Tyranny, Injustice, self determination.

Tyranny- abuse of power
Injustice-violation of the rights of others
Self-determination- without help of others

Tyranny was shown throughout chapters 1-3 mainly because the pigs are abusing their power by making the other animals bring them milk and apples because the pigs had to stay healthy because the pigs needed to run the farm but the main reason the pigs wanted the milk and apples was because they are greedy creatures. This example is on page 25. Injustice was shown in chapter one where Mr Jones would neglect the animals and forget to feed then and take off to go drinking rather then look after the animals. In chapters 2 and 3 the animals showed self determination by running the farm without the need of Mr Jones or other humans. They worked constantly and needed no help with it and did their work without Mr Jones.

Poem

I’m all alone
In this dark tent
And I think about what you told me
My dear Ann
“Make our nation proud john
Prouder then any man could have ever done”

As I lie in this tent
I wonder about the choices I’ve made
This new way of life
And being away from home
I don’t know why I ever chose
Such dim-witted choices
Let me assure
If I could go back
I would never have left you


Trudging barefoot in the trenches
I only think of you
As the rest of the men who fought with me die
I only think of you
I fire cannons with hopes
That you get to live a harm-free life


I would lie at night
Every night
Count the stars
And wait for my death
Wondering when it would be my turn
To die from gas
From a canon
Or shot between the eyes
As soon as there is the loud
BOOMOf a cannon
I close my eyes
And hope it’s me
Who gets the privilege to die


As I lie in this tent
My legs blown off my body
I question my actions
Why did I ever decide
To volunteer for a death sentence?
Why did I ever climb into
No Man’s Land?

Your last letter saddens me, my love
When our sonwill arrive into this harsh world
Tell him that I love him
More than any man could
Lastly my love
I say goodbye
I know I cannot last
And my time has come
When the time comes you will see me again
Maybe not in this world but in a world
Where you, our son, and I
Can be free from
This brutal treatment
Images from:
http://library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/britpost/p9l.jpg
http://videoindex.pbs.org/resources/greatwar/images/ph_26.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/history1900s/1/0/O/3/wwi16.gif
http://www.wereldoorlog1418.nl/warpictures/trenches/images-trenches/03-german-trench-gw000.jpg
http://us.altermedia.info/images/WW1.jpg

Reasons I would ever join the military

In Scotland it is not mandatory to serve in the military but if I had to serve in the military then I would do it for the following reasons
1) If my country was in war then I would join for country pride
2) You can learn self defence
3) If I didn't have money for education and Scotland gave a G I Bill to the soldiers then I would alsoo be persuaded to join the military

Feed back Cartoon

The main visual elements in this cartoon is a British man handing out treaties to everyone. Other people are also handing out treaties to other people and everyone has got a treaties except one woman who is crying on the side and one man who has not been given anything at all. The point of this political cartoon is that every country or representative of a country is making alliances but there are the odd two or three countries that don't get accepted into the alliance, which is bad because they will be easier to fight in wars. The cartoonist is showing that it is unfair because of the woman who is crying. The point they trying to get across is that not everyone can get included in an alliance and those who don't get upset about it. Maybe they should show anger on the people who do not included because then it shows how wars are created. This relates to the Great Powers Game because everyone in the game was making alliances to save themselves and those who did not make alliances with the strong countries were easiest to crush and rip them off all their power.

I was Great Britain. We had the advantage along with Russia and USA. It didnt take very long at first to build up our empire but when we were at war our empire died. At firsdt our empire was one of the greatest but then we lost everything due to war. It was most important to gain armies and industry mainly bacause you allies would join forces to destroy you and industry because you need to build up your empire and gain economic points. We did do well to start off with but then we lost everything and were one of the poorest empires there was. We would not have been so naive and we should have brought more armies and we would if we did this again. Our allies hurt us even though we helped them as much as we could even the ones who didnt go at war against us didnt help us either. The lesson I learned is don not trust anyone even your "friends". Ive learned that conflict does not help you, they hurt you, and you can never have a "good" war.

Goals for Thrid Quarter

My goals from last quarter were to improve my writing skills, build on my vocabulary and to improve my reading standards. I have improved my reading abilities by a lot but my vocab and my writing is still lacking in formality. I have a hard time using a more formal voice in my writing mainly due to my vocabulary not being up to the eighth grade standard.
For quarter three in humanities I would still wish to work on these goals but I also have some other goals that I would like to improve on. I would like for my research skills to improve, I never really thought that I would need this skill to improve but due to my research paper last quarter I decided this is one goal I wish to work on. I would also like to improve on my paraphrasing and sentence fluency also another skill I realize I should work on due to the research paper on Africa. And lastly I would like to improve on my oral communication. I want to be able to speak in front of my peers and be able to to speak with confidence and eye contact. I hope to achieve these goals by the end of the quarter