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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Political cartoon and analysis


As you can see, this is a political cartoon. On this picture, a Big fat man is shaking little skinny man. On big man shirt, it say 'Capitalism' and little guy labeled as 'Labor'. This cartoon is showing us how capitalism effected labor during the Industrial Revolution. As we see big man is stealing little guy's money. The man who labeled as 'Capitalism' is incredibly fat and big because he eat food and buy stuff by money from poor labor. This tell us capitalism effected labor very badly during the Industrial Revolution. This cartoon give us very strong feeling about how bad was capitalism on the other side. Maybe if big man is shaking a child instead of adult, it could give us more strong feeling

Monday, September 8, 2008

Quarter 1 Goals Update

In the beginning the year we out personal goal. My goal was to read many books as I can. Because it is my best way to learn English. Now it's almost end of first quarter, and I think I didn't followed my goal very well. I read only 2 books I thought I will read at least 7 or more. I didn't achieve my goal yet. But I will. At the end of the second quarter. To achieve my goal, I might have more specific detail. I don't have enough time to read book during the school week. So I will read books on Saturday and Sunday at least 2hours each.

Thursday, September 4, 2008

1870’s Stock Market Reflection

We played game called'stock market' Our basic goal was to make more money than others. in order to make money we had to make large profit. Buy or sell the companies . But it wasn't easy as I thought. I knew how business is hard. We didn't know which company's cost will increase. So I lost my money many times. I felt happy when I gained some money and I felt sad and annoyed when I lost lot of money(obviously). In Mr.Coyle's tips, my best tip was second one ' You must spend money to make money' First time when I heard this, I didn't understood but during the game I could understand it. When you play, sometimes you lost lot of money. So you might think don't buy any company. But that doesn't help you. I knew that in order to get rich you need to spend enough money. After this game, I knew how businesses work in our world.

Monday, September 1, 2008

Pros and Cons of the IR


positives

  • When their was IR, boom cycle happened and economy rapidly grew up so Factory got more workers, so people didn't lost their job easily
  • Many people gained more cloth and commodities because of the large product from the factory
  • It gets more easier to move place to another, because of the steam engine and rail road
negatives
  • Management in factory were not nice to workers
  • Men went for mines or physical labor, so children and women worked in the factory for around 16 hours a day
  • Pollution increase because of the many factories and trains.
  • Countries spied each others
  • Many people died because of the hard work.
  • Worker's working condition in factory was very bad