The Scramble for Africa

The strategy that my group and I used was to first claim the resource rich areas of West Africa, which was our objective area. After we completed this we continued to claim more parts of Africa aside from the west that had valuable resources. We also tried to determine the objective areas of other countries, and we tried to claim that and instead of them. One factor we considered was to claim areas where there was enough of a population to provide labor. It is a very close finish between GB and France, but I think that France won due to our claiming of areas that were very rich in raw materials, and we covered almost all of our objective area. Spain lost this game. The area that Spain claimed is very scattered, and the main area that Spain claimed has essentially no natural resources.

5 Themes

Movement - The movement of people or ideas. (p. 138) In this part of the story the people of Umuofia see a white man and a bicycle for the first time. The white man and the bicycle both moved to Africa from other places.

Region - A group of countries sharing things in common. (p. 105) This part of the story is about a group of villages that are all along a pathway that Okonkwo's village is on. These villages are a region.

Human-Environment Interaction - The way humans come into contact with the environment. (p. 69) There is a passage on this page explaining that the men of Umuofia get their palm wine from tapping the palm trees.

Location - Where something is. Can be relative or absolute. (p. 209) A missionary living with Okonkwo's people writes a book telling us that the village of Umuofia is most likely located in Nigeria.

Place - What it is like at a given location. (p. 36) Yams are very important in the village of Umuofia. The new year is even centered around the harvesting of yams.

Political Cartoon

The main visual element of this is definitely the octopus arms. Other elements include the fat face of a man and his top hat. The issue is about England's imperialism over much of the world, and how they are in these countries unrighteously. The author is against imperialism, because he shows the man symbolizing england as a monster of some sort. He may also believe that England is getting rich from what they are taking from these countries. This is shown by the top hat of the man and how he is fat, again symbolizing that he is rich. I think that the cartoonist could have used more interesting color to emphasize some of his main points. In terms of C.R.A.P. the author created good alignment horizontally and vertically, used repetition in the octopus arms, and it is hard to tell about the proximity but the octopus arms are all coming from the face.

Violence

From examples in Julius Caesar and events in the world today it is easy to see that violence does lead to more violence. In Julius Caesar a group of traitors assassinate Caesar. This in turn leads to the murder of innocent Romans and a war between Antony and conspirators. In the end Cassius and Brutus die. One violent act led to all this. In the real world there are also acts of violence that lead to more violence. One example is the terrorist attacks on the world trade center in New York City. This led to an invasion of Afghanistan and a conflict with the Taliban.