The Future

1. One of the people making predictions about the future 100 years ago was John Elfreth Watkins . His successful predictions from 100 years were digital color photography, pre-prepared meals, mobile phones, the rising heights of americans, slowing population growth, hothouse vegetables, television, tanks, bigger fruit, and the Acela Express. His unsuccessful predictions were no more C, X, or Q in the alphabet, everyone will walk 10 miles a day, no more cars in large cities, no more mosquitos or flies. Other predictions from a 19th-century German Chocolate Company 100 years ago was that the police would have x-rays, flying machines, movable houses, airships, undersea ships, North Pole trip, a water walk, a ship railway, a roofed city, theater, moving sidewalks, and good weather machine. Predictions from 50 years ago from Robert Heinlein was that there would be interplanetary travel, contraception and control of disease, the U.S. will start a "preventive war", intelligent life will be found on Mars, mankind will not destroy itself nor will civilization be destroyed. Predictions by Isaac Asimov about 50 years ago is that robots will neither be common or good, appliances will have no electrical cords, vehicles will have robot brains, wall screens will replace the ordinary sets.

2. The 19th-century German Chocolate Company predictions seem to be a wish-list of what they hoped to have for the future because they were extravagant dreams, but the predictions from 50 years ago are more accurate to what our generation is trying to produce. An example of a car with a robot brain is the Autonomous Car that drives itself.

3. The predictions that have come true are mobile phones, television, digital color photos, bigger fruit, tanks, appliances without electrical cords, and vehicles with robot brains. Some of the bizarre predictions were the good weather machine, and the U.S. starting a "preventive war".

4. There is a trend of us being able to fly, and devices helping us to communicate with each other. They seem to be focused on innovated transportation. Yes, people seem to be anticipating a better world because they are planning to travel all over the world in different ways and even to different planets.

5. Our future world will be shaped around our ideas and goals of the changing what we have now. I predict that we will have holographic devices, flying cars, no need to drive or walk anywhere because of actual hovering boards and cars. Almost like something indoor brain that will just pop up, not needing any devices or anything just thinking about it and it will be searched or defined for you. i see a whole different world with people not depending on things they normally depend on like cars, TV’s, phones, and other devices people can’t stop using today.

6. The future is in our hands because we will be the ones having the ideas to change the world. The future would not change if we did not continue to come up with ideas and put them into action. The government and the people decide what the future of our country is. The future is completely up to us and how we want to make it.

The Future is Coming

How do you analyze a political cartoon?

2. On the guide to analyzing political cartoons that I found, I already knew to look for the irony in the images, the labeling of certain objects to give them more meaning, and the use of symbolism for an object to stand for a certain idea. I learned about exaggeration, where the physical characteristics of something or someone can be changed to make a point, or that each cartoon has an analogy to it to make their point stand out.

3. Going forward when I look at political cartoons, I will look for the exaggeration of the physical attributes in the images, and look and see if I can find the analogy to the message of the cartoon. The guide I will use is The Library of Congress Guide.

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This cartoon is meant to symbolize that the Americans were giving Hawaii, the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico lessons on how to become civilized and like America. In the background I observed a Native American boy reading his book upside down. This shows irony because the Americans also tried to teach the Indians to become a part of their society. The children who represent Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba are drawn smaller because they are less powerful territories, whereas Uncle Sam is tall and towering over them because the US is such a super power. At the bottom of the cartoon Uncle Sam is saying "Now children, you've got to learn these lessons whether you want to or not! But just take a look at the class ahead of you, and remember that, in a little while, you will feel glad to be here as they are!"

This cartoon shows the Philippines or the Filipino people depicted as a wild dog barking "WAR". Uncle Sam is standing to the left of the Filipino dog cringing up at the dogs barking. The Philippines is shown as a wild dog to show how the Americans believed they needed to be civilized to the American way of life. 

This cartoon shows Uncle Sam chasing a wasp and trying to catch it under his hat. The sign in the corner says "The Philippine Islands". I believe the wasp is being used to portray the Philippines, and how the United States was trying to catch the Philippines and take them over.

Eddie Aikau

1. The filmmakers call this film Hawaiian, The Legend of Eddie Aikau because he saved surfing in Hawaii from getting overrun by the Australians and became the hero of Hawaiian identity and surfing.
2. Topic: Eddie Aikau
    Focus: The Hawaiian identity and surfing career of Eddie Aikau
   Angle: Eddie was the embodiment of Hawaiian identity because of his dedication to the Hawaiian culture and his compassion for others.
3. The films content was shaped by Eddies surfing career and his saving of Hawaiian surfing. The filmmakers assumed that the audience was more interested in the sport of surfing and his success in surfing.
4. The film, if made by PBS or the History channel, would have focused more on the background history and culture of the Hokulea and Hawaii. They also would not have focused on Eddies surfing career and how he saved surfing from being overrun by the Australians.

Eddie Aikau

6. Topic: Spanish- American War

Focus: Media in the War

Angle: The medias false information about facts and stretching of the facts caused an unnecessary war.

The media took the information about the explosion of the Maine and turned it into an attack on the U.S. by the Spanish. This was false information and caused a war that was completely unnecessary. The medias involvement causes bigger issues than the real issues themselves.

Phrenology

My group and I discussed the interesting division of the human brain and how each part related to a different action or emotion of humans. After researching, I learned that each part of the brain was considered to be an "organ". Each organ was a different size based on the power it had in the humans body. It was interesting to me how "selfish" was one of the biggest organs on the bust. Lorenzo Fowler was the man who created the artifact. I learned that the bust is a secondary source based on what we were searching for, but if the question we were asking was changed, then it could be a primary source. The definition of provenance is "the place or origin or earliest known history of something."

Phrenology Bust