Tyranny, injustice, self-determination

Tyranny is when ruled by someone with power or force.
Injustice is when somethings unfair
Self-determination is when they get to choose their wanted LIFE.

In the book, Animal Farm, the animals are not satisfied with how they are treated to how they work so hard and sacrifice to farmer Jones.and one of the pigs, Old Major thought it was injustice and told the other animals that they should get free from farmer Jones. in page 5, he gives a speech and explains to other animals that it was not enough what they get for their work, and he was very against farmer Jones.

WWI Poem

Millions fall on battle grounds

More dead corpses than alive

Rotting feet due to trenches

Flying bullets covering the sky

Fighting for their country,

Fighting for their family

Fighting for their freedom

Fighting for their life

Smoke overwhelming the air around them

Barbed wires waiting in front for them to go over

Sniper rifles aimed at their heads

Giant tanks roll forward with their machine guns pointing at enemies

Deadly mustard gas covering the dirt

Soldiers tired as hell

Europe involved in a storm of war

But in the end, the criminal has to pay

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/images/Europe/factfile/WWI.jpg
http://www.chemical-corps.org/history/images/GasAttack-%20WWI%20(538x406).jpg
http://library.thinkquest.org/04oct/00492/WWI.jpg
http://standeyo.com/News_Files/Firearms/YOYO3.battlefield.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/history1900s/1/0/M/3/wwi15.gif

Military in future

Military is necesaary for korean men are necessary to serve when you graduate between 18-26 years old. but i don't really think its going to be bad, because since i can speak english fluently, if i take SAT or TOEFL and i pass, then i could be in KATUSA, becuase it is much better condition then normal korean army, and you get paid more. and you do get free time at around 7, so only thing is hard training. but if i do good, then everythings fine. If i go to normal korean army, then it would be a little harder, but overall im not to worried about serving in the millitary.

WWI cartoon

the main visual is there are different countries with treaties with different countries, except for one country that doesn't have any alliances with. and i think it means that some countries are stronger than the others. this cartoon is about relationship between different countries. and i think the opinion of the author is, strong countries make alliances with themselves, and few countries are left out, and you can never tell before the war, because some countries can betray and attack. the evidence could be, in this picture germany, and italy are allies with other countries but world war 1 happened because of germany and other countries forming axis and attacking other weak European countries. so all the alliances can't be trusted. it relates to the great powers game, because most of the countries had alliances with pretty much most of the other countries, but as the time passed on, some countries declared war against each other. some countries had to join wars to help one of the sides of the war. similar to world war, germany first attacked neighboring country which drew more countries into the battle.

Great Powers Game Derief

1. I was italy, and first i thought it would be hard to win the game since our country wasn't that strong. countries with more buying points and more armies had advantage in this game because if they start with more buying powers, they can buy more things at a time and they can get bigger easily. our empire was weaker than most of the other countries in the beginning.
2. for the long run it is more important to buy industries, because it will increase your buying points and later you can get alot of armies at once when you need it.
3. things that we've done well is since we only had 2 buying powers, in the beginning of the game we bought as much as industries we could and later when we felt we needed armies to protect ourselves, we bought armies. i don't really think of anything that we could have done it differently because we already did great.
4. we alliances with all the countries but i couldn't really trust some of the countries. but countries like france, and U.S, we could trust them because i think they trusted us too. our empire didn't get any help because we never got attacked, but we did help other countries to protect them.
5. powerful nations, or group can easily take over small nations or groups. most of the conflicts begin to get profits for themselves. conflicts are merciless.

feedback for quarter 2 - quarter 3 goals

i did well with reading for AR, and i got good grade on it, also i think i've improved only a little with my descriptive pieces so i still would like to work on it this quarter. and for socratic seminar cant really tell whether i've improved because we didn't do one.

my new goals for quarter 3 are still improving with n0t only descriptive pieces, but the whole writing section and getting a higher grade. and also when we have to do presentations i would like to work on it too to get better grades, by spending more time with it and revising it over. and finally i will work on research papers and get atleast a A-.