great powers game debrief

My country was France and we were one of the better countries at the beginning. I quickly conquered a country and if you do this at the beginning then you have massive advantages because one industry can make such a difference. At the beginning we were the best country and we were allies with almost every country. I think at the beginning it was very important to buy lots of industries because then you can keep on buying lots of industries and armies and your buying power becomes really big. I would have made fewer allies and made more really strong allies. Our allies eventually rose up and killed us so I would say they hurt us and did not benefit us. Never trust anyone, always watch your back, make strong allies.

Tyranny, injustice and self-determination

Tyranny is when a single person or a group of people rule other people with out having being given leadership without popular vote.
Injustice is when something happens that is not just or it is just not fair that this event happened
Self-determination is when people want to rule by themselves and don't want anyone to rule over them

Tyranny is shown by how a couple of pigs take over and decide that they are leaders and should make all decisions on the farm.
Injustice is shown when they all get up against the farmer just because when they are at the end of their life and they cannot doing anything anymore he puts them to one more good use by eating them.
Self-determination is shown when all the animals on the farm form together willingly or unwillingly to go against farmer Joe and become the rulers of their farm and change the name.

WWI poem

The trenches

It's raining, I'm standing on a piece of wood
I shoot around, fighting for my life
Even though this war cannot come to any good
Me and my comrades fight through blood and strife

We fight through day and night long
A man runs towards us during the night
We all wake up at the sound of the gong
Bracing ourselves for our night time fight

http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/pictures/trenches-British.jpg

http://www.highspenheroes.org/images/Conditions_in_the_trenches.jpg

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/files/images/stories/gall/gall-010.
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http://videoindex.pbs.org/resources/greatwar/images/ph_26.jpg

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Military

Joining the military in England is not mandatory. Even though it is not mandatory many people still join. I do not want to join the army. This is because every now and again you get a story in the paper about a guy doing a normal routine in the army and getting his legs blown off, or his arms, or his head. This is not really the kind of fate i really feel like I want. Also another story was that ticket wardens in England get paid more than soldiers. This really surprised seeing as there are alot of risks as a soldier and none as a ticket warden. The only time I would join the army was if there was a big war and they needed more soldiers.

Great Powers game reflection

The main visual element in this cartoon is that many different people are shaking hands with one and other. Another thing is that some of them have more hands so they can shake hands with more people. I believe this cartoon is representing the issue of power control. The cartoonist does not seem to have much of an opinion and he looks like he is just stating what is happening. He shows this by that some are happy some are sad but he has not written any words to show that he is agreeing with what happened or disagreeing with what happened. This I think realates to the Great Powers Game by showing that you necessarily do not have to be powerful or big you just have to be friends with people who are. I think it also shows because the big powers all seem to be friends but the little powers are not all friends with the big friends. Also how there is one country that has been left out of the entire thing and nobody wants to be friends with them.