Revised Post for Japan Project

So after consulting Mrs. Lawson, I have a revised project plan for my Japan project. I am planning on having two kids and them do like a life swap. Where one kid from America goes over to Japan and thinks that some of the things they do is bad manners when it turns out that in Japan those are good manners. And a kid from Japan comes to America and thinks that their customs are bad. Then they talk with each other and they realize that they both have different customs that are bad and good that appear different.
I am going to put it in a children's book and write it from a children's perspective with the simple language that they would understand. This will be a way to teach young kids how different their manners are.

My Japan Project Proposal

For my Japan Project I was planning on making a children's book. I wanted to explore the etiquette that the Japanese have beyond the ones we learned in class. I was planning on making the book like a Manners book, but not exactly that. Also I was planning on directing my "pretended" audience to children. This way they could learn some etiquette that would be needed in Japan.

I want a book like this only I will probably try to make the title in Japanese and be more creative with it.

Exploring Extremes

The South Pole was reached on December 14, 1911 by Roald Amundsen and four other people that went with him. http://www.south-pole.com/p0000101.htm

Commander Robert Edwin Peary, a civil engineer in the US Navy reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909. http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6040069.ece

George Leigh Mallory led the expedition in 1924 to summit Everest along with his partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine. It was unknown what happened to them until in 1975 someone located what was thought as Irvine's body. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/mystery/

The Summit was finally reached in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/mystery/

To me people do things for different reasons. Explores have multiple different reasons for exploring...whether it be passion of learning whats there, curiosity, or the true desire to find something there. For me, I do not think I would climb. It's something that I do not have a passion for. However whenever I think about climbers, I do not see it as risking their life. Every climber has a motivation behind them and for that reason alone is what they see first. Then they see the other factors....such as risks, goal of seeing the top, lost of oxygen, and so on. These climbers or explorers are brave to still climb because of the motivation even with all the risks that could occur.

Here are some climbers that reached the top of a summit. Look at how happy they look. You can tell that climbing was worth it to them.

More Than 100 Years Later, the World I Live in Still Displays the Impact of the New Imperialism

Ok it is safe to say that the world that I live in today still shows effects of imperialism. You can see it almost all the time but no one actually sits down and thinks about it. For example, it is clear how much Europe has advanced. I mean all the new medical advances and military machinery. Then all those advances were spread through to most of the world and if you think about it...where did man know how to make cough syrup or how to make a gun? Everyone and everything starts somewhere and thanks to this imperialistic movement around the world we can see that.

Also we can clearly see that the strong and dominant countries end up taking over the weaker and less united countries. Just think about it...the United States is pretty powerful and with that being said we can also note how poor and weak Haiti is. With the United states government and help we can easily help them. But at the same time we could easily smush them and claim that land. However, the United States is not going to do that so no worries! :)

THINK ABOUT IT!!! THESE DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES DID NOT RANDOMLY APPEAR...THEY TOOK YEARS OF ADVANCES!

Positive Effects of the New Imperialism

Just like the negative, there were also positive effects of the New Imperialism. For the most part, most of the countries in Europe were just gaining power while others were declining. This made it very easy for Europe to step in with authority and dominate the declining countries. The Westerners had strong economies, organized governments, powerful armies/navies, superior technology, and improved medical knowledge. They also had that machine guns and rifles and steam-driven warships. As an English writer said, "Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not."


However on the other side of the table, conquered people had their own culture which brought the people together and brought very few fighting in the interior of the country. The conquered people did not have to worry about the diseases because they were used to them. Even though they were in decline they still were in decline together with all the other countries, therefore no one could really conquer each other's country.

But the overall benefit from both sides of the countries did not show as much positive as it really should of.

Negative Effects of the New Imperialism

Of course out of every action we make there is always going to be some form of consequence. The negative mostly came out of the people who were conquered. Mostly because of how weak their country was the dominating countries would take advantage of that and conquer them. A major negative situation that occurred was slavery. The people put into the slave trade did not have a choice and that really blew for them.

Now for the people who dominated land, this was not a problem to them. They did not care that these people were actual humans, nor did they care that they had rights. Because the dominating lands were successful at conquering the land, they had nothing bad occurring for them.

And that is probably the saddest part, the fact that the conquerors did not realize how big pains in the heads they were to the conquered people.

What was the New Imperialism?

Imperialism is a country that dominates another country by political, economic, or cultural life. This imperialism during the late 19th and early 20th century was "new" because Europe became a huge power. From Europe's great economic and political strength they were inspired to go further with their expansion. The strong centralized governed nation-states became about and from that they were greatly influenced by the Industrial Revolution.

The "New Imperialism" came bout for many different reasons. Starting off, the economy was enriched from wanting natural resources to sell in new markets. The people also saw colonies as places for the European population to grow. The political and military interests of the people came from trips around the world for bases so they could gain islands and harbors. Nationalism came into the scene because of countries competing with each other. The countries thought that being a global empire would increase a nation's fame. With the blessings of the Western civilization, medicine, law, and Christian religion came forth. Racial superiority was famous in the West and Darwin's belief in natural selection was related to human society.

THE BIG IDEA---EVERYONE WANTS WORLD DOMINATION!!