What is power?

Power is a way to control a group of people through ideas, force or religion. Throughout this year we have studied different ways in which power has been used to control or lead people to achieve a goal. This essay will focus on some of the key things related to power we studied this year.

We first came across this point with the idea of the industrial revolution, were we explored how farmers had little power since they had close to no money, this lead to many farmers moving into cities to work in the new factories there. This did lead to them earning more money and in terms gaining more power, but as the poor got richer so did the rich. Since the rich now had more money they also had more power and they took advantage of this by spending the least amount of money possible on their workers to maximize their income. The more power you had the more power you wanted and that lead to countries like Great Britain to start colonizing other weaker countries this lead to the start of Imperialism.

Nations had limited recourses which were crucial to manufacture goods, so countries decided to colonize poor countries and to take their resources. Once again power comes in to play as every powerful nation races to Africa to find their needed resources. Now many of the most powerful countries had colonies to provide them with good but as the rich got rich and more powerful the poor got poorer. As you can see power can destroy lives and it did so again and again with great wars.

World War I left England as the strongest nation and it greatly contributed the USA’s economy but it also left Germany poor and starving. Hitler wasn’t ready to let his country die out so he took power of Germany and soon attempted to take over the world. His great ideas and brute force made him powerful and also filled his enemies with fear. But as we all now with “great power comes great responsibility” and Hitler wasn’t ready for that and thus he failed to lead. The Russian revolution was also lead by power as the peasants were deprived of it. They’re only hope was to take down the tsar and start a new government.

As you can see not much good can come from one person having all the power.

After finishing Population Project I've learned new ways to manage time more efficiently this would be very useful in the future when other projects like this come up. Another useful skill I've developed throughout this project is how to expand on my research and ideas to bring up new questions and answers, this would be useful since it helps bring ideas to a new level. A final skill I developed was researching in general since the right information isn't always easy to find and when sometimes it just isn't available. Since I encountered this many times I was able to find alternatives and possible solutions like finding new types of sources like interviews or museums.

Cartoon

The main visual elements of the cartoon are: the family eating at the table and the text at the bottom.
This cartoon seems to be about a family discussing their day at work or school and when the kid is asked how his day was he tells his parents to read his blog and find out that way.
The cartoonist seems to think that kids are to used to the internet that has become their standard form of communication, and that they can use the internet to express them selves better. The cartoon shows the parents surprised about the kids answer almost as if the change was over night and they had never seen it before. The kids expression is simple as if his answer was standard or common. This cartoon is ironic since usually children feel the most comfortable talking to their parents but here the kid seems to feel comfortable talking through his computer. What this cartoon shows is that maybe in the future people will communicate through computers.

POP project work time

On Monday: Find information for my second graph and get my note cards started
On Tuesday: Work on perfecting my RP outline or start my RP 1st draft
On Wednesday: Finish (or try to) my data analysis and RP 1st draft
On Thursday: Start RP introduction
On Friday: Work on RP

Technology

Technology is the advancement of tools, for a better and more efficient new tool. Technology is basically the way humans improve old tools or items into new one with more uses or better uses.
Lots of items have been developed; 5 of the ones most used by us are:

• Cellphone
• i-pod
• Laptop
• Cars
• Television
  

5 technologies we don't use as often are:

• Airplanes
• Lawnmowers
• Microwaves
  
• Hairdryers
  
• Vacuum cleaners

I think AES has got a good amount of technology. It's a very modern school and uses it's technology wisely; as well as teaching their students how to use it and take care of it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt vonnegut seems to thinks all computers are bad, and in a way I agree but not to the point were I would destroy a computer. By what he writes in the Euphio Question it seems that he belives computers have the abillity to brainwash and overwhelm you without you being able to stop it, he gives an example of this by comparing machines to mariguana in pg 193 "Aperantly that's like walking past a field of burnning marijuana". I have to agree and say that computers can in a way brain wash but I belivve Kurt is underestimmating the capabilty of the human brain by think computers can take over our lifes. Computers are here to make our lifes easier not to take control of them. I think the reason Kurt Vonnegut writes about technology in this way is because he is scared of what technology can do, and he likes things the way they are because the future is unexpected and he doesnt like that.

Non-Coflict Poem

Cereal Bowl Poem
I poured myself my bowl of cereal, not forgetting his ally the milk;
Then I looked into my arsenal wondering what weapon to wield.
Eventually I deciphered that the spoon would be the best choice,
Because of its ability to shield my shirt from the pouring milk.
All of a sudden I launched my invasion into the unaware bowl of cereal,
The thrust of my spoon easily impaled the cereal; killing my hunger.
I kept the mobilization of my spoon as I read the propaganda on the box.
The containment of my appetite was liberating,
Making me feel full of strength for the day ahead.