Political Cartoon

Main Visual Elements are a fat man with a capitalism banner, a little man and money falling out of the little man's pockets. Capitalism steals money from the working people. The cartoonists opinion is when the government uses capitalism they are taking money away from the laborers. The way the fat man is shaking the money out of the little man shows how the author feels. Putting a grim smile on the fat mans face might have been more persuasive.
image from:http://depts.washington.edu/labhist/laborpress/images/Socialist Voice

Mr. Coyle’s Investment Tips

Buy Low, Sell High:

The main meaning of the quote: Buy low, sell high, is to buy shares or shocks when they are at a cheap prize and as soon as the market increases sell you shares at the highest price possible. Spend a little and sell a lot!!

I AM PROUD OF ME!!! My Goals

When I first wrote on my blog I said that my goal is to read more and improve my English, so far I have accomplished my second goal but still working on my first. By the end of the quarter i will have completed both my goal.

Industrial Revolution

What is the “net effect” of the Industrial Revolution?

Pros:
1) The revolution in textiles such as the spinning jenny, the water mule and the sewing machines resulted in faster production, better trade, slave plantation and fashion started.
2) It changed the way people lived, instead of there being lords and kings, we now have proper governments and presidents.
3) We would not have entertainment and machinery, people would have very little education.
4) The transportation now is cars and bikes, before the industrial revolution we would be riding horses and wagons.

Cons:
1) Pollution has increased rapidly over the past century.
2) Assembly lines and sweatshops are still being used till today.
3)The revolution in coal, mines and scheduled work resulted in the making of more machines, more pollution, it did bring in more money but caused women and children to work long hours.
4)In factories, the quality of production grew less because the items were being made from machines and not home made.

Factory Game Part 2 Picture

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Factory Game Reflection

Revising the words before we did the factory game part 2, was a genius idea because most of the words we put into action. Like the assembly line. It was really unfair to the manager of the operation because they automatically fail a quiz (which sucks because I was the manager)! But throughout the period my team worked well and did as they were told, one of the reasons being that anyone who disobeyed me, I could fire. We made a lot of piggies but non of them could replace the pig I made, mostly because non of them looked like the pig i made.

It was a fun activity and I hope to do more of them in the future. Go piggy, go piggy!!!

Factory Game Feedback - Piggy

The Factory Game was a fun idea. We got to think creatively but still use a limited amount of resources. I still think we could have had a longer time to do the activity. Some people really went out of heir way to do this activity but in the end it all paid off.