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.


picture from www.marxists.org/.../capitalism-bound.jpg

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