My topic was Chocolate. I feel I learned a great deal of not only valuable, but thought-provoking information. For instance I did not realise just how much work goes in to making this delicious treat, or how many people are hurt in the process. My sub topics were: Chocolate and the slave trade, chocolate and health, and Fair trade. For each sub topic I filtered a lot of information into small chunks of interesting facts. This is the first time I have seriously learned how to filter info, and I must tell you I was not looking forward to it. But after I went through this process I realised that it does really work and is worth the time and effort. If I were to do this project over I would change the amount of time I spent understanding project guidelines, because I feel that I had to do things a bit backwards. My partner was Jacinta, and I feel we work very well together, we always looked forward to working on this project, and that is very rare. I am happy with the outcome of my project and look forward to making a similar one in the future.
This cartoon is insinuating that the USA is marking their territory by using shallow symbols of their consumer culture. They want to keep Canada, and other countries, like the Soviet Union and Iceland out of their private and somewhat deceitful plans for the north. In this cartoon Harper is finally getting a clue about the wool pulled over is sinister eyes. The boat breaking the ice means that Canada is coming here next, to repeat this superficial process. Polar bears beware! Common trends in political cartoons, regarding Harper, seem to be his eyes and nose. People have made accusations about his eyes, saying they shoot lasers, and other unrealistic but comprehendible comments. As for the nose, it is a part of the face, people are very self conscious about. It is targeted when one tries to break down self esteem and confidence. Canada is coming, the arctic beware!