam was then under a communist government. The winning of North Vietnam was by the help of Saigon. Once North Vietnam captured Saigon they had a stronger advantage and won for sure.

Feedback: How far am i in Animal Farm

2008-02-11T08:32:00.000+05:30

Old major has passed away, he has told us what we need to know. He told us that we should not be ruled by humans and that we should start lives of our own so we can be fed on time and sleeping on time. Old major ended his speech with a song called 'Beasts of England'. a beautiful song that made all the animals start believing that they have the power to start a new life if they work together and work hard for it. Now we are working like slaves but we are happy with our work and how we do it. We are happy with our lives. Mollie has been more loyal to humans than we thought he let one of them stroke her nose. We asked her if it were true and she said no but she didn't give us her word of honor. A couple days later she left and never came back. the crow came and told us he saw her some where but she was very different. She was wearing strange clothing and standing with humans.

Feedback: Do you have to join the military in your country?

2008-02-04T14:26:00.000+05:30

I come from The Netherlands. In Holland you can volunteer to be in the army. You have to be at least 20 years of age. There has been no forcing in any military forces in Holland. It is a pretty good deal because the army is strong enough and you don't have to join if you don't want to.

Feedback: The King Is Dead, Long Live the King

2008-01-30T09:41:00.000+05:30

Back when there were 13 colonies King George III was a very bad king. He made rules that did not help the country at all. He put out taxes that made no sense. He got soldiers to stay in peoples homes. He didn't even allow the real government to make new laws that made more sense and will turn out beneficial to the country. Now when King Coyle took rule, he made us pay for very senseless taxes: handing in work ($10 per page!!!), wearing braces, wearing sports shoes, wearing jewelery, and using laptops. Tyranny was not all that related but we were not allowed to speak against to the king and were given treason if he/she had done it. If we had no more money we would be sent to Georgia to pay off debt. Self-determination was very rare to see in the class. We did not have the right to do anything but pay taxes and use what you get. If we did not pay, we would get no grade and it would just be a zero. If it weren't for skyward we all would have boycotted much earlier. Injustice came in place fairly well in this situation, because we did not have the right to do what we wanted to do unless we payed the tax. If we did not,we risked getting a bad grade on our work.
In conclusion, King Coyle, is a bad king, you make us pay taxes that wont do anything for us. Just like in the American Revolution. We cant do anything but be loyal to be able to survive from going to Georgia, getting broke, or getting a detention.

Feedback: Where is The Forty-Third War Located?

2008-01-28T10:41:00.000+05:30

The Forty-Third was was located in El Salvador, San Salvador because in the book they mention Il Defonso and Il Defonso is located in San Salvador. Atlacatl is a mountain mentioned in the book and that mountain could be San Salvador Volcano because that is probably the only volcano Uno could see. in the book when he is at the church he could see a volcano that has erupted a couple of time, it was a dangerous mountain. San Salvador Volcano has erupted a couple of times already so that could be the mountain Uno was looking at when he was at the church. Uno and Lolo are Catholics and they go to church to celebrate Easter. El Salvador is a Catholic country to thats where this book is set.

Picture: San Salvador Volcano
Picture From: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/central_america/el_salvador/san_salvador/images/sansalvador-1.jpg

Sources:
"El Salvador." 24 January 2008 28 January 2008 . "San Salvador Volcano, El Salvador." 24 January 2008 28 January 2008 .

Summery of The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America

2008-01-24T13:24:00.000+05:30

When you are wanting to break a way form another country you must have a good reason to do so. When there is a person, he must have rights equal and reasonable. He must have a right to say if he agrees with what is happening with the government. If there is something wrong going on, he can do what is necessary to stop what the government is doing.
The King was the one who started this by:

He has forbid for, us the real government, to make laws that make sense and will turn beneficial. Not letting us make trade with other countries.
He made armies without the colony's permission.
Made armies stay in peoples homes.
Started outrageous taxes.

He has made many die, taken their homes, and their resources. When he did those things, we asked him to stop, we even reminded him of why we came to this land. But he wouldn't stop thats why today, we are FREE! And we must work together to make it a better country.

Picture From: http://www.dhm.de/gifs/sammlungen/dokumente1/do93_101.jpg

Feedback: Analyze Cartoon

2008-01-22T14:18:00.000+05:30

The main visual elements are the snake cut up into American colonies that only support the revolutionaries. The Join, of Die thats written clearly is to show that if you don't want to join you die.
This cartoon is about the American Revolution and who supported the revolutionaries and how you would have to join the army or die, you had no choice. The snake is cut up because it symbolizes if it is together it can defeat the loyalists. But right now the snake is apart, so they may not have a chance against the loyalists.
The cartoonist does not really want the snake to be together because if he did, he would have made the snake full in shape and it would be together with a strong enough army.
Basically its what the cartoon looks like and what the elements symbolize.

Can we trust the truthfulness of To Be a Slave?

2008-01-14T12:50:00.000+05:30

We could trust To Be a Slave because the people have been trough a lot to tell others what they had gone through. There wouldn't be anything else to hide, they could say what they had to. The people were not made up in the book, they were real people that have the experience and felt what it was like to be a slave and lived to tell the tale. If there were no quotes from the people in the book it may not have been as reliable as it is now. All the slaves comments came from the Library of Congress. So what they said really came from them and what they had felt when they were slaves.
But in ways To Be a Slave cannot be trusted because the people that read this book, don't know what slavery was like because they haven't experienced it so they wont know so they will have to believe what they read. The people who did experience slavery can write what they want because the people who haven't been slaves before wont know and they will think that the people who have been slaves should deserve more.

Overall, To Be a Slave can be trusted because those people have experienced slavery and they want others to know how hard it was and what they had to give up without a choice to make for it.

Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. NY: Scholastic Inc., 1968.

Picture From:
http://www.brown.edu/Students/INDY/archives/2005-10-27/images/slavery.gif

The Great Powers Game Debrief

2008-01-10T18:58:00.000+05:30

My country was Russia. Building my empire was not all that easy because you never knew when you were going to be attacked for your resources. So my strategy was to build my army until i can survive without allies because at that time i had no alliances with anyone. The people with more industries had a higher advantage because they could buy more in the beginning of the game. My empire at the beginning of the game had the strongest army to protect my self and after that i would work on my industries. But later on in the game because of me working on my army other had worked on their industries so they had higher economy points that i had so they had the advantage of growing faster and stronger than me.
The most important thing to buy was industries or colonies to build on your economy points so later you can get a good army, but also in the beginning you needed some army because then you can protect yourself if you get attacked. So it would be a little of both army and industry/colonies.
I think i did well in the game, i had a stable economy and a good army to defend my self. The only thing i would have done different was to build up on my industry more than my army so i had more economy points to use to get armies when i needed it.
In the beginning, i had no alliances, i was too scared of betrayal, my strategy was to build on my army as much as i needed to for me to survive on my own IF my alliances were broken. Later on in the game i made alliances with France and the Ottoman Empire because my army was strong enough to defend itself. Although France still had alliance with the US and Great Britain. A few rounds later France broke alliance with me and the Ottoman Empire. France, US, and Great Britain were teaming up to destroy me and the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire and I had no choice but to make alliance with all the rest and fight all we can. That minute, i knew one thing that you should always remember: you cannot trust anyone, only your self. Frances loss to us was very effective to us, we found out that we had no way of winning even with all of us put together. With much luck, we persuaded France to join us again and with France's help we won the great war in the game. But always have enough to be alone before you ever make alliances with anyone, and no matter how strict the contract is, one way or another you can be betrayed especially the French.
I learned that:

Alliances can never be trusted especially the French.
Make sure before making any alliances with anyone, you can stand alone and protect your self IF your alliances betray you
Wars will ALWAYS make things worse: they cause to disagreements in demands and they can make more people hate you more. Then there will be more chance of people attacking you.

Picture From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/europe/04/changing_borders/img/maps/1900.gif

Quarter 3 Goals

2008-01-07T08:56:00.001+05:30

My first goal is to get all my AR done so it doesn't take time away for something more important. I will try and accomplish this goal by reading at least 2 chapters a day so I can finish the book by this month. I will take time off free time instead of sleeping time because I need to get enough rest to go through the next day.

My second goal is to make sure I know what I am doing in my population project, to make sure that i have time for all things necessary for my project. I have to have everything planned out and make time for all i have to do for the project and not cut out time of getting enough sleep but cutting time off free time so i know i have done what i planned to have done for the day. I will accomplish this goal by using a planner just for school and in that planner i will, write what i want to have done by the day so i wont have to rush everything. I will, try to have everything even so i wont have to work hard one day and work easily the next.

My third goal is to improve my organizational skills, to make sure I can find my papers easily and make sure they are in a safe place. I think I need to make sure that I take home the correct binder home to do all homework assigned for the day so I know that I finished all my homework and didn't rush it at took all the time I needed for it to be done well.

Picture from:
http://picasaweb.google.com/derek.collison/DigitalBlasphemy/photo#5062620301010371954

Hotel Rwanda

2007-12-11T18:03:00.000+05:30

The two groups were Tutsi or Hutu. The Hutu army was only after all the Tutsi rebels, If there were not of these groups there would have been no conflict between any of the people. Another group of people is black people versus white people. The French left all the black people behind while they were going back home to safety. The world community just thought as the back people as dirt. They only came to Rwanda to save their own people and to protect them until they left. The only white people that came and tried for the black peoples aid was the UN, and they did their best and tried everything they could.

http://www.impawards.com/2004/posters/hotel_rwanda.jpg

Feedback: Analyze Cartoon

2007-12-03T14:36:00.000+05:30

The cartoon has a big footprint and a black map of Africa. The footprint shows that the Europeans came when Africa was colorful and full of resources, now the picture is black and the footprint has hit rock bottom there is nothing left. The Europeans have taken everything until they hit the bottom of Africa, where there is nothing left but hard useless rock. The artist does not like imperialism's effect on Africa. The color of Africa is black and usually that represents something is wrong. The rocks in the footprint like rock bottom, there is nothing left. He could have drawn a picture of Africa that was colorful with trees, animals, and resources then an arrow pointing to this black one. Then you cold see the change the Europeans made and how they affected it.

The Scramble for Africa: Who won? Who Lost? Why?

2007-11-27T19:11:00.001+05:30

The people with the chances of rolling 9 times on the dice had a better advantage than some other groups who could only roll 3 times. But there was also the line for getting the land because if you were last all the land that is most rich in minerals or raw material was already taken and places that were not very rich in them were left behind.

Feedback: 5 Themes of Geography Related to my Literacy Circles Book

2007-11-19T12:46:00.000+05:30

Movement: The theme of moving anything from one place to another (Traditions, people, music etc.)
One example from the book could be when Nhamo was trying to make a hut on the island the same as the ones they have back at her home, she was trying to remember how they made it because it was passed on from the earlier settlers. Pg. 171 paragraphs 1-3.

Region: The theme of people or things in common (language, religion, homes etc.)
One example from the book could be when Nhamo was still living with her family, she was using the same language ads their family, how they say grandmother, her whole family used that same word Ambuya, Nganga, Muvuki. Pg. 44, 45

Human Environment Interaction: The theme of humans impact on the environment and the environments impact on humans (rivers, trees, landslides, greenhouse gas etc.)
One example form the book could be that how Nhamo fled, she was using the river, the environment is impacting her because if there were no river Nhamo would have to walk or run to escape.Pg 120 Paragraph 1

Location: The theme of the exact or relative location of something (45* N, 20* W, Africa, Next to Carl's House etc.)
One example from the book could be that She lives in Mozambique, Africa Pg. Map of Nhamo's Journey.

Place: The theme of "what" there is in by the location (trees, river, markets etc.)
one example form the book could be that when Nhamo leaves to run away she uses the river and a handmade boat, not a high tech airplane. Pg. 120 Paragraph 1

Feedback: Analyze Cartoon

2007-11-12T10:38:00.000+05:30

The main element is the big head with all his hands on all the other countries. It shows he is the biggest and he is also in the middle so he will be the leader out of all of the other countries.

The issue could be that the countries are fighting for power and control over all the other countries. Also all the countries are separated from each other so that could mean that they don't like each other at all.

The artists opinion could be that England is better than everyone else and that england holds the world together since his hands are on all of the countries. But since Ireland is being held tight it could mean that england wants to take over all the countries.

The hands could be the most evidence because between all of the countries and england the big hand holding on to it.

The artist could have had the earth in globe form and had the head on top of england with one hand on every country.

There is contrast because there is different amount of space between the country and different thickness on hands. It has repetition because the color of the hands are the same and all of the hands are holding a country. It has alignment because there is an equal amount of drawing on each quarter.The hands are like the same with their color and they are equal to each other.

Feedback: Does Violence lead to more violence?

2007-11-10T21:01:00.000+05:30

Violence does lead to more violence because when one person does it, it influences others to do it too so they join in to what ever violent activity is going on. On the other hand violence for some people stop conflict since they already did what they wanted to do. In Julius Caesar, Cassius uses his conflict to make others think that Cesar should die so his thought of violence made others think so too. But when he killed Caesar Antony caused even more violence by making the crowd think that Caesar did not deserve to die but the conspirators do so he caused more violence and that made the crowd kill Cinna the poet.

Feedback: Leader

2007-10-22T14:23:00.000+05:30

A good leader should be open to others and not greedy for power and fame. A good leader should have ideas for what he is doing and is creative and always has a second plan for things that don't work out well.
I think that the kids in SLAMS are our leaders because they are the ones who organize our activities and come up with ideas.

What I am Proud of in Humanities

2007-10-16T10:48:00.000+05:30

I think i did great in organizing my blog and getting all the posts on there on time and making sure its not missing anything. I also kept up with my AR reading.
I don't think i did so well in the descriptive writing assignments because i could not have so much text in them and the information was not clear enough. I also had printing troubles because i don't have one so printing on a day where Humanities comes first is a problem, this is why i had 1 missing assignment.
I think i should put more effort into my descriptive writing and more effort into studying for tests

Feedback: WOW, waste of time or not?

2007-10-15T10:36:00.000+05:30

WOW was not a waste of time at all because we had to have some fun and have some time away from your parents and school work. We were not only having fun we were also learning how to raft and about the Ganges river. We learnt how things work in Rishikesh and how people live and take care of themselves. We were camping on beaches, sleeping in tents, sitting with your friends at the camp fire, and playing around with the teachers.

End of Quarter 1 Feedback

2007-10-03T14:20:00.000+05:30

I think that i met my goal to take better notes, i learned that we have to take notes of things that will help answer questions not other things that are not relevant on the topic. I have notes that are going to be helpful for tests.

Expository Final

2007-09-23T19:21:00.000+05:30

Our group is going to be focusing on Jawaharlal Nehru because he was the first prime minister of India. He was the man who made the most changes to India. We have a PowerPoint about him and pictures showing India’s economic development over the past years. We have a poem about how India was before it was ruled by Nehru and what has changed about it. It is about the economy’s growth. Our other idea is what things India had made in their industries at the time. Nehru was the person who made people work in Industries and invested money on railroad transportation equipment. Nehru was a man who was rich and went to high level schools and had a good education in his childhood and was very inspired by Gandhi who helped India become a independent country.

News Article Final

2007-09-23T19:18:00.001+05:30

Nehru Becomes Prime Minister of India

Jawaharlal Nehru becomes the first prime minister of India in Delhi on August 15, 1947. It had already been decided from the Indian National Congress that Nehru was to be India’s first prime minister. On the same day India gained its independence from the British rule.

Before he had become prime minister he was the president of the All India Trade Congress and was ha good leader then. At the stroke of midnight he addressed the nation with a speech that brought faith and confidence to many people in India. Nehru wanted to help India become a developed country. He made the people work in the industries to help the economy grow. He also established parliamentary government and became noted for his neutralist policies in foreign affairs. Nehru strongly supported democratic government.

Nehru traveled all over India to educate people about the main issues in India and how to solve those issues so India can become a well-developed country. Nehru started to invest public find to build roads and transportations facilities. Nehru is reaching for a good country with well-developed industries with a good growing economy

Feedback

2007-09-17T08:43:00.000+05:30

I didn't do well because first of all i did not make much profit and i also did not take many risks to buy stocks. I kept my money until the last few years, that was when i took some of the risks and thats where i made most of my money.
The phrase "You have to spend money to make money” i realized that and understood it near the end that when you take many risks then you get more profit.

Nehru's Diary

2007-09-16T16:07:00.000+05:30

Nehru’s Diary

By Ashwan J.

Feb 8^th, 1916

Dear diary, today I get married. My mother will now be proud. Kamala Kaul will now be my wife from now on. I am now 27 years old and Kamala is 16. Isn’t that a big difference? I wonder how my life will be different from now on.

Nov 19^th, 1917

My first child, Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi. This is going to take so much responsibility and how am I supposed to take care of a child. Will I even have enough time to be with Gandhi? But this child maybe a good thing to our family and bring us great luck and help.

1920

I am finally elected for something important; this is going to the best job ever! Wait until I tell my family. They will be so proud when they find out that I was protesting for the independence of India. People now think I am very brave.

1936

I am elected again for the Indian National Congress, the people love me. This is the best day. I love this country and I’ll do anything to save it. I just have to find one way to get the British out of India then I’ll be an all-time hero. I must speak with Gandhi, we must figure out something to do, we must protest against the salt tax. We must.

1938

The worst thing could happen, Kamala has died. All is dull in the family now, Indira is the only one I have left, and she’s the only one who can follow my footsteps. What has been done cannot be changed. I must protest as much I can now. I must continue my work; I cannot let a sudden death take me down. I must save India. I must get to Gandhi first thing tomorrow.

1944

My first grandson, I am so proud of my daughter and she is very happy herself. She is very confident of taking care of the baby and will raise him until she can no more. I should have felt like her when I had my child, I wasn’t confident at all.

Aug 15, 1947

I am elected Prime minister of India; this is the greatest thing that has happened in my whole family history. Now I must get rid of the British, I must. My people are counting on me for every move I make. This I must talk over with Gandhi, he’ll know what to do best. From now on India will be ruled by Gandhi and I.

Jan 30, 1948

Gandhi was assassinated. I stood there motion less hen he woke I was the happiest person around him. He was back, my hero was back. I thought I had lost everything when he wasn’t awake

1951

India is having lots of famines. There is not enough food. What do I do? I have simply run out of ideas but I must go on I must still be their hero.

Later on.........

I have encouraged most of the people and now they are working hard in the industries. There was still unemployment and my popularity was unaffected. I also showed India that I care very much about children’s educations. I rose the qualities of schools in India so all the children will be educated for their future jobs.

Goals follow-up

2007-09-10T13:11:00.000+05:30

I think that when I said I liked the 2 minute tune-up and i liked it, i still like it. We have now started a project which i wanted to have. Our first history unit is very interesting and fun to learn about. We have been getting a good amount of homework and everything is going good.

Interview Final with Jawaharlal Nehru

2007-09-09T20:57:00.000+05:30

Jawaharlal Nehru Interview

By Ashwan J.

Background:

Born in Allahabad, near the banks of the Ganges. He was the eldest child of Swarup Rani, the wife of wealthy barrister Motilal Nehru. When Nehru was 15 he went to England to attend Harrow. After he returned his arranged marriage was to Kamala Kaul on February 8^th, 1916. Years later they had their only child Indira Priyadarshini.

What was it like in India before you became prime minister?

I was just a local leader in India when the British were ruling us. I was following Gandhi’s examples and abandoned my Western-style clothing and wore clothing spun out of khadi. The British were taking the raw material out of India for their own factories and we hardly got paid properly.

What inspired you to become a leader?

He was strongly attached to Gandhi’s philosophy and leadership. He traveled across India and gave political speeches to audiences. He spoke forcefully and passionately to the people to encourage hindu-musilm unity. Soon he became one of the most popular political leaders in northern India.

When did you first get elected to become a leader?

In the 1920s, Nehru was elected president of the All India Trade Unions Congress. He was working with Subhash Chandra Bose. He was arguing for India in 1928 Congress Session would deliver an ultimatum to the British and prepare for mass struggle. He brought faith to many people in India.

What was your first action as the first prime minister of India?

I wrote a speech that was performed at midnight August 14^th, 1947. Everyone was stunned by the speech. The speech brought great faith to the crowd and India’s industry began right from scratch

Feedback

2007-09-04T08:49:00.000+05:30

Positive:

They had faster ways of producing things
They could have a lot more product then usual
They made money exporting them
It was a lot easier to produce them with machines

Negative:

Lots of people lost their jobs
They had to work for a long time
They created more pollution
At some factories they got lower wages

What was it like when the people had to work before the indusrial revolution.....

2007-08-28T16:44:00.000+05:30

It would be much different then now because we have moer technology and machines that do almost all of the work in the factory, nowadays we just have people pressing some simple buttons and work starts for the day. Before the Industrial Revolution it was much different, there were lots of people needed to just get one factory running. They had to make lots of things using only their hands. They had to work for a long time otherwise they would not make as much money as promised. Work had to be done well too to get paid right.
Today we have machines make them, if they do it they will be exactly the same and the products should be the same just as all the others.

Toy Factory

2007-08-27T16:58:00.000+05:30

Making the toy would relate to the people that lived before the Industrial Revolution had to build things by themselves, they did not have factories. They had to build things and grow crops by themselves they had a very hard way of life and did not have much of a life expectancy, a good one would be 35 years!
The rules were that we could only use papar and no moters or high tech things that would be the same thing as the people back then, to use only the items that are "old fashion."
We had to rush a lot and had a mean manager who made us work for more than an hour on making a toy only made from paper and decorated with markers.

Whats it like going down a water slide....

2007-08-24T20:50:00.000+05:30

It is the best ride if you want to go down really fast. As soon as i get to the edge i grip right onto the handle and what for the suspense to end. You hear the people next to or beind you screaming and cheering all put together when the next second you find yourself going down so fast that you think you left your heart behind at the begining of the slope. Then you feel a sudden loss of speed and then you struggle to see if the car is going to turn left or right. Now you can hear everyone sayiing things like "That was soooo fast" or "I got wet!!" or "I wanna go again".

My Gang

2007-08-23T18:17:00.000+05:30

My gang consists of Chris, Stefan, Robert, and Tim. Chris is in my gang because he's my best friend and is good friends with everyone else in the gang. Robert is in my gang because he is also one of my best friends and is a very nice person. Stefan was the first friend ever had when I came here and we've been friends ever since. I am Dutch and so is Tim. Tim was also the second friend i had when i first came here. My gang has friends and nobody else. A gang is for people who stick together and work together and to stay good friends.

Fruit Roll Up Quick Write

2007-08-23T14:57:00.000+05:30

The fruit roll-up is very good, i think that the electric blue flavor is really good,. It tastes like blue berrys and it's also a little sour. This is flat like paper just a little fatter. It smells like fruit and smells sweet and sour. This is the best paper-like candy ever made. The colors are different depending on what flavor you have. The texure is not too stickyand it is smooth.
You are stupid not to try this!!
P.S. YOU MUST TAKE THE PLASTIC PAPER OFF BEFORE YOU EAT THE CANDY

Mother Necessity

2007-08-22T08:48:00.000+05:30

Mother of necessity inventions is when some one is a very good inventor and invents a lot of things. The inventions have to be very needed and they have to be important to people. These people also building onto other inventions and making new versions on them. The person also has to be inventing thing that have not yet been built and think of new ideas. They should not be copying others ideas.

From: http://www.pctlawgroup.com/images/inventions1.jpg

How I learn Best

2007-08-20T10:42:00.000+05:30

I learn best by having somethings you can touch and play with. I am also a good listener when it comes to note taking and I like to do projects in pairs with 2 people, the project have to be about research. I like studying geography and logitude and latitude puzzles. I also like playing geographic games for humanities.

My goals in Humanities

2007-08-13T14:44:00.000+05:30

Since i started 8th grade i seem to like my new teachers. Another good that i have good subject for my electives.
My first impression of humanities was that i have a good teacher and i like the idea of a 2 minute tune-up.
My goal in this Humanities class is to have good skills at taking notes and researching for projects. Another one could be that i would like to have gottes good enough points for AR to help my grade go up.