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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

The Scramble For Africa, who won and who lost?


Jeong Eun and I had Great Britan.

Our strategy was first to take over the suez canal in Egypt so we controled some of the shipping. Then to take over land in that area, all the way down to the cape in South Africa.
We first considerd the suez canal, and the tipp of Somalia, then we contrled the tip there too. And then we started looking for places where there were natural resources.

I think that Germany might have won, because they have alot of natural resources, like diamonds and gold. Even though we might have had more land, and we controled the suez canal, there land had better natural resources, therfore, worth more.

I think that the Netherlands lost, because the little land that they have doesn't really have alot of natural resources.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

5 themes of Geography in "Things fall apart"

The 5 themes in geography are

Movement (people, ideas and transport).

  • The white men came. (page: 128)
  • Christianity came. (page: 134,135)

Region (group of locations that have something in common with another).
  • The religion was the same in the nine villages.
Human Environmental interaction (how we impact the environment and how it impacts us).

  • When Okonkwo gives Ezinma medicine with ingredients from nature (page: 81)

Location (where).

  • Africa, Nigeria. (back of the book).

Place (what it's like in a particular location).

  • There customs of marriage, apparently they do it differently in each village before a marriage ceremony. (Page:70,71)

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Feedback 12 nov 2007


The main visual elements of this picture is a man with octopus arms. The arms are outstretched and are touching different countries.
I think the issue is that the Englishmen took over, colonized, different countries.

The cartoonist maybe thought that the
1. Englishmen took over too much, and liked taking over.
2.That the Englishmen almost destroyed the countries.
3. That the people never really had any privacy.

Because:
1. There are many hands. And the big head is smiling.

2.the octopus arms are holding to countries, it almost looks like the arms are destroying the countries.
3. The big heads eyes are in two different directions.


Other techniques the cartoonist could have probably was to show what happened to the people that lived there before the Englishmen came and took over. Like a small person standing on one of the countries looking sad.

Contrast- The Englishman's hat gives contrast. England with a white background.The colours of the sea,land and the arms. Maybe also the birds.

Repetition- The arms , the colour of the arms.And the colours of the arms is the same as the hair, that's repeating the colour. The colour of the countries.

alignment- It looks pretty aligned. It has arms on both sides, and the birds helps to balance it.

Proximity- The birds are together. The arms are kind of together. The waves are together.






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