Hollywood Hollywood was founded in the 1900's and has been central in film production ever since. Hollywood is a commonly known industry and has founded all of the mainstream US films. "Star wars" is an example on a series of a typical Hollywood movie.
Bollywood Bollywood is the casual name for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai. Formally, it's referred to as Hindi cinema. Bollywood is only a part of the larger Indian film industry. "Dangal" is an example on a typical and new Bollywood movie.
Nollywood Nollywood is the Nigerian film industry. These films are known for having bad quality and odd content. Nollywood produce aboult 50 movies a week, so they produce way more than Hollywood. An example of a Nollywood production:
The term ”multi-tasking” can be
translated to a person who is able to do several actions simultaneously over a
short period of time. Today this is a common phenomenon among most people.
Especially the youth who are for example checking up on social media, watching
TV, doing homework and eating all at the same time. Multitasking can have both advantages
and disadvantages. Furthermore, I’m going to explain the negative sides of this
topic.
My first argument is that multitasking
isn’t going to save time. Doing several things and switching rapidly between
actions gets less stuff done and lowers your productivity. It’s shown that doing
multiple tasks at once has no beneficial effect on your work. This is mainly
because more parts of the brain get stimulated at once which causes you to
forget much of the information you take in or lower the quality of your work.
Furthermore, multitasking can cause
you to loose your ability to focus. When a person constantly is swapping
activities, he or she can get very prone to getting interrupted by any small
distraction. By multitasking a lot, you can actually loose your ability to
focus on one thing. You simply aren´t able to ignore any new information and
take in all you can, subconsciously. Not being able to have a single focus on
one particular task is a common issue especially among youth. This could be all
due to multitasking.
Lastly I’m going to mention the
stress level. When you’re constantly taking in information from all
perspectives and multimedia, your brain can simply become overwhelmed. A person
can only handle a certain amount of new info at once. If you are used to
multitask everyday you can probably notice that you feel stressed and not
satisfied with what you have achieved.
Multitasking is not a phenomenon we
should depend on. Overworking the brain is simply like watering out your work.
It will cause all the information to merge together and you’re most likely
going to forget at least half of the new information. To conclude, multitasking
is not a timesaver.
In our English class we watched the movie Drone. It's an interesting documentary concerning the US military, human rights, equality and world issues. The movie shows how the American Forces are taking innocent lives in Pakistan and how they're easily killing civilians and even children with only pressing a button on a joystick. The film is both shocking and informative, and I strongly suggest people to watch it, because this is something we should raise awareness to. To understand the plot better or if you don´t have time to watch the full movie, click the trailer below.
How does the US military use computer games in recruiting drone pilots?
As you probably can imagine, video games, simulators and so on contain the same similarities as being a drone pilot. However, the main difference is that drone pilots are actually taking lives, while video games are of course happening virtually. Most video games are sharpening your mind, teaching you to precisely aim and kill victims. These are qualities that the US military is looking for while recruiting drone pilots. Much like video gamers, the drone pilots are sitting in a closed off room and manoeuvres a drone and killing off people who are seen as a threat to the US.
What arguments against drones does earlier drone pilots have?
The initial drone pilots are mainly struggling with their conscience and not being able to live with themselves due to what they have executed. Taking multiple innocent lives characterises a person and marks them for life. The retired drone pilots are reflecting around the fact that drone attacks is not a secure and appropriate way to attack their targets. The former pilots was told that the Pakistani people was threatening the US and deserved to die. They did what they was told to do and didn't get the correct amount of information that they should have gotten about the attacks. The missiles in the drones have ruined buildings and killed civilians because of the lack of precision.
What are the viewpoints of the Pakistani Human rights lawyers?
The human rights lawyers of Pakistan are actively trying to make the people of Pakistan be heard by the world. They were constantly demonstrating and helped the In the movie Drone we saw that the lawyers printed out big pictures of terrified children in despair and placed them on top of roofs, so that the drone pilots could see who they could be hurting.
The following picture was taken in the ruins after a drone attack. The image shows three innocent orphans that are playing and collecting rocks among the burning surroundings. They didn't understand anything that was happening around them.
To show the damage that the drones made, the lawyers then magnified one of the children from the picture and placed on a banner on a surface that the drones would target. This is shown on the picture below.
When is it okay to break article three in Human Hights laws? the right to life, freedom and personal security.
The CIA and USAF are targeting suspicious and potential terrorist that could be linked to the happenings on 9/11-2001. They're saying that they're only executing the threats and eliminates the dangers, but that's not the truth. The drones are hitting innocents as well. It's only okay to break article three in certain cases. For example if you need to defend yourself when are in danger or being physically threatened.
How do you think the Norwegian Government would react if terrorists had been targeted by the drones in Norway?
I think that if something like this were to happen i Norway, more people would be aware of it. Norway is a rich country with more forces and less terrorism. If american drones would target terrorists in Norway, it would be all over the news and people would be horrified. People aren't aware of the attacks in Pakistan, and more awareness should be raised. Norway would gather forces and a war or a big conflict would be released.
Who are responsible for the loss of civil lives?
The CIA and USAF are responsible for all the innocent lives taken. The drone pilots are also accomplices, but those who are making the decision to fire from the drone, are more guilty than those who are manoeuvring the drones trough joysticks.
If one terrorist are killed among a hundred of innocent persons, is it really worth it? why is the US government allowing this? These are questions that have no answers. In my opinion, this is an insane way of killing terrorists. So many lives are ruined and Pakistan lives under constant fear.
Over a short span of time, we worked on a survey concerning social media platforms and the common knowledge and use of it in our English class. We were divided into groups and made questions to the survey, and summed it up in a shared document. Afterwards we asked our questions to random people of all ages in stores, factories and on the street. We had an anonymous survey on itslearning as well and that broadcasted our survey to more people and we got a bigger response. After we was satisfied with the amount of answers, we gathered the information in a document and made a conclusion to all of the questions. I'm personally very happy with the result and I think we worked well and effective on this project.
If you wish to see the results, conclusions and some wordclouds to our survey click here
The term globalization stands for the tendency of world views, products, ideas, technology and other types of cultures to spread around the world. The major factors in globalization are the media, telephones and the Internet, that allows us to share almost everything. Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among other people.
there is a high degree of migration and many students are spending time abroad. What impact might this have in the future?
This is a commonly asked and discussed question today and many people means that this is negative because of job possibilities. Personally I believe that this is a positive change that will unite the world and all of it's countries. I think and hope that in the future the boarders in countries will vanish and receive more refugees in need. Of course this is far from where we are now, but I think it would be an effective way to give help to those in need.
Could this contribute positively to the global society? Will nationality cease to be important? Or will there be a backlash agains the influx of foreign workers and foreign students?
I personally think globalization contributes mostly positive to our society and here is a list on why:
- It can reduce international poverty.
- Strengthen trade ties of corporations and companies.
- Spreads and share of technology.
- Makes world culture more similar, which can be positive or negative.
- Destroys unhealthy industries in developing countries, such as textile manufacturing, automaking and so on.
- Reduces child labor ad exploitation of poor countries.
Countries are all tied to their culture and traditions. The food, dances, religions, rituals, norms and standards are all parts of creating what we call a nationality. Every nationality is unique and that's an important thing to the world and the people in it. Therefore I mean that nationality will never cease to be important. The different nations might become more similar and cooperate more over the years, but nationality will never stop being important.
Regarding whether there will be a backlash or not, I'm not sure. Of course a more open world and society will give us many more work opportunities, but it can also be harder to find work on some cases.
Trafficking is a worldwide phenomenon that sadly affects millions of people every day. There are many different examples of human trafficking, and in our textbook there are two different stories concerning this topic. I am going to write an interview about one of the victims that is presented in our textbook on task 3b.
Today I'm going to interview a victim of human trafficking. I'm going to hear Isabel's story on how she got tricked into working as a domestic slave with work that exceeded what was manageable for one person. I'm going to meet Isabel who is from South Africa at a café and I'm both scared and excited to hear her story.
"first of all, how are you and how is your life going after the terrible incident?," I asked
"I am doing fine, however, it's hard to sleep at night, knowing what I put my family and myself trough. I have spent the past year trying to reach out to as many people as even possible. I want to raise awareness on trafficking and make people realise that this is a very common issue, and can happen to anyone. It has been a tough year and I struggle a lot with anxiety and I hardly trust any stranger anymore, but on the other hand I have found my purpose and that is to save people from this nightmare," she answered and shifted in her seat while she was sipping on her tea.
"So," I continued, "can you explain how you got tricked and why you agreed on the offer?"
"Sure. A year ago I worked for a nice lady in her house, it was a great job with good money and I got to see my family every day. The woman eventually asked if I wanted to go to the U.S. and work there, but I declined the offer because I didn't want to leave my family." Isabel took a short break to get her story straight and to breathe, then she continued, "The couple said they would pay for my girls to go to boarding school if I accepted the offer, and it was so important to me that I accepted it. I stumbled upon an offer who was too good to be true. I trusted the woman I worked for a lot, so when she asked me to go to the U.S. in exchange for boarding school for my daughters, I naturally was too gullible and trusting. When you get an offer like that it's usually fake, but I wasn't aware of that at the time."
"That sounds awful! I'm truly sorry for you," I said in shock. "when you were in the U.S., how did they treat you?"
"They treated me like I wasn't even there. I wasnt allowed to speak or say my name to anyone. I took care of everything in their house; cooking, cleaning, gardening and the children. I worked for almost 100 hours a week and did only get paid $70 a month, which was way less then what I expected," she explained.
"at what point did you realise that you had been tricked? and how did you get out?"
"I almost immediately knew that there was something odd about the arrangement, and when I started working I knew that something was terribly wrong. I didn't know what to do and I couldn't speak to anyone so it was hard to handle. I was at a very low point in my life, alone and confused with only myself to speak to. At last I finally found the courage to contact an immigration attorney and charges was brought to the couple that I was enslaved for and I could go back to my family," she said with shame written all over her face.
"Thank you for talking to me, Isabel, it was truly wonderful to meet you and I wish you much luck further in life"
"The pleasure is on my side", she smiled and wiped a tear.
Today we had english all day at school. The main topic of todays content was human trafficking, who is a strong and touching theme. We saw the movie called "taken" who showed how humans are trafficked and how their basic human rights are taken away from them. Sadly human trafficking happens worldwide and can happen to anyone. Humans can be trafficked for domestic labor, forced prostitution and so on. The following questions is the task that we did after seeing the movie. We worked in pairs and found the answers together. The day was very educational, interesting and full of impressions. I learned a lot that I had no idea of from before.
Questions to human trafficking
TASK 1 asking and answering
How was the woman persuaded to go to the US?
- She was told that her children could go to a boarding school, who is a big thing for girls in africa. She was also told that she would clean a house and be well paid.
What kind of work did she do?
- She was a domestic slave. She took care of the children, a two year old and a baby. She cooked every meal, worked 100 hours a week and only got 70$ a month. She also did gardening and cleaning.
Under what conditions did she work?
-She worked alot, and didn't get the money that she should have earned and promised. She was told to not talk to anyone and was responsible for everything in the household.
How did she get out?
-She contacted immigration attorney and got her rights back. There was put up charges against the couple she worked for.
Where is Edwin Canilang from?
-Edwin Canilang was from the Philippines.
Why did he come to canada?
He came to Canada he thought he got the opportunity to work with welding and plumbing. He also came to Canada because he was promised good wages and a steady job
What kind of work was he put to?
He was put to picking garbage and digging ditches, which was not the job he was promised.
How did he get away?
- One of the men escaped and called the Philippine embassy, which came to rescue them.
How many people are smuggled into canada?
- Around 800 workers are trafficked into Canada yearly, and another 1000 or more pass through Canada.
TASK 5 vocabulary
In the text there was a lot of difficult words, and the fifth task asked us to translate them, in this way we learned a lot of new words to expand our vocabulary.
Forpliktelser - duties
Advokat - attorney
Forlatt - abandoned
Kroppsarbeid - Labor Årlig - yearly
Påskudd - pretense
Rykte - rumor
TASK 6 quick research
A brief summary about Human trafficking
Human trafficking is a way to exploit people. Persons are sold bought and traded much like modern-day slaves. It's estimated to be a five-to-nine billion dollar a year industry. Trafficking victims are typically recruited by being forced or because they are deceived or tricked. Fraud and power abuse are also methods commonly used. The victim can slo simply be kidnapped. Different types of abuse such as for example threats,
violence and economic problems can often make a victim consent to exploitation. Exploitation includes forcing people into prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labor or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs. For children, exploitation may also include forced prostitution, illegal international adoption, trafficking for early marriage or recruitment of child soldiers, beggars, for sports or for religious cults. The norms based on international human rights law, such as Vienna Declaration and Yogyakarta Principles prohibit human trafficking. The act is illegal but growing fast.
Countries of origin are shown in red, destination countries are shown in blue; Data is from the UN, in 2006
If you wish to educate yourself more on Human trafficking I recommend you to see the movie "Taken" or go tothis website, watch this short clip, or read up on some statistics or donate to help victims here. -Eivor ( link picture 1link picture 2)
