Tyranny, Justice, and Self- Determination

Tyranny is the abuse of authority, this relates well to Mr.Jones in Animal Farm. On page six, in Animal Farm, Major speaks about how Mr.Jones is useless. He says that Mr.Jones forces the animals to work and gives them only the minimum amount of food and water to keep them healthy to work the next day. We can from what Major says that Mr.Jones is stealing the produces the animals produce and keeping it for himself. This shows that he is a tyrant because of the way he chooses himself over the animals.

Justice is to punish someone/something for what they did. The justice served on Mr.Jones was in some ways alright because of the way Mr.Jones had been treating the animals. Since he had left the animals without food for a long time and had forced them to work without giving them much in return the animals called for justice. In conclusion, the animals had the right to justice because of the awful way Mr.Jones and his men had treated them.

Self-determination is the freedom to do as one wants; self-determination is also a big characteristic within the animals. The animals wanted to take over the farm so they could choose how to distribute the food and water. They also wanted the right to choose how they worked, when they worked and when they took breaks. In order to have the right over these things they needed to over throw Mr.Jones. As you can tell self-determination is a big part of animal farm because self determination is what the animals wanted to come of the rebellion.

THE TRAGIC FATE

The Tragic Fate

I lost my world today
To the planes when they flew over head
To the ‘S’ shaped rifle
And to the rolling tanks that aimed – BOOM

I lost my world today
When the water drowned the trenches
When diseases hit the healthy
When landmines blew apart geography

I lost my world today
To the Allies
To the Central Powers
To the countries who signed to support

I lost my world today
To a decision made by 6 men
Whose decision became the tragic fate
Of my world,
My father

MILITARY

If I had a choice to join the military I would decline. This is because I believe in two things, freedom of choice and non-violence. These two things relate to being forced into joining the military because if a person, man or woman, did not want to join I believe they should have the freedom to say no. This is because if you are forced to join the military, lets say because your country is in a war, chances are that you might die or get seriously injured. Also, I believe in non-violence. I don’t think that countries should go to war because they disagree. I think that they should talk about it and try to realize the others side, or at least accept it. In conclusion, I believe that everyone should have the freedom to choose if they want to join the army as well as leaders should be able to talk to each other and try to understand each other’s views.

ALLIES

This picture represents two groups of Allies. How this picture is represented is through showing the two main leaders (Hungary and Germany) giving sums of money to smaller countries therefore promising their alliance. It's hard to see the cartoonists opinion on this picture because i think the picture is represented as neutral. I think its neutral because depending on what country you're from you could see it as a bad or good thing. If the cartoonist was trying to make this picture look more negative it would be easier to see it if the hands were clearer.

This picture goes really well with the GPG. In the GPG game we had two main groups, the German group and the U.K group. Secretly though the U.K and Germany along with Italy decided to take over the world. In the end I had no one back stab me except for the U.K. In the end I learned that it is every country for its own.

GREAT POWERS GAME!

My country was Germany. To begin with we were one of the middle class countries, not rich yet not poor. The countries with the most advantages were the ones you had the most most money at the beginning of the game (UK and the USA). I think this is because of the Industrial Revolution, in which they made lots of money and formed many colonies.

At the beginning of the game it was harder to build our empire because we didn't know who our allies were as well as not knowing who our enemies were. Once we established a form of treaties between a handful of countries it was easier to carry on with building our empire. After awhile we realized that a lot of people were planning on attacking us and our allies. Because of this reason we started to buy a lot of armies and navies. Buying armies to soon and to fast was our big mistake. Although we ended up coming in 2nd we could have easily come first if we had waited to buy armies till the round before the great war. It would have been better to buy a lot of industries first because then our country would be wealthy and therefore we could buy more armies.

Germany made many allies and only one of them turned on us. There were two main groups in the game, the U.K group and Germany's group. Both groups were planning on attacking one another toward the end of the game. What our and U.K's allies didn't know was that secretly the U.K and Germany were actually planning on turning on everybody and winning. In the end, the U.K turned on us and got support from all the small countries while we get support from just Italy. Only what they didn't know was that Germany and Italy had anticipated this and had told the U.K the wrong information about how many armies we had, thus Germany and the U.K won.

What I learnt about this simulation is not to trust anyone. Although, Germany never got attacked by any of their allies, it was hard to see other countries become poor simply because they put to much trust into their treaty.

GOALS FOR QUARTER 3

This past semester I kept two goals for myself. The goals were, getting an A in A.R and improve my spelling.I was able to meet meet both of them. In both quarters I got and A for A.R. I did this by planning ahead and reading a lot during the summer and at the beginning of the year. Spelling is harder to measure, but if I took a look at my writing pieces from the past semester the amount of spelling errors compared to last year has gone down.
This quarter I would like to get an A in A.R again, as well as getting an A in the over all class. It will be easier for me to get an A in A.R because I planned but harder for me to get an A in the over all class. I believe that if I truly focus this semester during class, and also out of class (homework) that I will be able to reach my goal of an A.