Final Exam: What is Power?

What is Power? Power, could be defined in many ways, and there are three different types. These powers are: Physical power, social power, and energy. I think these powers are something that is necessary for our life, and some of it, must be used very carefully for our own safety.

First of all, there is something called physical power, in other word, force. Physical power is a power that pushes or pulls. Muscle is our main body part that produces this power. As an example, push up, is an exercise that needs physical power to work. Industrial Revolution was all about this kind of power as well. As technologies developed, a lot of labors were needed in factory. These labors used their physical powers to do their jobs, such as coal mining.

Secondly, there is social power. This is a power that only certain people have to take a control over another person or people. Usually, dictator, rulers, president, has these powers, and sometime, middle school students have this as well. Social power, changes our way of thinking or how we behave. For example, our parents changes how we behave in a five star hotel, and how we behave in our home. In the book Animal Farm, Napoleon, the leader of the animal farm had a social power over all of the animals who lived there. As a result he changed all the rules that they used to follow, and changed the way how animals behaved and think.

Lastly, energy is another type of power. In this case, I mean energy by power that humans produce by using technology. For example, nuclear power is an energy produced by technology called power plant. This power is used for human’s benefit to make the life easier. Also, a lot of this power was seen throughout the year. In World War II, so many weapons that harm people by using this power were used. Nuclear bomb is a good example of this. It killed so many people in Hiroshima, Japan, by the nuclear energy and radiation. Therefore, this power, which is also same as energy, could be very useful because it makes our life very easier. However, it is dangerous enough to kill all the species in the Earth including humans, so people have to be careful with the use of this.

Population Project

3 things that I learned from Population Projects are....
1.) Way to write an Analysis
2.) Way to get data
3.) Way to write a good Thesis Statement
I think, all of these things I learned in Population Project was valuable,and it would be useful techniques that helps in future from now.

Fist of all, writing an analysis would help me in so many parts from now on. I think, this technique is required in high school, collage, and when I get a job, something related to businesses.The analysis that I wrote, might be the important source for one company to prevent from corrupting, and it my help my final grade to improve, if I know the how to write an analysis from early age. Therefore, I thought knowing the way to write an analysis is good skill to know.

Secondly, I knew how to collect data by using specific source-India stat- By using these sources, I was able to find a good, reasonable data, that was trust worthy as well. Also by looking at articles published by famous news paper publisher, I was able to find data for specific years, such as "The number of CNG vehicles in Delhi reached to 10,000 in 2006. (Random Example.) I think this was a good skill to learn, in order to write an analysis.

Finally, and most importantly, I learned how to write "Good" thesis. Although I learned this when I was writing African Research Paper, I didn't really know how to write a good thesis statement. But, through this experiment I learned what good to write good Thesis. In a good Thesis, it has to have a blue print of what you are going to state, and it also has to state your position, whether its good or not.
This skill techniques is good to have, because in any time from now on, "writing" is required....Therefore I think it is very important.

The Net Effect of "Globalization."

Globalization is an action to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide: efforts to globalize the auto industry, according to dictionary.com. Basically, it’s all about a country taking action, doing businesses around the world. People say this is a good thing to do for several reasons. However, people say that there are negative effects as well.

People say that globalization is good for 3 reasons. First of all, a person who lives in developing country like china earns more jobs. As you may know, so many companies from developed country like U.S build their factories in China, to do the job with cheaper labor. Therefore, even poor people doesn’t suffer from poverty that much, because they can get some jobs very easily. Secondly, the wages go up for middle class people. People in middle class, who have skills than the lower class, would be able to do harder and expensive jobs. That is because the lower class will do the easier jobs, that middle class was used to do. And this will lead to higher wages for middle class. Also, like my father does, when he comes to foreign developing/poor country like India, he would gain higher wages. Finally, people would be able to get the product of the specific company in cheaper price, if that company is going abroad. For example, I can buy Oreos and Doritos in cheap price here. However, I can’t buy Cheese it! because it is like 7times expensive than Oreos, since Cheese it! is imported from U.S or other country's factory making this product. In conclusion, Globalization will give positive effects to people who are in middle class, and people who live in foreign country where they can get basically U.S' product in cheap price.

There are 3 negative effects as well. Those three are: destruction of culture, family corruption, unemployment. When jobs from developed country come in, it changes their life style, more than people don’t notice. Because of the job that they do, they couldn’t celebrate their holiday, and it ends up not celebrating. For example, in India, people who work in call center, works during night, because it is day time in U.S. When that happens, people who work in call center can not celebrate their holidays like diwali at night, where people dance and drink. The second reason relates to this as well. When the time you do the job changes, sometime causes some corruption in the family. Referring to the example, if the husband/father works during night, and wife/mother works during the day, they wouldn’t get to know all the stuffs they have to, because there would be less time for conversation. Also, they wouldn’t be able to help each other as much, because when one is resting, one is working. Thirdly, the rate of unemployment increases, when world started to get globalized. It is true that there would be more people who will get a job, but people who doesn’t have a lot of skill, would be cut off, and get unemployed.

By looking at the overall pros, and cons, of globalization, I concluded that globalization is good. That is because, I think globalizing the world; by trading with so many countries will make a lot of people happier, than the number of people who suffer from poverty. I understand that there are more people whose poor and doesn’t even have a right cloth to wear, but, that is there way to living. Also, it is impossible to rescue all of the impoverished children and people by not globalizing the world. Therefore, I think people should continue to globalize the world, and continue to develop the developing countries.

Technology Cartoon

The main visuals in this cartoon are 3people; Mother, Father and they're small son eating supper together. Also there is a text saying "Well Yes We Could See Your Blog...Or You Could Just TELL Us About Your School Day." This cartoon issues about the dehumanization of technology to small children, who doesn't use computers these days-which is a problem. It is a problem because use of technology takes the time of talking and socializing, like it shows in this cartoon. Since this small kid had written about his school day on a blog, he doesn't need/want to talk about it to his parents. Therefore, I could say that technology had influenced a small child in negative way, taking the time of talking together from him. This cartoon is ironic because these days this kind of small children doesn't use technology in this way. And this cartoon is being ironic by saying soon, technology will influence a small children like this, in a way it they do to adults. This cartoon relates to our study of technology, because we are learning how technology had influenced us in a positive/negative way. In order to make this cartoon to tell the author's opinion easier, author could add computer or laptop on the table at the back of this children. Or author could put a laptop on the dining table instead of meal, which signifies the influence of technology

PoP Project Work Week

Monday: RP; 1.) Finish all the note cards
2.) Do the MLA citations for all the sites you used for research paper.

DA; 1.) Finish the summary.

Tuesday: RP; 1.)Finish the outline. Make sure to clarify what "alternative" is.

DA; 1.) Finish half of the future prediction/calculation
2.) Get the sites that you used to do the work cited page.

Wednesday: RP; 1.) Start to write your introduction paragraph.

DA; 1.) Finish the first draft.

EO; 1.) Final revision of the poster. Go ask ms.stephens for help/idea

Thursday: RP; 1.) Start writing your body paragraph 1, and 2

DA; 1.) Revise your graph and analysis. (spend time on RP/EO today)

EO; 1.) Attend to art club to start the poster.

Friday: RP; 1.) Finish the 3rd paragraph and conclusion.

DA; 1.) Add anything to your paper to make it better.

EO; 1.) Stay after school to write a poster. At least finish half of it.

Saturday: Do what ever you missed this week. You must have...
1st draft of RP
1st draft + revised DA
Half done EO poster. At the end of this week

Good Luck!

Technology

Technology is something that works with electricity, that makes your life/work easier. For example, computer is a type of technology, that makes your work easier when you type, compared to type writer. Another type of technology, is electronic used for entertainment, such as iPod. The 5 most technologies mostly used today are computer, transportation vehicles, (car, airplane, train.) electricity, refrigerator, and iPod.
All of them, (except for the last one) is necessary for our life. However, I chose iPod for the important technology, because without it, I think I couldn't live in India right now. Its a stress reducer! That's why I chose these 5, that are necessary for life. Conversely, I think there are technologies that aren't useful enough. Those are; TV, CD player, Radio, Vacuums, and Batteries. These five are the five that I never use, and the ones that I think it's useless.

In AES, we use a lot of technologies. Laptop for education, microwaves in cafeteria, hot shower, in PE change room, digital camera, for certain project, microscope for....etc. It sounds like we use too much, but I think it is a right amount to educate middle school student. Without these things, we wouldn't learn as well as we do now. So I think we should continue using this much, or more technologies, in order ot educate well.

Karl Vonnegut's Quote -Vonnegut and Technology

“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.”

This is a famous quote from Karl Vonnegut, a famous writer for the book Welcome to the Monkey House. He is a typical Luddite, and he writes about technology sarcastically on his book. For example, in his short story “Euphio Question,” he showed how technology leads to disaster, and cause many problem.

I actually agree with his word. Each person should grow and not depend on technology “too much.” However, I think some technology is needed to grow, and become. But not as much as Bill Gates says, “Wait till computer can become.” Nowadays, we couldn’t live without technology, because we are depending on it too much. If we don’t use excess amount of technology, I think it is OK, for becoming…

What you can become is the miracle you were born to work. That’s exactly correct.

End of Quarter 3 Feedback

Third quarter has finally ended. In the begging of 3rd quarter, I've made 3 goals that I want to achieve. Those goals were....
# Try speaking up during the CLASS
# Remember 100 vocabs in 3rd quarter
# Read 3 books for AR.

First of all, I didn't improve my speaking that much. My Socratic Seminar Grade was terrible, because I only spoke once. Also I don't think I participated a lot in class conversation, such as discussing about issue. In addition, there wasn't a lot of group work, like I had in 2nd quartet, (PowerPoint etc) so there was less chance to speak. However, I think I had more time speaking outside the class, compared to 1st Semester. Since Population project started, I needed help from others, and maybe the others did as well. So the conversation rate increased as the project began to become serious.

For the vocabulary, I didn't work as hard to memorize vocabularies, but I think I have more vocabularies compared to the past, because I learned a lot in "War" unit. For example, at the beginning of this quarter, I didn't even know what conflict means. But I do now. I changed a bit.

For Reading. I think I had the most improvement on this one. I read 3 books!! Also, I got 100% on 2 of those book, and 90% in one of them. Last Quarter, I only read one easy book, and I only got 90%. So I only got "C" for the final grade for reading, but this quarter, I got "A+." Therefore I think I had a great improvement.

Next Quarters Goal Will be....
+ Keep on Reading,even though there isn't AR this quarter.
+ To make your writing fluent, Read over!
+ Speak up more. Began from 2 minute tune up.

Oxymorons

An oxymoron is two words that don’t belong being used together.For example, "Holy War" is an oxymoron. Holy means state of being sacred, and War is a weapon used struggle between 2 or more groups. The word Holy and War means exactly different, because sacred thing/place is peaceful, and war is something that is bloody. Therefore "holy war is an oxymoron." By the way why is it that so many conflicts in the world today are based upon religious differences yet all major world religions condemn killing? I think that is because most of those religious people thinks, "God thinks they should be killed, so we have to punish them," or "I hear the God talking...He says we should kill them." And the war starts. The main causes of these kind of conflict, is a people who strongly believes in certain religoin, such as the muslims who bobmed Taj Hotel in Mumbai.

Would World War lll Happen??

I think, World War 3 will happen in my life time soon. The two nations that's going to fight is South Korea and North Korea. I think North Korean spy who can speak Japanese, will enter South Korea to get some information about something. Like, something related to assassination....
Here's my story; The North Korean Spy enters the Prime Minister's house to get some information about assassination of someone.Unfortunately, the South Korean worker in the prime minister's house founds the North Korean spy entering their secret laboratory. When the South Korean worker talked to him to see if he's a stranger or not,the North Korean spy took out the gun and shoots him. Then he runs away. When he got out of the laboratory, he saw the prime minister and five body guards waiting for him with guns. The spy knew it was end of his life, so he shot the prime minister's head and suicide.....

Later, South Korea declared the War to North Korea. But the South Koreans gets killed by the secret atomic bomb that North Korea had. The North Korea dropped the biggest atomic bomb to the middle of the Sea of Japan, and half west of Japan, and almost every part of South Korea is burned. Soon Japan declares a war to North Korea, allying US, (Democrat Nation) trying to stop the war. For the North Korean side, Russia, and China Allies together. But soon the huge influence of the atomic bomb, destroys the most of the north hemisphere, and every countries in the North hemisphere joins the War. In order to end this atomic bomb-war,America dropped the biggest atomic bomb and destroyed whole North Hemisphere....and finally the war ends.
THE END

*Connecting two causes and ideas of World War 1,and 2

Anne Frank Reflection

In The New York Times the writer Anna Quindlen asked, “Would our understanding of the Holocaust be quite the same if Anne Frank had not taken a small plaid diary into hiding with her?” Today, I will answer to this question.
First of all, I don't think Anne Fraank's diary affected our understanding of Holocaust so much. I have read through the Anne Frank's diary, but she didn't actually wrote about the Nazi and Hitler, or about the concentration camps. She mainly wrote about her feelings, like her friend and relationship stuff. Also its's a information from a 14 years child. She doesn't have ssuch a information that adults have, like about wars and fightingd. Therefore, I didn't think Anne Frank's diary related to my understanding.

A Letter from the Battle Front

Camp Upton, New York
New York, USA

Dec, 17, 1944

Dear Anne

Hey Anne. How are you guys doing there? I'm doing pretty well, but not that good either. Yesterday, I experienced the first war fighting, at the forested Ardennes Mountains region of Belgium. As you can see, I survived! And we won this battle too! At the Ardennes, it was snowing so hard that I couldn't even feel my body temperature. Because we were in a forest, there were thousands of trees all over with snow covered, which made me easier to hide. By the way, I enclosed one photo of that battle field. Can't you see how it's snowing there and, our soldiers hiding behind the heap of snow? The snows were beautiful, but soon the white snow was colored with bright red all over. In this battle, I used the weapon called Karabiner 98k, a German Rifle that could kill a person from 800 meters away. I felt a little guilty, but yes, I did kill some people.
You might be wondering, "Why did this fighting happened?" so I will tell you. This fighting started with Three German Armies, totaling 25 divisions (11 armored), entering the American divisions at Ardennes and overrunning their lines. It was morning of yesterday, (Dec, 16, 1942) when it suddenly happened. We formed our army immediately, but we lost about 89,500 armies, which is pretty shocking.
In our camp, we are treated carefully, with courtesy, so don't worry that much. We have our own bed, hygiene items, (toothbrush etc.) showers, and food. For today's supper, we had sausages, potatoes, beets, cold slaw, bread and butter, cake and coffee. It's not bad for food during war isn't it? But you know what? Your food is 100 times better!
I'm okay, so don't worry. Take care of my child and don't get involved in wars if it happens. I will come back soon, and give me some letters back.
With Love,
Joe.

Sources: http://www.aboutjonesfamily.com/PAGES/WAR2.HTM
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/
http://www.aboutjonesfamily.com/PAGES/WAR7.HTM
http://www.world-war-2.info/weapons/wp_1.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge

Recipe for World War ll

Get 1 piece of a European bread
and spread the sauce of Facism all over
Add 4 slices of "Failure of league of nation."
then sprinkle the meaningless Treaty of Versallies
After you put some colonies, armies, and navys on it
Put in a hot, warm oven as hot as German, and Japanese agrression.
When the agression in an oven explodes
the war begens.

Whichi Animal Are YOU!??

I think, the character that mostly identify me in the book Animal Farm is Benjamin. To begin with, I don't talk a lot like everyone does. Benjamin, is a very quiet character, and he became angry and shout rarely. Secondly, I don't choose any side that I think it's wrong. Benjamin, did not choose side for Snowball or Napoleon, when animals were deciding for a new leader. Finally, I am smart enough that challenging myself for impossible, which might going to kill myself is wrong thing to do. Benjamin also didn't go against Napoleon and his dogs, because he was smart enough to think that it's going to kill himself by doing that. Because of these 3 reasons I think Benjamin's characteristic best identifies to me.

Tyranny, Injustice, Self-Determination

Tyranny, Injustice, Self-Determination. These words are closely related to the story of the book Animal Farm. By the way, what are these words mean? Tyranny is a unfair, cruel use of power. Injustice is the quality or fact being unjust, and Self Determination is a way of government or life style, where people determine themselves, without outside influence.
First of all, tyranny is related to the overthrow of Farmer Jones, because he and his workers, was treating the animals cruelly, by not giving that much food. They only gave a minimum amount of food in order to survive, and they took all of the benefits by themselves.
Secondly, injustice. This is also related, because the injustice, unfair treatment directly related to the overthrow of Farmer Jones.
Lastly, Self-Determination is related to this, because every animal in the farm wanted freedom by self- determination, (except for Mollie) and that made them to overthrow Farmer Jones from the farm.
That is why I think tyranny, injustice, and Self-Determination is closely related to the overthrow of Farmer Jones.

Weapons

Machine guns.
Killed hundreds of people every minute.
A “S” like structure, and muzzle like a eye.
When you see a small round eye seeking from trenches,
You’re dead.

Tanks.
Comes to our side very slowly like a turtle.
Their metallic body is a shell of a turtle.
When you know that you couldn’t destroy the shell of the tank,
You’re dead

Poison Gas.
The weapon that were used mostly during World War 1 .
Tear gas, Mustard gas, Chlorine…
When you smell of that invisible gas,
You’re dead

Artillery guns.
Fire, Explode, then Kills.
Targeted people resting inside the trenches .
When you see a round object falling towards you,
You’re dead.

Aircrafts
An eagle eye that you have to watch for it.
Shoots cannons, and bombs to the crowd of people.
When you hear a bomb exploding,
You’re dead

This is World War 1

Can you survive?












Sources: Information
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/machine_guns.htm
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/poison_gas_and_world_war_one.htm
http://www.worldwar1.com/arm006.htm
Images http://www.theaerodrome.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/218/size/big/cat/
http://www.liquidmatrix.org/
And some from above

Is the military in yout future?

In my homecountry, Japan, they do not require military services. The military in Japan, is composed of people who wants to be in soilder, or a child of the solider. So its not required for a normal citizens. Although, the time during World War 2, all of the men were required to be a solider. (even a small kids like 12) From this, I guess when a war happens again, such as World War 3, I think I am required to be a soldier. If that happens, I think I will run away somewhere safe, because I dont like fightings, and mostly, I dont want to die. The time when I WILL join military, is only when I'm so angry that my surroundings were killed. (Such as family) Thats the only condition when I would go to military, because I don't really think I could save Japan from other big countries like America.

Alliances Cartoon

This is the famous cartoon from World War 1. The main visual elements in this cartoon are, Fat man with yellow pants, (UK) a bear, (Russia), a guy with a gun in the front, (Italy) guy with a red jacket, (Austral Hungary) black jacket in center, (Germany), guy smoking a hookah.(Turkey) This cartoon issues about how the European countries were making relationships with others. I think the author of this cartoon wanted to say that many countries were very strict of making relation with others, (being friend with others) because war were going to start. As you can see, the yellow paper that every one is holding or passing around, is money, and they are making relationships with money, in order not to lose in war. To make this cartoon better, I think this author should write the letters more bigger, because I didn't know what these people represents until my teacher said it. (And I still don't get the girl crying on the bottom left.) Lastly, this cartoon is related to the Great Powers Game that we did last week, because we went into relationships with other countries by giving armies, colonies, etc.

Great Powers Game Debrief

My country in the great powers game was Japan. In the start of the game, USA, Great Britain, Germany had advantages, because the started with power of "4", while we started from "2." Building the empire felt like being the leader of the country, and it was little wierd. In the long run, it was more important to buy armys, because in any time there were a posibilities of being attacked. In this game I think I did well not making enemies. From the beggining of this game, I knew that I shouldn't trust anybody, and being friends with others is nonsence. If you be friends with one country, then you will just make enemies. And your allies wouldnt help you every time. So we didnt be friends with others so much. Just the biggest country,UK. But I think I should've bought Industries more, because we didn't grow that much. In this simulation, I think I learned 3 things. You cannot trust people. It is more important not to make enemies, instead of making allies. People will choose money rather than relationships. (The last one depends on the person though....)

End of Quarter 2 Feedback

Second quarter has finally ended. In the begging of 2nd quarter, I've made 3 goals that I want to achieve. Those goals were....

• Speak up
• READ (fluently)
  
• Memorize more vocabularies.
  

For speaking, I think I improved a "little." This quarter's grade for oration wasn't really bad, and I think I had more chance to speak. (Presentation...etc) I had to speak with my groups when making Africa Powerpoint, and time when preparing for trial. In both of those assignments, I had to talk with my partner(s) in order to get a good grade, so I tried hard. And overall speaking grades changed from C to B.
For reading I think I grew much from the begging of this year. In the begging, I had very hard time reading The Outsiders. (Took about 30 minutes reading 1 chapter) But now, I could read harder nobles, such as Eragon.
For vocabs, I didnt tried really hard, so I will continue remembering.

My new goals for quarter 3 is...

• Try speaking up during the CLASS
• Remember 100 vocabs in 3rd quarter
• Read 3 books for AR.
  

Hope I will accomplish...

1/6/2009