What is Power?

Power needs to be divided equally among people. Power is the ability for a person to make decisions for themselves and/or for others whether those decisions are right or wrong. When people have power, they are not contested when they make choices because they are viewed as people who know more about that choice than anyone else. This can cause problems if someone in a position of power makes decisions for their benefit, but that are negative for the people that are affected by this person's power. In our world, power should be more divided between people all throughout the world.
Power can cause negative things also. In the words of Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely". A good example of corruption would be in animal farm as the pigs rule over the other animals fairly at first, but because of the power soon begin to torment the animals. Power can cause many relationships to break. For instance, Stalin and Trotsky worked together in peace, but Stalin wanted to have all of the power and so he banished Trotsky. This is perfectly described in a quote by Henry Brooks Adams that states, "A friend in power is a friend lost". One again this subject of power has appeared in Mr. Coyle's class when we read Julius Caesar. As Julius Caesar had power, many people who he had been friends with turned into his enemies.
In conclusion, the amount of pain and suffering that has come from one person having power shows that power must be distributed equally. Power should not be given to only one person, because history has proved that when this occurs, that person tends not to rule fairly. This absolute power is what is known as tyranny.

Gobalization Cartoon

The main visual elements in this cartoon are a dad talking to his daughter and the daughter appears to be angry. This cartoon is about the issue of companies taking advantage of developing countries by using the cheaper labor in those countries. The cartoonists believes that outsourcing takes advantage of the workers in the developing countries. The cartoonist shows this by using homework to represent things that could be easily done without outsourcing and taking advantage of underpaid laborers. Also, it shows that people are becoming used to outsourcing. Outsourcing is a large part of globalization. It connects countries that work together for business purposes. It is only one of many elements of globalization that we have studied in class. The cartoonist could have also shown the very low price of outsourcing to make the cartoon more persuasive.

Population Project Feedback

The three most valuable things I learned from population project were essay writing, citing sources, and making graphs. I know that in the future I may have data that I will want to display for a project or anything else. By knowing how to use a graph I am able to efficiently display this data. By learning to write proper essays I have learned about transition words to make my writing more fluent, and also how to write proper individual paragraphs which I can use whenever I write. Finally, I learned how to cite sources. I know that this will be very important for me in the future because I need to show that my writing does not have plagiarism, and citing sources shows how I received all of my information, and also how I paraphrase that information.

Equality VS. Sameness

The word “equality” often is used in context with how people are treated as compared to other people. For instance, in today’s world the theory is that everyone should be treated equally. This means that people of all sexes, races, religions, and more should be given the same treatment. The word “sameness” has a very different meaning to me. Sameness would mean that there were no races, religions, or anything else to be equal. There would be nothing to be treated the same considering they are all the same. In The Giver, there are many examples of sameness. Each family has the exact same structure, all boys must take pills for the stirrings, everyone rides bicycles, and everyone must share their dreams within families in the morning.

Work Plan (Humanities)

Monday – Finish Research

Tuesday – Begin Data Analysis

Wednesday – Work on Data Analysis

Thursday – Work on/ Finish Data Analysis

Friday – FINISH DATA ANALYSIS!

Blog-Boy Cartoon Feedback

The main visual elements of this cartoon are a family sitting at a table for dinner, and the father talking to the son. This cartoon is addressing the issue of blogs and other ways of electronic communication, and how these items are reducing the amount of verbal communication that we have. The cartoonist feels that there needs to be more actual face-to-face talking for people to develop socially. He feels that electronic communication is not a good way to be social. The caption on this cartoon describes how the father would simply like to ask his son a question considering they are together, but the son relies on the internet too much to express what he needs to say. This shows that the cartoonist feels that sometimes people should just talk to each other when they are together. What is ironic about this situation is that we are responding to this cartoon by posting a blog. The cartoonist could have had the son working on a laptop/talking on the phone, or using some other form of electronic communication.

Kurt Vonnegut Response

I think that there are two sides to Vonnegut’s argument. On one hand I agree that man should always be higher than the machine. Technology should never be better than man, and it is the responsibility of those who make technology to realize that. Today many people think of computers as smarter than themselves, but it is important to realize that technology was made by man in the first place. In The Euphio Question the characters let their own invention take over them.

On the other hand, I think that technology is very useful. Today there is so much technology used in so many different ways. It can be used for helping someone who would otherwise not be able to function properly such as in the form of wheelchairs, hearing aids, Braille, glasses, casts, medication, and more. Today many people use technology to have fun by using television, video games, Mp3 players, and airplanes to travel.