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.