Peoples of the USA - Native Americans

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Comprehension

1. About what percentage of the Native Indian population lives on reservations? Where are the majority of these reservations located?
   -  Almost half of the Native Americans live on federal reservations. The majority of the reservations are situated west of the Mississippi River. 
2. What are some of the social challenges faced by Native Americans? List what you believe can be the possible causes of these challenges.
   - Some of the social challenges faced by Native Americans are unemployment, poverty, alcoholism and drug abuse, high rates of diabetes and heart disease. I think that the possible causes of these challenges can be bad living conditions, the oppression and poverty. 

Stolen Generation

Checkpoints 
1. The Aborigines 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. It is estimated that more than 100 000 children were taken away from their homes.

Viewpoints 
1. Maybe Mr Howard and Mr Keating wouldn`t realize that they had done something wrong.
2. The Indians experienced something similar when the Englishmen immigrated the USA.

Research and discover
1. The Maoris in New Zealand is an indigenous group of people. Today the Maoris has a lot of disadvantage in connection with economy and other things in life.

Capitalized words

Once upon a time there was a girl called Sara Andersson. Sara lived in New York, and she could spoke both English and Spanish. May 24th she wrote her first book, it's name was "The Road Not Taken". In the book she wrote about the Great War and all the different roads it led to.
When the book was launch she visited the White House and Barack Obama and she spoke for the Democrats. She changed her religion from Buddhism to Protestantism.

Viewpoints p. 265

1) Rural is related to  the country or country life. Also associated with farming.
    Urban is related to a city or town. Living in a city or town.

2) -In Norway there lives more people in urban areas than rural areas. In rural areas there are more forest and in Urban areas there are more industrialized.
   -India is more and more an industrialized nation and less rural.

3) This statement describes how bad the situation is and that we need to do something with the consume.

4) Maybe they want to come closer to the nature and live like they did many years ago.

5) Rules for "simple living"
- Give up all electronic stuff
- Make your own food
- Focus on the important things in life

6)  My three top priorities in life is;
- The people I love
- Food
- Have fun

The Imitation Game

2. Imagine that you are to interview Alan Turing after the end of the war. Write down five questions you would like to ask him.

- What did you get out of this war? 
- Why do you think the war ended like this? 
- What were your thoughts during the war? 
- Were you ever scared to get caught? 
- How did you manage to keep the secret about breaking Enigma? 

The only way forward

Exam November 2014
Task 2A Use the information in the preparation material to create a text in which you discuss the

statement “Modern digital technology is a blessing and the only way forward”.

In this task I am going to discuss the statement “Modern digital technology is a blessing and the only way forward”.

My opinion about this statement is that most of the digital technology makes different things much faster and easier to do. Therefore it may be the only way forward. It can help to communicate all over the world, and then countries can help each other and cooperate. If the technology stops at this stage, we will probably just end up standing at the same place and not getting forward, so I think it’s important with new technology.

Although if the modern digital technology is the only way forward it’s scary to think about how the world is going to develop. Think about the last ten years. The technology has become big just by ten years. In 2005 the cellphones were just used when you needed to call or text someone. You could use the internet, but it was very expensive and slow. Maybe you had some games you could play, but the phones were definitely not used as much as today.

We use our phones more and more, it becomes easier, cheaper and faster. In today’s society everyone uses their phones all the time. We can almost do everything by using smartphones. We can search for facts, we can communicate, use social medias or even order clothes.
The negative side about develop of the technology is that we use less time together, playing, talking and having fun. If we talk today it’s usually over the internet and not in real life. The internet is everywhere today and you can do whatever you want with it.

It’s always something new coming up, and that's what makes us move forward.

Film: Disconnect

a) a brief introduction to what the film is about

- The film is about different stories where the internet has a central role. The different stories showed how trust can be used to something negative. It's a moving film.

One of the stories was a boy who sent a picture of himself naked to someone he talked to over the internet. The person he sent it to was someone who wanted to joke with him and the picture was sent to the whole school. He tried to kill himself. 

Another story was a woman who chatted with a man. The woman got hacked and the man took all her money. 

b) Your opinion about the issues presented in the film - are there any familiar elements?

- My opinion about the issues presented in the film is that it's important and necessary to know that things like that really happens. Jokes and things someone does just for fun really can hurt others. The internet is something many people use and therefore it's important to think about some consequences.
Most of people today uses the internet very much. I use it a lot every day. 

c) Did you like the film? Why/why not?

- Yes I liked the film because it was touching. The issues was something most people can relate to. 

d) Which part of the film made an impression on you? 

- The part of the film that made an impression on me was the last part. I think it was touching when everything went so wrong. 

Global Issues - Social Media and the Internet

The texts describes how the technology has changed the last years and how it develop the society. The technology has helped us to communicate much easier.
I agree to what the texts says about that the technology has changed the society. They say that the technology maybe has became a bit too important to the world.
At school we use the technology for example to write blogs, to do tasks at the internet or to search facts. At home I use the technology to social media and to communicate with friends.

Events in American History

1. Do you think the colonies had good reason to declare Independence? Why?
- I think that if I were a colonist I wouldn't like to pay taxes that just ended in England's "pocket" and didn't help to upgrade things in the society. That's one of the reasons I think the colonies has a good reason to declare independence.  

2. Should one country be able to colonize another? When should a colony be granted Independence?
- One country should  be able to colonize another only if it is the best for both parts. If the colony wants independence and they're ready to "stand on their own legs" they should be granted independence. 

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 because they had firearms.
What do you think?
Should everyone have the right to bear arms? All kinds of arms?
- I think that if everyone should have the right to bear arms there should be some strict rules and not all kinds of weapons should be allowed. Not all people will use the weapons just for personal safety and that's why the question is difficult. 

4. If you were to present your nation's history in the same way as above, which events would you choose? Why?
- The years Norway was in a union with Denmark and Sweden, because it affected Norway. 
- 1814, the year Norway got it's own Constitution.