SLAM POETRY.

Love it or hate it, it is inevitable.

and it is exactly what we had to do for this project.

 

This project started with a bit of comparison between “We are More” by Shane Coyzcan and a paragraph that sounded like it was written by ChatGPT. Then we made some cool graphic organizers, and followed that up with Paragraphs, I chose “The Industrial Revolution’s Impact on War” (Big Surprise)

You can see it below (⬇️)

With the advent of new weapons and new materials, warfighting was brought into a new age by the Industrial Revolution.
The steam engine, the telegraph and the advent of the train made mobilisation, movement of troops, and battlefield communication faster, which brought warfighting into the next age. The Franco-Prussian war of 1897 showed the benefits of speed in warfighting, and that speed was what allowed Moltke’s armies defeat France in six months. The armoured train brought the concept of the ironclad battleship to land, only being restricted by where there were rails. The telegraph let communication between forces increase in speed and volume compared to letters and aides-de-camp, allowing greater coordination between forces as well as supplies. War changes, and the industrial revolution’s new technology and equipment shows the advance of technology will always bypass what we have.

Immediately after that, we followed our paragraph up, with SLAM POETRY.

Of course, again I chose war as my topic, but this time tried a different approach, and I tried to say war is BAD (Cue Audience Gasping), shocking I know. And it worked. You can read my slam poem below. Hopefully you enjoy it.

What do you think of when you hear war?

Do you think of the trenches? Of cities burnt to the ground? Of wasted life?

Industry changes war, war changes industry. 

That’s the circle of innovation. But why?

1815, at Waterloo.

Volley and cannon carried the day, but then only a hundred years later.

Men were just numbers. 46 dead. 92 dead, 31 dead, 84 dead.

All quiet…

Just 30 years after that cities are destroyed over a night.

24 hours and a city is incinerated like a ball of paper in a fire.

Where once there were people, now only ashes

War changes…

Gone are the days of when war was a side-job, a profession for which only a few were fully employed. 

Industry changed that. 

Steel plating made the cannon useless, just as the printing press made obsolete the scribe. 

Just as how the car overtook the Horse and Carriage.

Now do you see war as what it is?

 An atrocity, and a crime against humanity.

So again…

What do you think of when I say war?

All of the sudden bombs could kill you in an instant, far behind the frontlines.

All of the sudden, the only way to win is with enough men. The Machine gun made that so.

All of the sudden, the infantryman needs to be protected, by armour, because a shot is 

probably fatal.

All of the Sudden, no one is safe.

All of the sudden war loses the honour, it loses the glory, and yet there are still those who seek to profit.

Companies Make weapons, weapons make money, and money is profit. 

But those weapons kill.

The deaths of a million are nothing compared to the profit you make from the weapons you sell. Right?

So what do you think when I say war?

Do you still think of the trenches, filled with bodies from both sides?

Of the bombed city, destroyed to destroy an unscathed target?

Of the men who go out, who kill, who die. Do you think of them?

Or do you think of the people at home. Worrying about the men at the front? Men who might not come home…

Industry makes, its products kill, and the owners profit.

Thus is war…

 

After this, the project was over, and surprisingly, i thoroughly enjoyed it. I think I was able to show my interests and my learning with products of learning that let me express myself.

Thank you for reading.