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.

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.