Snake Picture

Some of the main visual elements on this picture are: a snake’s body separated into 8 pieces, the initials of some of the original 13 colonies, and in big bold letters, at the bottom of the page, words spell out, Join, or Die. I think the political issue this picture is representing, is the conquering of land, religion, etc, by means of various threats, some of them including death. The author of this picture was, from what we can tell, not happy about this situation. One example of this is the way he stated the words, Join, or die. If he was happy about the situation he would have said this in a more positive way. If the cartoonist wanted to make his point even stronger, I would give him one suggestion. Add some more derogatory aspects to the picture, such as adding flames around the initials of the colonies. But over all, I think the picture was well drawn, and made its point well.

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Can we trust the book, To Be A Slave?

I would say we can definitely trust the book, To Be A Slave. The reason we can trust this book is because the author gives us many points of view, as well as from different people. And, evidently, all the stories in this book from various people, all lead toward the same answer. Slavery was a bad thing. The second reason we can trust this book is that the author seems to know a lot about slavery, therefore, being well informed about the topic. And the third reason we can trust this book is that it’s been published and checked by an editor.

Here’s one quote that supports all of what I’ve just mentioned from the book, “Others died because they took their own lives rather than live as slaves.” (Lester, 24)

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MLA Citation: Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. New York: Dell, 1971.

Graet Powers Game

During The Great Powers games my country was Great Britain, with Shuk as my partner. Building our empire went by quite smoothly in the beginning. Are armies, navies, colonies, as well as industries grew rapidly, almost doubling each year. Are country took the lead in obtaining the most economic points per year and also had the largest and most powerful army. Our country had a large advantage over all the other countries, and held position for the largest empire.

In the end, it was more important to by colonies and industries. This was because the more you by of these the more economic points you gained each year. And then that money would be put toward armies and navies. We also made allies which, when the first great battle took place, served us well. One area our country could have done better in was to make more allies, as we still did not have enough. Unfortunately, during the last year, the U.S declared war on us and all the other countries helped the U.S. Because our allies betrayed us, we, the country of Great Britain, were not in a position to trust them.

In Conclusion, during the The Great Powers game, many conflicts arose. As in the real world, these issues revolved around economic and financial aspects.

Quarter 3 goals

Well, I met alot of my goals for humanities last quarter.Some of them were improving my hand writing, completing AR before the quarter was over, and reading faster.

For this quarter my goals are: to complete my AR by the second week of school, improve on my socratic seminar, and improving on my tests and quizzes.

Hotel Rwanda Blog Assighnment

Well to answer question #2, the groups and world communities failed Rwanda by abandoning them when they needed hep at the start of genocide. When The Tutsi's needed help to fight of the Hutu's, who were murdering Tutsi's, the forces such as the French, American etc., took of too escape from the havoc. But it wasn't that alone, it was that they could have stayed and helped the Rwandans fix their problems. Thats how they failed Rwanda.

Footprint on Africa

Some of the main visual elements are a large Black image of Africa with a large White footprint on top of it. The issue the cartoonist is supposedly putting up, is that Europe is trampling over Africa leaving footprints. And he is not happy about this. The reason you can tell he isn't happy, is because if you look at the footprint there's dry land in that are. So, what the cartoonist is trying to indicate is that where ever the Europeans go, there ruining those area's.Only, to make this point stronger, and more persuasive the cartoonist might have wanted to draw some damage such as fires and war in the footprint, showing real catastrophic events. Well heres the image what do you think it's trying to say?

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scramble for africa

Well the strategy i used to get land was, Divide and Conquer! When looking for land you look for, if possible, coast land for bringing in ships, and inland for crops and other things alike. Well, both France and England had pretty much the same amount of land, I would have to say England won. This is because they have allot of coast like as well as large chunks of inland so they won the scramble for Africa. But then, who lost? Technically, Africa actually lost the scramble for Africa, because by the end of it they barely owned any land at all!

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