POWER

I define power or leadership as a role that makes you take decisions on behalf of others. Power can have both positive and negative effects. When one has power over someone or something, they can use it to benefit themselves or others. Industrialization showed how new technology had power to change the lives of all who used it. As for the American Revolution, the British had power over the Americans until the Americans revolted. Since the British were the ones that colonized America, they said they deserved to ask for taxes. There are also many ways power with one could defeat another. For example in globalization; the mono culture had power over all the indigenous cultures for many more people had been exposed to the mono culture rather than the others. Power can be used for negative reasons for in Rwanda the powerful HUTU community had power over the weak TUTSIS. This as we know, turned out to be a horrible genocide. When the Europeans came to Africa, they were technologically advance and therefore had the power to take them to the United States to work as slaves. One component of power is that anyone who posses it has a chance of being corrupt. When one has power, he or she decides to do things differently. This difference could make you take steps that wouldn’t be good for you but since you would hold power, you won’t need to go through any consequences. There have been many cases in which a leader seems to be following the rules of a community or country but breaks these rules behind the curtains. Many kill for power and many are aggressive to posses it. Overall, I would state that power is nice to have, nice to use, but if used negatively, considered VERY VERY RUDE!!!

Globalization Cartoon

Some of the main elements of this cartoon are a father and a daughter talking about the child's homework. This cartoon is talking about globalization and how it has affected children along with adults. The child wants to out source her homework to India where people will do her homework for her in return of very little. I believe that this cartoonist thinks that out sourcing along with globalization has affected everyone. Even young adults and children are thinking like businessmen and want to find good and cheap labor. I believe the cartoonist feels this way by the face of the child. She seems to say that if everyone can do it, why can’t I? Out sourcing is a part of globalization and seems to be a profitable practice for all who do it. Maybe the newspaper the father is reading could have headlines of something like, Google shifts their main search engine to India. Overall, this cartoon shows a major aspect of globalization and how it is spreading.

Skills from the Population Project

Few of the most important aspects of the population project or UbD are organization, researching, and presentation. Organization can help me later in life because when I will work with research, organization can help me whether I am in school or at work. Ubd helped me with organization because I had to sort out what information to use and why I had to use it. Being able to research information is very helpful in your work for you might have to find information on a topic that is mostly unknown. In Ubd I was able to locate information and find its proper source and that was a great achievement. Whether doing Ubd or a project from work, I will have to present what I found. In Ubd I presented my information as a portfolio. These are some skills I was exposed to while working on Ubd.

Sameness vs Equality

Equality and sameness are two totally different ideas. Sameness is when one idea is similar to another. Equality is mainly used when talking about people. For example sameness could be used when talking about characteristics of people. Say, one person feels angry and so does another that would be sameness. Equality is when we talk about rights and how all people are equal. In Animal Farm, sameness is what all the hens felt when their eggs were being taken away. All the hens felt a similar feeling. In The Giver, all people go through stirrings, a similar feeling when you turn twelve. In The Giver, equality comes into play when we are exposed to the community where all people are equal. In Animal Farm, there is an inequality between the hens and the pigs. The pigs get many more facilities and have control over all the others.

Feedback

At the age of 18 or 21, one would be considered an adult by law. You become an adult when you yourself can take decisions for yourself and you have the power to accept its consequence. When you are responsible for your actions, that is when you are an adult, and then it doesn’t matter whether you are 5 or 50. This is what I believe about adulthood.

When you are responsible and capable to accept the consequence of your actions, you are considered an adult. An adult doesn’t mean that you don’t make mistakes. An adult means when one does a mistake but then resolves it and tries not to do it again. It could take you many years to make you an adult. In the book THE GIVER, you become an adult at the age of 12. I believe that you don’t have an age to become an adult but your perspective of problems decides whether you are an adult or not.

You are never useless for a community. If you are young you get to learn from your elders, and if you are old you can teach. No community is too small to not make you a part.

Population Project Plan

• On Monday I am planning on getting a plan for my data analysis and finding a suitable graph for it. If I have time I will start on it.
• On Tuesday I will start on my research paper and I will try to have a rough draft by Thursday.
• On Wednesday I will finish my data analysis and try to some of the research paper work done.
• On Thursday I will complete my research paper and give it some final touch ups.
• On Friday I will work on anything that I haven’t complete and I will start putting all my portfolios together.

Cartoon Feedback

Some of the main visual elements of this cartoon are two parents asking their child how his day went while eating a meal. The issue in this cartoon is that their son has a blog but the parents aren’t bothered about reading it. The parents just want to know what their son did at school. I believe that the artist thinks that blogs are useful and that parents shouldn’t overlook them. I believe so because of the child’s face that is dumbstruck at how his parents think of his effort of making a blog. This cartoon is ironic because technology was meant to make communication easier but in this cartoon it is preventing the child from talking to his parents. The artist could have used the background more efficiently.