Satire and RGM
Project description: During this project we were directed to create a satire and a Rube Goldberg Machine that work together to display a message. In this project we studied satire and Machines including the six simple machines.
I Hear a Man Buzz
I heard a Man buzz- when the world Lived-
The Virus in the Lab- was like the Virus in the Air-
Between the continents of World-
The Masks around- had taken their Freedom-
And the Cases were gathering Strong
For the first wave- when the king
be orange- in the world-
They prayed their lives- faded away
what senses may be faded-
And then it was
there population control
A man with virus- unstrange Intentional concoction of Death-
Between the death - of me
the vaccine Man-Made -
And then I could not bare to Live
I heard a Man buzz- when the world Lived-
The Virus in the Lab- was like the Virus in the Air-
Between the continents of World-
The Masks around- had taken their Freedom-
And the Cases were gathering Strong
For the first wave- when the king
be orange- in the world-
They prayed their lives- faded away
what senses may be faded-
And then it was
there population control
A man with virus- unstrange Intentional concoction of Death-
Between the death - of me
the vaccine Man-Made -
And then I could not bare to Live
RGM
Project Reflection
In Humanities we produced a satire of one kind or another. The satires ranged from drawings to poems. For my satire I decided to do a poem on COVID-19 and the conspiracies around what started it. My two satirical devices were Parody and Irony. I chose to copy a poem called I Heard a Fly Buzz When I died because of the unique way that the author Emily Dickinson wrote it. In my poem I focused on how the conspiracies think that someone in china made the virus for population control. The poem goes through that topic and other topics like the vaccine, the severity of the virus, and the people who don't want to “take away their freedom".
When working on this project I learn even better how to combine two things that don't exactly have much to do with each other. I also learned what satire was more in depth. Before this project I didn't really have much knowledge about satire and the different types. One of the many thinks that I learned is that parody is a type of satire and is why I kept it in mind when choosing what I wanted to do for my satire. As a kid i used to watch Weird Al videos all the time so learning that parody was a form of satire intrigued me.
I think that in today's world satire's role is to make people laugh. I think that the world in this time needs more of a laugh than a critique. This usually takes the form making fun of someone or something. While learning about satire we read this article about celebrities taking their Yachts out and spelling we are in this together. This is a good example of the satire that the world likes at the moment. There is something that is being made fun of and it has a good sense of humor as well.
I think that I scored an 8 on this project. I think this because when I am at school weather that is an in person day or an online day i mostly will have everything that I need but once in a while I will forget something. An example of a time this is when the class was turning in their hard copies of their satire and I had forgotten mine at home. I am often very focused and when the teacher says something I will get right on it especially when it's an online day because I don't have many distractions but some of the time I will be in the middle of having a conversation with someone and it will take me a minute to get on track. I can be a talkative person so when it is work time I might talk a little but I usually stay focused and it makes it much easier with online school because I can't get as distracted.
When working on this project I learn even better how to combine two things that don't exactly have much to do with each other. I also learned what satire was more in depth. Before this project I didn't really have much knowledge about satire and the different types. One of the many thinks that I learned is that parody is a type of satire and is why I kept it in mind when choosing what I wanted to do for my satire. As a kid i used to watch Weird Al videos all the time so learning that parody was a form of satire intrigued me.
I think that in today's world satire's role is to make people laugh. I think that the world in this time needs more of a laugh than a critique. This usually takes the form making fun of someone or something. While learning about satire we read this article about celebrities taking their Yachts out and spelling we are in this together. This is a good example of the satire that the world likes at the moment. There is something that is being made fun of and it has a good sense of humor as well.
I think that I scored an 8 on this project. I think this because when I am at school weather that is an in person day or an online day i mostly will have everything that I need but once in a while I will forget something. An example of a time this is when the class was turning in their hard copies of their satire and I had forgotten mine at home. I am often very focused and when the teacher says something I will get right on it especially when it's an online day because I don't have many distractions but some of the time I will be in the middle of having a conversation with someone and it will take me a minute to get on track. I can be a talkative person so when it is work time I might talk a little but I usually stay focused and it makes it much easier with online school because I can't get as distracted.
Imperialism Project
Project Description- This project consisted of a visual piece and an Op-Ed. My classmates and I chose a topic out of a list of options to write about. I chose the Algerian War against France. As for my visual piece I made a map of Algeria explaining how the French invaded.
Cartoon/Visual Art-
Cartoon/Visual Art-
Op-Ed -
Algeria: The French Rule Overcame
In the events leading up to and during the Algerian war, there was a lot of bloodshed, this was because the French forced their rule on the Algiers making them fight for their freedom. Algeria is a country in North Africa. The people of Algeria are mostly all Muslims and the french once they overtook the country tried to make them change religion. This country was under French rule from 1830 to 1962. When the French decided to take over Algeria they had to have had a motive. This motive was fossil fuels in the ground. So in 1830, the french went to Algeria for the conquest of taking over the country. They spent some time trying to immigrate to Algeria. There were two waves of immigration, one in 1848 and the next in 1881. The French raided their land and killed their people and every French civilian moving in those two waves knew this.
In the presence of the French also came massacres, the Setif Massacre was on May 8, 1945. You may also recognize this as the day that the Germans surrendered in WWII. The Algiers were fighting for the French in the war and once it was over they waved an Algerian flag. Once the French noticed that the Algerians were waving their flag they shot some of the people a the event and this led to a massacre. It lasted a few days and killed 103 french colonists and an estimated 15,000 Algerians. This was not the only bloodshed of course.
Algeria also did commit a number of bombings and murders. These took place both in France and Algeria. The bombings were committed by the FLN otherwise known as the National Liberation Front. This was a group of Algerians that came together. The article “The Algerian War of Independence begins” from South African History Online states “On the 1 November 1954, small units of Algerians organized by Front de Liberation National (FLN) attacked government buildings. These attacks were fuelled by a broadcast made by FLN in Nasser’s Egypt, which called for Muslims in Algeria to join a national struggle for restoration of an Algerian state that would be democratic and sovereign within the framework of Islamic principles.” When the Setif Massacre took place the FLN formed and was a huge part of the independence of Algeria.
On 1 November 1954, the FLN attacked their targets in Algeria in the Toussaint Rouge. From Cairo, the FLN broadcast a proclamation calling on Muslims in Algeria to join in a national struggle for the "restoration of the Algerian state – sovereign, democratic and social – within the framework of the principles of Islam." It was the reaction of Premier Pierre Mendès France, who only a few months before had completed the liquidation of France's Tete empire in Indochina, which set the tone of French policy for five years. He declared in the National Assembly, "One does not compromise when it comes to defending the internal peace of the nation, the unity, and integrity of the Republic. The Algerian departments are part of the French Republic. They have been French for a long time, and they are irrevocably French. ... Between them and metropolitan France there can be no conceivable secession." At first, and despite the Sétif massacre of 8 May 1945, and the pro-Independence struggle before World War II, most Algerians were in favor of a relative status-quo. While Messali Hadj had radicalized by forming the FLN, Ferhat Abbas maintained a more moderate, electoral strategy.
The Algerian population radicalized itself in particular because of the terrorist acts of the French-sponsored Main Rouge group, which targeted anti-colonialists in all of the Maghreb region, killing, for example, Tunisian activist Farhat Hached in 1952. From Cairo, Ahmed Ben Bella ordered the liquidation of potential valuables, those independent representatives of the Muslim community acceptable to the French through whom a compromise or reforms within the system might be achieved.
As the FLN campaign of influence spread through the countryside, many European farmers in the interior, many of whom lived on lands taken from Muslim communities during the nineteenth century, sold their holdings and sought refuge in Algiers and other Algerian cities. After a series of bloody, random massacres and bombings by Muslim Algerians in several towns and cities, the French Pieds-Noirs and urban French population began to demand that the French government engage in sterner countermeasures, including the proclamation of a state of emergency, capital punishment for political crimes, denunciation of all separatists, and most ominously. Colon vigilante units, whose unauthorized activities were conducted with the passive cooperation of police authorities, carried out dragonnades against suspected FLN members of the Muslim community.
The Algerians won independence in 1962. When 900,000 European-Algerians fled to France within a few months in fear of the FLN's revenge. The French government was unprepared to receive such a vast number of refugees, which caused turmoil in France. The majority of Algerian Muslims who had worked for the French were disarmed and left behind, as the agreement between French and Algerian authorities declared that no actions could be taken against them. In the article “Algeria: War of independence” by the World Peace Foundation it state that, “By most accounts, some “tens of thousands” were killed in summer 1962, some fled, and others tried to stay and keep as low a profile as was possible in the new Algeria. Violence against harki began even before the ceasefire came into effect, with accounts suggesting a rise in violence in March 1962. Algerians who joined the FLN late once the tide had turned, used violence as a way to prove themselves and to claim materials rewards (through looting, for instance).” to break this down the algerians were rightfully madat the Harkis (Algerians who were on the French side in the war) in particular, having served the French army, were regarded as traitors and many were murdered by the FLN or by lynch mobs, often after being abducted and tortured. About 90,000 managed to flee to France, some with help from their French officers acting against orders, and today they and their descendants form a significant part of the Algerian-French population.
The bloodshed of these events arent the reason the Algerians are free. If the french hadnt tried to take over in the first place there would be no war, no bloodshed, and no revenge. What the algeirs went through was painful, loosing familly members and not feeling safe at anytime. This feeling went on for more than a century. But all in all, the war did happen, the bloodshed did happen, and the revenge did happen. The algerian war was part of a huge chain reaction full of bloodshed.
Project Reflection -
Looking back at this project and thinking about what I am the proudest of it would have to be the research that I did. As said in my op-ed “On 1 November 1954, the FLN attacked their targets in Algeria in the Toussaint Rouge. From Cairo, the FLN broadcast a proclamation calling on Muslims in Algeria to join in a national struggle for the "restoration of the Algerian state – sovereign, democratic and social – within the framework of the principles of Islam." It was the reaction of Premier Pierre Mendès France, who only a few months before had completed the liquidation of France's Tete empire in Indochina, which set the tone of French policy for five years. He declared in the National Assembly, "One does not compromise when it comes to defending the internal peace of the nation, the unity, and integrity of the Republic.” shows how deep I dug into my research. Without that part of my research, I wouldn’t have had a project in the first place. It was hard to get the information that I needed and I really had to dig into the articles to find what I was looking for. This made it hard and therefore I am proud of the information that I got out of it.
I experienced difficulties when doing my art piece for this project. This was because I didnt know what exactly I wanted to do and then procrastinated for a while about what i wanted to do and how I would do that. Then on the day that the project was due i hurried to get it done and it ended up working out fine.
The most important thing that I learned throughout this project was to spread out the workload evenly over the days. This way you don’t have to do a lot of work over a couple of days. Not only that but doing this also made it possible for me to learn more about my topic because I would have more days that I could learn things about it. For example, if I hadn’t done my op-ed the way that I had I wouldn’t have known that Premier Pierre Mendès France had said "One does not compromise when it comes to defending the internal peace of the nation, the unity, and integrity of the Republic. The Algerian departments are part of the French Republic. They have been French for a long time, and they are irrevocably French. ... Between them and metropolitan France, there can be no conceivable secession."
I don’t know if there is a specific thing that I got better at during the process of writing my op-ed but I do think that I got better at writing overall. An example of this is in my op-ed when I say this, “The Algerian population radicalized itself in particular because of the terrorist acts of the French-sponsored Main Rouge group, which targeted anti-colonialists in all of the Maghreb region, killing, for example, Tunisian activist Farhat Hached in 1952. From Cairo, Ahmed Ben Bella ordered the liquidation of potential valuables, those independent representatives of the Muslim community acceptable to the French through whom a compromise or reforms within the system might be achieved.” I think that this is a good example of me growing because it has a lot of information packed into a couple of sentences. I think that I would give myself an eight. This is because I am not the most school-oriented student but I do my work even if it’s late and I try to get good grades.
Looking back at this project and thinking about what I am the proudest of it would have to be the research that I did. As said in my op-ed “On 1 November 1954, the FLN attacked their targets in Algeria in the Toussaint Rouge. From Cairo, the FLN broadcast a proclamation calling on Muslims in Algeria to join in a national struggle for the "restoration of the Algerian state – sovereign, democratic and social – within the framework of the principles of Islam." It was the reaction of Premier Pierre Mendès France, who only a few months before had completed the liquidation of France's Tete empire in Indochina, which set the tone of French policy for five years. He declared in the National Assembly, "One does not compromise when it comes to defending the internal peace of the nation, the unity, and integrity of the Republic.” shows how deep I dug into my research. Without that part of my research, I wouldn’t have had a project in the first place. It was hard to get the information that I needed and I really had to dig into the articles to find what I was looking for. This made it hard and therefore I am proud of the information that I got out of it.
I experienced difficulties when doing my art piece for this project. This was because I didnt know what exactly I wanted to do and then procrastinated for a while about what i wanted to do and how I would do that. Then on the day that the project was due i hurried to get it done and it ended up working out fine.
The most important thing that I learned throughout this project was to spread out the workload evenly over the days. This way you don’t have to do a lot of work over a couple of days. Not only that but doing this also made it possible for me to learn more about my topic because I would have more days that I could learn things about it. For example, if I hadn’t done my op-ed the way that I had I wouldn’t have known that Premier Pierre Mendès France had said "One does not compromise when it comes to defending the internal peace of the nation, the unity, and integrity of the Republic. The Algerian departments are part of the French Republic. They have been French for a long time, and they are irrevocably French. ... Between them and metropolitan France, there can be no conceivable secession."
I don’t know if there is a specific thing that I got better at during the process of writing my op-ed but I do think that I got better at writing overall. An example of this is in my op-ed when I say this, “The Algerian population radicalized itself in particular because of the terrorist acts of the French-sponsored Main Rouge group, which targeted anti-colonialists in all of the Maghreb region, killing, for example, Tunisian activist Farhat Hached in 1952. From Cairo, Ahmed Ben Bella ordered the liquidation of potential valuables, those independent representatives of the Muslim community acceptable to the French through whom a compromise or reforms within the system might be achieved.” I think that this is a good example of me growing because it has a lot of information packed into a couple of sentences. I think that I would give myself an eight. This is because I am not the most school-oriented student but I do my work even if it’s late and I try to get good grades.
