CAPITALISM!

capitalism is broken up into many different parts, but overall what it means is that its "an economical system in which good services are produced , distributed,and consumed though the mechanism of free markets". meaning that its all about how products are bought and sold and the logic behind it . another point to add in would have to be that its all about the "free market" and "private property", meaning that it all depends if its free market and anyone can sell the product , or if its private and you have to have the right to sell the product.
the three main parts of capitalism is : land , labor , and capital . meaning that the land is literally the land that you sell your product on ( aka the store, the street, the grass). the labor is who you choose to MAKE sell the products for you , or the labor that you do to sell the products or to produce your products, and then the capital is the stuff that you use to sell you items like signs, advertisement, and then the wealth comes in !
the wealth is when you get profit from the products you sold and are able to increase your profit by upgrading ! the most fun of it all ! it all turns into a cycle sell,profit,upgrade,MORE profit, sell upgrade, EVEN MORE profit.. etc etc. its a way to get rich !
the main objective of the seller would be to make the most money possible while spending the least amount possible. meaning that he wants to buy the product for a cheap amount of money and make the buyer pay extra , so he gets profit. but then its not all up to him , he always has to relate back to the supply and demand chart. the supply and demand chart lets you know the highest price you can sell the item for and the lowest amount of money the buyer will pay for the product, which is the market price. you have to revolve it all around the market price which ends up changing here and there, it all depends on the supply and demand if it shifts or not !
now going a little off topic, theres always going to be competition, if theres a free market, there will be way more competition because you'll have more competitors trying to sell along side of you while if its private , you don't have as much.
thats when the invisible hand comes in! the invisible hand is when you put your own interest ahead of your self so that you do stuff automatically , its kind of like your instincts. people use the invisible hand in these situations because they are competing with others so their first instinct is to do BETTer then their competitors and they do it without thinking about it . if one person is selling a coffee for one price, you sell yours with a donut for the same price etc. its all about the competition!

I, Pencil !!

I, Pencil:
I think that the main message of this story is to express the ideas that this “pencil has. And those ideas are that, when you look at a pencil, you see just a simple writing utensil, but really behind it all, there is SO much work from different workers to complete this one pencil. The pencil wants to make sure that you know how many materials and supplies you need to make such a “seemingly so simple” object that’s part of our everyday life. But then it states, “Not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me”. He/she goes into deep detail about the different products within this pencil but the most important part is that for that ONE supply, you have about 5 different processes to get that product. “Consider these miners and those who make their many tools and makers of the paper sacks in which the graphite is shipped and those who make the string that ties the sacks and those who put them aboard ships and those who make the ships” as you see the list goes on and on, about the wood that makes the ships, the people that cut the wood, etc etc. it’s a never ending process for one thing! The “pencil” wants to make sure that you know that “millions of human beings have had a hand in my creation”.
There are two points being made here in this story: that A- the pencil is so simple , but no one can seem to understand it, and then B- that there are millions and millions of people that give their all for the making of this pencil. When you connect the two you realize that people don’t even care about this pencil. It’s a part of our everyday life that we don’t even think about stuff like how’s it’s made and what’s its ingredients? “For each of these millions sees that he can thus exchange his tiny know-how for the good and services he needs or wants”. Which is basically saying that the people who offer the services don’t even care about what they are making or the people who BUY the product don’t really think about all the work that is done behind it. When the pencil makers in the factory are making these pencils and adding the lead and wax, etc they don’t think about how the wax was made and who made it, how and were did it come from? They just do their services and get what they want, MONEY!

AWOL interview essay:FINAL DRAFT

Over the past week in class we have been focusing on what other people think of the “American way of life”. I overall interviewed 4 people and they all had very different answers for all the questions I asked, but the one thing they DID have in common was the fact that they all thought you need a college education to survive in today’s society. I had noticed that when I would go ahead and ask the main question, “ What do YOU think is the American way of life”? All of them would hesitate to answer, because since they were talking to teenagers, they didn’t really want to tell the truth, they just told us stuff we SHOULD hear. But after a lot of follow up questions, we all got the truth out of the interviewees.

The truth was what all four of my interviewees; Tim, Mr. Fanning, Josie Kastleman and a 6th grader said, that to get your American way of life you have to have an education. Josie Kastleman had mentioned that you need this college education because in American, everything is revolved around money, you need it to survive. Well the only way to get money, is through job! So she mentioned that in order to get that job , you have to have a well-off education. Mostly all jobs will NOT hire you with high school education. There is evidence of this through Mr. Fanning’s interview. He told us about his childhood and earlier years and how he was in a rock band and that’s all he had as his career. He was smart enough to make the choice to go to college on the side and mastered in English, even though he thought he was well-off with his rock band and that’s what he wanted to do for his living. At the age of 32 he realized that he couldn’t live his whole life being in a rock band so thanks to his EDUCATION, he became an English teacher then a principle for my high school. At the end of the interview he thanked his mother for always being there for him even though she wanted him to go to law school. Which brings me to another point that is very important to the “American way of life”…
I think that who you become when you get older and which path you choose, all depends on your family. I believe that they have a huge influence on you become. I think that it is very important that you have parents that care about you and are always there for you no matter what because if they aren’t, you may choose a wrong path and who will be there to tell you to turn around? A good example of this would be , Tim. Tim went to a private high school and then a private college. HE mentioned that it would have not happened if it wasn’t for his parents paying and supporting me through my education. Without them he would have not suceded and that where the part of his not getting his “American dream” comes in.

This all overall connects to our unit that the “American way of life is non-negotiable” because it shows that from as many peoples perspectives, it will never change on how you need to survive in today’s society. It will always be the same as for that you need a good education in order to get a good career and earn money, because in today’s world , you need money to survive, without it you’ll be in poverty and wont have much.

Assignment 2:COMMENTS

AMANDA-
hey mandaaaaa, 
so i just finished watching your video and i agree with binta , it really showed how your familly and friends mean alot to you . even though it didnt have video it still provoked that feeling and idea. 
another thing i realized was that you showed all the pictures of your family members first before anything else and that shows that they maybe mean more then anything to you ? 
love youu

BINTA-
so i just wanted to say , nice videoo. and that i really like the part when your sitting down with your sister and you ask her what you value, i like that part because its different then everyone elses where they talk all about them selves, instead you have others talk for you... creative!

ESTHER-
hey esther,
sooo i think that this video really comes across with whats important to you in your life, and i also liked it because it was a little different from everyone elses where it was JUST pics of friends then family , yours had a little more to it !

KAITLYN-
hey , so i just finished watching your video and i think its really cute how most of it is of you and your sisters, seems like thats where you spend most of your time...
also amazing singing!

ALI-
hey
i just finished watching your video and its weird because at the end of it i felt like i really knew you even though we never really talked..
its different then every body elses because you actually talk about every little detail. amazing job !






3 insights from watching videos :

1. that most of the videos i watched was JUST about family and friends, maybe those are the two things teens value the most these days in their life's.
2. that from watching one video you could really feel like you know that one person. it doesnt take much these days to see who a person is..
3. last but not least, that looking at all of our videos , i see that we are all very fortunate to have families and friends that we love and that love us , because alot of teenagers dont have that these days..

MY AWOL VIDEO

MY AWOL VIDEO

DESCRIPTION:
1. What have you included in this video?
-In this video I included three different sections , my family , my friends , and then some daily basics[ the left over pieces of my life]. I included these three things because i tried to think about what i should make this video about , and a brainstorming question i thought of was " what could i not live with out " and thats when i realized that my family is the most important thing to me and so are my friends because without them i know what i would do .

2. Explain how different parts of the video relate to your way of life.
-well the first part of my video [FAMILY] relates to my life because they are the ones that gave me life. i wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them. i find them a huge part of my video because my family comes first before anybody , and they ARE my life, they created the way i live.
-the second part of my video [FRIENDS] relate to my way of life because when i think of all of us , we are very different in many ways , we influence each other and sometimes our ways of life can rub off on each other and start becoming similar. They are the ones that create my "outside of family" life. They entertain me and keep me active, if it wasnt for them i would probably be in bed a whole lot !
-the third part of my video [RANDOM PEICES OF LIFE] relate to my way of life because it shows what i do when im alone , not with my family nor my friends. I am usually on my laptop, on facebook or video chatting , which symbolizes that i have to always be in connection to my friends. I also put in a clip of a fashion runway because i always have random activities thrown in the mix of my life that i really enjoy experiencing.

4. What would you have liked to have included, that is important to your way of life, but weren’t able to?
Well overall i think that i was able to show the main point of my video that my life is my family and friends and that they mean alot to me and they are the ones that influance me and created who i am today.




ANALYSIS & INSIGHT
5. What’s going on with your way of life? What seems to be the general pattern or direction or point or situation?
-The direction of my way of life as you can tell from my responses above, i think that the way i live will always be influenced by the people I'm surrounded by.

6. How do the good, bad, and neutral in your way of life fit together?
-Well i would say that my life is all about the good and neutral , i would never say bad things happen in my life because you always have to think about the unfortunate people and families out there in this world that have less then me , and that makes me feel like i have an amazing life and that nothing can really put me down, that nothing can ever get to me as "omg my life is horrible ! " .

7. Does your way of life seem like a “typical American Way of Life”? Why or why not?
- Sadly i would say definitely. i say yes because even though my parents are separated , we are a loving family with animals and a sister. and we travel on vacations. and when it comes to me, i am on facebook a lot, watching stupid american shows, communicate with my friends by phone , AIM ,and even video chat. to me that is what americans do , they are revolved around the media system and technology.

8. What aspects of your way of life seem really interesting to you – you’d like to think about them more deeply, figure out how this sort of thing developed historically, what’s going to happen to this aspect of your way of life within your lifetime? What questions do you have about these really interesting aspects of your way of life?
- I would say the most intereesting part of my life would have to be the fact that i have traveled alot for only being 17 years old. Since i have grown up with parents that love to travel and see the world, i beleive i will be the same as the years go by , my next destination that i want to go to would have to be Africa, my mom and i plan on going there for a month to help out next summer.

American Way of Life : TEST

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Personal Revelation Essay

Everyone has had a revelation in there lifetime, half of the people don’t even know it, or realize it. This revelation helps the individual see the world, society, everyone, in a different way. It helps them understand in an easier way how the world works, why everything is the way it is.
I have had many revelations I’m sure; I just haven’t realized them yet. There is one revelation I have had very recently. This revelation happens a lot I’m sure to many different people. It has to do with Karma. I used to think that karma was just a “saying” that it doesn’t really exist. I used to think it was impossible for someone to be looking over you, and looking at everything bad that you do, and make sure karma hits you back hard.
The “karma string of events” experience that I experienced started last year [I’m not going to use names because I don’t want to reveal anything to anyone]. It started off with a relationship I had with someone and it lasted about 7 months, and towards the end of our relationship I had done something bad, but didn’t tell him, I did it behind his back. Then about a month later I find out that around the same time he had cheated on me [karma towards me]. Then we broke up, and he went out with the girl that he cheated on me with. The next thing that happened was he cheated on her later in their relationship, which results in karma on her. Now he’s the one that is left to have karma hit him back.
This experience was a revelation for me because it opened my eyes and made me realized that karma does exist. It makes me think so much every time I think about it. It makes me think about how does karma work? I’m sure that when I figure out this question, that’s when I will get the REAL revelation. But for now it just surprised me that even if the person you did something bad, doesn’t know, you will STILL have something bad happen to you. It makes me feel like someone is watching over me all the time.
This revelation was definitely a hard/mean one to experience, because I was hurt while experiencing it. The result is definitely tragic, because I got hurt in the end, but it can also be looked at as positive because now that I know karma exists, I will watch my actions because I know that whatever I do will always come back to me in some sort of way.
Like i said above, revaltions make people see the way the world works. this revalalation of karma did make me understand the way things are. it made me realize that when something bad happens to someone , that it wasnt a mistake, that theres always going to be a reason behind it all. THat that thing happened because that person did something bad before in an eairlier time, and now its all hitting them in the face.