What is Power?

According to Oxford's dictionary, it defines power as ability to control people or things. Which mean that Power is control, And I agree with this definition. This year in humanity class we’ve talk lot about power and I think power usually works in two specific ways; ideologically, militarily. I have two examples that show the power is control, they are; Fear of nature, and individuals’ power.

Firstly you can see that power is control if you look at the ancient time. Ancient people believed there is a god and they always feared them and worshiped them. For example they created their own god such as ‘Sun god, and wind god etc’ so by believing them they control themselves from other danger. You can see these happen today. During imperialism when India was under British Empire’s control, Indian people believed in Gandhi’s idea of non - violence and they also worshiped his ideas. By believing this idea that has huge power they could control themselves from the anger and were able to kick out British Empire from their own land. Fear of God also can be superstition, for example, Buddhism and Hinduism believe reincarnation, which is once a person die they will reborn in another form. By believing in this principle that has power of control, people could control themselves and this made their religion stronger. But sometime this fear of nature can have negative effect, for example Russian revolution, Russian citizen believed in different things unlike the Tsar and when Tsar lost power to control many angry citizen it finally lead to Russian Revolution and it ended up by killing Tsar and his family

Secondly, another example you can find is individuals’ power. In WW2 Hitler and Stalin were great dictators; they controlled many people with their persuasive and powerful speeches. Although sometime they used military to force other people to believe in what they believe, their ideas were clear and strong enough to control people. However you can see these examples in Globalization today. Today since Globalization shrunk the world in to the smaller size, more individual company move around the world to advertise that their product is better than others. For example commercial, we do see million and trillion of commercial every day but actually each one of them has individual special powers that control people to buy their products. One last example is cold war. Cold started at the end of the world war 2. Unlike WW2, cold war was more like ideological war. USA and USSAR, the two great super power who believe different principal had to fight for idea. Each one of them spread their idea to country to country, and they propaganda to show citizen that their systems were better. It was all about that the side who gain more control of more country will win this war.

As you can see there were two big example that show the power is control; Fear of nature and individuals’ power.

What is Power?

Net Effect of Globalization

According to the book 'The World is Flat' written by Thomas Friedman, Globialization has effected our life in many good ways. For example, outsourcing has make our life better and easy. He also mentioned that the creation of window and open sourcing has tide world tiny by allowing many people to access internet and share their own idea and opinion. These factors were believed to make world smaller and flat.
It seems like that the globalization is only a good thing. However, Globalization also has dark sides. For example, people in middle level's lifes are getting better although low level people's lifes are getting worst and worst. Since many information that contains unique ideas spread to all over the countriesm, it can ruin some country's culture or their religious belief. As we watched, in '30 days' the guy named 'crise' lost his job because there was foreign worker who could do his job easily in less pay but in better quality.

Three most valuable things i learn during POP

There are three most valuable things i learned during working on Population Project. They are advantage and disadvantage of CNG, and other new alternative fuels. During POP i really worked a lot on these because they were part of my research paper. I'm sure learning more about these facts will affect my future because right now the world citizens are concerning about Global warming and one of the way to reduce the global warming is finding new alternative fuels that would replace fossil fuel which are causing global warming by producing lot of harmful gases. If we don't find better new alternative fuel that reduce harmful gases, our future will be terrible. As i mentioned on my research paper, if we just leave the situation like this, our next generation probably might have to live in special suit with helmet that contains fresh oxygen to help them breath. To avoid this future i think learning about these thing are really helping me to change my future.

Feedback - April 13-17 - Technology and Schools

What are the main visual elements?
A family

What issue is this cartoon about?
Conflict between Technology and school life

What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
Technology is ruining our next generation's future.

What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?
If you look at the cartoon, the male who seems like father of the kid looks kind of tired and if you look at the dialogue, it starts with 'well,' and this kind of tell us that he knows

Why is this cartoon ironic?
If you just read the first sentence of the dialogue, it sounds like a conversation between boss of the company and one of his worker but if you look at the cartoon, actually the father is talking to his son

How does this cartoon relate to our study of technology and the future?
As we use more technology in school, we talk less to our parent. And in future we will only think like electronically and lose our creativity

What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
Make the dialogue little bit bigger because i thought the dialogue was very effective

Plan for POP project

Day -1
- Look graphs for data analysis
- Start making note cards which contains information to write the research paper
- More research

Day -2
- Make a graph for data analysis and start thinking what i will write about this graph
- Make more note card, also put them together(put them in the order) and write outline
- little more research

Day -3
- Statistics - write rationale that gives support for my choice of data
- With the outline start the 1st draft

Day -4
- Statistics- summary of my graph (use of mean, median, mode, rage , slope, exponential growth, exponential decay, or quartile and calculation that shows my work
- edit my 1st draft

Day -5
- Summary - interpretation of my data also explanations and other following
- write 2nd draft

technology?

In my word, technology is an idea that has something to do with creation that modern people like to follow which help them in lot of ways. This idea is mostly use in electronic way and sometime it can be harmful to human. But technology is not only relate to electronic stuff but i think it also relates to other topic such as art, sports, etc.

5 most and 5 least important technologies used today-

5 most
- Computer
- Mobile phone
- Camera
- Refrigerator
- Microwaves

5 least
- Radio
- Old version of disk drive
- Automobile
- I pod
- TV

I think the amount of technology we use in AES is not that many because during the lunch time there are more people who spend their time at the rock or play sports than spend their time in computer lab. Also when people use computer, most of their reason is to do their homework or to print out something. But the situation will be different once people leave the school; when they leave school, first thing they do is to look up their mobile phone or listen music with their i pod. It not that people are not using enough technology in school but school doesn't allow students to use thier technology much as outside of school.

Vonnegut and Technology

"Bill Gates says, “Wait till you can see what your computer can become.” But it’s you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work—not the damn fool computer.”"

I agree with him even though I love my my computer. Until now, I thought it was computer and other machines which modernized this world. But sometime I wonder what will happen in the future if this pattern continue. If you watch some movies about robots in the future they are smarter than us and do every thing as we say. But I think this is wrong. As Kurt Vonnegut said it's us who should be doing the becoming, not the technology. In the story 'Harrison Bergeron' in the year 2081 every people have little mental handicap radio in their ear or they are too stupid enough to not recognize their own son. It was their damn technology which made them stupid monkeys who can't even recognize their own son. These technology sometimes also make me stupid monkey. I sometimes I think what if this computer do my all homeworks. In another Vonnegut's story 'The Euphio Question' These stupid people put the signal that make people happy on the radio to earn lot of money. They think those sound make people happy but actually these sound make people old, not only physically but also mentally. Now they become the creature who can't breath even a minute without those sound. Today, technology make many peoples' life easier but in other side they make people fat and they are dehumanizing us!

Feedback March 9-13 - End of Quarter 3 Feedback

My second goal was to improve my reading and writing. To be more specific I planned not to make spelling mistake and make sentence better. But I think my writing skill hadn't improved as much as my reading skill. I think this happened because of my grammar. I missed articles frequently and my sentences always confused reader by putting past, present tense in same situation. If I improve my grammar it will also help me writing a 'POP' research paper.

so my goal for this Quarter is,..... :
- to improve my grammar (Articles, punctuation, tenses)
- do research and get good data for my population project
- finish the population project before the due date. (work in process and finish it early)

Oxymoron and Holywar

An oxymoron is the phrase “Holy War” because as oxymoron has meaning of two words that don't belong being used together, in holy war there is always different kind of religions that don't being used together because each religion believe in different things and not try to follow each other. The only thing they do is to believe that their religion is real, important and better than others. But the problem is some religion believes that every people should follow their belief and force other people to believe it. This fight won’t end easily because they don’t just find with army, they also sometimes find facts or evidences that would support their ideas; and still there are a lot of facts and evidences that exist in Earth.

WWIII is a possibilty

I think WW 3 is possible to happen in our life time. Even after the world war 1, no one expected that Germany would start the war again. Also today nobody is expecting WW3 would happen but I think it's possible to happen. Even though United nation (UN) has stronger power than before (League of the nation) If huge war starts, they will loose their power and they might not be able to stop the war as soon as people hope.
I think war will happen in Israel, war is still happening in Israel, Gaza because after the Holocaust many Jewish people had to find their new shelter and they found the land which is now called 'Israel' but there were already many people who lived in that land so today they are still fighting with each other to get their own land. Right now, not many countries are involved with this war, but if one of the side asking for help to other country and if this situation keep goes on and on, it will lead to the WW3. During WW3, with the modern technology, many people will die. This war will give huge number of victims even much more than world war 2. And many countries will regret about what they've done.

Holocoast reflection

During the discussions, l found that discussion1 was the most meaningful. Because during the holocaust, Anne Frank's nationality forced to removed. Actually her nationality should be Germany because she has born in Germany and her both parents born in Germany. But during the holocaust, when Hitler started to kill Jewish, he abandoned many Jewish people. I felt sorry for Anne Frank because government of country suppose to protect their citizen from their country, but in this case, government take their citizen's right and force to remove their nationality.

A letter from the Battlefront

Dec 20, 1941
To Mr. Hubert Willis
26, Rodfort Street
Bryan
Texas
Dear Mom, Dad Leslie and Barney,
I know you are all very worried about the ‘attack’ which happened in the early hours of the morning on December 7 at Pearl Harbor. I am writing to ensure you that I am fine. Although I was injured, I am recovering well. I am going to first tell you about it, before I talk about myself.
It was a Sunday morning I had woken up at 6 AM and dressed quickly in my shorts and shirts. I had promised Frank my commanding officer to be his partner at a doubles game of tennis. We played well and then decided to have breakfast in the Canteen. I had just ordered a large omelet with bacon, when Frank pointed in the sky, where a fleet of planes flying toward us. First time, I thought they were the ‘B-17’s from the West Coast. I wondered what they were doing up there. But suddenly I noticed something was wrong with those planes. I took the binoculars from Frank, and magnified to the size of planes. They were not the ‘B-17’s Instead of American flags, they had flags which were red with white stripes. Before I could tell Frank something was going wrong, those foreign planes started to drop bombs. Suddenly, Frank shouted “I think it’s the Japs! Run for shelter!” In a few seconds, our camp was filled with chaos. I ran, trying to reach my plane. But even before I reached my plane, I saw 51 ‘Val’ dive bombers dropped 30feet away from me. I stepped backwards, tried to run on other side. Then I heard a ‘BANG’ sound. Because of the huge explosion, I flew in the air. I was bleeding, especially my legs were horrible. I lay in the ditch for almost three hours. Many times I shouted for help, but my voice was drowned by the sounds of explosions near by. Finally I gave up hope and closed my eyes to pray. I saw two nurses looking down at me, when I opened eyes. I was brought to ‘Hickam Field’. I had surgery on my back and legs. The doctors told me I was lucky to be alive because I had lost a lot of blood but the chief Nurse Annie G. Fox donated her blood for my surgery. It’s almost three weeks since I have been in this hospital. I am surrounded by many wounded patients who are also recovering because of the hard work and time given by the nurse and doctors.
I am angry and upset about loss of lives and destruction caused to our army. Fortunately, our aircraft carriers, Lexington, Enterprise and Saratoga were not damaged because, they were not in port at the time of attack. The doctors, are going to release me tomorrow as they feel, I am fine. So, I will be attending the church service in memory of the service men and civilians who died for our country. I am very proud of Frank who died while helping people in the canteen to find shelter. On 17 Dec, we got a new Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. My leave starts from today, so I hope to be in time for Christmas.

Your loving
‘Walter’

P.S.: How is my dog Larry? I haven’t seen her for a year. Tell her that I love her. Also mom, please post a small gift and a letter of thanks to chief nurse Annie G. Fox

From Walter Willis
US Army
Oahu, Hawaii
Hickam Field

A recipe for World War II

1 small tea spoon of ‘Treaty of Versailles’

scattered on the dough, ‘Failure of the Leagues of Nations.

Because ‘Failure of the League of Nations’ never have flavor, which won’t make me and your mouth pleasant

You would need to add some aggressive spice

Aggressive spice that ‘made in Germany’
Aggressive spice that ‘made in Japan’

Three drops of ‘Fascism’ wine.
They will blur the dough as soon as they touch it and spread their spirit, color is like blood.

Critique of Animal Farm (The Movie)

There was some difference and similarities between animal farm book and the movie. They both teach you some of the theme we learned about in class like ‘The more things change the more thing stay the same.’ But unlike the book, movie shows more specific details on each scene that book could not. For example, when there was a War of cowshed, in the book they just tell us that there was a War of cowshed, but in the movie they showed us how the animal defeated the humans, using what strategy. There is another example, in the movie they showed us how animal harvest the crop. Also In the book, they introduced Napoleon’s dog with amazement, but in the movie they showed how Napoleon raised all the dogs from when they were baby. Unlike the book, the movie didn’t show us much about the talking part, most of the time the movie only showed us the part where people would interest to watch. In the movie, they never mentioned about the Clover, female horse, they more mentioned about the Benjamin who was not very visible in the book. All these are differences between the book and movie but the there was one huge difference. The ending part. In the book, the book end up by fighting between man and pig, but in the movie, the movie end up with defeat of Napoleon by revolution from other animal.

My character in Animal Farm

I am mostly like Benjamin, there are three reason that support that I'm mostly like Benjamin. First, as Benjamin does, I don't take any side. In the book 'Animal Farm', Benjamin, the donkey is not close to Mr. Jones or human side but he also is not friendly with animal. He does not take joke, he never laughs. It seems like that he doesn't actually on one specific side clearly.
Secondly, he does not like to talk. In the book he doesn't talk to animal very much and does not discuss with them. Even though he has good idea in his mind, he doesn't share his idea out loud, he just keep it in his head
Thirdly, Benjamin does not try anything, when he realize if that thing wouldn't work.

Feed back January - Tyranny, injustice and self determination

In my own words,
Tyranny - Unfair use of power
Injustice - Not right things to do
Self determination - get their own right to choose something

These words can be example of the book 'animal farm'. In animal farm, animals' owner Farmer Jones whipped animal with many tools, but animals could not fight back with Farmer Jones because they didn't have enough power, the only thing they could do was protect their own body. This is example of Tyranny.
After when animal avoided the Farmer Jones, animal themselves divided their work, and did the work. But some animal such as cat, didn't work and hided inside the house and they only emerged at dinner, which was unfair. I think this action is an example of Injustice.
Before animals get freedom from Farmer Jones, none of the animal got their own right to do something. For example, pig don't want to provide ham to human but they had to.

WW1 peom with images

http://www.worldwar1.com/foto/eww144.jpg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/10_02/trenchPA_468x607.jpg

http://blogs.theage.com.au/schembri/war.jpg

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/stories/the_age_of_the_mass/04.ST.01/img/IM.1008_zl.jpg

http://videoindex.pbs.org/resources/greatwar/images/ph_26.jpgt

hope

I got a gun

but no hope

I lean on a moist clay wall

I am in a trench

I close my eyes

but I still hear deep pain

Here, my boys are waiting for my sign

I am a lieutenant

We know

as we expected

once we go out there

we can't come back

I think

and think

I got a gun

but no hope

Is the military in your future?

'Korea Military age - Mandatory 20 to 30 years of age for male, wartime conscription 18-49 years of age'

Which mean when I became 2o, I must join the military service. But even there isn't such a law like this, I would join the military service. I have dream to protect my country with my hands. I would feel proud of myself if I do that. Also, my dad had gone there, he is still having contact with his friend in military service. He told me, military place is not only scary and fierce place. Last week, one of the korean TV programme show about one of the Navy camp in Korea, navies in that camp, evry day navies becomes school teacher on evening. They helps students math and English. Even thought they had weird hair style, they looks very kind and nice. And I thought I would join to military serivice and help many people.

World War 1 cartoon

As you can see this Cartoon related to World War 1. On this poster many countries are sharing documents that represent power of the countries. I think this political cartoon shows us about what happened in many countries that had involved with World War and how did the war affected their countries. Accept some countries I think many countries might had lost many things because of the war. I think that two guys in the middle are strongest because they are shaking hand with many countries. If you look at the left side of the cartoon there is women who is crying, she is the only female. Also I think she is crying because maybe her country lost many things or defeated by other countries or women did not get their own right during the world war 1 ( Maybe that's why she is crying). If you look at the other side of the cartoon there is Italian guy who has sword. That sword represent either power of Italy or he is going to make a big war. If you move your sight to right, there is big guy who is smoking when his people busy to trading the document. This shows that during the world war 1, only high class people got most of the power. I think this cartoonist feels bad about what happen during the world war 1 also in order to make this cartoon more persuasive, he could have put some article or words that could his idea more clearly and help him to grab reader's attention. This cartoon is related to Great Power Game because this also cartoon shows they are fighting to get more power.
http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/files/2009/01/alliances-cartoon.jpg

Great Powers Game Debrief

In the great power game, my country was Germany. At the begging of the game, I was excited about that I would build this empire by myself. But this wasn’t just easy as I thought. Because there were more than 8 countries and it was hard to make them to our side. Also some of the countries had the advantage to being success because they had enough industries, armies or navies at the begging of the game. If you have more industries or armies, you can attack small countries or spend some money on buying more industries rather then watch other countries developed. Fortunately Germany was a well developed country that already had some army to compare other countries. In the long run it was more important to buy more industries and colonies rather than armies and navies, because war didn’t appear very much and we shouldn’t had bought armies until 1905, I should had bought more industries so I can buy more armies in certain year when there is many wars. Being friend with other countries was very helpful to reach the goal, but draw up a document about an alliance wasn’t helpful because they could had break their promise and gone against you. My country had betrayed our alliances many times but it was one of our strategies, and it was very successful. From this game I notice in this kind of situation, I can not believe any one but myself, I learned industries, colonies are first to buy than armies and finally alliances are not trustful.

End of Quarter Two Feedback

At the end of first quarter, I promised to myself that I would read more books . During the Christmas vacation I had been reading book called 'temple tiger' which is written by Jim Corbett who was known as a good tiger hunter in India. It was a good book even though some of the stories are not perfect because Jim Corbett died before he finish those stories. I'm hoping it may improved my reading skill.

Three goal in this year:

• Finish 'Temple Tiger' and take a AR quiz as soon as posible to see how accurately I read this book
• Make sentences with my new vocabulary words to get use to it and improve my writing skill and vocabulary.
• When I looked back my writing piece in my blog I could find many mistakes that I could not find before. I will try to not make a error on my writing.