Obama's speech

A) What is he going to do?

-President Obama is going to fix and build the immigrant system that lives up to our heritage as a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants.

B) How can he do this without congress's blessing?

-He is using his executive authority to address as much of the problem as he can, while he will continues to work with Congress to pass comprehensive reform.

C) What is an American according to Obama? 

-Being an American according to Obama is something more than what we look like, ore what our last names are. What makes them American’s is their sheer commitment to an idea.

D) What is your stand to the issue, do you think the congress will pass the bill soon? 

- I agree with Obama, because as he says ''We were immigrants to'' is right. The immigrants has a hard time coming in to America and settling down legally. So they have to break the law to be able to live and support the family, helping them getting on their feet and making it easier to live in America as an immigrant as Obama wants, I think it is right! 

-I think that the congress will pass the bill soon because they think that Obama is right, and that they understand the immigrants problems coming in to the country. 


Summary

-Watching the videos, I see that the immigrants are very thankful for their opportunity coming in to America. In many of the videos, people who were talking about immigrants actually thought that the country could need more immigrants because they do a good job and work hard. They also provide an incredible value to America, actually it was immigrants who founded companies like Google, Ebay, Calls and others. As a conclusion, I would say that it’s not only the immigrants who are thankful for coming in to the country, Americans are thankful for the immigrants to and wants to open the doors for more to come.

Quote - Gerald Ford

GERALD FORDDecember 2, 1974

“Each new wave of pioneers and immigrants had to build a place for themselves and add their individual contributions to this new life. ”


- I prefer the quote from Gerald Ford because I agree on what the quote says, that everyone who came to America had to build their own places, had to get their own food etc. to add their individual contributions to this new life. I think it is smart, short and well said.

Task 3B p.159

3B) Jenny and John has two different ways trying to change the world. John wants to change the world through the force of example, while Jenny wants to change it through a protest. I think protest is the most effective way but it can also lead to violence, but as Jenny said: ‘’The most important changes in American history had been achieved by people making a lot of noise’’. Like the fight for women’s right and the civil rights movements. 

Tasks p.157 4A+B

4A) 
The global economic ressesion started to disappear for about 4 years ago. The increase of profits, industrial production and economy started to improve for many countries. But there are still some speculations about if the global economic ressesion will become worse trough the years.

B+) 

•             The most unemployed people live in Developed Economies and European Union (43547 thousand)
•             The youth unemployment is highest in north Africa. With a total unemployment of 7786 thousand people, the youth unemployment rate is 27.1%
•             The most of the working poor live in South-Asia. 67.3% of the total employed is working poor.
•             North Africa have both high youth unemployment and large number of working poor. The youth unemployment rate is about 27.1% and the number of working poor is almost the same 27.2%

Wednesday

On wednesday we were divided into groups, then we were given a task to make a presentation about Bjølvefossen, Essoen, Lid jarnindustri ore Fjellstrand. My group talked about Bjølvefossen.  Then, at the end of the day we watched a popular movie called The Wolf Of Wall Street

Acronyms

WTO

• deals with the global rules of trade between nations
• it’s main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly predictably and feely as possible
• the goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business

''99%''

• is a political slogan used by the Occupy movement (movement against social and economic inequality)
• «We are the 99%»
• the 99% are paying the price for the mistakes of a tiny minority within the upper class
• started in the US, but is now an international movement

IMF

• international fund is an international organization that was initiated in 1933 at Bretton Wood Conference 
• was formally created in 1945 by 29 member countries

The World Bank

• a United Nations international institution that provides loand and developing countries for capital programs 
• the World Bank’s official is the reduction of poverty

United Nations

• an international organization to promote international co-operation
• created following the second world war to prevent another such conflict
• 193 member states
• the UN headquarter is situated in Manhattan, New York City
• also has main offices in Geneva, Nairobi and Vienna

Great recession

• a term used to describe the general economic decline observed in world markets around the end of the first decade of the 21st century
• the recession is often associated with the US subprime mortage crisis and financial crisis of 2007-2008

Occupy Wall Street

• started with demonstrations  in New York City the 17th of September, 2011
• the demonstrations had spread to at least 70 cities in the US
• the demonstrations spread to other countries, like Germany England and Italy
• demonstrated against social and economic inequality, greed and corruption
• used the slogan «we are the 99%»

Globalization

• the process of international intergration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas and aspects of culture
• the world is getting «closer»
• we affect each other

NGOs

• a non-govermental organization is any nonprofit, voluntary citizen’s group which is organized on a local, national or international level 

Luis Suarez Presentation

Luis suarez biting Ivanovich in 2013

Uruguay - Italia, VM 2014 in a group stage match, Luis Suarez was taken for biting Giorgio Chiellini. It was in the 80 minute of the match Luis Suarez decided to take a bite of Chiellini's shoulder. This is not the first time Suarez bites another player.

 2010 for Ajax and 2013 for Liverpool Suarez lost his mind and bitt another player.

Newspapers and social media off course wrote about it fast after it had happened, but what did the different papers and media write?

I looked into three different newspaper who all wrote about Luis Suarez biting Chiellini.

- Sky Sports (UK)

Luis Suarez may be in trouble after appearing to bite Italy's Giorgio Chiellini. 

     -What this headline tells me is that they wrote about it quickly after it had happened. They wrote, "After appearing to bite" which means that they were not sure if Suarez bitt Chiellini or if he just ran in to him with his teeth first.

Suarez with a bitingmask 

     -They also have a picture of Suarez taken in the match; in the picture he is holding his teeth clearly in a lot of pain after he collided with Chiellini

- This article is very short, and I think it is because they published it even before the match was finished. They have no interviews, or reactions, just a few sentences about what happened.

- CNN Sports (USA)

Luis Suarez embroiled in new 'biting' storm.

     - in this article there is a video, in the video there is a guy talking about what happened in the match, there is also a interview with Suarez after the match where he talks about the incident.

     - "The only thing i know is that those are occurrences that happen on the pitch. I just collided with his shoulder. They are casual incidences that occur during a soccer game,"
 Suarez said after match. He later on admitted that he had bitt Chiellini and not collided with him.

Chiellini

     -"I'd love to see if they (UEFA) have the courage to use video evidence against him. The referee saw the bite mark too, but he did nothing about It."
 Chiellini said after the match, clearly angry after what happened in the match. 

-Sportsnet (Canada) 

     - The first thing i noticed when i read the article was that they call football for ''soccer''.

     - They have interviews and reactions after the match, and information about the incident. 

Picktures from the game. 

Comparing the three different media, I think CNN and Sportsnet used most time on the article. Because they had interviews and reactions after the match as I said before sky sports probably published the article even before the match was finished witch is most likely the reason why it was a short article with only information about what happened.

The similarities between the articles must be that in all of them the writers doesn’t take Suarez side, it feels like because he has bitt someone before they are almost sure that he had done it again and not collided with Chiellini like he said after the match. 

Summary

On Friday we made a Kahoot, then we walked down to Coop Mega and had interviews with random people. At the end of the day we watched a movie called Social network. Very good movie! 

Questions

• How often do you use Facebook? 
• Do you have Snapchat and/or Instagram?
• Do you think teenagers uses the Internet too much? 
• Do you know what an app is?
• What kind off apps do you know?
• How do you think the social media will be in 10 years?
• How much time do you use on the Internet?
• Do you have your phone with you all the time?

Tasks 

a) How much of this did you know from before? did anything in the timeline come as a suprise to you?

- I did know that Steve Jobs, the founder of apple died in 2011, and that apple launched the ipod in 2007.
what suprised me was the ''twitter revolution'' in Egypt in 2011.