What is Power?

Power is one of the ways you could motivate people and to get what you wanted. Power is what everybody wants to have. Before and during the industrialization period, riches had the power. How the power is used and its affect to people or to the world depends on who, or what is in charge of power. There are mainly three types of powers; economic, political, and personal. Different powers have caused and made lots of important historic events around the world such as, industrial revolution, imperialism, World War I, World War II, Russian Revolution, etc. and power still plays important role in many peoples lives.

As I mentioned earlier, before and during industrial revolution power stayed with wealth. If you had money, you had power. So there were few rich people. Due to the increasing number of population in England and people needing for more food, people tried to find a way to mass production of goods in the lowest price. That’s how industrial revolution began. During the industrial revolution, wealthier people had more power. The wealthier people had the economic power, because they could buy and get things they wanted, and start businesses to earn even more money. It expanded the gap between the rich and the poor. Capitalism has become an advantage for the riches, which means ones with power have more power, and poor people get poorer. In order for the countries to get more economic power, they needed more resources which made them go to Africa and colonize countries, and gain resources cheaply. That was imperialism of Europe influencing Africa.

Speaking of political power, the two world wars, Russian Revolution, communism and the Cold War are good examples. In World War 1, when Austrian prince got assassinated, Germany joined Austria with war against Serbia. Germany had the largest army which made them think they could win. In those days, if you had an army, you had power as well. In the Russian revolution, Russian revolution started when the Russians thought they were being treated unequally to the royalties and wealthy people. So Lenin brought up an idea of communism where everybody works the same amount and paid the same amount. Cold War is the perfect example of two political powers which are Communism vs. Capitalism. The main countries supporting that idea didn’t go to war head to head, but in small countries mostly in Asia were greatly affected by the ideological influence whether they should be a communism country or capitalist country. Korea was divided into two, where north was supported by communist China and Russia, while South is supported by capitalist US and many other countries. Last example of political power is Genocides. Genocides is when there is a deliberate and systematic destruction of an entire people who belong to one racial, political, cultural, or religious group. And this is related to power because when one group of people is in charge, they tend to agree with other group of people and doesn’t want them. So they try to get rid of them.

World war two is the best example of personal power, because the start of WW2 started with extreme nationalism of the Nazis, mainly Hitler. Hitler started to build armies breaking the rules made in the Treaty of the Versailles. But the other countries didn’t have enough power to say anything to Germany. Hitler wanted to prove his power and started to attack small European countries and eventually the other big countries opposed and tried to stop them from becoming bigger. And other fascist dictators around the world such as Mussolini of Italy, Stalin of Russia, etc. have caused problems like Russian Revolution and WW1.

So any type of powers, especially political and personal can lead to a conflict. So the effect around the power depends on whom or what has power. Power could be used in various good ways to help people, and in the other hand, it could be used and result deadly effects.

Control or Power? - The Giver

in my book, the giver the theme is mostly about control. they dont rally talk about power. the only part they kind of talk about power is when they say the elders only have power to choose peoples jobs, but not really more things than that. so i think the theme of the giver is more of control because they are controlled by the elders and they talk about how they are controlled and what they are being controlled. and if there is a thing that they think that does not benefit the society, then they just remove it from the people. only the reciever has the memories and thoughts. their feelings are controlled by making them take stirring pills. their jobs were chosen by the elders so they are controlled with their jobs too. and one interesting technology was the wwather was controlled as well. lastly there are lots of laws or rules that they cant beark, so they are also controlling their freedom. so people dont have to worry or know about it. soo i think that my book.s theme is more about being controlled.

PoP reflection

three things i have learned from PoP are:
1. plan things and know what to do
2. dont wait till the last minute, do it ahead of time, so when i have any problems or questions, i can get help and make it better.
3.know what im doing, and get enough information for the research.

Globalization

some of the positive effects of the globalization are; people get to know about different cultures and they might like them, and for some companies, they can save lots of money through outsourcing. and by that, people living in developing countries can get more jobs.

the negative effects of the globalization are when people are aware of new cultures, they forget their original culture and change, so their origin is pretty much forgotten. and in the developed countries, because of outsourcing, people lose their jobs. it also widens the gab between the poor and the wealth, and cause riots.

feedback

there are parents and a small kid, on a dinner table, and they are asking him about the school day. this cartoon is about a kid and his parents asking about the school day he had, and eve if he didn't tell them, they could just go to the internet and find out. i think the cartoonist's opinion is that the technology today are so advanced, that we could find out about almost everything that's going on so now the kids are limited and can't tell lies to their parent. the evidence is the kid's facial expression. hes doesn't look that happy at all. the ironic part of this cartoon is that even for small kids are using technology nowadays, and most of people think that older people use more technology than the young people. it relates to our study of technology because this cartoon shows that age don't matter for using technologies and in the future even younger kids would be aware how to use any type of technologies.

PoP worktime plan

April 13 - start on more specific outline

April 14 - work on my outline for the research paper first draft.

April 15 - work on my research paper second draft. Bilingual brochure - check with Ms. Cullen for revision and correcting errors.

April 16 - start working on my Research paper

April 17 - Data Analysis for math

Technology

technology is things that we create and invented to make us live more comfortable and easier. and help us in variety of ways.
5 most important technologies today are:
computer
TV
cell phone
transportation
internet

5 least important technologies are:
automatic dog food dispenser
instant coffee
blow dryer
electric toothrush
electric shavers
i think most of the technologies used in AES are useful because like smart boards and projectors makes teachers teach easier and AC, and computers are useful and is important.

Vonnegut and Technology

I disagree with Vonnegut, and i DO think computer can help you become, because there are so many benefiting things using technology such as computer. of course there are bad things too, but they can be controlled. you can learn and find out new things through internet. computer is just a tool that you can use to help yourself with your work and many other things. Life is so much easier and more comfortable with new technology, and if we use it properly and control the bad usages, then i think there wouldn't be any problem with any new technologies. and nowadays almost everything has to do with technology and most of the high-paid jobs, besides sports or stars, involves computer. so i think computer is really helpful to know and how to work on it especially these days, and will become more common.

feeback for quarter 3 - quarter 3 goals

one of my goals of the last quarter was improving on my writing, but i didn't really improve that much especially with the poem. my second goal was to improve on presentations, but we didn't really do any presentations, and instead we did a digital story, and i think i did well on it. my other goal was to get at least an A- for a research paper, but we didn't do anything.

my new goals for 4th quarter is to get a good grade on my PoP project, by revising it many times.
and i would like to inprove my grades on quizes, by not making any careless mistakes. and lastly i would like to improve on the discussions and the prep works for that by reading/studying more in detail about the topic.

43rd war - journal blog

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Holy War - Oxymoron

i think "holy war" is an oxymoron because when people say holy, it usually means something great, peaceful or heaven-like things. but war is like violent, killing, deadly action. so they are opposite meaning but it is said together. there are so many conflicts based upon different religions because i think people think that their religious believes are better than the others. and in some of the Muslim countries, they are trained and taught to die for their religion, and say they were told to commit a violent action. even though most of the religions are against killing people, i think people are being to selfish and thinks that their religions should be the best, so i think they are killing people of other religions.

WWIII

I don't think there will be a WWIII, because there are international organizations like the UN, which tries to prevent the war, and even though if there would be a war, it wouldn't be a world war, and just be a war between some countries. because now i think the countries who starts the war will know that there will be less chance of winning and what would happen afterwards, unless its the US or Russia. and nowadays it is harder to colonize any countries because almost all the countries have their army and wouldn't want other country's rule over their own country.

But if there is going to be a war, countries part of UN are likely to go against them or try to stop them. and even though you have lots of armies, it wouldn't matter, because the nation with better weapons have better advantage and chances of winning. and also nowadays the whole world have small or big problems finacially because of the global crises and they wouldn't be wanting to spend their money to the war than helping their own country.

discussion 3 response

3. In her diary Anne opined: “…if you’re wondering if it’s harder for the adults here than for the children, the answer is no…Older people have an opinion about everything and are sure of themselves and their actions. It’s twice as hard for us young people to hold on to our opinions at a time when ideals are being shattered…” (July 15, 1944.) Do you agree or disagree with this quote? When was the last time that you experienced the “shattering” of an ideal?

i agree with the quote because it is more likely that children will change their minds, because usually as a kid, they don't know as much as adults and other complicated things. and they can be easily persuaded to the other ideas if they think it is benefiting them. and the adults have more experiences so they might be sure of their ideas.

WWII Letter

1001
, London
July 17, 1940

Dear A.
Honey, i am sorry for not writing you a letter for a while, but it was a very busy week in London. German air forces were bombing the city, and the people are in a terrible horror write now here. i hope you are safe in Manchester. lots of evacuations for little children, due to Nazi bombings, not only London, the attacks have been in Birmingham and Portsmouth too. it is very terrifying in home fronts in major cities being attacked. the German blitz are devastating and over 43,000 are dead and 1.4 million people are homeless.


the Nazi attacks are deadly and humiliating. they also drop bombs with poison gas, so we got an order to wear gas masks for our safety. there are also rationing, which makes people get equal amount of shares of resources during the war. but we do have hopes of winning the war, thanks to the 'home guards'. it was group of people who failed military tests, armed, fighting for Britain. there are about 250,000 of them so far, thanks to Tom Wintringham who created Home Guards.


But if something bad happens and if we have to follow Zero Option (plan of moving the government out of London when its taken and when they need some place else), i still love you and i miss you very much and want to be back at home and be with you. i will write again soon.

sincerely,

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WWII recipe

WWII In Just 4 Simple Steps

1 Treaty of Versailles, with US, Britain, France, Russia, and Italy, but without Germany
3 Fascist leaders, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
3 Axis Forces, Germany, Italy, and Japan
1 failure of League of Nations, no US, or Germany
2 appeasements, allowing Hitler to attack Rhineland and Czechoslovakia
6 Japanese Aggression, Japanese invasion over the Pacific

Directions
First, France, Britain, Italy, US, and Russia should attend to the Treaty of Versailles, but exclude Germany.
Second step is a little tricky. US should create the League of Nation but the US, do NOT join, so that it is powerless.
Third, let the fascist leaders rise and appease them, attacking neighbouring countries.
For the fourth step, attack Poland with Germany and let France and England declare war at Germany.
Now you have created WWII!

Tip: To make a deadlier WWII, then you can form two sides of the war.
Take Japan, Italy, and Germany and put them together to form Axis.
Take Britain, France, US and a little later Russia (after it was attacked by Germany), and other counties around the world to form the Allies.

AF movie critique

overall i thought movie was quite interesting in a sense that there were lots of small parts that they were different, for example, old major dies right after he gives the speech to the other animals. also in the movie, they never mentioned about Molie. also in a book, Snowball didn't get killed, but in a movie, he got chased and got killed by dogs. the story went really fast in the movie. another big part shown in the movie, but never happened in the book was, in the end, the animals takes over and attacks Napoleon and the other pigs.

AF Character

i think if to compare with the characters in the Animal farm, then i would be most similar with Benjamin. first, because Benjamin stays out when he thinks its not a good idea, and i sometimes also act like that. For example, if we're playing a game and if i know that we are going to lose, then i just quit or don't play at all. Secondly, because if pretty much know whats going on in school. Thirdly, I'm i never take risk that i know I'm going to get in trouble. Lastly, I'm smart and get good grades! So overall I am Benjamin in Animal Farm.

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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

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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-.