Cartoon Analysis - Family Dinner

The main visual elements of this picture are the family members, and the dinner table with food. I think this cartoon is trying to say that the new generation will be too technology oriented, and may overuse the technology that is available to them now. The kids will now, instead of talking and communicating, simply post things on the internet for their parents to see. This will disturb family time, and other such activities. It will also ruin the communication with your family, which is what is so ironic about this cartoon. The internet and technology is meant to be a bridge for communication, but in this case that exact technology is destroying the communication inside a family. Technology is meant to help with long distance technology, but it is in turn destroying person to person communication. The speech of the father helps me understand this. But I think it would be more persuasive that even at the dinner table the kid would have a laptop or some way of posting or chatting with his parents without talking.

Vonnegut's beleifs-right or wrong?

Vonnegut is both right and wrong. He is right that we rely on computers too much and should be “doing the becoming ourselves.” This means that the computer is becoming the thing that we humans want to become, and we should be the ones becoming that. But that is no reason to dislike computers. They are very helpful in so many ways. They help us with printing, they help us access things with the click of a button. They even allow you to make what would be so complicated years ago, such as graphs and data and a five paragraph essay, with a simple set of tasks. Yes, we do rely on it a little too much but that is no reason to dislike it. Why should we dislike such a useful tool?

Technology and Me

Technology is anything new, which makes a job or task much easier. These could include electronic devices or something as simple as a knife. Either way it makes something easier to do and therefore it is considered technology. Using technology in school can be both good and bad, because using those technologies will require knowledge of how to use that technology, but once they do have such knowledge it will be easier to do things. But technologies can cause problems because if the student does not have the ability to access such technology at home, then it could cause major problems. Otherwise I think that technology is important.
The five most important technologies are:
• Computers
• Internet
• Medicine
• Clock
• Telephone
The five least important technologies are:
• Weapons
• Diesel Vehicles
• Cosmetics
• Hair Products
• Gaming Devices

End of Quarter 3 Feedback

I feel that at the end of Quarter 3 I have achieved most of my goals which included:

• Having no small, punctuational or conventional mistakes
• Improve paragraphing and dividing the writing into different groups
• Improving and learning some new video editing techniques
• Being able to put together a interesting and fun script for a play or video presentation

For the third goal I did not learn much because I had used VC before, but I did learn a lot about how things can really mess up and how the servers are connected which leads to the slow computers. Other than that I learned that VC doesn't always work the way you want it to.

For Quarter 4 I have decided on these new goals to set up:

• Learning more new and better techniques in creative writing
• Being able to use these techniques in a story that I decide to write
• Becoming a better student and more time efficient so that I do not have problems in high school

Holy War??

Holy War is an oxymoron because war is usually not thought of as holy. A mass killing between two countries isn’t usually considered holy. Holy is more commonly related to something like god or prayers or anything religious, while war is a mass of killing between two armies. They could be of the same countries, or of two different countries. Either way a war is usually not commonly related to the adjective holy. But then why are some wars called holy. It is because these wars are fought for holy reasons. Therefore they are considered Holy Wars. The reason so many people have a Holy War is because anyone who follows any religion thinks that that religion is the best. Therefore when anyone of the other religion says that it isn’t they get angry and want to fight back in the name of their religion. This is considered a holy war but is just like any other war really. Nonetheless most religions don’t allow such violence. Since most people forget at the time though the war still occurs.

Cold War Simulation

During this simulation, I represented the countries of Africa and Europe. Although my partners tried to constantly sell a many countries as we can to the USSR I thought that we should listen to both countries bidding first. I was angered when a representative from the USA came to bid, and my partner kicked them out because he was dealing with the USSR instead. If you really want to get money, you have to let the other side try to overbid and then there will be a constant over bid until one side decides to give up and only then do you get the real good price.

And for the winners and losers, the USA and the USSR are the losers. They are the ones who lost all the nuclear missiles and stuff, while the countries on the side are the true winners, because they were the ones who never had any losses. In the real world though, the countries at peace were the true winners, because they were able to stay off to the side without any losses.

The VC feeling

VC is an awesome tool, not! Although VC is a pretty good tool when it works, if it doesn't work it is a major pain in the butt. Many things go through my mind when I make such a project and the major one is usually: Will my partner know his part? Although I usually trust my partner for that I still feel slightly worried about that. I also get worried about whether things will go according to plan or not. If things work out fine, I usually calm down. But in case things don't work out I am kind of stressed due to the deadlines. For future 8th graders I give you this advice: Never expect everything to work out!