Progress

Ben Justice

Progress

1. Progress is evolving form a state you were at in the past, progress is vital for every species, civilization, and nation.

2. The 1890s to the 1920s are known in the US as the progressive era, this is because it was a period of widespread social activism and political reform. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era)

3. There were many problems such as multiple city problems, labor issues, extreme 

monopolies on the market, women's rights, corruption, and wealth distribution.

4. They basically were trying to fix all the things listed above, they were basically hardcore liberals, you can see a direct connection between them and the liberals of today

5. Social welfare was one of their top priorities, then comes economic reform and a more efficient economy, lastly they wanted society to be better as people, they wanted people to be better people.

Fuuuuutureeeeee

A German chocolate factory predicted in the year 2000 we would have crazy things such as flying machines, more like wing-suits that jet-packs, consisting basically of wings, movable houses, flying machines that according to the drawing are small personal blimps, personal submarines, there is also one where the people are wearing balloons so that they could walk on water. Many other crazy things such as roofed cities, moving sidewalks, and weather changing machines. Another article states there will be robot barbers, flying firemen, deep sea divers... riding seahorses, big ones, opposite fishing, you are underwater, fishing for birds, fish races, something that looks like school mind control, and an underwater bus powered by a whale. Then another source says there will be voice/video calling, nailed it, a radium fireplace.

Almost all of these are good, happy hopeful things, a couple of the predictions were kind of close, but the only spot on one was really the voice/video calling, but some were close such as moving sidewalks, we have them, they just aren't common except in airports, and they predicted lots of flying, not really in the right way but flying was right. As for what are the most common predictions, flying and underwater things seemed very prominent.

I think in the future we will have holograms, and eventually personal jet-packs, I also think drones will play a large part in society as well as automated cars, I think we will have people on Mars, I'm sure there won't be like a civilization but yeah. I think virtual reality might be a good bit bigger part in entertainment. I also think China might start a war with the US.

I mean we have all the control over what comes around, fish aren't going to make the jet-packs, but I think we are going to make a lot of things animated, so we have control over what is invented, but we are making things we don't have to control because we are lazy. As for individuals we have less control because with all the automation of our lives. But I also don't know if there will be much more of a future for the human race at least, I think Yellowstone is going to explode and 99% of the worlds population will die. so yea, then either the human race will die out due to lack of food or disease or something might knock the human race out, but I think if at least 100,000 people survive then humanity might not die out completely, but I think due to everything shutting down the world will go into another ice age.

How do you analyze a political cartoon

1. I knew that they would usually make it pretty simple, but at the same time hide some little pieces of symbolism in there. I learned that they usually use simple objects to illustrate large ideas, also things will often be exaggerated to show emphasis.

2. Guide-  When looking at political cartoons, with or without the guide, I will make sure to see all the words, but to look past just the words and to relate them to the picture so that it can all conect and make a clear statement.

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4. In the first cartoon it shows the ugly fat queen watching over her sugar, and Uncle Sam by the little worker, it makes the queen seem like the bad guy and Uncle Sam look like the hero. In the second a US ship is sending a Spaniard back to Spain, they are behind Cuba, protecting it from Spain. Finally in the third cartoon, Uncle Sam is fighting the coward McKinley who is preying on innocent victims

Sources:

http://www.pbs.org/crucible/cartoons.html

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/galleries/307-political-cartoons/5

Aikau

Ben Justice

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau

I think the filmmakers specifically got the two main parts into the title, Hawaii and Eddie, by doing this they already tell you what the movie is about, it's about Eddie and his ways in the Hawaiian culture. The angle of the film seemed to me about more of Hawaii, but because it is ESPN making it, there has to be some sports aspect in it, it does a really good job of combining surfing with the deep spiritual connection between the natives and the ocean. If another company had made this documentary I think it would be more about Hawaii than Eddie, it would be about the traditions of Hawaiians and of course they would put somethings about Eddie in their, but that would not be the main focus.

Roosevelt, Strong, and many other imperialists had a large impact on naval strategies and ideals. They thought of new ways to fight and expand territory and control. The oceans are the high ground of the world, if you control the oceans, you control the world. The topic/ focus would be naval strategies and how they evolved around the Spanish-American War. The angle would be to show the power of sea-power and argue that it is very important to an imperialistic nation. 

Phrenology

My group researched a lot about the people involved in the study and the basics and origin of the study of phrenology. I learned that anything can be a primary source, it all depends on the question you're asking.

Provenance: the place of origin or earliest known history of something.

This particular skull could be a primary source if you are researching replicas of phrenology skulls, but it would only be a secondary source if you are researching the original skulls made in the 1880s