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Countries in Central Africa has been very poor, and low in economy. Professionals such as doctors and teachers had leftthe country. The ethnic groups had fought each other, leaving the country high in poverty. In The Democratic Republic of Congo, people usually live in rural areas where they farm and trade for food. Although they have a lot of gold, diamonds, and cobalt, they are still a poor country. In Cameroon however, people have a high standard of living. Guinea and Sao Tome living conditions are still poor, even though they had a recent discovery of oil they need to import for food. In Gabon, people get provided a high standard of living. They were doing good in the economy, until the civil war hit, which impacted their economy in a very negative way. In Angola however, 85% of the people there do subsistence farming for a living. One of the reasons why these countries are poor is because the corrupt officials have taken large amounts of money from the countries. Zambia and Malawi have a slow growing economy. People whom had been injured, or hurt could no longer work. The main killer in Central Africa is Malaria. Every 30 seconds, a child dies from malaria. Another main killer is HIV AIDS. About 50% of the people below age 15 hads been affected by it. Food production, agricultural land, healthcare, and many others need to be improved in order to keep the country healthy, and low in poverty.
Forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo are fighting local militiamen in the rebel's territory. The Mai Mai militiamen were normally pro government, but they had been trying to take advantage of the army in order to get their weapons. This had taken place early Tuesday in the around Kanyabayonga. On Sunday, the government troops were forced to abandon the eastern Congolese town. The latest fighting smashed cease-fire between rebels. Fighting between government forces and rebels had displaced more than 250,000 people. They had had a meeting with Nkunda and the Congolese president. Fresh war broke out again on Sunday around Ndeko.
This article is newsworthy because it tells the people around where the war had broken out to be careful of it and not get close. It also shows conflict between the two, and how they are fighting. This article is a continue from other articles, and a follow up to what had happen before, and what had happened currently. This story has also happened not too long ago, and is good for those who need a heads up on what has been going on where they live.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/18/congo.ceasefire.rebels/index.html
The main visual elements that stand out in this cartoon the most is that there is a footprint on Africa. The people have put a foot mark on Africa, as if claiming people have been here, and it belongs to them.
This issue talks about how European countries have stepped on their land, and taken it. It shows that people had come into Africa, and stole whatever they needed without asking them. They had stamped their foot on whatever places they wanted. The cartoonist's opinion on this issue is that people are taking over land for their needs, and not caring about those living around them. The evidence that supports my opinion is because there is a huge footprint right across the whole part of Africa, which shows someone has been there, and are claiming it theirs.
http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/files/2008/11/colonialism.jpg
Central African countries had been influenced by European kingdoms, changing their way of life. People had begun to migrate to Central Africa, establishing several kingdoms. One of the most important kingdom was the Kongo Kingdom. This kingdom had grown rich of animals skins, shells, slaves, and ivory. The European used resources such as ivory, to make jewelery, statues, and piano keys. Some countries has become richer because of the Europeans, but later weakened by the European influence. They had divided Central Africa into colonies. They hadn't known that doing this would have changed the people. There were many Ethic groups, and many different beliefs. Putting them all together caused conflict because they had different customs, and languages. Central Africa had gained independence after world war 2. But later, this didn't solve the ethnic groups to stop conflict. They had continued to fight with one another within the borders.
Central Africa had been also greatly influenced about culture. There were a variety of languages being spoken, but because of the influence, they had started speaking many European languages. Europeans had also brought Christianity to Africa. It is also the home of Hindu's and Muslims. Central Africa had its own traditional cultures, such as sculpture, wooden masks, and cotton gowns. It is also popular because of its music. All these changes from European countries had brought a tremendous amount of change to Central Africa.
We used a strategy for taking over land by exchanging with the country we needed land from. We would also have a lot of countries that had a lot of resources we needed, so that if another country had taken over one of our spots, we would still have many others. We also tried to take as much as possible. When claiming land, we had to look over the maps and see which places had the resources we needed. We also looked at the places that had surrounded us to see if they would try and take over. I would have said that either Germany or Great Britain. Germany had taken over most of south Africa, which was where most of the resources had been. Great Britain had also taken a huge amount of the north, and east. It actually depended on which resources they had been aiming for, but overall, i think either Germany or Britain. I would say that Spain had lost. They hadn't taken over much land, and they only had a few resources.
Angola had promised to send troops to Congo because they had claimed hat Congolese soldiers have raped women, torn down villages, and homes. Angola had last been seen in a conflict with Congo during the 1998-2003, which left 3 to 4 million people dead. Attacks were followed by nighttime with guns near the capital of Goma. It had represented one of the most intense fighting. Both sides have accused the other of violating the ceasefire, that both the U.N. and democratic Republic of Congo officials say they have killed hundreds of people. Also, Congolese troops began looting the village of Kanyabayonga, about 60 miles north of Goma, on a late Monday. They were shooting in the air, and houses. Fighting then broke out in Congo at the end of August over 1994. 250,000 people have been displaced by the conflict. There were about 17,000 U.N. troops in Congo. On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary called for an immediate ceasefire, saying as many as 100,000 refugees north of Goma have been cut off from relief workers. He has requested the U.N. Security Council to authorize an additional 3,000 troops to help control the fighting.
This is newsworthy because it involves conflict. there had been too much that they had to add additinal troops and it is important to the local people to know the danger that has been going around them. It is also a reference to something negative, which makes reader usually more interested, and it involved trying to end the violence. Fighting and stories that are negative, are more newsworthy. It is also like a follow up because they say in around 1994, Angola had also had a conflict between Congo, and then other places in Africa had joined. It is also full of killing and war, fighting against each other which makes it more newsworthy.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/12/congo.fighting/index.html
Central Africa is bordered by the Atlantic ocean on the west, and a huge valley called the Western Rift Valley on the east. Passing through Central Africa you will see some of the highest mountains and biggest rivers in Africa. Some main landforms in Africa is called the Congo Basin. It is a flat region that is surrounded by higher land like the mountains and plateaus. There are also two lakes that lie along the rift called Lake Nyasa, and Lake Malawi. One of the main rivers in Africa is called the Congo rivers. It is a huge river that fed by hundreds of small rivers and drain into the Congo basin. Many rivers flows into Zambezi. It is also the route of a very famous waterfall named Victoria Falls. The climate there is a tropical Humid climate, since if lies between the equator. Many animals such as gorillas, elephants, wild boars, and okapis live in the forest lands of Central Africa. tropical environment in Central Africa is also good for growing crops. Common crops that farmers have grown are coffee, banana's, and corn. It has rich natural resources. Another big idea is that the governments have set up national park areas to protect the animals from being hunted. In rural ares people trade agricultural and other products in periodic markets. It means that it is an open air trading market that is set up once of twice a week. Some political problems that keep the region from being fully developed is the poor transportation.
Yes, I think we can Trust him. In the book TBAS, he had told us where he had gotten his information from. Everyone that had said what it had been like to be to be a slave had been named in this book. He had told us in which books he had the information from, and who had said what they said. He gave us the person's name, stating that this was true. His ancestors were also slaves, so he also had some background information on slavery. Therefor what he had written is possibly true.
Fighting between rebel forces lead to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to evacuate about a dozen aid workers from from near Rutshuru, in eastern Congo. This had occurred on Tuesday when they had evacuated the aid workers. The fighting was taking place in the village of Kiwanja, less than two miles outside Rutshuru. They had needed evacuate the workers because there was fighting against the rebels and local Mai Mai fighters. The UN Peacekeeping mission had needed to take the aid workers outside the fighting border. The fighting rebels had been led by Gen, and as of 9:00pm Laurent Nkunda and Mai Mai fighters had not given up. The the rebels had launched heavy fighting last month displacing thousands of homes from villages.
This news has happend not so long ago, and had involved fighting between rebels and the Mai Mai, making workers and others from villages get evacuated so they dont get caught in the fight. It was a follow up of other stories that had happend between the rebels. They had last month, displaced villages, and had a lot of fighting. It shows the emotions that the rebels had against the others, and that they wanted to fight. It is also newsworthy because it brings out the negative and dangers that the villages had faced.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/04/congo.aid/index.html
This picture represents about four of the five themes of geography. The movement happening in this picture is the people. They moved continuously to sell fruits and vegetables, and they move every morning to go to sell them too. The region in this place is full of good soil, in order to plant all the food there. The region is suited for planting foods. The human environment interaction in this picture is how the people are interacting with the rivers, and also the environment because of the planting in soil. The location of this place is Damnoen Sanduak Floating Market, Ratchaburi Province, Southwest Bangkok, Thailand. The place in this picture is different because of the weather, it must be warm all year, and also its selling on boats.
http://www.jacekphoto.com/thailand/thailand_floating_market03.jpg
I highly agree that violence leads to more violence, because if there is a death of one person whom is very important, others who support him would want revenge to that person, causing more violence. This can be supported because in Act 3 scene 1 the conspirators had killed Caesar at the senate, and then trying to calm everyone down. Later in the book Octavius arrives in Rome, and Antony wants to seek revenge to the conspirators who had fled. In Act 3 scene 2, Antony gives his famous speech to the citizens of Rome, trying to tell them how bad Brutus and the others have stabbed him, and how they should seek revenge. Telling them this, makes more violence, not only to them, but also when Brutus and Cassius find out they want revenge, they are going to gather up their group to fight back, leading to more violence. Antony convinces everyone to get revenge on the conspirators by using whatever needed, especially to Brutus, who was Caesar's trustworthy friend. This is also true in the real world because people would want to get back at others and hurt them as much as they had hurt that person. For example, if you dropped a bomb at some very important place, killing millions, they would come back when you never know and bomb one of your places to get even with you. This leads to more violence, and more destruction. It also would hurt others whom have loved that person so much, who would also end up seeking revenge. So violence leading to more violence is highly agreed.
I would stay loyal to Caeser. He had defeated Pompey, without help, it shows that he has the power to rule. Many of the citizens have liked Caeser, even before he was going to become king. He had socialized with many others, and everyone wants for him to be king. Cassius isn't thinking about the good of Rome, he just doesnt want Caeser to rule because he sided with Pompey during the war. Cassius is choosing Brutus to try and kill Caeser because he and Caeser have been close friends, and if he had persuaded Brutus, Brutus would have agreed. Cassius uses the technique of making Caeser look bad by telling stories of how Caeser is so weak to Brutus. Cassuis says "Dar'st thou, Cassius, now leap in with me into this angry flood and swim to yonder point. Caeser had cried "Help me, Cassius, or i sink!" Cassius is trying to prove to Brutus that Caeser is a week person, and that it would be better for Rome if Brutus had killed him, and taken over instead. What Brutus doesnt know is that Cassius is trying to use him in order to get rid of Caeser so he can try and rule Rome. Caeser has done everything to prove that he is a good leader of Rome, but Cassius doesnt want Ceaser to be. so Overall, I would side with my friend Caeser. I beleive that he would become a good leader of Rome. Caeser has been a friend longer than Cassius has, so I would trust Caeser would be for the good of Rome.
A good leader can stand up for what they think is right, by also using other's thought and ideas. A good leader, takes responsibility for his/her actions, and speaks up. They have god ideas, and also cares about the others that follow them. listens to other's and shows the correct path that they think it not only healthy for them , but for everyone around them too. Another quality of a good leader is that they have had past experience, and knows what to do without hesitating.
I think that some good leaders in the 8th grade are Aysha, and Jonathon. They bring up new ideas to our school, and also have fun. They make ideas fair, and listens to others thoughts. They take control, but in a good way. In Socratic seminars , they speak a lot, and bring others into the conversation.
Europeans wanted to expand and conquer other countries such as Africa, India, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. They needed the natural resources and laborers that other countries had. The European countries needed the most were the raw materials, and all those different countries had different raw materials, causing Europe to try and take over the countries. The Europeans wanted the glory, and people giving them respect. Each country in the Europe tried to take over different parts of the world. Mostly all the god reasons were to change the native people into Christians, like their own. The methods they mostly used was militarily and economically. The changes resulted were modern life of technology and religion were brought to these countries. Farmers had scarce amount of food to eat even though they were growing all the food to give to the Europeans, Changes also occurred economically. These were the methods and motives Europeans used to try and take over other countries.
One of my first quarter's goal was to be efficient in finishing and handing in my homework. I have been able to achieve this goal for the quarter. I have been able to finish my homework and turning them in on time without slacking behind. My second goal for the first quarter was to use better descriptive words in my writing. I have tried my best, and have been able to use a few new words. we have done a lot of work in the beginning of the year to help show our writing instead of telling. That helped me improve on my writing as well. I am still trying to make my stories more descriptive, but otherwise, i am about to reach this goal.
One of my three goals in humanities second quarter is to get a good understanding about imperialism, and what had occurred during those times. I have never heard of the word imperialism, so one of goals is to get a good understanding on imperialism
My second goal for quarter two is to improve in my spelling and grammar. I have not been doing to well on correcting my grammar, such as commas, periods, etc. I will need to improve on rereading my rough drafts to get all corrections.
My last goal for this quarter is to do better in Socratic Seminars. It has been bringing my grade down, and it affects my overall grade. I need to improve on talking more, and bringing out more ideas.
The main visual elements in this political cartoon is the man holding the worker in his hands, making the money from him fall out of his pockets into the "profits from child labor" bag below him. The man has a badge that says capitalism, and the worker has one that says labor. This cartoon is about how managers take the people and make them the laborers to do his work. The labor doesn't earn much money, just enough to help out the family, and the money that they earn sometimes gets taken away. The man holding the worker is rich, and he owns the company. He can take the money out of the workers, and giving them only a little bit for their hard work. The cartoonist's opinion in this picture is that capitalism wasn't very good for the workers because they worked the long hours, but they didn't earn enough money. The money was being taken away from them into the managers bags of money.
The evidence is how the worker is being held and the money falling out of his pockets into the bag below him that belongs to the boss. The man holding the worker is rich and is dressed well, unlike the worker in his hands. The cartoonist used writing to represent capitalism, and labor which made the cartoon more clear to the reader about what the cartoon meant, and it gave more detail.
Image citation: http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/images/Socialist Voice
My first goal in humanities was to become a better writer. So far, I think I am meeting the goal for using various kinds of words. I am still working on showing my writing instead of telling. I have improved on it quite a bit, but as a writer I will need to put more work and effort into becoming better at showing. We haven't been paragraphing much so I haven't met that goal, but I try to whenever I get the chance. I also try to use various kinds of words when needed so my writing doesn't bore people as much, but I could work on that a little but more. My second goal in humanities was to finish all my homework and hand them in on time. So far, I have been keeping up with the pace of homework and have turned in all homework on time. I also have been finishing all homework throughly and handed them in completed. I am doing pretty good in achieving my goals for this quarter. :]
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This game I found as the cutter and gluer more stressful. People would keep yelling at us telling us that we were too slow, and that we had to do it faster. Each time the model came out, it looked nothing like the original, some of them had its nose too high, some had bunny ears, and some were just horrible. If we had more time, it would have made the model look more better than the one we made in a rush. We should have planned it out better as an assembly line, because it wasn't very organized at all. But overall I found the game extremly fun working with everyone and giving each other laughs.
It was the biggest out of all, standing there calling my name. So tall you could barely see the the top, but I was here, and I was ready. My heart pounded inside my chest as I aproched the rollar coaster excited about my new experiance. The railings leading up top were cold and hard and the steps kept going on forever. Once I reached the top I could see the long black coaster rolling in, making squeaky noises as it arrived. I grabbed the front seat, and held tight to my belt. It was rough, but kept me from danger. Then the rollar coaster started to move, going higher and higher. I could smell the fries and hamburgers below me, and the wind was hard against my face. Then suddenly, it felt as if I were flying, a free fall from high above. The breeze was cool against my skin and it made my hair go shooting in many directions. Before I knew it. the ride slowly came to a stop, and I back where I started.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Necessity means needs that a person wants. Invention means a creation that someone has created to fulfill our needs. For example the phone, created by Alexander Graham Bell, he created the phone to make our life easier instead of walking to deliver a message. These days, we don’t ride on horses to deliver messages like they did in the olden days, we use phones. It makes it faster to contact one another, and a lot easier.
Another example of invention is the airplane, created by Wilbur and Orville Wright. The creation of planes have made it faster to travel to far distance places, and because of them it has made it easier to travel to different countries, and even continents. We call it the mother of invention because the mother is the one that gives birth to a person, not the father. So this line says in other words that when we need something, we can invent it out of scratch.
URL: http://www.planeticketsnow.com/airlines/img-thai-airbus-a340-large.jpg I learn best visually because by watching videos, and reading, I can get more of a characters personality, and how they act. Reading describes the characters traits well, so you can easily remember which character, and by watching videos, you can see how the character acts, and reacts to different situations. I also learn best by listening to lectures and others opinions on the topic so I get a sense on what others think about it. I don't really like discussions, but just listening to discussions is fine with me.
1. What were 2 highlights from the first week of school?
-Meeting my old friends and making new ones
-Being in Chorus for the 3rd year
2. What was your first impression of Humanities?
My first impression of humanities was, "this is going to be a hard year, and lots of homework too" I 'm not sure why but that was the first thing that popped into my head when we first started class.
It felt like we were going to have a lot more homework to do, and more projects too.
3. What are 2 goals you have for this quarter in humanities?
My first goal is to become a better writer by using various word choices and paragraphing correctly.
My second goal for this quarter is to finish my homework and give it in on time.
