After a few months of learning about revolutions, building a machine and going through a winter exhibition, I have learned about revolutions and how they change the world.

So this project started at last year so happy new year to everyone!, this project was mainly about revolutions, and the driving question for this project is what factors precipitate “revolution” and how they have shaped the modern world, this project was also part of the winter exhibition in the form of a metaphor machine.

 

Animal Farm and Revolution theory

One of the first things we did was learn about Crane Brinton’s, theory about revolution. The 4 stages of revolution. The incubation stage is like a developing fever for a country, it can be a financial crisis or a military victory over another country. The moderates stage is wher a moderate rules the country and there are other moderates that get along for now. The crisis stage is where war and violence happens and corruption runs wild. The recover stage is where the moderates are put out of power and the original form of power is restored. The nest thing we did was read a book called“Animal Farm”, the book was basically about a farm and the animals were sick and tired of their human owner, so they overthrow them and the leaders, Napoleon and Snowball later got corrupt and then the humans came back, so basically a revolution, the book was one of the better books I have read in PLP so far and  is a 6/10 for me. We then participated in group discussions and we had to make note and a infographic on the book and how it was a revolution that happened in the book

The Meiji revolution

One of the next things we did for this project was we were put into groups by revolution, I was in the Meiji revolution group which was a group that I did not choose, so then we had to make another revolution infographic on the Meiji revolution. The Meiji restoration was a restoration that took place in the mid 1800s and what happened was a clan family got overthrown from power and Japan took on a imperial rule, the imperial rule changed lots of stuff in the country to industrialize and become a modern global superpower.

The metaphor machine and winter exhibition

So after we made our infographics we started to build our Rube Goldberg/metaphor machine. A metaphormachine is a Rube Goldberg machine that represents something, every action represents something that happened in the revolution We buildt the machine for a few weeks and we’re doing lots of testing and the machine was finally ready for the winter exhibition . The winter exhibition went smoothly and out group did pretty good and so did the other groups. The exhibition was ok for the most part except we had to stand the whole time which made my legs hurt after a while and I think break time should have been longer. I have also seen some of the other performances and the grade 8s did pretty good, and since we did it last year I think they did better than us

Final thoughts and reflections

So before and during the exhibition, I have some thoughts. Firstly, I think our team did well despite the machine not fully working some of the time and we pushed through like our machine did function well. Secondly, I think in the making of the machine, we has some setbacks on our teamwork because we’re were not working very well together sometimes, but we got over it and I think we came back strong from the setbacks. So in conclusion, I think this project went smoothly and I have leaned lots from it.

 

My answer to the driving question

The driving question for this project is what factors precipitate “revolution” and how they have shaped the modern world. Firstly, revolutions can change government dynamics and religion sometimes, they change the values of the country and its people for many years to come. Secondly, a factor that precitiptates revolution are the people getting sick and tired and rumors about the government go around saying either they are weak and incompetent. Lastly, Revolutions change their country’s by either making or breaking country’s, for example, the Meiji restoration saw the rapid industrialization of Japan marking it a global superpower. In conclusions, this is my answer to the driving question.