This week we mainly worked on finishing and comprehending the meaning of our books. We did this by working on a Character Arc that showed how the main character, John changed and what events forced him to change such as when he assaults Lenina for trying to have sex with him. We also started to talk about our Pecha Kucha presentation and how we are supposed to set up the slides. We also did two creative writings that had to do with blacking out words in a story so they come together and create another story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha
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This week has been more based on reading our Shared Leadership books. We have been finishing up our novels, taking different notes and trying to understand the deeper meaning of the story. We have been testing our time management skills because we have been given a time span in which we should have our books done. Also we are expected to be taking notes on worksheets that help us comprehend the text. As our worksheets are being finished, we will be starting to construct our Pecha Kucha presentation to finish up the second trimester. We have also been working on how well we can comprehend what we are reading. The notes we have to take force us to dig a little deeper to find more meaningful lessons that we can connect to our own lives in Brave New World, John is alone in the world he is in because he doesn't think the way that everyone else does. In his eyes sex and relationships are seen as a special thing that should be shared with someone you love, not a stranger. Lenina has the opposite view on pleasure and sex, all she wants to do is throw herself at john but everytime she tries he resists his feelings and pushes her away. John is considered an outcast that doesn't fit with any social group so the society comes to call him "The Savage" because of his savage ways of living. Even when bernard has people over to meet him john never leaves him room because he doesn't want to fit in with the others. This week in we have been mainly focused on the same topic as last week which is how a government should be ran and how the actions of the government directly affects the electorate. We touched on many topics in our inference notes where we took quotes and page numbers from our books and described how they relate to our big question about how leadership should be shared. This week we also watched a TED talks that introduced a coder/activist Jennifer Pahlka who talked about how the people can take control of their communities without the government’s influence by using apps that connect locals to other locals so they may be able to do services that the government may normally do such as shoveling sidewalks and digging fire hydrants out of the snow. t http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/11/government-ethics-reform-leadership-citizenship-ethisphere.html digital technology is bringing communities together to help fix, maintain or just help people with regular things that might seem small but can improve the citizens lives. The system of government is still needed to make our lives good but some civil services that everyday people can do everyday make our lives much better. With the help of technology and things like apps, we connect the public people to each other so they can handle small issues as a community without the intervention of the big government. Not only does this new technology based lifestyle make our lives more convenient because it removes the use of a giant government trying to handle millions of other issues, it brings a group of people who live near each other together to help one another. Think of the government as a box, full of rubber bands of all shapes and sizes and colors. If we empty the rubber bands out and tie them all up into the tightest ball possible, that would be us, all of these rubber bands tied together into a ball (by the internet) and then held and kept safe in a box. This week we talked mostly on shared leadership and how the lack of could turn a civilization into mindless zombies. Without shared leadership one idea/person would have total control over every aspect of the civilians lives. This idea of shared leadership stems from the thought that every man is made the same and deserves to have the same rights as everyone else. Without a cooperative effort to give everyone's voice a say, there will be people who will try and take power for their personal gain. The government can not be rean alone, they're to many people to please and not enough resources to do it so the best way to make sure everyone is happy and free they need to have a say and a part in the government who is supposed to be helping them. in the video we watched "The Twilightzone, the obsolete man" we saw a man who had his nation say he was not useful anymore and that his specific service was no longer required, so he would be killed. but the man showed his government by tricking a government official into being as close to death as he was. after the man is killed and the government agent survives the government decides that for the agents cowardliness he would be forced into the same situation as the other obsolete man. https://www.boundless.com/management/textbooks/boundless-management-textbook/leadership-9/other-leadership-perspectives-73/shared-leadership-363-10556/ |
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