Power Essay

Power is a variety of things that doesn’t have a precise meaning to everyone. It varies from intelligence to wealth to advantages.

An example of intelligence is in Animal Farm when the pigs (Squealer in particular) altered the rules while all the other animals weren’t around. Another intelligent thing the pigs in Animal Farm did, was brainwashing the puppies of Jessie to become Napoleon’s guard dogs. Intelligence is also shown in Epicac by Kurt Vonnegut. “Epi” was a clever contraption that outsmarted its creator, simply because its creator was in love. In the example of Animal Farm, the pigs had power, whereas in the example of Epicac, the machine had the power.

Wealth also plays a role in power. For example, in the World War I simulation, the bigger countries had more points (armies, economical points.etc.) which made them wealthier to begin with. I was the U.S.A, so I had more points to begin with. I was able to gain colonies and trade easily. Therefore, I had more power. When Africa being invaded and imperialized, the countries colonizing them had wealth, which helped them control the country they conquered at the time. They had more power. For the Visual Communicator, my group reported about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cuba had more wealth because of all the missiles they had, making them the ones with the most power.

The person or nation or people that possess the most power also tend to have a lot of advantages in the beginning. An example of this is from my Population Project. My topic was focused of gender issues. Males tend to have an advantage, because they are more favored than females. Therefore males in India, have more power. Unfortunately, they have power over many of the women. These are all the things that make up power.

In conclusion, power is mostly about having advantages, being wealthy, and being intelligent. If you look at the most powerful figures in the world today, how many of them do not have advantages or wealth or intelligence?

Out-sourcing cartoon analysis

The main visual elements are:
• The frustrated daughter
• The school bag
• The father


This cartoon is about globalization and how it’s affecting the younger generation. The cartoonist doesn’t like the idea of globalization, because it makes people lazy. The father in the cartoon supports my idea, because he looks like he’s slightly disappointed and tired. Out-sourcing is one of the “flatteners” that have really spread the idea of globalization. To out-source is to send out information and get more back quicker and cheaper. In this case, the girl wants to out-source her homework so that she can get it back done. Maybe the cartoonist could have shown how much homework she had or had another bubble of someone doing homework in India.

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Population Project; What I learned...

There are many things that I've learned from Population Project. Yet, the three most important values that I learned were; time management, judging information and using it correctly, and writing in an effective way.

Firstly, time-management was very hard for me. But, in the end, I was able to finish my Population Project two days before the deadline because I was able to manage my time. This will be helpful in the future, because I will have other projects with more deadlines in high school and probably with my job once I've graduated.

Also, judging information and using it properly is important, because it makes it so that my writing flows more and so that it makes sense. In the future, this will be important because it helps with decision making later on.

Lastly, writing effectively can help your work incredibly. This will be important in the future, because I might be a writer or I might need to write reports.

Equality vs. Sameness

Equality is a term that means different things to different people. Yet, sameness is often confused with it. Equality has more to do with your rights, whereas sameness has to do with outlook.

The Giver has the best example of equality. For example, every one gets an education, a house, food, water, and a family. Lois Lowry has used the word sameness to show that everyone looks the same and does the same things, and they’re also equal. A quote that shows an example of sameness is, “’Lily,’ her mother said fondly, ‘you’re very close to being an Eight, and when you’re an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it’” (pg. 18 Lois Lowry)

However, Animal Farm doesn’t have as precise the language as The Giver does. There were no examples of equality, because the pigs in the book weren’t working as much as the rest of the animals. There weren’t any examples of sameness in Animal Farm either, because the animals didn’t act in the same way. Yet, in the end of the book, the pigs were exactly the same as the humans. Which does show an example of sameness.

In conclusion, The Giver has more precise language than Animal Farm, because the book has better examples.

The Giver; Becoming an adult

There are many people who are a part of society. When it comes to the age when they are helpful it could differ. One becomes an adult when they are at least older than fifteen. In The Giver, one becomes an adult when he/she turns twelve years old (pg.14, Lois Lowry).This age is too young. When I was twelve, I wasn’t mature enough to understand all adult situations. Now that I’m fourteen, I can understand much more, yet I still don’t understand a few things. There isn’t a certain age when people are no longer useful to society, because even the elderly can still run their own businesses. For example, my grandparents on my mother’s side are over sixty and are still working in the restaurant that they’ve had since my mother was a teenager. There isn’t an age, but when the older people in society aren’t able to do as much as they could, that is when they are no longer useful. There aren’t certain ages to situations like this, but depending on the abilities of different people, you might be able to set an age.

Work Plan

Monday – Take a look at research paper again and edit by myself. Think of a title for research paper. Work on Independent Investigation.

Tuesday – Finish Data Analysis.

Wednesday – Finish Independent Investigation

Thursday – get paper edited, and fix.

Friday – Go to Ms. Caemmerer's room and try and finish poster.

TA DAH!

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Some main visual elements are that this is a family sitting at the dinner table having a meal. The kid as a cap on sideways and the parents look like they’re expecting something. This issue the cartoonist is talking about is technology is interfering with daily life and is breaking relationships. The cartoonist’s opinion is that technology can be annoying and hurts a good family. The parents are frowning and so is the child. In the quote below, the word “tell” is underlined. This cartoon is ironic, because I’m typing on my blog. Maybe the cartoonist should have put in thought bubbles for all members of the family to make the message more clear.

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