What is Power???

According to Google, what power means is possession of controlling influence. This year in 8th grade humanities we learnt that power is in different forms, it never stays in one place and how power is around the world. The main topics that we focused on was Africa and slaves, The World War 1 and 2 and the book that I read The Hunger Games.


The first thing that we focused on was Africa. The different parts of Africa and slaves that were shipped to America and other parts of the world. Mostly the white people had the power to take the Africans freedom away. The slaved were miss treated and if they tried to run away would either get killed or punished brutally. In 1884, Africa was divided into 4 parts. One of the reasons why African were the idea slaves was because there was an unlimited supply of them and they were resistant to white diseases.

The second reason is The World War 1 and 2. When WW1 finished, England had to borrow supplies and soldiers from USA just to fight. France had a heavy loss of manpower and everything was destroyed. Germany was defeated, the economy and government collapsed and they also had high inflation. Austria Hungry fell apart before the war even started. Russia pulls out of WW1 but started the Russia Revolution (1917). But USA was on top of the world. They had the greatest power, the economy profited and lots of people borrowed money from them. In WW2, the causes were the Treaty of Versailles failed, the League of Nations failed, the rise of fascism, appeasement, The German Aggression and the Japanese Aggression.

The last reason is the book that I read recently, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games was about Katniss, a 16 year old girl from District 12. The Hunger Games is a game where 24 children have to fight till death and compete against each other. The victor gets an abundance of food and money as well as supplies. Katniss ends up winning the games but on the way to victory is challenges the Gamemakers. The Gamemakers are the people who control the arena. They can change the weather, start fires, droughts, monsoons, anything to make the games more interesting.

I think that power is the ability to control someone or something.

What I Learnt from POP (even after we finished, the name still gives me the shivers...)

Something valuable that i learnt was how to write a 5 paragraph research paper. When we were talking to high schoolers, they said that every year you have to write one and since i am going to be here next year that is an important thing to know. Another thing is how to make a graph on the new excel. If it wasn't for POP, i would have never knew how to make a graph and change the x and y axis and other simple things. The last important thing was that i learnt how to balance my time with POP and other school work. In middle school the teachers are really easy on homework during POP (except Ms. Cullen) but in high school, they're not going to care about us and how much homework we have. So i learnt that instead of leaving everything to the last minute: i played out everything and what I'm going to do for the week. I ended up finishing a day early and got to go to the South African Nation Day.
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Net Effect of Globalization

According to the World Bank, Globalization is the growing integration of economies and societies around the world. The net effect of globalization is both positive and negative. The positive side is that the middle class becomes richer as globalization continues. Secondly, there are more job opportunities in undeveloped countries such as India, they are able to communicate with different people. And thirdly, people get to purchase products from other countries.

The negative side is that as the middle class get richer, the poorer people get poorer. The second example is that countries are losing their traditions. Take India for example, people are wearing more westernized clothes. The third reason is that many companies are "out sourcing". Out sourcing means that a company closes down in American and goes and opens in India because its cheaper. And because of this many Americans are losing their jobs.

So as you can see, there are both positive and negative effects of globalization.

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