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.

Goals: Fourth Edition

My first goal was to organize my papers a few minutes after class instead of putting them in a pile. Yaaaaaaaaaaah. Still kinda need to work on that goal. I still put my papers into a messy stack.

My second goal was to prepare for twenty minutes on my socratic seminars. However, we never really did any socratic seminars this quarter so again, I might have to keep this goal for next quarter.

My third goal was to finish my AR by February. I met this goal because I got more than the required amount and I finished my reading before February. However I actually took the test in the first week of March.

My first goal this quarter is to organize my papers a few minutes after class instead of putting them in a pile. This was my goal last quarter but I still need to work more on this goal.

My second goal is to prepare for twenty minutes on my socratic seminars. This is because I never had the opportunity to achieve this goal last quarter.

My third goal is to finish my Research Project before the day it is due to minimize the stress. I tend to hold things off until the last minute so finishing early on such a big project will help me for high school.

Oxymorons

Holy wars is an oxymoron because wars, by definition, are unholy. All major religions condemn killing but wars involve killing. Because wars involve killing, and killing is "unholy", wars would also be unholy. So for there to be a holy war kinda contradicts itself making it an oxymoron. So many wars now are fought over religion because all of the religions feel that theirs is best or the real one, or the "correct" one and that they should fight over which one is the best. However, in order to accomplish this, they are breaking the rules of their own religion. The excuse then is that once we fight and our religion wins, then there will be no need to fight and no need to break the rules. However if all religions feel this way, then the wars are never going to end because everyone must keep trying to prove that their religion is the best. This will then keep going around in an endless loop.

A World War, Could it Happen Again?

I think that in my lifetime, WWIII is a possibility. What is going to happen, I think, is that it is either going to start with a major terrorist attack and the war is going to be Western countries fighting against the middle east and a few dictatorships. The other possibility is that some dictatorship is going to get out of hand. Then there will be nuclear weapon threats. Eventually, someebody is going to do something stupid that is going to get the whole world blown to pieces.
For the middle eastern fighting, the outcome is just going to be a much bigger gulf war. Nothing too serious will happen except there will be a lot of countries fighting in a fairly small space. With the nuclear war, so many people are going to be angery with eachother that there will be alot of missiles flying around and a lot of side swiching. The basic teams will be Western Europe and America vs the dictatorships. China and Russia will be the big superpowers whose choice is allies will decide the war. Britain, France, USA, Russia and China will all be very tense with eachother. It is going to be a larger Cold War that gets much more serious and withh more countries involved. It is going to end when several nukes have been fired off and many borders will change. Also, the UN will be replaced by something more powerful and more global that will stop a nuclear war from happening again.

Anne Frank Questions

Q #2
I think that if Anne Frank hadn't taken her diary, that our understanding would only be slightly different. Understanding of the war and of the holocaust is well documented and there are people here who are still alive who lived through them. One piece of info that Frank provides that is not well documented is what it is like for childeren and what it was like to have to go into hidding. This is what makes Frank's diary unique.

How to Make a War, WWII Style

Ingredients:
1 Meaningless document known as the treaty of Versailles
1 Incredibly ineffective League of Nations
1-Cup German Appeasement
5 Tbs of Fascism
6 ounces of chunky German aggression
Japanese Aggression to taste

Combine the Treaty of Versailles and the failed League of Nations and whip vigorously until well combined. This should leave you with Britain and France feeling quite guilty.

Next add the German appeasement. Keep on adding extra German appeasement until you have dough that is sticky, but not gooey. Be careful not to add too much as this process is hard to reverse.

Knead in fascism until you have a firm, yet workable piece of dough. The fascism and the appeasement should react when baked.

Fold in the chunks of German aggression. This will add texture and flavor to the war. Make sure you get a good brand, as this will be your war’s highlight.


Rub with Japanese aggression and bake until it is blood red.

Serve with death and destruction.

Serves 58 countries.