Predictions of the 21st Century

Most predictions of the future are on improving the general quality of life. Bigger and better food, better means of transportation, better medicine, less work, and cheaper goods. Some specifics are telephones, TV, microwaves, self-driving cars, and climate controlled houses. Some less accurate predictions are the elimination of most animal life, children being trained to run 10 miles a day, personal flying machines. I found very few predictions of bad things happening in the future; most people assumed that suffering would be all but eliminated. 

My personal predictions of the future are almost entirely about robots. As robotics develops, to replace almost all jobs. as robots are more and more able to replace humans, humans will inevitably be driven out of the workplace all together. The only major sources of jobs that may survive are politics, entertainment, and of course people who design robots. 

Individuals will only have the power to gently influence whatever larger organization they are a pert of. Institutions, and for profit companies will largely push humans out of the work place simply because robots will be cheaper and more affordable than human workers. The government is the only institution that could slow down the transition,  but in the end the economic benifits of robot labor will make this change an inevitability.  

How to Analyse a Political Cartoon

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-eg/6460

I knew before this exercise that political cartoons use caricatures and labels to make analogies about political issues. In this exercise I learned political cartoons often deal with irony of political situations, use symbolism, and are usually in black and white. Going forward, I will be sure to focus on noticing the aspects of symbolism and irony within political cartoons.



This cartoon show America as an adult looking down on the Philippines as a child and showing off Cuba and Puerto Rico as children. This is symbolic of America's attitude towards people of other races and countries, how they felt it was their responsibility to look after the immature races of the world.



This cartoon shows a man symbolizing america as getting fitted for new clothes. His new, larger clothes are labeled with the different territories that america has recently conquered to put into perspective how much America has grown and argue that it is an unhealthy level of growth. Meanwhile other men are attempting to feed him "anti- expansion policy," but the man is declining it, showing how in America at the time, people were willing to get behind this rapid expansion and declined all advice to stop.



This cartoon shows the president deciding whether or not to give the Philippines as represented as a small child, back to Spain. It describes Spain as a dark abyss, therefore it can be determined that the cartoons creator clearly sides with those saying that America should keep the Philippines. The cartoon the shows a man with a globe for a face, sy,symbolizing the world, who is anxiously watching the exchange. This reminds readers that whatever decision is made, the entire world will see it and will judge America based on it.

If I Made a Documentary

Topic: Theodore Roosevelt
Focus:Theodore Roosevelt's career as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and officer in the Spanish-American War, and how it was influenced by and influenced American attitudes towards going imperial.
Angle: Theodore Roosevelt was instrumental in turning America into and imperial force. His decision to push for war with Spain was enough to quell those who and apposed war and imperialism and be the catalyst for those in favor to become more enthusiastic about the war.

Hawaiian: the Legend of Eddie Aikau

1. The title of this film was picked because it was neither about Eddie Aikau or Hawaiian culture, but how the two subjects overlapped. Therefore, the writers needed to include both concepts in the title of the movie.
2. The angle of the film: Eddie Aikau, his career as a surfer, his identification as a Hawaiian, and his role in maintaining Hawaiian culture through family values, traditional surfing, and his voyage on the Hukalea represents the resilience and endurance of Hawaiian culture despite its erosion of foreign influence.
3. The film makers had to work around their audience's expectations to only see sports drama and show the deeper story of Eddie life.
4. If this had not been made by ESPN, the filmmakers would have put less emphasis on the surfing career and life of Eddie Aikau, and, as opposed to talking about how Eddie Aikau embodies Hawaiian identity, they use him more as a lens to see Hawaiian culture.

Phernology

1. Our group discussed the various articles we found about phrenology to better understand the context and data that we were looking at and how it fit with what we already knew.
2. We learned that it is important to fully understand the question that we are being asked so that we are able to distinguish between a primary source and a secondary source.
3. Provenance - The place of origin or earliest known history of something.