Positives and Negatives

Net effects of imperialism in Africa were:
Positives:
They made railroads and improved their transportation system.
Brought in communication system
Brought power
Sea ports
New technologies
discovered more natural resources
New governments


Negatives
Destroyed African cultures
Killed many people
Slavery
Tribes got killed
racism
Europeans took away almost of their raw materials

Southern Africa Today

Nowadays South Africa is the strongest economy in that region and they have stable government. The challenges of South Africa is ending of apartheid problems, separating different races. Related to the a[artheid problems, many foreign countries refused to invest money in South Africa, and other sport organizations didn't include South Africans in the competition. South Africa has more resources and industry than other countries in the region, and that helped bringing opportunities of strong economy.
Small inclave countries like Lesotho and Swaziland has fewer resources and land, resulting as a poor country. Namibia has just gained its independence in 1990 from South Africa, but most of its land is desert, making them not suitable for mass products from agriculture, so they are a poor country. Botswana is on of Africa's most success countries of the world's highest economic growth since 1960s. zumbabwe is a poor country due to high inflation. they do have resources, but it doesn't affect country's wealth that much. Mozambique is one of the world's poorest counties because of civil wars happening often. Madagascar is working to improve country's struggling economy, and their incomes are mostly exports of coffee and other natural resources. Madagascar is also popular with tourists visiting to see unique plants and animals. So as a result, South Africa and Botswana are two most successful countries in the region, and the factors of wealth are they have big lands, and plenty resources. And other countries are very poor mostly due to civil wars.

Current Event 3 - Southern Africa

Link -
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/20/zimbabwe.health.crisis/index.html

this news article is about callapsing of health service in Zimbabwe. it is improtant for the region because Zimbabwe is one of the countries in Southern Africa and most of African counties already have some porblems related to health sicknesses. And there are already lots of people protesting against it. When health care system falls, then the death of people will be more serious. and the country will become poorer than now.

Imperialism Cartoon

The main visuals in this cartoon are map of africa in black, and a foot step, and on that foot print, there is a desert like, dry land surface. i think this cartoon is about European countries taking control over africa, and where they have been, the land is dried. and in real life, i think after Europeans have been to Africa, they have made it worse. and i don't think that the authors thoughts are positive, because there were things that the Europeans brought to africa to help, but in the drawing, it is kind of a negative sign. because the foot print is i think the Europeans' and it dried off the land. and i think it is persuasive because it is simple, and doesn't have anything else which possibly could distract the main point the author is trying to say.





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History and Culture - Southern Africa

Before European countries came to take over Africa, there were many other African tribes. The most well known tribe in southern Africa during 1400s would be the Shona. The Shona is best known for Great Zimbabwe, their stone-walled towns. They were founded in the late 1000s and it was a trading center. Later, their gold mines developed and became a large trade center and traded widely over the world. The evidence is there were chinese pircelain and other artifacts from Asia. but they only lasted till 1500s due to the decline of gold trade. Then the europeans came to Southern africa The Dutch, on the way to Asia, they had to go around the tip of South Africa, so they settled down and set up a trade station near the Cape of Good Hope. Afrikaners, who were Dutch, French, and German, settled in south Africa until the Great Britain took over the area of the cape. there was another tribe in near South Africa called the Zulu. They were strong, powerful tribe who conquered surrounding African people, and creating their empire. But the British, after series of battles defeated the Zulu. and in the early 1900s the government of South Africa, which was dominated by the Afrikaners were increasingly racist against the blacks. to defend their rights, the africans formed a ANC ( African national congress) and there was a policy which divided different races into : whites, blacks Coloureds, and Asian. So overall, the history of Southern part of africa is mainly different tribes and european countries taking over each other and during the early 1900s, there were problems related to racism.

Scramble For Africa

1. first we looked for countries with plenty resources that our country needed. and also some places which might take advantages against other countries.
2. the main reason i think was the resources, because European countries wanted resources and raw materials, and also the advantage against other countries, like Suez Canal, and Cape Town, they could control other countries' shippings.
3. Great Britain, we had the biggest land area. (us! me and jonathan!)
4. Probably Spain.

Africa Current Event 2

Link to the news event -
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/03/zimbabwe.money/index.html


This current event is related to our region in Southern Africa, because Zumbabwe is one of the countries in southern part of Africa. They just made a new currency note of Z$1 million note, due to the affect of hyperinflation. Zimbabwe has the highest rate of inflation which is 230 million percent. and it is hard for people to buy things, because everyday the value of Zimbabwe dollars go down, so the prize of the products go up everyday. It is going to affect Zimbabwe economically.

Physical Geography

Physical Geography of Southern Africa is mainly a large plateau, deserts, shrubs, rivers and a mountain range in the eastern part called Drakensberg. there are quiet a few of rivers in southern Africa. One of them is Okavango river which flows from Angola to a basin in Botswana and never touches the ocean. The rivers in southern Africa are home of many wild animals like crocodiles, zebras, and hippos. also there are tropical forests too in southern Africa. For exmaple in a large island called Madagascar, mostly made up of forests contain about 50 spcies of lemurs, apes etc. and also southern Africa has lots of minerals and other natural resources. South Africa supplies most of the world's gold. and also other countries like Botswana, Namibia and South Africa is productive diamond mines. The climaste varies from west region and the east region, the east is wet due to evaporation brought from the indian ocean and since the mountain ranges are so high, the west regoin of southern africa is dry, resulting having deserts. So overall Southern Africa has valuable minerals, home of wild animals, plateaus, deserts, and rivers. And it is a good place to visit and see the real nature and animals.

To Be a Slave - Can we trust?

Yes i think it is OK to trust the book To Be a Slave, because the author's ancestors were slaves, and he might know well what it is to be a slave and how they became slaves. Also, the book is very realistic and it is possible that similar things happened in the book. He also wrote this book using other reliable sources related to the slaves. And also by looking at his academic background, he is a professor in a famous university in U.S, teaching african studies.

Current Event - Southern Africa

News link-
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/13/sa.hiv.ap/index.html

Barbara Hogan , new health minister of South Africa broke from a decade of discredited government policies on AIDS. On monday, two weeks after she became health minister, she pronounced that HIV and AIDS are related, and so will scale up mother-to-child prevention programs. and she also said in last 10 years government policies had failed, and needs to improve on anti-AIDS medicines. Because south Africa has the highest rate of HIV and AIDS.

This news story is worthy because it is about to change what has happened last 10 years. and it is going to affect alot of people, and it maybe affect countries in that region, since alot of other african countries have similar problems with AIDS and HIVs.

5 Themes of Geography

Movement is when they made Sphinx, they moved materials like bricks from some where else. and there are tourists coming from different places. Region can be defined with cultural, because it was made by ancient Egyptians and they built it because they believed in after life. It can also be defined with physical because in the picture it looks like it is pretty dry, hot, and deserted area. for Human Environment Interaction, they had to build with what they had. like it looks like it was easier to get bricks to build. Location- relative location is it is in front of the great Pyramid. the absolute location would be 30 degrees north, 31 degrees east, Gaza. place, physical characteristic is, it is desert


http://www.belovedegypt.com/28_-_Sphinx_and_Pyramid.jpg

Violence leads to more violence

In the book Julius Caesar, there was a similar situation of violence lead to more violence.
When Brutus and other conspirators killed Caesar, Antony, and Octavius fought against them. Also all the citizens, after the speech of Antony, got upset and started to go against Brutus and Cassius. So the first violence was when the conspirator stabbed Caesar, and it lead to a bigger violence which resulted as a war between the conspirators and Antony and Octavius. nowadays i think it is more less, because you can't really go to war that easily. but one of the examples will be when there are normal citizens uprising or protesting against the government, then the government will try to stop by adding more army or police support to the city, and there would be a bigger and more violence between people and the government.

The Brutus Dilemma

If I was Brutus, and had to choose between my country and my friends, then i would choose my friend because when you face a problem, good friends help you, and if Brutus stays loyal to Caesar, then Caesar will also appreciate that loyalty and be better thoughts about Brutus. and Brutus is not even sure that Caesar will become a mean dictator, it might be a lie. and even though Caesar turns mean, Brutus can assist him to be good ruler again. and if Brutus kills Caesar, people who liked Caesar will start hating Brutus. And if Brutus stays loyal, he would be respected by many people, and also from Caesar, and Caesar won't think Brutus would do any harm to him, so they would be loyal to each other.

Leader

Qualities to be a good leader, that person should accept other people and not ignoring them just because they don't like that person. instead you should try to be more friendly. also should have confidence in trying new things and lead other people. the leader in group of people i hang out with is whether me or declan, because we always lead our friends to other places. they also have jokes, and new ideas for the group.

Imperialism

most of omperial starters were all European countries where they were pretty much settle after industrial revolution. they all wanted colonies for resources and labors. their methods were all military, some were economically. some countries left negative changes like starvations and poverty, but the other changes they made were introducing new technologies and machines. for example Britain power lines to India, and African countries got machines and other new technologies. most different region was South East Asia, they didn't really influence culturally. the main reason countries colonize other countries were to earn land, labor, and raw resources.

end of quarter 1 feedback

i thought i have improved on socratic seminar, but i didn't get a good grade, so i didn't really improve much on that. my second goal for this quarter was improving on vocab quizzes. and i think i have improved on the tests and quizzes and got a good grade. so i think i have improved on one of my goals.

my goals for the second quarter is still improving in socratic seminar, because i still want to get a good grade on it. my other goal is writing a quality descriptive piece. my last goal for second quarter is getting enough points on AR quizzes.

feed back

a big guy (capitalism, owner) is holding a little guy (labor), and lots of coins are dropping to bags which are profits from child labor. this cartoon is about capitalism and i think the cartoonist is trying to say while labors including children make money, but most of them for the owners, and they have almost nothing left for themselves. so it is not a really good idea, thinking of labors. the evidence of these in the cartoon is owner is big and is wearing good clothes with many bags of profits, and a labor is small and wearing not such good clothes. maybe the cartoonist could have drew this in color except for the labor, so that people can clearly see that labor is standing out in a sad way, and also i think it would show the poverty of the labors.


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goals reflection

one of my goals for this class was improving in socratic seminar, but we only did few seminars this quater so i dont think i improved as much as i expected.
the other goal was to improve my vocab quiz grades. i score pretty good on the second vocab quiz, but on the third one i got a horrible grade. so i didn't really improve as much.

Investment Tip

first i thought "Buy low and sell high" helped me pretty much so i bought silver stock and sold it next turn when it costed $18. but in the next turn it went up till $30. i could't really tell which on would rise or fall. so i din't think it was safe way. so the tip "you must spend money to make money" made me buy all of the morgan stock. but then you said not to pull all the eggs in one basket, so i sold one of the stock, and bought the railroad stock which all of the prices went up and i made lots of money. so i think "dont pull all your eggs in one basket" really helped me the most

Net Effect

The positive effects of the industrial evolution are
1. Manufacturing became easier
2. faster transportation
3. More jobs
4.More energy sources

the negative effects of the industrial evolution are:
1. Increase of pollution
2. Too much increasing of population.
3. Child labor
4. Low payment

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Factory game (2)

yesterday when we made our own bears were like cottage farming. we only made one and didn't have to hurry. but today, when we were making the best bear, it was more of Factoty labor. we made a assembly line and there was a specialization of labors and thats what we did. and we had to really hurry up and be quick to be paid more. but when we were making in a hurry some people were making it really ugly which we would obly be paid 1/3. we did make alot more but we were all tired after making those bears.

Factory game (1)

today when we had to make our own bear, it was really like cottage industry, when we didn't worry about money, and didn't relied on time. we had limited resources, but didn't have specialization of labors nor management. we each made our own and didn't hurry so it was really high quality and he had craftsmanship.

Messy room

As soon as you try to open the brown, wooden door, which leads to your room, you have a feeling that something is stuck behind the door. you push it harder and the door crack opens and the sight infront of you makes your mind messy. All the clothes you wore last week, lie on the floor like it is trying to make a pattern on a room floor. the desk has a tower made of stock of books, pens and pencils all over your desk and all the printed papers cover the whole desk. your bed sheets are the same as when you left the room. It was impossible to step further without stepping on something. you drag your feet to avoid breaking things with your feet.

Necessity is the mother of Invention

Necessity is the mother of inventions, because when you make something, you make it because you need it or you want to do something in an easier way. For example, Alexander Graham Bell invented a phone so that people don’t have to travel miles to communicate. And also Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur invented a plane. Nowadays almost everybody takes a flight to travel different countries. Henry Ford invented the first family motor cars and made everyone’s life easier to travel within the country. So the conclusion is that people start making or ‘inventing’ new things to make life easier.

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I actually learn best in visual way. When we watch something or see something and write down notes when there are important stuff. and I also think I can learn good in Kinesthetic way, because when I try to make or do something, I do researches or go over in a book. and after that I know better and know things i might have missed. so in this class i dont really mind between learning visually or Kinesthetic.

answer to questions and goals

Two highlights of the school in the 1st week of school were:
1. I had most of my classes with my friends.
2. I am in Scribbler class, which I didn't sign for it, but I think it is going to be fun.
My first impression on humanities was like i thought it was going to be tough, and hard, but so far, it was ok, and I could handle it.

my two goals for humanities this year is when I'm doing a socratic seminar, I would be able to share my thoughts and maybe discuss more with others. and other goal is to improve the grade on my vocab quizes.

My Gang

In my gang, there are mostly my friends like Joe, who is always, really funny, Declan, because he helps me on the homework, and Jonathan because we are in most of the classes together. Jug, who even though he left i still chat online with him and he is very funny. Do Hyun and Kang Heun we hang out sometimes, because we studied korean stuff together before. John beacuse hes always following me and talking to me and he is a pet of the gang. JoonSik because we played basketball together every saturday, and got friendly. Adi because he were in same math class and he worked together like everyday, and he is funny and makes me laugh. Sub, a.k.a Sebastien, we had P.E. and he hung out afterschool last year. i also have some gangs in 8th grade, like Yusaku, Koichito, because we played other sports together. i n 10th grade pretty much all the koreans becaue we know each other, and he play together and whenever we see each other, we like talk, and do something fun.