Humanities Reflection
In humanities we finished our last project. This one was shorter, only two weeks and this time nobody wanted to work in a group. Most people had trouble with the shorter deadline and had to push the due date back a little bit.
My last Humanities project was about Inflation and Deflation. I studied for a couple days then made a power point presentation and created a simulation of a small economy. There were four stores, two gas and two food, then everyone else was a government worker. Then there was one president. Each day we went through Eight stages, first, the stores were allowed to stock up, then everybody bought food and gas, then, the President payed the government workers and collected taxes, and last the president was allowed to print money. Usually the President did not print as much money as the stores spent to import goods so we were in a general deflation.
From the beginning, the President was making all kinds of new laws, one of which was your chair may not be as high as his. Then, the gas station owners began to corrupt him by giving him free gas if he kept the government workers salary low. The food stores were becoming very rich because they bought lots of food then a natural disaster struck and food became valuable. We didn’t get very far into the game when class finished but I think that most people understood Inflation after this project. Also they got a better idea of what an economy looks like. I heard from a few people that said the game was boring at times but I think that most people enjoyed it. In fact some people, (cough, John! cough!) enjoyed it a little too much. It was to the point were we could not play the game. It did make it much more interesting though.
