analysing capitalism cartoon

In the picture you can see a fat man with a banner that says 'capitalism' on it, and he is shaking a smaller man to get his money. The smaller man has a small tag that says 'labor'. I think that when the artist drew this picture he meant that capitalism is bad, and workers will eventually loose money if they follow capitalism. The only people who will get good things from capitalism are the rich guys who have so much money and keep getting more from stealing' from their workers. The evidence to that is that the fat guy is fat and looks nicely dressed but the Worker is a lot smaller than him and is loosing his money because 'Mr. Capitalism' is shaking him and stealing it.







image from- http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/

I think that the phrase necessity is the mother of invention means that without the need for things people wouldn't invent anything. That's why when you need something, you use it, (or invent it) and that's why necessity is the 'mother' of invention.

For example, people needed to move from one place to another using something that's faster than walking, so they invented the wheel, and later on cars.

People wanted to be warm when it was cold out, so they invented a way to get fire. In this case, it also helped them cook food.

Humans felt that they needed a way to communicate with people far away without sending fire messages, so they invented the telephone.

When we feel that we have a need for something, someone comes up and invents it. And then we use it.

http://www.chrismadden.co.uk/yah/invention-of-wheel.gif

Necessity is the mother of invention

I think that the phrase necessity is the mother of invention means that without the need for things people wouldn't invent anything. That's why when you need something, you use it, (or invent it) and that's why necessity is the 'mother' of invention.
for example, people needed to move from one place to another using something that's faster than walking, so they invented the wheel.
people wanted to be warm when it was cold out, so they invented a way to get fire. In this case, it also helped them cook food.

Meeting my goals :)

If you forgot, my two goals for the year were,

1. Hand in all my HW complete in time. and,
2. get a grade thats higher than B.

So far, I've handed all of my HW in on time completed except for one blog post I still need to do. I think I did pretty good on the 2nd goal because my grade IS higher than B. I got good grades on all the tests and quizs that Mr. Coyle gave us and I think that me and Rachael did really well on our Outsiders final project. So, this far in the quarter I think I've been meeting my goals really well. and I hope I keep doing so until the end of the year.

Dont Put all your eggs in one basket!!!

Don’t put all of Your Eggs in One Basket

This ‘tip’ fits what I did the most because, frankly, I didn’t put all of my eggs in one basket. I was counting on John Deer to give me some money because it hardly ever went down by a lot, but I didn’t buy too many of that as well. I also only bought two of the tobacco companies, and I had two of the silver mines before it went down by thirty and then I sold them. Throughout the game I had invested in about four or five different companies and I never paid more than thirty dollars for any of the cards. I spread my ‘eggs’ out across many ‘baskets’ so that I had some of each, and that’s what helped me in the end. Because if one of the companies I had invested in went down in the stock market and another went up I hardly lost ANY money at all. Still, I didn’t win the game and was supposed to get a C-. Good thing this wasn’t for a grade. I guess I should have invested more in the companies I saw were making a lot of money instead of having only two cards. For instance, at the end of the game, I earned $50 from one of the companies. If I had invested more in that particular company instead of wasting my money in the silver mine, I would have gotten $100 or maybe $150, and maybe won the game.

Feedback- Feelings on the IR- August 25-29

The good and bad of the IR--


Good-

• People created machines that help us even today,
• the IR got us to where we are today (technologically speaking..)
• There were more choices of jobs for people to choose from
• Machines could produce products that were almost identical to one another and then parts could be replaced
  

Bad-

• factory owners overworked their workers for only a small amount of money.
• The fact that people had to suffer (and even die) to make us clothes, cotton, and new machines
  
• People lost their jobs because the machines were doing the work for them

Feedback- Feeings on the IR- August 25-29