Post by Louisa on Jan 17, 2011 22:38:43 GMT -5
Ok, you guys have been hearing how I lost a lot of my files. So I thought I would introduce you to the boring file that started it.
But first, there is a story.
The file is my social essay final, worth 15%. It was pretty easy, and I finished in class time as expected, and with a bit of spare time.
My school has just started using google docs as a way to share assignments and such.
I don't like google docs for the simple reason that I like word docs better.
So when I didn't share with the teacher, he asked why. I said it was becasue I didn't like it, and I would share the word file once I was done.
He said that might mean that something might be lost.
Me, being me, decided to try and back up my files.
It didn't go so well.
I copied the original word files, and tried to paste it in drop box to sync.
This resulted in teh original files being deleted, and being in in the drop box. Not fun.
I had to copy and paste them back, and as you know, took time. Here is the essay in it's boring glory:
Social Studies 20-1 Final Exam Written
By Louisa Paarsmarkt
Nationalism is striving for your country, doing something for your country. It is a concept that citizens do for their countries, because they feel for their countries.
Source 1 is a cartoon of people following the leader mindlessly, the leader holding a flag with the word, “Nationalism” on it, and a smaller flag underneath, about to go over a cliff. It means that people are just blindly striving for nationalism, and it’s using the example of going over the cliff, because everybody else is doing it, as a way to explain the mindlessness, that they aren’t thinking, and they are just doing something for their country. The perspective presented in this source is someone who doesn’t like nationalism, and thinks that people should think about their actions, and not do what everybody else is doing. The link between nationalism and the source is that the artist wanted people to think about what they were doing for their countries, not just doing it, adding on to what nationalism is, so that it’s better for everybody.
Source 2 is a quote by Dan Fried comparing nationalism to cheap alcohol, and how it’ll kill you in the end. It means that doing something for your country, it’s bad for you, and that in the long run, it just isn’t worth it. It also says that there would be stages, going deeper and deeper into the pit, “first it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you” which says that there is more then 1 level into the whole situation. The perspective is again of someone who doesn’t like nationalism, thinking that it doesn’t help you, now, or in the long run. It is related to nationalism by the fact that it is comparing nationalism to alcohol, doing something for your country to a drink that gives you a hangover-it makes it hurt.
Source 3 is a picture of a hockey game, with Canadians holding signs like “BELIEVE!”, or “CANADA” and they are cheering for their team. They stand up, and they cheer for their team, and they are hyper, and they want their team to win. The air is charged, and emotions are tense, and you could cut the tension with a knife in the anticipation to see who would win and who would loose. The perspective is of someone who really loves hockey, and is proud of their country, and wants their country’s team to win. It is linked to nationalism by the fact that they made the effort to come to the game and support their team-their country’s team, and they made banners and wore jerseys, and they have symbols associated with Canada, and that’s doing something for your country.
Source 1 and 2 are very similar. They both come from perspectives that do not like nationalism, and think that it’s bad for the people involved. In the first one, it’s by following someone blindly, and then going off a cliff, well, it’s assumed that that’s going to hurt, and the other, it’s the slow decline into death because of nationalism. The last source, however, has a prospective that likes nationalism, that striving for Canada, that brought them together to cheer for the team. The first 2 are alike, and dissimilar to the last source.
Yep (:
But first, there is a story.
The file is my social essay final, worth 15%. It was pretty easy, and I finished in class time as expected, and with a bit of spare time.
My school has just started using google docs as a way to share assignments and such.
I don't like google docs for the simple reason that I like word docs better.
So when I didn't share with the teacher, he asked why. I said it was becasue I didn't like it, and I would share the word file once I was done.
He said that might mean that something might be lost.
Me, being me, decided to try and back up my files.
It didn't go so well.
I copied the original word files, and tried to paste it in drop box to sync.
This resulted in teh original files being deleted, and being in in the drop box. Not fun.
I had to copy and paste them back, and as you know, took time. Here is the essay in it's boring glory:
Social Studies 20-1 Final Exam Written
By Louisa Paarsmarkt
Nationalism is striving for your country, doing something for your country. It is a concept that citizens do for their countries, because they feel for their countries.
Source 1 is a cartoon of people following the leader mindlessly, the leader holding a flag with the word, “Nationalism” on it, and a smaller flag underneath, about to go over a cliff. It means that people are just blindly striving for nationalism, and it’s using the example of going over the cliff, because everybody else is doing it, as a way to explain the mindlessness, that they aren’t thinking, and they are just doing something for their country. The perspective presented in this source is someone who doesn’t like nationalism, and thinks that people should think about their actions, and not do what everybody else is doing. The link between nationalism and the source is that the artist wanted people to think about what they were doing for their countries, not just doing it, adding on to what nationalism is, so that it’s better for everybody.
Source 2 is a quote by Dan Fried comparing nationalism to cheap alcohol, and how it’ll kill you in the end. It means that doing something for your country, it’s bad for you, and that in the long run, it just isn’t worth it. It also says that there would be stages, going deeper and deeper into the pit, “first it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you” which says that there is more then 1 level into the whole situation. The perspective is again of someone who doesn’t like nationalism, thinking that it doesn’t help you, now, or in the long run. It is related to nationalism by the fact that it is comparing nationalism to alcohol, doing something for your country to a drink that gives you a hangover-it makes it hurt.
Source 3 is a picture of a hockey game, with Canadians holding signs like “BELIEVE!”, or “CANADA” and they are cheering for their team. They stand up, and they cheer for their team, and they are hyper, and they want their team to win. The air is charged, and emotions are tense, and you could cut the tension with a knife in the anticipation to see who would win and who would loose. The perspective is of someone who really loves hockey, and is proud of their country, and wants their country’s team to win. It is linked to nationalism by the fact that they made the effort to come to the game and support their team-their country’s team, and they made banners and wore jerseys, and they have symbols associated with Canada, and that’s doing something for your country.
Source 1 and 2 are very similar. They both come from perspectives that do not like nationalism, and think that it’s bad for the people involved. In the first one, it’s by following someone blindly, and then going off a cliff, well, it’s assumed that that’s going to hurt, and the other, it’s the slow decline into death because of nationalism. The last source, however, has a prospective that likes nationalism, that striving for Canada, that brought them together to cheer for the team. The first 2 are alike, and dissimilar to the last source.
Yep (: