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What is Power?

Power can be broadly defined as the capacity to bring about change. It takes many forms, comes from many places, and is measured in many ways. Economic power, political power, and personal power are a few examples. Economic power can be broken down to communism, and capitalism. Capitalism is the system based on private ownership of capital. Communism is the system where private ownership is abolished.

During the Cold War, between 1945-1989 there was the shifting of power between USA and the USSR. The United States was a capitalist country, while the USSR was communist. Countries wanted to show that their system was better than the other. They both tried influencing other countries by spreading their ways, and preventing the spread of the opponent. Also present was the military competition. Whoever had more military armies and forces, were proven better. In addition, the Soviet Union had challenged and blocked sectors of the Berlin Wall. With the power of USA, they had withdrawn the blockade, and the sectors dividing the two had fallen with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Political power can be defined as a power held by a group in a society. During the years of the Russian Revolution, the ruler of the country was Tsar Nicholas. The Russian Revolution had the poorest living conditions, vast gaps in wealth, and was underdeveloped. Later during the years, Tsar Nicholas had established the Duma parliament, which he had given enough power to. Violence continues, and unrest was still growing in cities. After riots, and the assassination, Tsar Nicholas then steps down. The Duma now has power. Later on the Bolshiveks step in, and the Soviet Union is created and replaces the Russian Empire.

Personal power can be defined as each individual’s ability to bring out change. During the years of World War II, Hitler was a main part of power. Hitler had wanted to dominate Europe, and the world. He had the power to himself, but did not give the right for power to others. Today, globalization can be a form of individual power. The rapid change occurring is now because of each of us personally. The people have been helping in the creation of new technologies, and these have been affecting our lives. Today, we hold our own power whether or not we chose to do something, or not.

Today, personal power is present, but not everywhere.
Economic power, political power, and personal power are the main types. Economic power has brought change in places such as Russia. The use of political power gives a group the hold of power, and personal power gives each individual their own rights. Overall, power can be defined as the ability to change. All these types of power have been efficient in bring change to us, and our lives.

Control in The House of the Scorpion

In the book The House of the Scorpion, I can see control used in many places. During the time that El Patron had been living, he had control over the state of Opium where all his control was so respected, he had turned those necessary into eejits. He had control over everyone, including the workers and his family in Opium. Everyone respected him fully, and always listened to him. On page 139, Tam Lin tells Matt of how much control he has.

“Once El Patron decides something belongs to him, he never lets it go.”

“Never?” said Matt. “

Never.”

This shows how strong El Patron has control over people. In addition, he had implanted chips into loads of people’s brains so they could only do a certain number of things, and that only. They didn’t have a brain to think for themselves, or feelings either. Whatever he told them to do, they had to follow, like robots. Also, the fact that El Patron can help save Matt from everyone else that hates him is a strong use of control. Since Matt is a clone, many others don’t view him as human. But El Patron, having all the control over everyone, made sure Matt was unharmed, and safe, until he could use him. After the story carries on, Matt starts to grow more control over the people just like El Patron

Later on in the book Matt tries to escape across the border to Alacran, when he knew why El Patron had given him so much. In Alacran, the control slipped from the state of Opium to the keepers who controlled the boys. There, Matt had lost most of his control and had to listen to the keepers. Page 280 describes Matt’s conversation with one of the keepers.

“What’s your name?” said a Keeper

“Matt Ortega,” Said Matt

“Ah. The aristocrat.”

News had spread around that Matt was an aristocrat, and the keepers had treated him even more harsh knowing he was smarter than others.

Feedback Population Project

What are the three most valuable things you have learned during the Population Project process? How will they help you in the future?

One very valuable thing that i have learned while doing the population project is time management. I had to divide up time and plan ahead in order to hand in my portfolio on time, and create attractive contents. In the future when I move on to high school, there will be heavier projects that highly affect your final grades. In order to efficiently finish them, and have a good quality paper, learning time management now will help me succeed in high school, and college.

Secondly, I have learned new information on HIV/AIDS and how it is effecting the lives and possibly the economy of people in India. It has also helped me understand the disease better, and what people are doing to help. In the future this has the possibility of helping me with health projects, and other school related topics. Apart from this, I have always wanted to become a doctor in the future. Knowing more about the health issues will help me in my studies, and will give me a head start into a possible future job.

Lastly, it has helped me plan ahead and separate time out for each class so I would have done equal amount of work in each class. Having PoP to do had also increased my ability of searching on google. This has given me a chance to explore the websites, and search the library for informative books. This has exposed me to more various places in the librabry, and in the internet. This will help me in the future because I have understood the ways of how to get better search results faster. In high school, this will make my time faster and it will be easier to search on.

The Net Effect of Globalization

"to extend to other or all parts of the globe and make worldwide' is the definition of globalization (dictionary.com) Overall, globalization has had both a negative and positive impact on us, and the world. The positive result of globalization are the increasing number of jobs to those who have been outsourced to. Places such as India has experienced this, and it has been helping the economy and money to the country. Globalization has also given a positive impact because it makes our lives easier and faster. The new developed computers and Ipods have made our life more entertaining, and websites such as hotmail and facebook have been efficient in connecting the world together. Not only that, but movies, and chats have made computers an essential in ones life.

Although globalization has had some positive impacts in our world, the negatives are slowly building up alongside it. for example, although India is getting new jobs by the day, jobs from America are being outsourced. Employees in the US are loosing jobs due to outsourcing to other cheaper countries that can do the same amount of work. If this continues to occur, then more people will start losing jobs. Globalization has also impacted the lives of every one of us. Due to the exposure of technology and latest entertainment, the culture of each country is slowly dying out. More people will be using the same technology, wearing similar clothing, eating same foods that no place will be unique. The effects of globalization has two possibilities. Leading the world towards full efficiency, or damaging it permanently.


Cite: http://www.languageinindia.com/april2005/globalcompartmentalization.gif

Feedback: Technology & Shools

The main visual elements are the two parents discussing school with the son at the dinner table, and the son is very young. This issue is about how schools can use to much technology for not only middle schoolers, but for young elementary students to. Technology has become a way of teaching for children, and is a need. The opinion about this issue is the fact that the cartoonist is showing these days technology such as computers are used by people of many ages, and sometimes could have a negative impact. This is supported by the quote used beneath the picture. "Well yes, we could read your blog...or you could just tell us about your school day" The cartoonists opinion in a broader view is that technology is used by many, and can even get in ways of life.
This is an ironic picture because the child only looks to be about a young elementray schooler, yet he has a BLOG and knows about the new ways of technology. This relates to our study because technology is either a positive, or negative effect whichever balances out more to an individual. Technology has changed lives of humans for the better, yet some can say for the worse. The cartoonist could have drawn a picture of a high-tech computer in the background of the dinner table. That would support the authors opinion, and would give the viewer a more powerful image.

Image Cite: http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/files/2008/03/blog-cartoon1.jpg

PoP Project Week

Monday:
-Take notes on the effects of AIDS
-Take notes on the Possible solutions
-Possibly start on outline
Tuesday:
-Start writing body paragraphs and in text citation
Wednesday:
Citation Worksheet
-Write intro and conclusion paragraphs
Thursday:
-Edit paper
Friday:
-Finalize paper