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Business in America project
“What causes systematic and individual change”?
- - Systematic change is an opportunity to enact change on a situation that needs to be taken into consideration to enable change for the better. Individual change the hold out for the president to insure these problems and react to their actions by making change to better the economy and providing stability.
Business Visual Project
1.The presentation that Tenzin and I chose was a poster. We chose to highlight the choices that the each president made; we chose one individual change that they wanted to make, and then we chose the systemic change that was then brought about.
2."What causes systematic and individual change?"
Systemic changes come about from a person or persons who put their will into action, and decide to take necessary step to make a difference in the world that they live in.
An individual change either is the result of or it proceeds systematic change, because it involves a person to look at themselves, and the at the problem before them, which leads a choice that has to be made to be made for the greater good.
3.One thing that I still want to know: Just how much will giving more benefits to smaller businesses do for the economy? If they are newer, wouldn't it be harder to start up anyway?
Business Unit Reflection
1. We chose to do a political cartoon because we both felt we could get creative with the idea of one. By doing this, we brought both of our strengths together to produce something we thought would be a good visual representation of the points we thought were most important in the business unit.
2. EQ: What cause systemic and individual change?
Decision and action cause both systemic and individual change; decisions are made on the account of an individual and the actions made by the individual affect both the individual's system and the individual themselves. In changing the system, the individual is also changed.
3. I want to know how some American businesses become corporate; it seems a long to go.
Business Unit Reflection
1.Explain your choice of presentation
- Sasha and I decided to make a poster with the three presidents side by side with a picture of each and an explanation of their individual hope or change for America. We chose to do a poster because we wanted it to be lively and got the message out.
2.Two sentences answering your EQ: What causes systemic and individual change?
- Systemic changes require everyone's voice and contribution. It has a lot of barriers for a big problem to be solved and for an individual change, it's either the result or it proceeds systematic change, because it involves a person to look at themselves, and the problem before them, which leads a choice that has to be made to be made for the greater good.
3. What questions do you still have about business in America?
- How would creating smaller business help the major debt that the US government is entitled to?Ryan Harris Business Unit Reflection
Monologue Series
Theodore Roosevelt
During my presidency I noticed something that I couldn’t quite understand. I noticed a massive range of businesses who controlled such a high quantity of manufacturing from things like railroads, oil, and even meat. With meat, for example, I sent out a friend of mine to a meat packing industry. His response letter back painted a horrible picture. He saw that dead animals thrown aside and lighting conditions were terrible. Yet with these terrible conditions, the investors of these companies are doing extremely well. This needed to be changed, I couldn’t outright eliminate these companies, but instead control their actions. These monopolies can’t be good for America. In reaction to that, I’ve enlisted many antitrust acts to break up these giant superpowers. A notable one was the Standard Oil Trust. We were able separate the conglomerate that was Standard Oil, into much small companies. This way there was no longer one massive force controlling simply one object.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
During my presidency our country was one of its worst points: The Great Depression. The economy was downtrodden and jobs for the average American was an adventure in and of itself. So when I became president I proposed a “New Deal” of sorts for my fellow American citizens. First I started the Civilian Conservation Corps and Works Progress Administration to somehow bring life into America and get this economy back to what it was. But that wasn’t enough to save the American people from where they were. I also created the Wagner Act and Fair Labor Standards Act to instill more organized labor into America with things like minimum wage.
Barack Obama
In presidency, I noticed that American companies have made a major mistake. In recent years, they’ve outsourced their work to foreign countries such as China. Well why? Well I think we’ve all figured out by now, it’s simply because it is cheaper to give the jobs to foreigners who well work for much cheaper. This needs to stop. Today in America, Americans are struggling to find jobs in a economy trying to come out of a recession. To solve I propose this to American companies who outsource, bring the jobs back to America! American companies should have American workers shouldn’t they? Instead of focusing more on a profit, American companies should focus on advancing the economy back to it’s majesty. Outsourcing isn’t going to be thing that gets America out of this recession.
Reflection
1. Explain your choice and presentation format.
- I chose a monologue format because I was working alone and wanted to just represent myself as the three presidents in a sort sequential order.
2. Answer essential question.
- I think it takes a serious injustice in the eyes of the individual in to create lasting change within a system. When someone as powerful as the president himself sees great injustices, he has everything in his powerful to see this change come through.
Sierra's Project / BUSINESS UNIT REFLECTION
I feel like I still don't know how America as a whole feels about this topic.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2267701/Dinvil%2CSierra_BusinessUnit.key
Business Reflection Unit
1.Explain your choice of presentation
-We (Natalee and I) chose a video because we wanted to be creative. We both never done a video for history class so we figured to do something new. We also felt that it would (having made a video) better express out information we had about the presidents and their policies in relations with the government to make change.
2.Two sentences answering your EQ
"What causes systematic and individual change?"
-Systematic change happens when the country of that system is suffering and needs change for the better. Individual change is of the president (in this scenario) to reflect on their actions to do what's right for that country and providing stability.3. What questions do you still have about business in America?
-Will businessmen/women, those who are the 1%, ever pay their fair share of taxes?
Business Reflection Unit
Mike and I chose this form of presentation because it was the coolest and best way to do it. We could connect different parts of history. We can show some presidencies, compare and contracts them in cool ways and this style is really easy on the eyes.
2.Two sentences answering your EQ
What is the role of the individual in creating and sustaining change?
The role of an individual in creating change is huge. As we know, History repeats its self. So, we will need one person to do something bold to make a change for good and have good things repeat and not bad. As, in the great depression one person had changed our business systems with numerous polices and acts that ultimately brought the United States out of a depression.
3. What questions do you still have about business in America?
none.
Msanders Blog Reflection
1.Explain your choice of presentation
For our choice of presentation we decided to do a lucidchart. (Me and Mohamad) THe reason we choice the lucid chart is because we thought it would be the best in comparing the economic changes in the 3 presidents and how they changed the economic standpoint and made the country better. The chart basically compares what each leader did and each President takes control for the better.
2.Two sentences answering your EQ
What is the role of the individual in creating and sustaining change?
What the individual does in sustaining change is change the bad and twist it around into good. They react to the struggles, reform a new system that would set the countrys standards for log periods of time revolutionize the Predency
3. What questions do you still have about business in America?
none
Business Reflection Unit
Going a little deeper than what we learned in class, I believe that F.D.R was/is the greatest example for assessing the role of an individual in creating and sustaining change. If one were to look at F.D.R's case of polio, they could see that the president had to strive to be strong for his people, to give them a hope in themselves. Many things were held into affect even after F.D.R's death, and many presidents should strive to be more like Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the future. His own will and courage propelled F.D.R to lead the U.S through the great depression, becoming one of the most beloved presidents ever known. Not only dead he begin fighting the depression with the New Deal, but he sustained the effects of the New Deal, always putting in hope of the American people.
AMHIST-005
- Term
- 2011-12