The Future

What predictions about the future were people making 100 years ago? This website shows an article that talks about predictions for the year 2000 from a 19th century German Chocolate company. They predicted police with x-rays, flying machines (hang gliding kind of), movable houses, undersea ships (submarines), being able to walk on water, a city with a roof, theaters, moving sidewalks, and machines that can make the weather good. 
What predictions about the future were people making 50 years ago? This website shows prediction about the 21st century from 50 years ago. One of the predictions was that our space exploration program would be much more expansive than it actually is now. There were ideas that we would have "moon colonies" by now as well and we would be able to purchase lunar terrain. Another interesting thing I read was how they though we would have "glow panels" on our walls where we could basically just touch a big screen on our wall and change the color/design on of our walls. This website also talks about President Truman's prediction for the future, he didn't predict very materialistic things, instead he said that we would have obtained world peace by now.
Determine if the list is a “wish list” – as in, these are the things one might hope for in the future, or more a warning. I think that some of the predictions were things that people would have liked to happen, but not necessarily expected to happen, things such as being able to walk on water. But some of the predictions were very understandable predictions and thoughts, like the growth of our space exploration program, or world peace.
Which predictions seem to have come true? Which turned out to be bizarre, off-track, or still out of reach? Some of the predictions that came true were things like the underwater ships, flying machines, theaters, and moving sidewalks. Some of the more wild predictions were things like being able to walk on water, or being able to purchase lunar terrain. I think one of the bizarre but reasonable and understandable predictions at the same time was that we would have world peace by now, its understandable, but at the same time it seems like we will never obtain peace throughout the world.
Can you identify any trends or patterns in these predictions? What concerns or achievements do they seem focused on?  For example, do people in general seem to be anticipating a better world?








  

How do you analyze a political cartoon?

I used this website to show me how to analyze political cartoons. The steps were:
1. Recognize exaggeration
2. Understand symbolism
3. Understand labeling
4. Understand analogy
5. Recognize irony
I already knew that political cartoons exaggerate a lot to get their point across, and they use symbolism and irony together to get their point across even better. I already knew these steps, but it is still hard to do these things sometimes.
Going forward, I think the guide above is the best way to analyze political cartoons because it is simple, but gets the all the points across very well.
  This shows how America went in the Filipinos' land and basically just took over their land and country and made them our work-horses.

This shows the Filipino boy being portrayed as a savage and Uncle Sam not being very happy about the $20,000,000 check that he wrote to acquire the Filipinos' land.

This cartoon shows Uncle Sam riding on two globes, this shows how during this time, the US was going around the world, trying to claim as much land as they could, thinking the world was theirs. 

Documentary

      This film was called Hawaiian, the Legend of Eddie Aikau because Eddie was Hawaiian and it was a story about him. The topic of the documentary was Eddie himself, the focus was the Hawaiian identity and Eddie's surfing. The thesis I came up with for this documentary was, "Eddie embodied the original Hawaiian culture/spirit and kept it alive thorough his passion for family, community, and surfing." Since this documentary was made by ESPN, we can assume that it might not be as factual as if it were made by PBS or another company. Although this documentary was very informative and factual, it heavily focused of Eddie's surfing career opposed to focusing on more of the history of the Hawaiians.

6.    The blowing up of the Maine would be what I made my documentary about. The topic would be the Maine, the focus would be how it was falsely identified as an attack by the Spanish. The thesis would be, "Even though the Spanish didn't blow up the Maine, the Americans thought they did and were outraged, without this happening the war/conflict with Spain wouldn't have escalated to the levle that it did.

Phrenology Research

Today we were sent to the front of the classroom to look at a little porcelain bust of a head. On the head there were different parts of the brain labeled for different emotions. On the bust, the only things that indicated who made it were, "L.N. Fowler, Phrenology," and a few manufacturing details on the bottom of the bust. Once we were done looking, we came back to our table and began to research. Almost everyone either searched something about Phrenology or L.N. Fowler, and most of us got results fast. One of the fastest ways to get results was to do an image search and look until you found the same type of bust that we were looking at and then use the pictures website. We found out that the piece that we were looking at wasn't an original, but was a replica made out of Oregon. We also found out that the way the brain was labeled wasn't correct, our brain doesn't think like the Phrenology busts say it does.

This is what the bust looked like that we were researching.

Provenance- The beginning of something's existence; something's origin.