Franklin Cartoon

The main visual elements for this cartoon are the sliced up snake for one, and the bold letters on the bottom of the page saying “join, or die.” This political cartoon’s issue is about joining Benjamin Franklin political party and to convince (or rather threaten) people to vote for him. The cartoonist thought that Franklin was using threatening tactics to get peoples votes. The cut up snake supports what I said about using threatening tactics and the words join or die are also saying that if you don’t join, there will be consequences. To make this cartoon more persuasive the cartoon could have made the snake look like it was in more pain to bring out fear in the publics eye.

TBAS posting

What we read in TBAS can be trusted for more than one reason. The first reason being that the author (Julius Lester) is a credible source and can be trusted, an example of this is a quotation I took from the back of the book in the “about the author” section:

“Mr. Lester is a professor of black studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst…” (Lester, pg. 158)

My second reason being that the quotes Lester took for his book were from slaves that had been there and experienced the lives of a slave, and therefore they know how it feels to be a slave.

“I was here in slavery days. I was here. When I come here, colored people didn’t have their ages. The boss man had it.”

Anonymous

Library of Congress

My final reason is the fact that many of these quotes come from the Library of Congress, and that is a reliable source. This quote is from the others note in the beginning of the book.

“These are the narrative material taken from the Fisk University collection of slave narratives, the Library of Congress…”

Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. 1968. NY: scholastic inc, 1968.

Great Power Game

For this game I was the USA and at first a few teams had an advantage over the others including the USA, the reason this was so was because the more powerful areas (USA, Great Britain, and France) in that time had more power so therefore we started out with more power in the beginning of the game. In the long run industries and colonies were by far the most important things to buy because nearing the end of the game you wouldn't be able to stock up on army if u didn't have the right amount of industries. That being said, industries and colonies are the the foundation of the countries success. The two things I did well in this game were from the beginning picking strong allies (even if they didn't end up to be trustworthy) so the competition was out of the way. The second thing I did well was buying lots of industry when war hadn't started yet.

My alliances at first were well picked but not too well thought trough, I picked the biggest powers, not necessarily the most trustworthy ones. One of my alliances (with France) was probably the reason our three powers didn't come out on top because he broke our treaty leaving Great Britain and I vulnerable for future attacks from countries who needed revenge but didn't have enough power.

The three most important things I learned in this game were:

1. Treaties are made to be broken.

2. You can't always trust people.

3. A country's wealth and power comes from its industries.

Quarter 3 Goals

1. Become a better reader (more than 30 pages a night if reading for an hour)

2. Stop procrastinating (do all my homework before doing anything else)

3. Organization of my schoolwork (have a plan before randomly doing work)

Quarter 2 Goal Feedback

Only one of my three goals were met, and it was working to my full potential. Last quarter I did my work as best as I could unlike quarter one, but the two goals bellow were the two goals that I failed to succeed at. Evidence to show that I didn't succeed at my first goal was that I only read about 30-45mins a night so I didn't get to read 30 pages a night, evidence to show that I failed at following through with my first goal was that I always did my homework later than I should have because I was either watching T.V. or on the internet.

1. Become a better reader (more than 30 pages a night if reading for an hour)

2. Stop procrastinating (do all my homework before doing anything else)

Hotel Rwanda Assignment

(Question number 2)
First off, besides having many groups hating the opposing side there were many people Hutu and Tutsi that were not happy with what was going on and didn't mind Tutsis and Hutus living together peacefully (this is how Paul and his family felt) but couldn't say anything about it because they may have gotten killed for it.

Groups of people such as Tutsi rebels and Hutu soldiers did not want negotiation among each other and just wanted to fight and kill each other, for example in the beginning of the film where the Hutus come to Paul's house and takes his neighbors , his family and himself at first the soldiers won't except bribes because they just want the Tutsis to die, and when fighting and killing take place in the film the soldiers give no mercy.

The world as a whole does an even worse job of keeping peace and helping the country because as the man from the film crew said that when people watch the footage from all over the world all they do is feel bad for a few minutes then change the channel, no one really intervenes, and intervening it the only way that things can get solved when they become that bad. Ontop of that when the Tutsis were in need of the most help the only people who could help them left them (the U.N.).

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