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.

An event on the way home!!!

On my way home today, I found that there were around 70 policemen guarding the Chinese embassy. We had to change our route because of the security. Unfortunately, the Chinese embassy falls in our route and as for their security, the police have closed the road. The Chinese embassy has asked for protection from the Tibetans because of current events. As the Tibetans have been trying to gain independence from the Chinese, the rule that allowed the Chinese to have power over the Tibetans celebrated its 49th anniversary. This stirred the conflict between the Chinese and the Tibetans. I saw four policemen grabbing two men who looked liked Tibetans. They were going to go to prison. I believe that due to the conflict between these two groups of people, Delhi shouldn’t have to suffer by changing their way of life.

Opinion on Vonnegut's statement

Vonnegut is right about his opinion on humans and technology. Humans created the computer, but one idea to keep in mind is that you can erase memory off a computer, but you can’t erase a memory off a human. Computers are useful although they can give major technical difficulties. These are a few reasons why I believe Vonnegut is right.

Quarter 4 Goals

I believe I met most of my goals for quarter three except I believe that I could have s[ent some more time in getting AR points. I put in extra effort for my Socratic Seminar preperation for the past 3 months and I believe they were my best.

I believe that some goals for 4th Quarter would be:
1 Having my UBD project done before the deadline.
2 Putting in some extra effort in Science.
3 Concentrating more in High School.

Jihad or Holy War

In my understanding, Jihad is an idea of killing innocent people in the name of god. I believe that conflicts arise because one group or person disagrees with another. Jihad means Holy war. Out of any understanding, how can a war be considered holy, it is killing innocent people for the fault their leader attempted.

Cold War Debrief

My group in the game was Europe and Africa. The strategy I used to win was that we should give combos. Our countries were not good but when we gave it in a combo, USSR was willing to pay big money. I wanted to sell all my countries and so I sold all my countries and made many points for my team. This was my strategy.

I would have to say that my team did win in the end because we did have the most points amogst all our opponents. This was in the game, but in the real cold war, the real losers were USA and the USSR. These two groups wasted so many valuable resources in the cold war and in the game. All in all, the two superpowers were the losers.

Visual Communicator Post

When I work on any multimedia, some thoughts that go by my mind are that maybe I could add some pictures, or I could cut down these words. When giving information, stretching it out too much could be a pain. Suppose that you are making a brochure on an idea and there may be some statistics on it. Giving away numbers upon numbers would just bore the audience away.

Using visual communicator was a great experience for me although there were some parts that went wrong. Maybe some concepts we could have worked on would be not messing up the V-Screen and not rehearsing too many times. Some things that went good were that we got everything done on time, and we went step by step.

Some tips:
Don’t give up on technology
Be ready on time
Don’t put too many words