Positive effects of Imperialism

• The Europeans colonized Africa
• Education was introduced to some African children
• Buildings were built
• New technology was introduced to the African people
  
• Governments were established
• Railways were built
• Shipping ports were

Negative effects of Imperialism

• Tribes that did not get along were placed together
• Power was snatched away from people
• People were enslaved
• Land was taken from people
• People were stripped from their rights
• Tribes were ruined
• Most of the buildings they brought was for their personal gain
• They used Africa's resources
• They brought with them disease

Current Event 3

Who?
Nigerian Army members
What?
Soldiers have been imprisoned for life because they illegialy sold guns to oil militants
Where?
Nigeria
Why?
They sold them7,000 guns illegaly because they eeded money and the oil militants bribed the soldiers or the Nigerian Army into selling them.

This is news worthy story because it shows how the economy suffrs and the people will do whatever they can to get the money they need to survive.Today everything depends on how much money ou get and with that money people use it to keep themselves living, and this article shows that people are desperate in Nigeria and have to go agains the law to be able to fend for themselves.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7737213.stm

Summary to Blog

West Africa has a a very poor economy and government with many religious and ethnic conflict between different tribes. In Nigeria they have many oil fields and many rich resources along with a diverse culture and people of different ethnicity. Its got a huge population mainly because of its high birthrate and that also makes it one of the poorest countries in Africa. Many of the other countries in West Africa have poverty and a big problem in economics along with unstable goverments and famines. One of the countries that has a stable democratic government is Cape Verde. Countries in West Africa struggle with poor economy and political instability ever since they have been independent. In Africa there is a lot famine and starvation due tocrops being eaten by locusts. West Africa is a very poor part of the African region.

FeedBack: Cartoon! :]

The main visual elements in this picture is that there is a large footprint standing on a lack 3-D version of Africa. I think that the cartoonist is trying to imply that Africa is being walked over on and taken advantage off. The issue may be about the colonization that occurred because the Europeans just walked on land and took what they needed and that is what I think that the cartoon was showing. I think that cartoonist doesn't like what is going on in Africa, hence why he decided to make the Europeans look bad. Maybe the message could've been implied a bot simpler because it takes a while to understand what is going on in this picture.

SQ3R History Of West Africa

Africa has a lot of history, the history of being "colonized", and the history between the tribes and people of Africa. Its a large continent with a wide range of cultures, religions, trade and history. The people of West Africa belong to hundreds of different ethnic groups, examples would be, Hausa and Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo and more. Colonization separated most of the ethnic groups and sometimes ethnic groups that didn't get along, get grouped together. Along with ethnic groups there are many forms of religion in West Africa, the two main religions that are practiced are Islam, brought by the North Africans, and Christianity, brought by the Europeans. Another form of practiced religion is animism, the belief that natural objects have spirits and the people who follow this type of religion honor the memories of their ancestors. In West Africa many of the families live in small huts made from straw, mud, cow dung, and mud brick. It is considered to be the woman's job to decorate the house and to take care of the house otherwise but this however is only in the rural parts of West Africa. In the urban areas of West Africa people live in regular homes, apartments etc. So in summary, West Africa has a wide and iverse culture along with a lot of rich history.

Scramble for Africa

We decided to make alliances with Great Britain saying that we wouldnt conquer them and give them some of our good land as long as they take sides with us and the both of us would conquer Africa. This was a good strategy because Great Britain was VERY powerful and we needed a strong country to help us when we needed it a lot. We needed petroluem, zinc, iron, and we also wanted diamonds for our country did not have as much as Africa had. We do not, however, know who won but I think it was either Germany or Great Britain. We also do not know who lost because someone decided to take their anger out on the board, but my best guess would be that Spain or Portugal lost.

Current Events 2

Mohammed Bello Abubakar is an 84 year old man was in police custody for 59 days and has now recieved a bail. You may be thinking "what did the man do to be in such trouble?", well i will tell you. This man married 86 women and accepted to give all a divorce but 4 women which he wished to keep to himself. In Nigeria it is common to marry more than one women and such marriages are still practiced, but the reason that these marriages caused such a riot is because not only did he marry 86 women, but he said that God made him do it. He claimed that he had flowen to heaven and that God had commanded that Mr Mohammed Abubakar can have as many wives as he wised to have.

Physical Geography of West Africa

West Africa is a very vast land that goes from the Sahara, to the Atlantic Ocean and The Gulf of Guinea. If you take a look at a physical map of Africa you would see that West Africa was mostly mostly made up of plains, deserts, cliffs and one river, The Niger River. The plains are usually used for to raise livestock or to plant crops for the people living in that region. People usually build their homes on the sides of cliffs and they have been building their homes their for many years now. The Niger River is used for fishing and for farming. West Africa has a wide variety of resources such as, agricultural products, oil, and minerals. The climate of West Africa is excellent for agricultural uses. Oil is found at the coast of Niger and is THE most valuable resource there is. So to summarize what I have been saying previously West Africa has plains, valuable resources and has good agricultural usage.

Journal Reflection

I think that the book To Be A Slave can be trusted because they give different sources. Its is in fact it is a very trustable book. It is not biased and gives you ALL the main ideas from different slaves throughout history. It has the slaves that were treated like dirt and were beat up, and the book also has the slaves that weren't treated so badly. He also has on pages 13-14 a note on where is information was found etc, so in order to write he HAD to research and may have had found some very reliable sources. He does indeed have ancestors that were slaves so maybe he does have good information about slaves from his ancestors. So I think that he was trustable.

Niger Children are dying off- Current Event Post

Niger is a very poor country, the people there are illetrate and do not have the knowledge or nourishment and childcare, etc. About one fourth of the children under five years of age die. Lack of food in Africa has occured in the past and is still occuring. Children in Niger die because their families cannot afford to pay for food and food is a necesity of life. Even though Niger is an arable land many people still die. Rescue teams have been sent but still there are people starving. The starvation and malnourishment has gotten much worse than it was and we should really help those people because they need our help.

5 themes of geography.

The five themes of geography in this picture are movement, region, human environmental interaction, location and lastly place. The movement in this picture is the movement of culture, it is a castle from the 15 or 16 century and it is open for people to look at and learn about the idea of what happened at those times. The region in this picture is probably a windy area as the flag is being blown about and the sky is foggy. The human environmental interaction is that the castle is built on a volcano and a hill and obviously some damage had to be done for the castle to be on such land. The location of the castle is Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Place would be the climate because the U.K is known to be a very cold area to live in.

FeedBack- "Violence only leads to more violence"

"Violence only leads to more violence" is one of the quotes that is both true and makes a lot of sense. It is very well related to the play because by killing Caesar, which was both a stupid and violent thing, the conspirators ended up dead themselves, which was a good and violent thing again. It relates to real life aswell because if somebody wanted, lets use oil as an example, if they wanted oil and their country did not have oil then that person would fight another country for oil and cause the two countries to have a war. That situation could have been resolved with an agreement of asking for oil nicley and getting oil which would have saved more lives and been better for the two countries. If the conspirators did not kill Caesar and just talked to him and let him know how they had felt then maybe Caesar would have changed for the good of Rome and more people would have live, i.e the conspirators. That is what I think of the quote.

Brutus's Dilemma

Brutus has to face a moral dilemma, should he do whats best for Rome or should he believe in what Caesar has in mind? In the end he decides or gets persuaded into thinking that Caesar is not a good leader for Rome and will only lead to chaos. But in the end it all comes down to "was this the right thing to do?"
If I was Brutus then I would not kill Caesar or give into Cassius. I would see that by letting Caesar rule I would be doing what is best for Rome. I think this is correct way to think because he is a strong, and wise person who would probably do whats best for Rome. In the first few pages of 1:1, it is about how people are very happy with Caesar and how Caesar managed to conquer Spain from Pompey. I think this shows that Caesar was probably a very strong person and certainly brave enough to attempt such dangerous tasks. This also proves that he was doing this for the good of Rome. And I think that by letting him live I,Brutus, would have been doing the correct thing.
Another reason I would have let him live is because Caesar was able to see through Cassius and know that there is probably something not trust able with him which was a true assumption.
So to summarize in my mind Caesar is the perfect leader and if I was Brutus I would not kill such a person.

Leadership

I think that the qualities of a good leader is that they should be kind, thoughtful,wise,strong,brave, and listens to the people and do what is best for them. They should have no fears and make everyone fear him yet like him at the same time. The leader should be respected and should respect everyone. They should not only be strong but also very clever and should always have an idea of consequences and have a plan ready for emergencies. I would like to say that SLAMS is our leader but it is not. In this school every student is their own leader. SLAMS are not in my mind because they aren't gaining MY respect by giving us dances and other SLAMS sponsored events they will gain my respect by organizing for the students BENEFIT.

Feedback on Political cartoons

The main visuals in this picture would be that the "giant" or large man is wearing a banner that has the word Capitalism on it and the smaller man has a tag saying labor on him. There is also a large bag with the words "Profits from child labor" on it. I think that the issue in this cartoon is that the boss (giant) is squeezing the money out of the working man and making his own money from it. I think that the cartoonist is showing his dislike for capitalism by making it look evil in the sense that the big people will take everything from the little people in order for the big people to get what they want. I can see the artists opinion in this because the big man is taking all of the money from the working man and he probably has done this quite a lot because he has about two sacks full of money and he looks rather wealthy. Maybe it could be less blurry and more clearer so that the viewer can actually understand what the cartoon is of.

Feedback- Revise my goals!

My feedback post on my goals from two weeks or so back consisted of getting my writing skills to improve and the second goal was to improve my vocabulary. I still want to accomplish these goals but maybe in a newer direction than before. I want to improve my writing skills but mostly in fictional pieces because I have trouble with showing vs. telling and with that my vocabulary with grow by itself. I also would like to be able to have a more deep view on things and not think inside the box as I normally do. These new goals are probably my goals for now maybe later on I will either accomplish them or have more goals but for now I'm going to try and set these ones out.

Stock Market 1870's

I thought that the tip "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket" best fit me because I didnt invest all my money on one company I went ahead and put my "eggs" or money all different types of stock and decided buy all the shares for this company thinking that it will gain me more money, I went ahead and decided to take about two shares of stock from the different companies, only fate could have told what was going to happen. I found this to be a good game and was a very interesting way to know how to handle stock markets. It was almost like real life!

Industrial Revolution Plus and Negative

Positive

• It made education more important
• It made the world more modernized
• It was a way to make people more educated
• If that did not happen we would still be farming

Negative

• Air pollution increased
• Industrial Espionage
  
• Child labor
• More factories are using farm land
  

image from: nhs.needham.k12.ma.us

Factory Game Day Two

I found Day 2 much harder than day one because in Day 1 we had more time and we could make anything we wanted. Day 2 was also harder in the assembly line because we had to make and exact replica of Chubby Bear. As a colorer I found it quite easy to color but it was also hard because you had to make a good product. The type we had made where very queer looking ones and that is saying it politley. It was also our job to make the product look acttractive to children to play with. Sometimes we used the wrong shade of brown or when one person was coloring they would scribble one part and then make another part neat. Quite a lot of the time we got bears that looked like bunny rabbits and other times we got bears that had glue all over the place and couldn't color it well. But we still adapted to the problems and got good at coloring fast and neatly(ish). We were one of the important people because we needed to make the bear look complete. In Day 1 we had little responsibility and in Day 2 we had so much that it was hard to bare at some points in time. Over all I had fun and enjoyed working for minimum wage. This was a very creative activity.

Factory Game Reflection Day One

Creating the toy for "my younger sibling" quite difficult because of the fact that I had limited tools and time to make my creation for my poor sibling to play with. It was probably an okay creation but not at all a great gift as a toy. Back then toys would have been diffrent to look at and to play and were probably hand made to save money but now we can go to a shop and buy a cheap teddy bear for our siblings and buy a card and thats that done. Then people would sow dolls or stich together a dress, or do something that would take a lot of work. This was a fun experiance that really brought out my creativity, though I have none.

The messy room

The Messy Room

I walked in and flipped on the lights. She had decorated her desk with clothes and it looked like what was underneath the hill of fashion was to be kept a surprise. The bed wasn’t made and under the mattresses I could see the bottoms of her pajama peeking out as if it were trying to see a glimpse of its guest. On the floor was her homework neatly scattered around covering every inch of her carpet that she had said was blue. I opened her closet and out came an avalanche of clothes almost suffocating me to death. But obviously I survived. Once I had stumbled out of the death trap I look at her bookshelf which didn’t bare books it held her shoes, shoes that were too small for even a 7year old to wear. I tripped over her math textbook and in front of me was a pizza box with ants that decided to move in. I decided to move out after that sight.

Mother Necessity

I think that “necessity is the mother of invention” means that when you need something very badly and it’s too complex to do by hand you create something to make it much easier. One example is how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone because in those days when you wanted to tell somebody something very badly you would have to walk over to their house or ride a horse over there, but when the telephone was invented people could just telephone the person and it was quicker and less time consuming. Another example is how Henry Ford created the first automobile because if you didn’t have a car you would have to bike or ride a horse over to the market or park etc but with the car you get to the market faster and you wouldn’t have to put much effort into it. The third example I have is of Thomas Edison who invented the light bulb. Now imagine trying to work without a lamp and all you had was a candle that didn’t give much light, with the light bulb you’d be able to see and not cause a fire by knocking it over. These three examples are what I think are good examples of “Necessity is the mother of invention.”

Image from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/minxlabs/2297989507/

How I learn best

The way I learn best is by participation in things, by doing it rather than seeing it. I also work better when the class is always doing something new and not stretch lessons out for weeks or days. Its easier to do things when you're doing something rather than listen because I tune off then. During lectures I don't listen so I won't learn that way. When I do something its much easier to understand because I'm doing it so I would know how.

Feedback

The two main highlights of my first week back at school were getting to meet my class mates and friends, and getting back to work after a boring vacation. When I first got to humanities 8 I was like "YAY, I got Mr. Coyle!" and then I realised that with the fun of being an eighth grader came a lot of hard work......especially on the first day back. This year for humanities my two main goals are to improve more on my writing skills espesially on essays which I usually don't do so well on. The second thing that I want to work on is to improve on my vocabulary skills because I usually do not look up words that I do not understand. Hopefully this year I will accomplish my goals.

My Gang

My gang consists of four people. These three people are Lilli, Nikaya, and me, Sami. Lilli is in my gang because she is a real kind person. She is always there to listen to my problems and really cares about me as I do for her. She never gets on my last nerve and doesn't mind me being a maniac because she is too. We are both alike and have been inseparable since 6th grade. Nikaya is in my gang because we are most definitely alike. We both have the same tastes and are very loud. We are very hyper and care about each other. All three of us love each other a lot and we are practically like sisters. Our gang is most probably the most coolest gang in the world.