Tyranny, Injustice, and Self Determination

Tyranny means a forced power by an authority with abuse. Throughout the book, it shows how the animals are very rebellious against Farmer Jones because he forced the animals to work long hours everyday with limited amount of food to barely keep the animals alive. That fits in the definition of tyranny; Farmer Jones, in this case, would the authority forcing the animals to work by using abuses such as whipping. Injustice means unfairness and inequality. In this story, you can clearly tell that the animals are treated badly by the humans, which shows unfairness and inequality. Humans get to sit around and do whatever they want with small amounts of work, and animals get treated terribly but still have to work long hours everyday. This shows injustice. Self Determination means to determine something by yourself and not by others. All the animals in this book had to go through a self determination in order to decide whether they are going to join the rebellion or not. Most animals, however, were influenced by outsiders to make their decisions.

Moutains of Death

Mountains of bodies,

Laying on the field of no Glory nor Sin,

A field where no men win,

Soulless citizens as if trashed in the bin,

A field of silence where no men is let in,

Men and women outside the rim of death,

Such woman as Beth,

Stare in sympathy at her soulless soldier,

Husband Seth,

Who no longer has no heart nor breath.

Image Links:

http://www.warchat.org/pictures/world_war_i_1914-1918_casualties.jpg

http://www.warchat.org/pictures/world_war_i_1914-1918_dead_soldier.jpg

http://www.azski.com/images/WWI_barb-wire_death.jpg

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Political Cartoon World War I

This cartoon shows how a variety of the nations of the world are involved in this issue. The different cultural customs and the flag most of them are wearing show the places they are from. The cartoonist most definitely thought Russia was powerful at the time because it was represented by the black bear, a powerful animal. The woman crying at the side shows how some countries were affected in a bad way after World War I. In my opinion, I think the cartoonist is trying to show that after World War I, people actually united. With the men holding the same items show how they were somehow connected. Countries had to support each other to get through this situation. Perhaps the cartoonist could have put a bit more detail into this cartoon to make his means more obvious because I still cannot determine that accurately. This cartoon relates to the Great Powers Game because that was pretty much what we were trying to do; unite, form allies with each other, and end the great war. The cartoon reflects the whole idea by the connections of the countries.

Quarter Three Goals

For quarter, I was aiming to get an A- for humanities as a final grade, but I did not manage to accomplish that. It is a slightly difficult to tell whether I have accomplished the second goal or not because we did not actually do Socratic Seminars this quarter that much. However, we had the debates, orations, and trials. You needed preparation for all of those. For the debates, I had solid notes on the topic. So the preparation part was improved. I am pretty certain that I've turned in a little more assignments than I did last quarter.
Goals for Third Quarter:
1. Get above 90 percent for all quizzes.
2. Get a B as a final grade for humanities.
3. Miss less than three homework assignments.