Native Americans

Comprehension tasks

1. Over half of the Native Americans that lives in the US, lives on federal reservations. The majority of these reservations are located west for the Mississippi River.
2. Some of the social challenges are unemployment, poverty, alcoholism and drug abuse. High rates of diabetes and heart disease are also a concern. I think the possible causes of these challenges can be bad living conditions, the oppression and poverty.

Tasks

Checkpoints
1. The Aborigines were the first settlers on the Australian continent, they came from the Asian mainland and the islands north of the australian continent.
2. The reason why the Aboriginal population was halved after the European arrival was because the europeans brought unknown diseases like smallpox.
3. More than a 100 000 Aboriginal children experienced to be taken away from their families during the 100 years this was going on.

Viewpoints
1. Maybe the two ministers wouldn't realize they had done something wrong.
2. I think the jews was in kind of the same situation, they got taken away from their homes and placed in concetration camps.

Research and discover
1. The Maoris is originally from Polinesia, they are an indigenous people in New Zealand. Many of the maoris are now living in Canada.

Capital Letters

Once upon a time, a man called Troye lived in his own apartment near Washington D.C. He loved the city, especially because of the White House, Troye was political active and held we the Democrats. His favourite book was therefore "Party of the People: A History of the Democrats".
Troye grew up in a strict Chrisian family in England, they prayed every day and went to churh at Sunday. His mom, Mrs. Smith, used to tell Troye stories from the  Great War when he was a kid.

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1. I used iFinger to look up these words.
   Rural: what the country or the country life characterize
   Urban: a constituting of a city or a town
2. In Norway, the main difference between rural and urban areas is:

• Rural: Farms, hayfields, long distences between each house and a typical "everyone knows everyone" society.
• Urban: Places were bigger amounts of people are living, apartments, stores and universities. Places which is more affected of people in general.
  
  In India, the main difference between rural and urban areas is:
• Rural: 70% of India's inhabitants are living in the rural areas, these people are often poor and live in a low caste.
• Urban: the people who are born into a richer family with a higher caste is lucky to be living in the more developed areas of the country.
  
  The societies in the rural and urban places in India is very separated when it comes to for example economy.

3.       It's a very sensational statement, and it makes me think that we have to change something in the way we live. Everything that goes to waste and that we trash could help another person such as clothes and furniture.
4.      Maybe the feeling of "saving" the world is a reason for this. Plus, it has become very popular to eat natural and healthy, but it's very difficult because of all the preservatives that's added to the food these days.
5.      1. Don't waste your time on people you don't enjoy the company of, life's to short.
 2. Make time to friends, family and people you love.
 3. Be yourself.
 4. Eat whatever you want, just make sure the food doesn't destroy the different opportunities              you have in life.
6.      1. Care about people I love.
 2. Enjoy food.
 3. Explore the world and get to know new people.

The Immitation Game

1. Give a description of Alan Turing. What were his weaknesses and what was his strength.

The main character in the movie, Alan Turing was an extremley intelligent and smart person at a young age. But on the other hand he seemed very unsocial in the way he acted for example at the bar with his colleagues. I think the reason behind his behaviour is that he is insecure on both other people and himself, because he is gay.
So as a conclusion I will say that his biggest weakness is in general to be social with other people and read feelings. His biggest strength is intelligence, he could sit hours after hours and work at one single project.

The technology today

In this text I’m going to write about the developing of the technology in the society. I’m mainly going to work around the quote “Modern digital technology is a blessing and the only way forward” Is this true? Is it a way back? Are the society developing too quick? I’m going to give my opinion around this as well as include information about it.

Firstly, the fact that technology are developing quick in our society, causes both good and bad values in our everyday-life. To look at the positive side first, it’s getting easier and easier to live our lives, we have the opportunity to buy a dress for the weekend in the lunch break at work without even leaving the office. If we are wondering about something, we can look it up at the internet in a few seconds almost no matter where we are. We can order food at home, that someone make and drive to our doorstep, the possibilities are endless.
Even though the life are getting easier to live, doesn’t mean that it’s affecting us in every positive way possible. This leads us to a lazier life with less activity in the everyday when it comes everyday tasks. But, the technology are not just affecting us, the world have to pay a big prize for this too, we are polluting a lot which break down our earth, piece by piece. Instead of going to a local shop and by the things we need, we drive to a mall, order on the internet and even fly to another city in a different country just to get products cheaper. We are gradually rubbing away the smaller societies and making bigger cities.

If we think about the quote “Modern digital technology is a blessing and the only way forward” as true on the one hand. I think it’s important to think about our future, take different occupations for example, the way of executing the work will may change. Instead of actually doing the work, the workday will consist more of using different devices that do the work for us. On the other hand, the technology are developing very quick these days and I don’t think this will continue for forever. If it did, what are we going to do if the net shuts down sometime? According to that I neither think it is a way back, when a new device have been developed and are out on the market, people buy it and this will be a part of their life. If we suddenly stop producing, it will cause many problems.

Nevertheless, the technology have caused an addiction. If I look around at the mall, on the train, on the bus or at school, I will see people looking at their phone, iPad or pc. Take the phone as an example, this is something you carry around in your pocket all day and almost sleeps by your bed. This were you have all your plans for the week (shopping list, meetings at work, etc.), it’s your way of contacting other people (texting, chatting and calling), it’s were you have all the fun games that you play when you’re bored, you have the handy apps that helps you exercise, cook, etc. and were you play your music. Just think about losing your phone, then you have lost half of your life and the feeling when reach for your phone in your pocket and it isn’t there, can be described as heart attack, I have experienced it.

In conclusion, I don’t think it is a smooth way back and I don’t see myself not looking at a screen throughout an entire day in the future.  So I guess the technology is the only way forward but I do think it will stop or slow down sometime. On the other hand I think the question about the society developing too quick, depends on age. For my generation it’s not a problem to keep up and not for the adults either, but it’s many older people that struggle with the simplest thing like paying a bill because they don’t know how to use a pc.  

Disconnect

Today we saw the movie "Disconnect", the main subject is about being dependent of the internet and having contact with strangers (that may not exist) over chatting on the internet. The movie contains multiple happenings that can happen, if you give away your personal information or if you gets in a personal relationship with someone you don't know, in the worst case. It can really be dangerous to be too personal on the internet and its important to be especially careful with pictures, think about it twice befor you press the "publish" or "send" button. Even though you delete the picture is already out there and it will always be. Almost every happening in this movie is lifethreatening for the person it involves. In my opinion, this movie is a real eye-opener.
The elements in the movie are familirar, you hear about tragedies happening where the reason is bullying over the internet, often in the news. This has luckily never happened to someone close to me.
But even though these happening maybe have happened, the film is very dramatic because they have assembled the worst stories together.
I really liked the film, even though it is dramatic, it's still realistic and it makes you think about what you are doing and be more careful. The movie contains three different happenings but you get to know the persons in the story very well so its easy to separate them.
The scene in the movie that made the deepest impression on me was when Ben's sister yells at him to turn down the music, opens his door and sees whats happened.

Global issues

The technology is developing all the time, that can eventually leed to less places of employment. For example the technician will slowly die out. Together with the developing of the technology our lives are getting easier and easier to live. We can shop both groceries, things and clothes while we are stuck in the traffic or waiting on a train. We can easier multitask now, most of us are owning multiple electric devices as phones, tablets, laptops, pc's and TV's.

But the developing isn't just positive, we're sitting more through out the day. Children want to play on their phones or watch TV instead of going outdoor with friends and play. We are using more time inside our houses because we don't necessarly need to for example go out to buy things in the store.

I think this progress is both positive and negative, we have to think about how we use the technology and still try to remain an active everyday.

1. Do you think the colonies had good reason to declare Independence? Why?

• Yes, if I was a colonist I would definitely declare independence because I would rather pay taxes to my own community than to an other country who actually earn money because we payed them.

2. Should one country be able to colonize another? When should a colony be granted Independence?

• I don't think a country should be able to colonize another because in every case this has happened the power has been abused. I think that if England had helped people with moving to the US the only fair thing to do would've been to pay them a reasonable sum to thank them. I'm totally against the regime that England and other countries runned.

3. The Bill of Rights guarantees Americans "the right to bear arms". Many Americans still feel this is important for personal safety and in case they need to revolt  against their own government, They argue that the Minutemen and the local militias only won the fight for Independence beacause they had firearms.

What do you think?

Should everyone have the right to bear arms? All kinds of arms?

• I think that the socitey would be safer if only educated people like the police and the military bear arms and not everyone else. If everyone had the right to bear arms, we're not just giving the right to normal people but also criminals. In my opinion school-massacres are happening way to often in the US and i don't think the number would've been that high if every person had the right to bear arms.

4. If you were to present your nation's history in the same way as above, which events would you choose? Why?

- List the events and write a couple of sentences about them.

• It was actually a 10 years old boy that drew the Norwegian flag, but his dad is getting the honor of it because it was him that showed the proposal for the government.
• When the 2. worldwar started, Norway declared to be neutral and not participate in the war. But after a year our got attacked by German troops.