Last Day of Project

Today was the last day to work on the project and it went pretty well.  All my group had to do was make a poster because we had finished the bulk of it yesterday.  maria drew a foot on the poster which looked really good, but her stars were a little blotchy.  So I was the one who filled those in.  Grace and I went to get something from the printer, pasted in on and were finished.  It was a pretty quick class.  Nothing really happened.

I am a genius

My slogan I thought of for shoes was, "Enlighten your sole, put U.S. in control. Buy American made products."  The "U.S." would just be pronounced us.  In all honesty, it is brilliant, and I doubt even you could think of that (hehe).  So the whole class time we worked on the project.  The only thing we didn't get to was the poster, so we're doing it tomorrow.  I'm going to bring in glitter so it's pretty.

New Project

We talked for a good while about what we saw in the video from previous days.  During the movie we saw the parts of all their cars, and oh my gosh, they are the weirdest things ever!  One looked like a space shuttle, the other had no doors, just windows that were used at the doors, and they all just looked like the cars in the Grinch.  Who-cars.  Haha!  I would never drive them, for looks and because none of them have passed admissions.  Every single one of them are just a piece of metal, flimsy metal.  We watched one of those crashed tests and the entire front of it and the rim was crushed.  I forget what it actually was that that didn't pass admissions, so the American government basically made them make it a certain way so it would pass our admissions tests.  We also talked about how Beijing is so polluted that during the Olympics the competitors had to wear masks and such.  There was also a part in the movie where the reporter was trying to get the Chinese dude to admit they were talking Ford cars, and selling them to Americans.  Sadly, though because he was a good public relations person, he would not seem to admit to it.

Definitions

Capitalism: An economic and political system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses to make profit.  Private owned corporations, can be a big business or a small one.  America uses Capitalism.

Communism: An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.  It's to create a classless country, no upper, no lower, and no middle class.   The government owns all of the businesses & everything.

Free Enterprise: An economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.  Free of state control.  The people who own the shop decided how much things there cost.

Free Market: Economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.  

MOVIE

So we had a little discussion on whether or not the Chinese car company was LIFON or LIFAN.  Maheer said it ended in -ON and I said that it ended in -AN.  Of course, I was right.  So we just watched more of the movie, and talked about how and why American cars are more expensive-because they are more durable and reliable with the car companies that have been around for a long time.  All of the cars though are made in China, that is why the Who Family was confused as to why they were more expensive.  9 out of 10 people pay in cash, and that is because they don't want to have to keep paying for the car even if they loose their job.  This one American makes half of what he did a year ago working for I believe it was Ford.  The last thing that we talked about was that China is the largest producer and consumer of steel.

Another Movie!

We got our essays back and I got a 97%!  Anyway I had thought we were done the movie on China's Country and stuff.  We weren't thought, there was still a few minutes left.  I'm going to get mixed up with the facts that came with either movie.  We started the third movie, because he liked it better.  (I'm not sure if these facts pertain to the first movie or the second).  There was a guy who makes 100 dollars a week.  This is an extremely well paying job in the US.  This is terrible especially considering that he worked as an expert with dynamite.  That is such a dangerous job, especially considering that if he messes up, everything is slowed down and it's all his fault.  America is so far #1 in the world for its advanced highways and supposedly China will be over take us in this department.  Also when an accident is caused the police will come up, be the judge and the jury and decide who is to blame, and how much.  If it is just a little bit a person will give the other money to fix it and then they carry on.  China is also building highways by hand, and they used to ride bikes everywhere, but not anymore.  I remember the guy who had a duck face and wasn't very attractive, he claims that they are not stealing our designs, but lets be real, he is, he just doesn't want to admit it.  We didn't get very far in it though.

Finished Movie

We finished the movie Friday!  Finally, but we saw how one family barely made enough money to survive and to send their daughter to a boarding school.  Marriage was bad, the wife said she was going to leave him soon, I forget when, but she was going to start a living on her own and forget about her alcoholic husband whom she does not like anymore.  The other family was rich and lived in the US in a nice house, and the dad had a lab place set up in China because it cost much less for 10x more space.  We stopped to talk for a while about how they had SAT book and all these electronics out and about.