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Hotel Rwanda Blog Assignment

In the film, when the leutennant from the UN told Paul, the hotel manager that the whites would only help their own race and that they would be abandoned. That was completely necessary of him to tell Paul, because he would have been ready for the whites leaving.I found it quite horrible that the UN(who were SUPPOSED to help peace) abandoned the blacks, while the blacks deserved more than the whites to leave. The whites brought back a poodle and didnt even bother to bring at least ONE African with them. They must have been full of shame and regret to have left so many people there to be killed by the Hutu soldiers.
I completely agree with source A when it says, "The UN may save lives. But, ultimately, the future of Rwanda is in Rwandan hands." The UN have helped a bit, but when they abandoned the blacks, they made it worse than it was before. What these so-called "peace-keepers" have done is shameful.

Analyzing a political cartoon on Imperialism

When I see this picture, I notice that the continent itself is black, not green, or brown, but black. I then noticed that the footprint on the country is very strong and is white. I also noticed that it was a boot and not a foot.

The blackness of the continent symbolizes the race living there. It is also black because the white called it "The Dark Continent". The foot/boot print symbolizes the "white" settlers and what they have done to the continent. According to the political cartoon, the "white" people stamped on Africa, they made a mark. They made a mark that wont go away and has effected them greatly. The foot print is a boot which says that the foot print was made by white people because they are more likely to wear boots, unlike the native people in Africa. The dried land on the foot print could symbolize that the "white" have ruined their land, and have taken away the agriculture. This political cartoon makes a good point about what the "white" settlers have done to Africa.

I think it also has to do with the "White Man's Burden" and how the "white" people thought it was their duty to "help" the black people.

Scramble For Africa Game

In this game, there were about seven different countries trying to claim Africa. In each country group there were no less than three people. Only two countries had one person in its group.Mine was one of them and Spain was one of them. My country was Portugal.In this game I mostly aimed for getting the most natural resources I could, even though my main goal was to claim the west coast, southeast coast, and southwest coast. Sadly, some countries were quicker than me and took over all of the coastlines in Africa.

To be honest, I truly think Spain lost this game because of a few reasons. Firstly, Spain took over quite a bit of the Sahara. I found that that was pointless because there were no natural resources, there is barely ANY population, and that the climate is too hot. The climate will STILL be too hot even though there are a few oasis'. sorry spain!

When it comes to who won, I think France won (even though Britain did a really good job!). France won because they have the most natural resources. Even though they didn't take over the northeast coast(which is closer to Europe) like Great Britain, they took over the northwest coastline. It was important to take over a coastline because of all the resources and possible trading docks. I really liked this game and think we should do it again. Well done France!

The Five Themes Of Geography

To remember the five themes of geography, you should remember M.R.HE.L.P;

Movement~how people, ideas, and goods travel from one place to another
Region~how a place is organized
Human Environment interaction~How we get along with the environment
Location~answer the question 'where?' and can be absolute or relevant
Place~answers the question 'what?' what it's like

I will give an example of each from the book (Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe)

Movement-In the book, when missionaries came to the village to convert them into Christians (pg. 148 onwards)

Region-The way Ezeudu's funeral was organized (pg. 120 onward)

Human Environment Interaction-the people of Umuofia and other villages drink palm wine which relates to the environment because they got it from the Earth (pg. 147)

Location-Umuofia, in Africa (pg. 3 onwards)

Place-very dry and funerals are very different, many different wives for one man (pg.120, 71, 89)

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In this picture, I noticed that the monster in the middle had many arms or what looked like tentacles. I also noticed that the monster was labeled, "England." The bits of land it's grabbing seem to be other countries.
This political cartoon is about imperialism. About one country trying to conquer all.
The cartoonist probably think that England is a bad country, because they're trying to colonize the world. That's because the face of the monster is not exactly "nice" looking, and it seems like it's drowning the other countries it's grabbing.
The cartoonist could have made the cartoon better by making England seem more violent. The background could've been more darker to make the cartoon seem more evil.

When it comes to C.R.A.P, the cartoonist did okay. The cartoon doesn't have much repetition, except maybe the arms or tentacles. For alignment, the monster is pretty much in the middle and everything is around it. When it came to proximity, there wasn't that much. everything just surrounded England. Overall, I thought this cartoon was pretty convincing.

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Violence leads to more violence

The quote, "Violence leads to more violence" is completely true.

For example, a kid who has been bullied for a year decides to finally stand up the bully and ends up getting beaten up even worse than before.This is an example of the quote in action. The kid COULD HAVE handled the situation lighter and told a parent or a counselor. He could have CHOSEN to do that.

The same situation. The bully who bullies that little kid has a drug addicted dad who hits him. (IT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE) He is one of those people just "like" violence are encouraged to keep on being violent by being surrounded by it. He could stop and get help, but he chose to bully instead.

One little thing COULD start a war which just results in a lot of people dying. Let;s just say that a country's water supply is running out, because its neighboring country is using it all up. Violence DOES lead to more violence.