Thursday, March 13, 2014
In class activity
In the in class activity there was six groups and these groups would have a part of a flashlight, the flashlight resembled a nuke so during the activity there was rounds and during the rounds u would make trades with other groups but sometimes there was a spy in your group you would know this cause in the beginning of the class there was a card on your desk that had an O or and X and if you had and x you were a spy and an O meant that you were not when you finished trading and had all of the parts to your flashlight (nuke) you would test it which meant that you would sit it on your desk and flash it then after Mr stewart said we could we would shine the light (nuke) a different group and you could do this three times with one flashlight.
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I think an important part you forgot to mention was how the groups handled themselves. One group thought that the best thing to do was to give their nuke to another group, so that they would no longer be a threat. Another group thought that attacking a group as soon as they can, thus eliminating a threat, was the best solution.
ReplyDeleteI think the main thing we can gather from this activity is the fact that it was so similar to the cold war. People raced to be better, and therefore desired the ability to be stronger. People felt threatened when other groups got close to the same strength as they did, and then fired their "nuke" at them, out of fear.
ReplyDeletelike kayla said, in a way its all a matter of fear, many groups did not try negotiation first, my group was a prime example: our reasoning was that since we had so many. nukes that no matter what alliances we made, we would still be targeted so our best strategy was to take out all the other groups that could pose a threat to us. once we took out the groups with the nukes then we would feel safe.
ReplyDeleteThis simulation was a fairly good depiction of the cold war. It did represent the arms race to build the atomic bomb. Like in the simulation, there were Russian spies that would spy on America to gather information on how to build the atomic bomb. This was basically the arms race and it was a competition that represented how desperate people were to build the bomb first.
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