What is Power?

Power has a variety of different aspects. This is because power can be shown in so many ways. All of these aspects play a significant role in determining how powerful someone or something is. Throughout time, many people and ideas have shown power in three main ways: control, influence, and fear.

The first aspect of globalization is fear. One way Stalin stayed in power as long as he did was because of how afraid people were of him. Many dictators stay in power because of how feared they are. In Africa during the times imperialism, the Europeans remained in power because of their physical strength (better guns and weapons) as well as the fear they maintained the the people that lived there. Even in the industrial revolution, Carnegie had power because too many people were afraid of him being such a tough competitor. As you can see, fear is a major part of what power means.

Another important aspect of power is influence. The British during the times of imperialism were very powerful because of how influential they were around the world. The United States is powerful because of how influential they are around the world too. They have a lot of financial power because of how important the dollar is in the stock market. During the cold war, the USSR and the USA had influence around the world. The USSR had influence on the communist countries while the United States had influence on the capitalist countries, particularly those in Western Europe. The final example, again, is how globalization influences how we live our lives. Its influence adds to how it controls our lives.

The final aspect of power is control. Many powerful people have shown this trait. In Africa, the Europeans had much control over the people there through imperialism. They showed this by forcing the local people into slavery and by forcing those people to provide them with resources. Another example from this year was Andrew Carnegie. He had power because of how much control he had over the steel industry in the United States. A third example of control that we learned about this year was Stalin. Along with other aspects of power, Stalin had an enormous amount of control over the Russian people through other aspects of power such as fear and influence. The final example of control that we have learned about this year is globalization. Globalization has an enormous amount of control over how we live our lives nowadays. Through globalization, we can now eat foods from around the world in just one place. The internet in particular has managed to control how we get information and how we communicate. As you can see, control has been a major aspect of power for hundreds of years.

Power has many meanings. Power can also be shown in a lot of ways. The three main aspects are control, influence, and fear. These are the aspects of power that have been shown for hundreds of years. Because of the number of ways it can be shown, there is no one meaning of power. However, it is these three things that really make up what power is.

Three most important things I learned in PoP

1) Time management. With a lot of parts of PoP going on at the same time, it was very important to manage my time well so that I didn't end up with only one thing done, the day before the other two are due. Time management was very important with the EO because we had no time to work on it in class and if we didn't start early on, we'd get flooded by the RP and DA and wouldn't have time for the EO. This will help me in high school and in college when I will have muliple projects and assignments going on at one time and I will have to use my time wisely in order to get them all done ontime.
2)Better organization. A few times during PoP, I nearly had a heart attack because I had lost important papers or even myUSB stick. I learned how important it is to organize my stuff so that I know where it is. Not having important papers or my USB stick was a big problem while doing my DA and RP. This will be very important later in life so that I don't speand hours wasting time trying to find stuff that should be kept in one place.
3) How to write a research paer. Even with the Africa RP, at the beginning of PoP, writing a research paer was still not something I had totally down. However, the extra in-class practice we had for our RP made writing it much easier. Knowing how to write a research paper will be very important in college because most of what we do will be tests, studying, and writing research papers.

Net effect of Globalization

There are many good things about globalizatio. For one thing, it has made communication and information more accesable than most people could have ever imagined. It has accelerated tech well. What globalization has done is that it has brought the world together. This helps everyone by making everything available to everyone. Thie internet, which has contributed to globalization, made information much more accesable. As it said in The world is flat, out sourcing and off shoring have made good jobs available for everyone, not just westerners. It has also brought cultures together and allows anyone to experiance a different culture. Before globalization, people had a hard time with people who are different. Now, everyone can work with eachother.
However, globalization has also brought problems. Many people are loosing there culture because all of the cultures are now so intertwined, that the result is a monoculture. Westerners are loosing there jobs to people across the world who will do the same job for a fraction of the western pay. Also, the poor people are still living in the dark ages and are getting even farther behind because globalization has just skippeed them and refuses to wait. However, I think that over all, globalization has been good. It has brought people together, made information more accesable, and has accelarated technology.

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Blogging

The main visual elements of this cartoon are the three people eating dinner at the table and the caption at the bottom of the cartoon. The issue in this cartoon is that technology is starting to do away with dinner table conversations. The artist's opinion is that there is still an older generation that doesn't want technology to completely take over and that the younger generations that have found away to use technology to get rid of every day aspects of life. The artist is probably on the "okay, this has kinda gone a bit too far now" side of technology. The caption in particular shows that the artist thinks this. They could use the blog but it's nice to have your son tell you. It is ironic that technology has removed an aspect of dinner table conversation that is very symbolic of what you say at the table which is the question, what did you do today? It is also ironic that we are blogging about a guy who is blogging. This relates to technology in the future because it shows how it can effect how you live your daily life and how technology has changed it.

UbD RP Plan

Monday:
On Monday, my plan is to start getting notes onto note cards. My EO option uses almost the exact same information so I can use many of the same sources. For homework, I can finish up with the note cards so that I can start the outline itself by Tuesday.
Tuesday:
On Tuesday, I will put note cards together into outline. I can also use this time to find more note cards if I find holes in my research. I can finalize this for homework.
Wednesday:
On Wednesday, I will start thinking about transitions and how to turn the outline into my first rough draft. I will also use this time to finalize my DS rough draft. Some of the audio needs to be changed here. I will try to show Mr. Coyle the first draft and see how I can make it more "edutaining"
Thursday:
Thursday will be spent working on the rough draft of the RP.
Friday:
Whatever needs to be done for the RP.

Technology

Technology is the advancement of we know and can create. It is how we make things better. The five most important are microchip technology, vaccination technology, nuclear technology, genetically modified foods technology, and the making of new materials technology: plastic, alloys, glass, etc. The five least important are candle technology, epaulet tech., happy meal tech, PEZ dispenser tech, and hair curling technology. I think that the amount of technology we use at AES is just right. We are in the dark ages where everything is hand made and there are no electrical appliances at all and we aren't so advanced that everything we do, we do using computors. It would drive me crazy if computors completly ran my life. However, as I said in my luddite responce, I still think that compuors and electronics are quite important.

Luddites

I would have to agree with Vonnegut, at least in part. However I can't help but love that "damn fool computer". I can definitely imagine what a computer can become. One day, computers and techno machinery are going to run our life. The Euphio for example was able to create artificial happiness. What I find hard to imagine is life with out electronics. No more yahoo answers doing your math. No more spell check. There was a time when you had to do ALL of your homework without a computer or a calculator. A time when you had to walk to a library to get information when now, the internet can do the same thing. But even now, you have to find your own happiness. In the Euphio question, there was a machine to give you happiness. For machine to run your life means that you are then living less of it. Happiness, however, is one thing that should never been done by a machine. Happiness is one thing that you have to be alive to experience. No machine should ever experience happiness for you.