Short Story- Dystopic Views

What you don’t understand?
The part I didn't understand was, why did Harrison go to jail for? Was he not obeying the law by refusing to get handicapped?

How would Harrison hurt society?
Harrison would hurt the society, because if the Handicapper didn't kill him, then more and more people would start not obeying the law, because they would remember all the talents they have. This would make the society unequal, because there would be someone better than someone else, because no one is perfect at everything.

What would Harrison do that would benefit society?
Harrison would give freedom to everyone, because now they are like slaves under the government. The government officials are the ones who are handicapping the people. This would benefit the society, because this would advance the society, because currently everyone is stupid. This would also help the society learn new things, because some of the people will be good at something, while some are good at other things.

Why are we studying this?
We are studying this, because we can learn how to write a short story, and we can also learning this, because there should be a limit to everything. Like in the case of equality, people take away freedom so that the society is equal. We need to learn that for everything there is a limit and if we cross that then the world will become a dystopia.

Quarter Four Goals

1. My first goal for fourth quarter is to raise my Humanities grade from an A- to, at least an A, or an A+. Fourth quarter's grades are the most important, to me, because this shows how good I've doing in all of my classes, because we have final exams. The fourth quarter grades help me realize which subjects I'm weak at, and how I must improve.

2. My second goal is to learn how to write a good five paragraph essays, because I have heard that in High School we will be writing a lot of essays, and I don't want to lower my grades from something I've learned in the past.

3. My third goal is to learn most of the things about Globalization, and how it will affect our future.

4. My fourth goal is to do well in UbD, and very well in essay. I would like to do this, because UbD is 20% of our grade so if I mess up my grades will go down. I also want to do well in UbD, because this is a major assessment in eighth grade, and it tests all of the things I have learned in Middle School.

2nd Flattener

The second flattener started, in 1990, with the invention of the Internet. All the PC-Windows network revolution, was converted into an Internet-based platform. The application that made the second flattener possible was e-mail, and Internet browsing. E-mail was being supported by AOL, CompuServe, and MSN. Although e-mail played a big role in flattening the world, World Wide Web (WWW) flattened the world even more. Thanks to WWW, now people could retrieve documents from anywhere in the world. Although many scientists were making browsers for the public, the first major browser was created by small start-up company in Mountain View, California, which was called Netscape. Thanks to Netscape which started in 1995, the world started to change very quickly. In 1993 there were only about 50 web pages, but now there are more than imaginable. An example of Internet-browsing would be, typing an address like, www.msn.com, you would get a document in English, but when you type, es.msn.com, you get a document in Spanish. WWW made it possible for you to access any information, form anywhere, and this helped to make the world flat. If we didn't have WWW, it would have been very hard to do research like on UbD, or on the Conflict paper quickly, because it would take us a long time to do the research from the books.

Answers to Twenty Quiz Questions

Are conflict and exploitation inevitable? Or can we change the pattern of history?
No, because there are many things that can start a war. Even a mall thing, like a soccer game, can cause a war, which makes it impossible to predict war. We can change history, but only if we remember history and don’t repeat it.

Why is it in a tyrant’s best interest to create an "Afraid" population?
It is in a tyrant’s best interest to scare people, because scared people are easier to control, than people who are not scared.

What was the journey between Africa and the Americas called in the Triangle Trade?
The journey between Africa and the Americas is a Triangle trade, because first the Europeans brought raw manufactured goods, from Europe to Africa, which they traded the for slaves, who were then taken, by sea, to the Americas to harvest raw goods, and then the raw goods were taken back to Europe where people sold them. This is how the Triangle trade worked, and the path they go through, Europe to Africa to America, is triangular, so it is called a Triangle Trade.

If you had to give 3 CAUSES of the French Revolution, what would they be?
First of all Louis XVI was stupid, and spent a lot of money when his country had none. Secondly they had unfair taxation because the III estate, which mostly consisted the poor, had to pay more taxes than the I, which consisted the clergy, and the II, which mostly consisted the nobles, estates, this happened in the in the all estates assembly where, although the III estate is where the majority of people, they got one vote, the I, and the II estates, the rich estates, voted that the III estate, the poor estate, should pay all the taxes. Lastly the worst thing that King Louis XVI did was that, he threw out the, Jack Necker, the most important person in the III estate, which made everyone on the III estate angry, which lead to the revolution.

Name the longest lasting invention of the French Revolution that millions use every day?
The longest lasting invention of the French Revolution was the metric system.

What century are the following dates in:
1942 CE - 20th century CE1801 AD - 19th century AD11 BC - 1st century BC1599 CE - 16th century CE1997 AD - 20th century AD

What are the three ironies of WWI?
First Zar Nicolas, King George, and Kaizer Wilhelm, had the same grandmother. Secondly one person’s death caused millions of deaths. Thirdly the French made the same mistake thrice by not defending the area near Belgium, because Germany attacked them form the same area during WWI, and WWII.

How did Harriet Tubman fight slavery?
She ran the under ground railway to help slaves from the South escape to the North. She served as a spy for Union Army. She was never caught by bounty hunters, and she never lost a passenger. She was an abolitionist.

How do you write an in text citation for a book in MLA format?
You write the last name of the author, and you write the page number.

Why did the average French citizen dislike Marie Antoinette?
She spent so much money on jewels and other items, when France didn’t have money.

What part of this quarter have you liked the most? The Least?
This quarter I have liked discussions of WWI, and WWII the most, and I there are o assignment that I disliked, because all of the things we did had a purpose.

How did Harriet Beecher Stowe help fight slavery?
She begun a serial for the Washington anti-slavery weekly, the National Era, it was focused on public interest on the issue of slavery. She was familiar with slavery, the antislavery movement, and the Underground Railroad because Kentucky was a slave state, and that was where she lived.

What is Bastille Day?
That is the day that the citizens tore down the Bastille, which held prisoners and weapons.

How are Revolutions and Civil Wars different?
In Revolutions there is or there are radical changes, while in a Civil War there are no radical changes.

When do you use a ":" and a ";"?
You use “:” for a list of things, and you use “;” when combining two similar small sentences.

Define: Hypothesis, Thesis, Hyper thesis, Genocide, Homicide, and Regicide.
Hypothesis means less than thesis. Thesis means a statement proven by evidence. Hyper thesis means more than thesis. Genocide means killing groups. Homicide means killing a person. Regicide means killing kings.

List 3 ways to start an essay. List 3 ways to conclude an essay?
To start you can use an Anecdote, Quotation, or Background. You can conclude an essay with a Question, a strong statement, or Anecdote.

What was the major disagreement in the United States of America in the middle of the 19th century?
The middle of the 19th century (1800's) was during the civil war. The disagreement was between the USA and the CSA, over which states were to be a union or a slave state. The south felt that their way of life was threatened, and this lead to war.

Detail the chain reaction that starts with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
After the killing of Franz Ferdinand, the country of Austria-Hungary tries to conduct an investigation in Serbia. Serbia says that it hasn’t done anything, so asks Russia to help them, which causes Austria-Hungary to ask Germany for help. France automatically involved in the war because it was an ally with Russia. England is also in the war because it was anally with France. Then after France joins, because of previous tension, Germany attacks France through Belgium. The war keeps on going, until 1917, when there is a revolution in Russia. IN the Revolution Zar Nicolas is overthrown and there is a communist government that replaces him. After the revolution, Russia withdraws its forces from the war. Also in 1917, the Unites States is involved in the war. They bring supplies to the British, but the Germans blow their ships up. Thanks to a fresh power, the U.S., the Germans lost the war in 1918. Then the treaty of Versaille was signed, and the treaty took away Germany’s powers, and limited it to do things, like only a 1000 people could be in their army, etc…

What advantages did the USA have that enabled them to defeat the CSA?
The USA had more people, and they had more factories, and they had more railroads.

Quiz Question

1. Are conflict and exploitation inevitable? Or can we change the pattern of history?