Political Cartoon Analysis of Capitalism

This big man in the middle, he has a tag that says "Capitalism." The small thin man, who is grabbed by the big man, has a tag that says "labor." From him, some moneys are falling to the bag that says "Profits from Child Labor." I think this cartoon is talking about how capitalism made the labors work so hard that made them very thin, and small. They have very small amount of money to live, eat, and maybe nourishing their child/children. But the big man, which I think it's manager, is making the labors work so hard, and taking their small amount of money. And I think this author wanted to tell that workers worked very hard during this period, even though, management gave just a small amount of money. Also how capitalism worked, because you need to work, to get money. From the words under the cartoon, made me feel this way. I think author could use bigger letter, because the letter in this cartoon are hard to read, and some people may not understand this wonderful cartoon, if it wasn't readable.

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Going Back To My Goal ~Am I doing OK?~

In the begging of the year, I set some goals about humanities. One was “Speak up in Socratic Seminar,” and another one was “Be able to read the book faster.” I think I accomplished ¼ of this. First of all, I don’t think I am not still speaking up so much. When I need to answer, I do, but I don’t speak up from myself. So I will try to speak up more, next half quarter. To the second goal, I think I accomplished half of them. Every night, I am reading about 20 minutes of book, so I think, I’m definitely getting faster at reading. So I’m happy with that, but I still have some place that I don’t understand. To understand I think I need to learn more vocabulary. So next half quarter, I will participate in remembering more vocabulary. So…from today, I will study, and remember 5 new vocabulary words every day. I think that will help me improve..

Stock Market Game ~Fearful Gamble, 50％ chance~

Tip that worked, that made me success, in the stock market game, was “Buy Low…Sell High.” In this game I actually missed at getting money first, but I succeeded at last part of the game. But what did I do to success? Well, Mr. Coyle’s tip helped me. In the first year, I didn’t know that 10 dollars for 1 stock is expensive or cheap. So in the first year, (1871) I didn’t buy anything. Then in the next year, some got to 20 dollars and some got to 7 dollars. I thought “Oooh. 10dollars to 20 dollars is a big jump. This company is growing…” so I bought 4of 20 dollars stocks with my whole money. But in the next year, suddenly 20 went down to 17, and 7 got up to 10. Then I noticed. Expensive stocks doesn’t mean it is growing (it might do…) and it will success for ever. I should’ve bought a 7 dollar stock, rather than 20 dollars stock. So I just listen to Mr. Coyle’s tip, and do as it said. I bought some low price stocks that look like it’s going to success in business. (By looking at the news.) Then what do you think it happened to my total money at the last year. It had changed from －80 dollars to ＋200 dollars. Mr. Coyle’s tip made me success, but I think I was very lucky too. I learned how buying stocks can make people happy, but also very sad. I will never buy stocks when I grow up. It is scary!!!

Feed Back August 25-29

Image that shows my feeling and
thinking to Industrial Revolution.Pros and Cons of Industrial Revolution:

Pros: 1. Many things were invented (mule, steam engine …)

2. Many works got easier to do from inventions. (textile production, trades…)

3. Economic systems were built. (Free Market, Invisible hand…)

4. Countries got wealthier from trading the products.

5. Labors had fewer jobs in some factories.

Cons: 1. Some people (Luddites) refused these new technology, and caused some problems.

2. People began to use the machines, which is good, but also dangerous.

3. More pollution.

4. Labors got more works to do in some factories.

By looking at this, I think Industrial Revolution was good, because many things were invented, and without these invention, I think we can’t live now days. But I wish we can reduce the pollutions.

Factory game2 -reflection-

In today’s activity, we did some mass production of paper toy. Making a 100s of paper toy, -which was Nikaya’s pig-, in the class. The rule of this game was to make as many pigs as you can in 45 minute. We had to make the pig as similar as the original pig, to get some points.
The hard place of this game was to teamwork in group. Because there were about 20 people in the class, it was hard to work as a group. Some people didn’t cooperate to class, and some people screamed out something and confused us to what to do. So it was very hard to work, using the time efficiently. That’s 1 difference I think of, when I compared to yesterday’s game. Because when I do the production by my self, I didn’t had a fight, or confused, or annoyed to something (someone). Similarities of these 2 activities were that we had to use our hand for these both activities. We had to glue, cut, and color, in these both activities.

Factory Game Reflection 1 ~paper craft!!~

Today, I created a toy, which was a doll, (maybe an alien) with a paper, which was cut in many different shapes. First, I made some eyes with a black crayon, and put 2 small circled pieces on each eye. Then I put the eyes on the top of the biggest circle, (top left and top right). This made the face funny looking. After that, I made the mouth with 3 ovals, -middle one’s the biggest- and put a nose between, the mouths and eyes. Secondly, I made the body with the second biggest circle. Then I put hands and legs around the body, using circles and ovals, and ribbon. Ribbon? What do you think I used ribbon for? I used the ribbon for the leg, to make it funny. It’s like captain hook, not having a leg, and putting something else as a leg.
I enjoyed very much doing this activity. And as I said in the entry before, I love activities. So I enjoyed it very much on this activity, especially making the toy funny looking.

Descriptive Writing -The Roller Coaster Holler-

“Weeen, Doom. Weeen, Doom.” It began ascending. This roller coaster moves up, with sound of “Weeen,” and falls down a little, in sound of “Doom.” It takes so much time to go up to the top, which scared me a lot.
“Weeen, Doom. Weeen, Doom.” I hear a creaking sound of engine. Oh no…What should I do??? I’m so scared that I wanna die. I felt my head is falling down, but the cushion is holding my head. Oh my… I drank my spit and put my feet close to together to reduce scariness. My spit tasted like water in a pool, and my feet was quivering very hard. It didn’t help me at all.
“Weeen, Doom. Weeen, Doom.” This coaster smelled like a gas. Is this coaster OK? I began worrying. Please don’t kill me… I was very afraid that I might gonna lose my consciousness. I looked down. People in the amusement park, slowly got smaller and smaller. I looked forward. We were in a very high place that we can see the cities like 100km away.
“Weeen, Doom. Weeeeeeeen… Doooooom…..” then engine made a terrible creak. And I noticed that first cart is already falling. Then 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th…
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....!!!!!”
I fall. In a very high speed. I can feel my head is falling toward, and noisy wind, playing with my hair. The wind tasted salty. But I was panicked, so I just grabbed the safety bar very tightly. How long is this taking? I wonder. It was just 5 second, but I felt like 1 hour had passed. It was the longest time I’ve ever felt. I grabbed the safety bar tighter. Please don’t kill me….
When I realized, I was getting out of the coaster.