Native Americans - current situation

         Comprehension tasks:
1) About what percentage of the Native Indian population lives on reservations? About 50% of the Native Indian population lives on reservations.
    Where are the majority of these reservations located? The majority og these reservations is located west of the Mississippi River.

2) What are some of the social challenges faced by Native Americans?. Some social challenges the Native Americans are challenging: unemployment, drug abuse, poverty and alcholism. Possible causes of these are easy access to drugs and alcoholic beverage, racism may be a cause of unemployment and poverty because no work - no money.

3) Over which matters do tribal governments have power? tribal governments have power of taxes, to establish requirements for memberships, to license and regulate activities, to zone and to exclude persons from tribal territories.

Checkpoints:
1. The Aborigines, who were the first setlers on the Australian continent came from the Asian mainland and the islands north of the Australian continent.
2. The reasons the Aboriginal population was halved quite soon after the European arrived was because the Europeans brought with them unknown diseases like smallpox. The Europeans drove the Aboriginals away from the most fertile land because they wanted it for themselves.
3. More than 100,000 Aboriginals children are belived to have been taken away from their homes.

Viewpoints:
1. I think the reason Mr. Howard and Mr. Keating refused to make an official apology was because they did not think they should not take the blame of something people before them did, or maybe they were embarrassed.
2. Other groups of people who hva experienced something similar are the Sami because the Norwegians tried to Norwegianize them, the Indians because the new settlers in America, who came from Europe wanted their land, and the Apartheid because the white people in South-Africa thought they were better than the black.

Working with texts -tasks

Questions for task 1:

1) I think the writer is somebody who describes the gentleman, but probably with the gentleman behind him putting in flattering words because it is many flattering words of the gentleman, but also a kind of honesty that I don`t think the gentleman would have written himself, so the writer put it in; example: "Given his discriminating taste"

2) The purpose of the text is to find the gentleman a lady 

3) the genre this text is written in is article because it is a description of a man in his 50`s, so it kind of describes men in their 50`s generally.

Imaginary person

There ones was a girl, she was anAmerican girl, but she could speak both English and French as her mother was French, but she lived just outside of Washngton D.C. Her name was Lynn and she loved to read and learn, her favourite subject at school was history, she especially liked to learn about the Victorian Era. And her favorite books was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. Last week, Tuesday the 5th of June, her class went to the White House and learned about the political parties; the Conservatives and the Democrats. Even though her class had many diffrent religions such as Protestantism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism, but one thing they all had in common was politics. They were even lucky enough to have a brief meeting with the President.

Words that are easily confused

Task 1: Visual Dictionary
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A Passage to India

We got a task to create a story around a picture in our text book, so here it is:

Outside of a huge business building in India, stands a young Indian woman, despite the sun outside,is she holding a purple umbrella, while talking to her friend on the phone, she is smiling, and can not wait to meet her friend on the cafe she is heading for right now. As a marketing director for the big firm, she is standing in front, she dosen`t have that much of free time, but she took a longer lunch break this day to see her friend, whom she had not seen in a long time. So naturally her thoughts is on her friend and how exited she is to finally meet her again.

Checkpoint on p. 262: Give each paragraph in the text a title:
1) The road to independence

2) Challenges

3) Transform from rural to industrialized

4) Old traditions

5) Caste system

6) Education

7) Contrast between the poor and India`s middle and upper classes.

Viewpoints on p. 265:

1) Rural means a place away from the city where people live and many people work with farms, urban means city

2) The diffrence between rural and urban areas in Norway is some places easy too see, but it is mainly that the rural areas have a lot of agriculture, while the urban areas is cities with shopping centres, resturants and other different buy and sell opportunities.

3) "If everyone in the world consumed as much as people in industrialized countries do, we would need eight planets as big as the Earth to meet their demands" this is probably true, we in the western world use and throws a lot. 

4) I guess the reason why people change their ways of life to a "simple life" where they produce their own food and go back to nature and live in closely-knit communities is because they see it may improve their health, and the environment. They may feel it as a better living with less stress and more comfort.

5) Rules for "simple living": 

   - spend less than you make

   - be grateful

   - google "rules for simple living" and you will get more useful rules

6) My three top priorities in life is:

    - live my life as I want

    - have good friends and family

    - have a job I like 

The Imitation Game

2. What would I ask Alan Turing after the end of the war?
    - Why did it take so long time for you to open up and work with your colleagues?
    - What was the biggest reason you wanted to work on the Enigma Project?
    - What was the most difficult ethic problems you had to solve?
    - It is said that because of your job you shortened the war with two years, do you belive it coul have been shortened with more if you worked differently?
    - Do you think anything could have been done differently?